List of Alternative Country Names - J

J

Description Other name(s) or older name(s)
Jamaica
Xamayca (Spanish version of Taino name)
Japan
Nippon (日本?) (official name in Japanese), Nihon (alternate, more common reading of 日本 in Japanese), Yamato (大和?) or 倭 (historic, ancient Japan), Ōyashima (大八洲?) (meaning the country of eight great islands, historic), Cipangu/Zipangu or Gipangu (appeared in The Travels of Marco Polo in the 13th century)
Jordan
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (official, English)

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