Geography Test #1:
Many countries are called something in English that the people who actually live in those countries would never use (we don’t use Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika or Meiguo). The English names for these countries (or recently former countries), please:
(Scoring: give yourself three points for each correct guess, and No Googling or Wikipediaing - from your head / guesses, please.)
- Helvetia (formal for Switzerland - wintersweet got it)
- Piruw (Peru - ebneter got it)
- Dawlat al-Imārāt al-‘Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah (United Arab Emirates - ebneter got it)
- Bharat (India - ebneter got it)
- Daehan Minguk (South Korea - wintersweet got it)
- IRiphabliki yaseNingizimu Afrika (South Africa - ebneter got it)
- Bod (Tibet - tisoi got it)
- Miṣr (Egypt - tisoi got it)
- Česko (Czech Republic - wintersweet got it)
- Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó (China - wintersweet got it)
- Sakartvelo (Georgia - kali_kali got it)
- Hayastan (Armenia - kali_kali got it)
- Österreich (Austria - wintersweet got it)
- al-Jazā’ir (Algeria - bdot got it)
- Kâmpŭchea (Cambodia - wintersweet got it)
- Divehi Rājje ge Jumhuriyyā (Maldives - kali_kali got it)
- Eesti Vabariik (Estonia - kali_kali got it)
- Lietuva (Lithuania - wintersweet got it)
- Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao (Laos - wintersweet got it)
- Timor-Leste (East Timor - wintersweet got it)
- Osztrák-Magyar (Austria-Hungary - pikapolonica got it)
- République de Maurice (Mauritius - wintersweet got it)
- al-Yamaniyya (Yemen - wintersweet got it)
- Biełaruś (Belarus - tequiladawn got it)
- al-Maġrib (Morocco - luomo got it)
- Suomen tasavalta (Finland - wintersweet got it)
- Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland - wintersweet got it)
- Pilipinas (Phillipines - tequiladawn got it)
- al-Urdunn (Jordan - ebneter got it)
- Cymru (Wales - wintersweet got it)
- Ísland (Iceland - tequiladawn got it)
- Kypriakī (Cyprus - wintersweet got it)
- Ītyōṗṗyā (Ethiopia - luomo got it)
- Shqipëria (Albania - kali_kali got it)