List of nations by name etymology: Difference between revisions

|[[境界の西部共和国]]

|Means "Boundary Western Republic".

|Liyue Dynasty

|Based off the entity of the same name in the Chinese mobile game "Genshin Impact".

|Named after the country.

|Based off the entity of the same name in the Chinese mobile game "Genshin Impact".

|Named after the capitol city of The Bahamas.

|Named for the Japanese city.

|Named for the Italian town.

|Rhode Island

|Named after the U.S. state.

|Roman Spanish Federation

|Named after the Titans.

|Named after the concept of geopoltical entities.

|Cross between [[Imperial Truidence]] and the Holy Roman Empire.

|Comes from the English region of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston Aston].

|Named after the character Lola Bunny.

|Named after an island that makes up part of the nation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe São Tomé and Príncipe]

|Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus a legendary Greek hero].

|Named after [[Partyland]] and based on the American tradition of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-video direct-to-video sequels].

|Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha,_Wisconsin Kenosha, Wisconsin].

|Means 'fortune'. Named after the Roman goddess of luck.

| Named after a continent in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium.

|Named after the Continent of [[Hyperborea]], the Great North

|Named after Sovia, with the Free Territory naming implying the anarchist nature of the country

|Named after Jose Rizal, Filipino author, ophthalmologist, and polymath executed by Spain, sparking the Philippine revolution. The surname of Rizal is of Spanish origin.

== [[CivRealms]] Nations ==

|There is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia one country], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia one Canadian province], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C. one U.S federal district] named Columbia. The name comes from a Latin feminized form of the name [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus Christopher Columbus]

|{{flag|Imperial Truidence}}

|Named by a random name generator.

|English

|Named after [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gigachad Gigachad].

|Latin

|Comes from the Old Norse name for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland The Shetland Islands]

|Comes from the name of [https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Gensokyo the primary setting] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project ''Touhou Project'']. Gensokyo is variously translated as "[https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Lotus_Land_Story Lotus Land]", "land of dreams" and "Wonderland".

|Comes from a name for a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia region in Canada] that once hosted French settlers, that were later expelled during the Seven Years' War.

|Comes from the name of the country of England.

|Comes from the English region of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston Aston]

|Comes from the motto of the Roman Republic, "Senatus Populusque Romanus" (The Senate and the People of Rome)

|Comes from J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium.

|Means 'heaven' in the [[Adina]] conlang.

|Named after Sussex Courthouse, in keeping with former land occupant [[Appomattox]], similarly named after a courthouse.

| {{flag|Lambat (CivClassic 2.0)}}

|Translates to "fishing net", in an [https://discord.com/channels/810436686021394492/846374210979758100/890490336047161394 undisclosed reference].

|Named for [[Beretism]], the state religion, which was named after a youtuber named RedBeret, which is a combination of the English word Red, and the French word Beret.

|Name describes its location ("Augusta" in the name refers to [[Geographical Regions#Greater Augusta|the Augustan region]])

|Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon the country].

|Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitania an ancient Roman province in what is now Portugal] due to it's heavy basis on Portuguese customs.

|Named after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceni Iceni tribe] of Roman Britain.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/IcenianHistory/comments/dirrxj/on_the_origin_and_name_of_icenia/</ref>

|Comes from the name of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyasaland British colony] that is currently the nation of Malawi. It is also named for [https://rezero.fandom.com/wiki/Ferris cat"girl"s].

| Nahuatl

|Comes from the writings of ''Plato''.

| Means 'land of conscience'.

|English

|Named after the ''Roblox'' group ''<nowiki/>'Risk Universalis'''.

| Greek

|Means 'Maritime Empire'.

|Rowa, or ''Гоша'' comes from the russian fashion designer ''Gosha Rubchinskiy''. (Гоша Рубчинский)

| Russian

|Comes from the name of Rowa's capital Krowa.

|Comes from the name of an anti-government resistance group in the anime ''Kill La Kill''.

|Comes from the name of a famous let's play of ''Dwarf Fortress''.

| Named after ChrisChispie and Chris-Chan

|Named after the player [[Varkanos]].

|Roman name for Scotland.

|English

| Spanish

| Dutch

|Named after a type of biome common in southern Africa.

| [[Batavia]]

|Ancient Roman name for a region in the modern-day Low Countries (Batavia's players are Dutch).

|Named after [[Agania|Agania.]] Also from the Swedish words for Egg (Ägg) and Country (Land).

|Named for the fact it was once the southernmost region of [[The Commonwealth]].

| {{flag|Capeland}}

|Named in honor of its main settlement, Cape Cocoa.

|Named after the city of Gondolin in ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion The Silmarillion].''

| {{flag|Laconia}}

|Named after a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia region of Greece] that the city of Sparta resided in.

|[[Mauritanië]]

|French

|Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania Mauritania].

| [[Wolken]]

|German

| Named after an oddly-shaped landform back on [[Civcraft]].

| French

|Named after its founder, [[WimpyShrimp]].

|Named after the PogChamp emote on [https://Twitch.tv Twitch.tv].

| English

|Named after a town in League of Legends.

|Named after the actor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy Eddie Murphy], known for such movies as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_to_America Coming to America] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Cop Beverly Hills Cop].

|Comes from the ancient Military order in The Name of The Wind. Conveniently an anagram of Army

|Named after player [[CommradePotatoe]].

|Named by [[Neosaur]] after the words "Tree" and "Island" in japanese<ref>{{Cdisc|server=Yoahtl|channel=marketplace-of-shuba|sender=NeoTide|sender-link=Neosaur|text=if anyone's adding to it, Okashima was named for the words "Tree" and "island" in japanese

!Language of Origin

|Named by one of its founders after the heavy metal band [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danzig_(band) Danzig]