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Some countries whose endonyms are not like their English exonyms (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 years ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] BurnedOliveTree@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Montenegro is just a translation of Crna Gora, both are literally Black Mountain

Also I think Croatia and Hrvatska are related, it's just by the time it arrived to English it became so deformed

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I'd say the Croatian endonym is close enough to the English exonym. Meanwhile the map's missing Albania (Shqipëri) and some edge cases: Wales (Cymru), Scotland (Alba), New Zealand (Aotearoa).