Countries
This is a summary of country name etymologies.
- Bharat – another name for India (Bharata was a prince, son of King Dushyanta and Shakuntala)
- Bolivia – Simón Bolívar
- Cambodia – Kambu Svayambhuva
- Colombia – Christopher Columbus (after the Italian version of his name)
- Cook Islands – Captain James Cook
- Dominican Republic – Saint Dominic
- El Salvador – "The Saviour", Jesus
- Israel – Jacob (alternative name)
- Kiribati – Thomas Gilbert
- Liechtenstein – Anton Florian of Liechtenstein
- Marshall Islands – John Marshall
- Mauritius – Maurice of Nassau
- Philippines – Philip II of Spain
- Saint Kitts and Nevis – Saint Christopher
- Saint Lucia – Lucy of Syracuse (?)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Saint Vincent
- San Marino – Saint Marinus
- São Tomé and Príncipe – Saint Thomas
- Saudi Arabia – Muhammad bin Saud
- Seychelles – Jean Moreau de Sechelles
- Solomon Islands – Solomon
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“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)