Countries Which Changed Their Names
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Hey everyone! In this video we take a look at a few countries in the world which have changed their name.
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So which name do you prefer? Czech Republic or Czechia?
The first.
Czechia
So which name do you prefer Russia or Russian federation, srsly, they just made (noun) second official name when first was (adjective+republic)
@@aisir3725 *The first*
Czech Republic. Czechia doesn't fit very well for me.
You missed a lot of countries:
Siam to Thailand
Burma to Myanmar
East Pakistan to Bangladesh
Gold Coast to Ghana
Zaire to Congo
French Sudan to Mali
Mesopotamia to Iraq
Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd to Saudi Arabia
yeah woww
maybe the second part is needed.
East Pakistan was only a region of Pakistan and only become Bengladesh when it became independent of Western Pakistan
I found three more:
Gold Coast to Ghana
French Sudan to Mali
Ottoman Sublime State to Turkey
Maybe he should have been clearer than 'here is a few of the countries that have changed their name' in the video.
British Honduras to Belize
Dahomey to Benin
British Guiana to Guyana
Malagasy to Madagascar
Formosa to Taiwan
and british guyana to dutch guyana, later changed to surinam
Da homey???? The homey????
Republic of China to Formosa to Taiwan
Burma-->Myanmar
The Island has been Called Formosa and Taiwan. The country has always been called the Republic of China.
Im surprised he didnt mention Burma changing to Myanmar or Zaire changing to the DRC
you are right, i'm also suprised !
Cool breeze. Siam changed to Thailand.
And the USSR changed to the Russian Federation, Chechnya, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan,
United States of Indonesia to Indonesia only.
Next week I am going skiing in Swaziland and the week after a safari in Switzerland. Greetings from Germany...🍺
...
ITS ESWATINIII
Hey now...its Confoederatio Helvetica
You can ski in Swaziland, and Switzerland offers skiing safaris. I’m assuming you meant this? Have fun!
(This is a joke for all of you idiots out there)
Swaziland has ice???
In Greece, we have always called Czech Republic by its "new" name: Czechia.
Cube8 in Poland we say :Czechy , Republika Czeska
In German we usually say "Tschechien" and not "tschechische Republik" and I dont know if it was ever different after the separation of Czechia and Slovakia.
In north macedonia we say češka or czechia, I've never heard of anyone adding the "republic" in the end
Same in Sweden ("Tjeckien")
True
Rhodesia to Zimbabwe
Nyasaland to Malawi
Upper Volta to Burkina Faso
Malagasy to Madagascar
Dahomey to Benin
French Sudan to Mali
Benin and Mali being added👍🏽
Burma to Myanmar
Zaire to Congo
Actually, DRC was at first called Belgian Congo. When they became independant, they changed their name to The Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the 1970s, the name was changed to Zaire. And then in 1997, the country became The Democratic Republic of the Congo once again.
@@emmayoung736 ...So, it's still "Zaire to Congo."
Yeah. But it's also Congo to Congo to Zaire to Congo
How could you confuse Swaziland and Switzerland ?
Australia and Austria : Hold our beer please !!!
When I was in America, I, an Australian, met a guy from Austria. We then met a Bermudian guy who asked us if we knew each other before getting to America because we were from the same country. We had such a good laugh in our respective accents. Bless his cotton socks. (For the record, no we did not know each other)
@@courtneylaine8112 aah Americans. They think Pakistan is in the middle East when, it's right next to China. Literally thousands of miles away.
