ON THE WEB: THE LITERAL MEANING OF EVERY COUNTRY’S NAME
by Hazed
Do you know what your country’s name means? Well, if you live in the USA you won’t be in any doubt: your country’s name is, most definitely, the United States of America.
But what about Canada? Did you know that it literally means, ‘The Village’? Probably not.
Mexico’s name translates to the poetic ‘In the Navel of the Moon’. Isn’t that beautiful?
I’m getting this from a webpage which shows the literal meaning of every country, displayed on maps of the continents. It is fascinating. Europe is full of countries whose names just mean ‘Land of the People’, or variants of that. Some of the country’s names describe an attribute of the people living there – France means ‘Land of the Fierce’, Macedonia means ‘Land of Tall People’, and Denmark is ‘Home of Warriors’.
I could go on… (Spain is ‘Land of Many Rabbits’!) but you should go and see for yourself, here:https://theculturetrip.com/europe/articles/this-enlightening-map-shows-the-literal-meaning-of-every-countrys-name/