When I was young like 8 I actually did confuse em
@@Darkest_matter Your FIRST mistake was thinking that this guy is American. He CLEARLY is not. Second, your "literally thousands of miles away" logic is flawed. Mumbai is "literally thousands of miles away" from Hong Kong. Yet, they're both in Asia. So, there's that. -_-
ah yes Slovakia and Slovenia
Fun fact: the country Swaziland officially changed its name to eSwatini in 2018 and is the only country ever to have the first letter of the name a small letter and the second letter to be a capital. You'll never see me again so have a nice day ✌☘🇮🇪
why
@@LBRF1_ in the siSwati language, like other Ngunu languages, uses prefixes aswell as suffixes to show the relation of words to eachother
@@thefitness.gram.pacertest no, that’s not the question. why won’t i see you again?
and i saw u today so
@@LBRF1_ ooohhhh well u probs just wont see another comment of mine
Czech Republic is still the official long name, Czechia is a new (also official) short name (the same as Slovak Republic vs Slovakia or Russian Federation vs Russia). Also, Czechia is Česko in Czech, Bohemia is Čechy, there's a MASSIVE difference. Bohemia is only one out of three parts of the country, the others being Moravia and Czech Silesia. If you call the entire country Bohemia, people from the eastern part of the country will certainly not be happy about it.
Turqoise Ketchup
I sure do wonder where this guys from
I often wonder what would it be if the King or Queen would return so it would have to drop the repulic
What about pronauncing Czechia as "Shekia"?
Paweł Kulas That triggered me too but I don't mock people because of their accent and in this case I wasn't sure whether it's bad pronunciation or just his accent.
@@turqoiseketchup4414 Tzekia?
What about Siam to Thailand
Ou burma to Myanmar
or zaire to d.r. congo
Or Republic of the United States of Brazil to United States of Brazil to Federative Republic of Brazil
@@victorluispadilha5111 Brasil tem nem graça velho kskdkdkslslsk
koala1203 I think Siam never changed its name. Siam is an exonym and the Thai people never called themselves Siam, after the revolution in 1932 they simply started using Thailand in official documents without ever going through a name change like Persia.
Nation found by French and Portuguese
Everybody: Let's give it an Irish flag
Its actually an irish flag backwards
Chad: *hOlD mY rOmAnIaN fLaG!*
@@Cjnw Chad really should change it, so it's less confusing. Also, the Romanian flag isn't very good in the first place.
@@mrbisshie what s wrong with it?
Upper Volta holds the old German Imperial Flag
A good one is Taiwan used to be called Formosa. As well as Thailand being Siam previously.
So Formosan termites are Taiwanese termite?
So many more! Some less commonly known ones:
British Honduras -> Belize
New Hebrides -> Vanuatu
Gilbert Islands -> Kritibati
Ellice Islands -> Tuvalu
South-West Africa -> Namibia
Bechuanaland -> Botswana
Nyasaland -> Malawi
You can probably do separate episodes for former British and former French colonies!
This counties got their independence, en that came with a name change.
The video is about already indipendent countries that changed their name.
"Translate it to the English so it would be Cape Verde"
Wouldn't the English translation be Green Cape?
Technically yeah
It's the Cape word only he's talking about I think
Verde means green
@@muhammadfarhan581 in romanian too
Nope. That Cape was named "verde" because of the color, sure, but later on it became the actual name of the place. Names, as you may know, are not translated. So, in English, it's still Cape Verde. The same applies for Rio de Janeiro, for instance. If it was actually translated, americans and the British would call it January River, but that's not the case.
As a brazilian who speaks portuguese, I can tell why the name Ceilão. It used to be sihala, which means land of the lions in their language and we portuguese speakers have this tendency to adapt words to our language without translating it so we transformed sihala into Ceilão. We did something like that with the word delete, in portuguese should be apagar, but we transformed into deletar instead.
You make very valid points about the different countries and cultures
02:11 Czech Rep. : We got a shorter name! Czechia
Dominican Rep. : We got a shorter name! Dominica
Dominica: aM I JoKe tO yOu
There are different countries. Dominican republic speak Spanish ,race 85% black and 15% white while Dominica speak English, race 95%black
Ok
@@atrillagaming7805 yeah u do
Dominica: Yes
@Lolrence thanks btw
If your African country is getting confused with Switzerland, I'd say that's good for tourism.
They should rename their capital to Zurich
@@guidojansen6720 the swiss capital is Bern
@@thekrieg4251 Switzerland does not have a capital officially
@@guidojansen6720 Yeah but all their government building are in Bern.
@@abandonedchannel7277 that doesn't automatically make it a capital. Carefully read the Wikipedia page about Switzerland and you will see that Switzerland don't acclaim a capital.
Great job my friend
In Poland it was always "Czechy"
No, Czechy means Bohemia, Bohemia Is just one of the czech lands, in Czechia Is Bohemia, (Bohemia Is in West of Czech rep.), Moravia (Moravia Is closer with Slovakia) and czech silesia (silesia Is closer to Polish silesia in Poland)
Also in the Netherlands is was always "Tsjechië" , which is the same as Czechy
@@alfonsmelenhorst9672 yes, but Tsjech...Is Czechia, not Czechy, Czechy (Bohemia, Čechy..) in netherlans means Bohemen
@@alfonsmelenhorst9672 Bohemia Is like Holland. Holland Is just a part of Netherlands.
@@lmaocetung So what is the difference between Czechia and Czechy? Is the second one plural of the first?
Whoever confuses Swaziland with Switzerland needs help
That would be the swazi king
I think perhaps "his majesty" may have been making a little joke: Its G0OD to be KING! (Mel Brooks)
swaziland is not Swaziland Its now called Eswanti
Swaziland changed Eswanti
Well, there are people that are confused by sweden and switzerland.
Personally i think Eswatini sounds way better the Swaziland.
Agree! It was named after the Swazis, a tribe. It's like saying do you come from Holland? No, I was born in Nederland! Gets right up my nose!
You mean eSwatini lol
@@RandyRandomson It is Eswatini on google maps, but yes.
If you're an og, you call it Swaziland
I think it doesn't
“For some reason it changed its name to just Jordan.“ Reason was the annexation of the West Bank by Jordan. Now it had both sides of the bank
Also "beyond the Jordan" highly depends on from which side one is looking.
Thanks for the narration.. Next time remember to include a name change of Tanganyika to currently Tanzania...
The reason why the Portuguese called the island "Ceilão" is because they named it after the majority race of the country, the 'Sinhala' people
Where is that?
@@AmharizzSri Lanka
Ceilão comes from the "páli language - _sihala_" meaning "land of lions".
Kalana Herath how does ceilão sound anything like Sinhala
Don't forget that Tamil people's are they are our brothers love from Indian Tamil (Tamilnadu)
Oh man, You forgot this.
*Siam → Thailand*
Also Zaire to DR Congo
Bengal to Bangladesh
@@YK-xh3ls Zaire was made up of 2 countries. Republic of The Congo and Democratic Republic of The Congo
Formosa to Taiwan?
Burma to Myanmar
I think you could also add Burma/Myanmar and Burkina Faso/Upper Volta. Nice job btw :)
Thank you Danny!!!
Zaire -> D.R. Congo
DR Congo -> Zaire (1971-98) -> DR Congo
North and South Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and Zambia.
to be complete : before 1960 : Belgian Congo --> 1961 DR Congo-Kishasa --> 1971 Republic of Zaire --> 1997 DR Congo
the Zaire part was part Mobutu mass name changes, to distant the country from it's colonial past in place names.
Of course Mobutu was a dictator, so the country name change by him, got reversed after his reign..
ps, he claimed Zaire as a African origin name for the country, while it was some Portuguese for river , so just linked to an other colonial past of African countries..
While Congo, came from the Congo river, and an old same name African Kingdom that once existed. So Congo was always more real African then Zaire..
Doctor congo
@@pixiepandaplush i prefer Zaire, cause Congo to me relatated more to the time French minority dictated all in Belguim...
Shrekia or Shrek republic is my favourite country
*Jас не сум геj* capital : my swamp
@@jadenramesh3505 xD SHREKia
Šrekia
Jaden Ramesh привет ????
Ti ne si gej
Cape verde in polish is "Wyspy Zielonego Przylądka" and we always calling it like that, same with ivory coast, we always named it "Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej",
Love your site.
Its prounounced not “shekia” its “chekia”
Well he’s got an accent, so idk
I say shrekia
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Savage...
It's my country!! In Czech is Česko = Czechia and Česká Republika = Czech Republic
he did the portuguese spelling, (he is portuguese), " chekia", is read "shekia" in portuguese , written chequia, or chekia, and said "shekia", the "chekia", is read "tchekia"
Burma and Myanmar- a huge change
Stellar Kartograff Burma and Myanmar are both still used but ok-
not huge, just same word, different pronunciation. if you say it a burmese accent it is closer to mya-ma. just like sri lanka/ceylon
n o Still used but it’s officially now recognized as “Myanmar” while some people still refer to it as its former name “Burma”. Many people still refer to Mumbai as Bombay (Yes I know it’s a city) or Many people also refer to Ho Chi Min City as Saigon.
I'm a Burmese and I still prefer the name Burma.
@@mikemrod-7167 Lol The *capital, flag & country's name* were changed by the military government without popular consensus. One day when the military is no longer in power and the country goes fully democratic, all of these changes will likely be reversed. Burmese democratic leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi always refers to the country as Burma.
Most of the times your background music is National Anthem of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🖤
The British never ever called Ceylon "Say-Lon"! It was always called "See-Lon"!
who would confuse the European Swaziland with the African Switzerland??? they seem so far apart lol
LMAO
I see what you did there...
Lots of people confuse Switzerland with Sweden.
@@TrangDB9 portuguese for example use suiça and suecia (read suisa and suesia in english approx) for switzerland and sweden respectivly
Walle031106 PC In Spanish speaking countries a lot of people confuse Suiza (Switzerland) with Suecia (Sweden)
Rhodesia and Zimbabwe
Ya-Boi-CBlyth Rhodesians never die
I think Rhodesia applied to a bigger region in southern Africa, but yes you're right it should be mentioned (among many others).
@@5-Minutegeography Rhodesia and Nyasaland: Northern Rhodesia became Zambia, Nyasaland became Malawi and Southern Rhodesia became Rhodesia, which was shortly known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and then as Zimbabwe
Next to Jordan in The Near East, you could also include Lebanon on your list: I think it was called Phoenicia in Ancient Times.
( thanks for the video ).👍😍😍😍😍😍
1776: United States of America
2019: Divided States of America
whoisaffiq @ You are absolutely right thanks to this idiot president we have !!
Not the first time either! The upright and moral North and the wicked and debauched slaveholding south.....
Jonathan Williams @ Your stupidity is blessed. Where would America be today had your southern friends wan the war ? Just think about it if your not to stupid to think ??
you have just made my brain die
Jonathan Williams @ My question is how stupid can a-hillbilly be ? Never mind I can see by reading your bullshit !! There is no limit to their stupidity !!
The Democratic Republic of the Congo used to be named Zaire
Joey Bird // why did they change the name?
@@Green-zw9pv because they changed their government from fascism to democracy
and then before zaire it was congo.
@@skinni153 Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Republic of Congo Léopoldville
It's a dare
1:56 this is cool im part Czech and I never knew that... thanks!
The area of Poland has changed names quite a few times (Prussia, Germany, Poland, etc), to indicate a change in leadership. It would be interesting to hear more about that. I have ancestors that came from Danzig, Prussia, but apparently that city goes by the name Gdansk, Poland. I am aware that there is a city in Germany called Danzig, but all the research my family has done shows the Poland location on a map. Several cities changed their name over the years.
Where is Burkina Faso = Upper Volta?
I never herd Upper Volta, but I herd Burkina Faso
@@moopybobsayhi6480 Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta, the country was renamed "Burkina Faso" on 4 August 1984 by then-President Thomas Sankara.
He said he was doing a few not all
Is that a country? Never heard of it.
@@odanilooliveira of course it's country, you need to learn african geography😉!
Me: *sees Czechia highlited *
Also me: Dobrý den!
Similar to polish I can easily read it it says in polish dobry dzien which is good day
Same in Russian as well
In Serbian language it is "dobar dan" which also means good day
Dobry den
Dobryi den'
Funny how in Bulgaria we use some old names for some countries, we use at all time Czechia, which is even easier written in cyrillic - Чехия, we use also Germania, for China we use Kitai. The list might go on, but I am too lazy for that :D
When I first saw he title of the video, my mind immediately jumped to Burma/Myanmar. You could imagine my shock after viewing the video. ;)
Nice detail to have the countries anthems when you talked about them.
wow. I had no clue about SHREKia.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Taco ಠ_ಠ capital: my swamp
I like your video your video is full of knowledge that is exellent btw my name is war ren
Good job
"Ceylon"/"Ceilão" derives from the "Sihalam" on "Sinhalam", a Tamil name for the island (meaning "land of the Sinhalese"), itself derived from the Prakrit "Siela Diva" (Island of the Sinhalese). The country was also known as "Singhala" (used by the 4th Century Chiese pilgrim Fa Xian) or "Sinhalay". Sri Lanka means "Resplendent Island", "Lanka" meaning "Island" in Sanskrit. It was known as Lanka from early times, also as Lanka Deepa or Lak Diva (Island of Lanka - a tautology) - as evidenced by the 3rd-4th century Pali chronicles.
In 10 to 11 century it was Chola Mandala
Thankyou for this explanation my friend....very interesting.....i didnt know this......
1000 iq brain time
Every indian knows Lanka, Sri Lanka as Kingdom Island from Ramayana since 5,600 bce.
In all Hindu scriptures.
Ceylon was pronounced "Si-LON," not "SAY-lon."
You also forgot Ethiopia which was called Abyssinia before
Never changed it was another name of Ethiopia
I read that the island was called Serindib, from which came the word Serendipity, a lucky discovery.
I was working in Italy a few years ago. I noticed in one class the world map had Ceylon written, not Sri Lanka. First, it was a recent map, not from the 1950s. I've been there, so I noticed. But one student who actually came from there never noticed
Well it was Ceylon up until 1972.
@@truebelief3631 I know. I think you completely missed the point I was making. What's next, a global map with the names Old World and New World on it?
Here’s why the Portuguese originally called Sri-Lanka Ceilão:
From the word சேரன்தீவு - Cerentivu or Cherantheevu. Sri Lanka was in ancient times inhabited by the Nagas and Yakshas. The Nagas were known in Old Tamil as சேரர் (Cherar or Cerar), meaning hill or mountain people. The word தீவு (tivu or theevu) means island, hence Cerentivu means “island of Cheras”. From the word Cerentivu, the Romans called Sri Lanka Serendivis and the Arabs called Sri Lanka Serendip (Serendipity is originated from this word). From this word, the Greeks called Sri Lanka Sielen Diva, and from the word Sielen many European names were derived including the Portuguese Ceilao, Dutch Zeilan and British Ceylon.
I wish they’d stuck with Serendip.
Wth is serendip
Actually it is not Sri Lanka it is lanka after Ram visit Lanka to save his wife and killed ravan it name changed to Sri Lanka.
Foreigners call it Albania but we albanians call it Shqiperia
Sri Lanka or ceilao part of the Portuguese colonies formalities.
I had a stroke trying to read the hindu (?) word
Hey bro you said "Cabo Verde" perfectly, are you portuguese?
I thought the exact same thing.
Me to like he said that so perfectly
Yes I think
@@EACArq i've seen some other videos and yeah, he's gotta be portuguese
Same thoughts
9:38 I think the Portuguese name _Ceilão_ (most likely pronounced as Ceelan, just like "ão" in São Paulo is pronounced as "San") probably came out of mispronunciation of _Sri Lanka_ itself.
The guy in the video pronounced it correctly. He's a Portuguese native speaker.
@@MedK001 So you're saying the pronunciation of 'Ceilão' in Portuguese & 'Ceylon' in English is the same?
@@NikhileshSurve Compare 9:14 and 9:24 (where he's saying Ceylon in English) with 9:26, where he says Ceilão, in European Portuguese.
@@MedK001 Yes I suppose there's some difference that can be spotted there.
But now if you read my comment again with the 9:38 time stamp you'll see my comment really isn't about correcting his pronunciation but about his question regarding the reason Portuguese chose that name. The pronunciation part in the bracket that I've mentioned (which seems to give the impression I'm correcting his pronunciation) is just to explain my comment from my point of view that Portuguese word 'Ceilão' probably comes from the mispronunciation of 'Sri Lanka' itself (which is the older name for the island) which they may have heard it something like 'Si lank'.
The United Provinces of Río de La Plata was not a short-lived State. It still remains as one of the official names of Argentina under the Constitutions of 1994 (Art. 35). You could add Argentina to the list of "countries that changed names" and it'd be more accurate.
Uhm.
Rhodesia to Zimbabwe
Basotho to Lesotho
Betchuanaland to Botswana
South West Africa to Namibia
Congo to Zaire and back again
Malawi also used to be called something else, i believe
finally i found a Bech. to Bots.
Hannodb1961 yes Malawi used to be called Nyasaland
Malaya to Malaysia
Upper Volta to Burkina Faso
Careful! Maybe I am wrong, but I feel we should establish a clear difference here: on one hand, countries that have changed their name from a colonial one to an independant one, such as Nyassaland to Malawi, North Rhodesia to Zambia, South Rhodesia to Zimbabwe and so on... and on the other hand, countries that have actually changed their name while being fully sovereign countries, such as Zaire to Democratic Republic of Congo (in 1997), Swaziland to Eswatini (2017), FYROM Macedonia to North Macedonia (2019) or even more recently Holland to Netherlands (January 2020). Being so, I understand the video is explaining only cases of fully sovereign countries, and not the ones that changed name when becoming independant. However, there are many cases still missing, like Burma to Myanmar (2010) or Republic of Venezuela to Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (1998), just to mention two.
who would be so dull to confuse the European nation of Switzerland with the African kingdom of Swaziland.
Every time there is country name selection, like for example when you are choosing your keyboard language layout and you are scrolling through names. As someone from Slovakia, I often have to double check if I didn’t miss-clicked Slovenia. Because when you are scrolling you are usually only focusing on first few letters. So I can completely understand if someone does that mistake.
Not to mention actual talking. Since I’m not native speaker all similar sounding words, just sound similar.
Stewie Griffin I mean they’re both mountain countries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@ColePenner it is no longer called Swaziland
Swaziland changed its name recently.
Play Dog hmm I do, in fact, already know this.
In Sweden it's "Tjeckien" and the direct translation to that is "Czechia"
Persia in the Persian language is Pars or Parsa. It was the city from which the Persian empire was governed for many years. The Greeks called it Persepolis meaning city of Persians. The whole country was called Aryan which over time became Iran. So yes the country was never referred to as Persia by Iranians. It would be as if to call the whole of Italy Rome because of the Roman Empire.
And what's the problem with calling the country out of its capital city? Mexico was named Mexico after the capital of the country and nobody is complaining!!
@@ortizricci Nothing wrong with it if the name of the country was the same name as its capital like the Mexico example you gave. But Iran was always called Iran and its capital cities were always given a different name. You wouldn't call the US Washington for example or call France Paris. Some people still call Iran and other Persian speaking countries Persia referring to when it was the Persian empire but the country itself has always been called Iran / Aryan
I love this kind of videos!
*these kinds of videos
@@areez3433 *kind
Back in like 650AD Jamaicas Tainos named the island Xaymaca(Ya my ca) or Land of Wood and Water, and when the Europeans came they modified it to Jamaica (Jah mae ca) (I belive that's the pronunciation) and we stuck with that name as you can see lol. But go check out abt the Tainos and Arawaks and other indigenous settlers, they actually contributed a lot to humanity as a whole, if your not aware the word barbecue,hammock and many others are derived from indigenous Caribbean and Central and South America Languages! And Tainos also kinda gave us the idea of the Jerk way of cooking. Our housing as well! Gazebos where sorta influenced by the Arawaks and Tainos way of housing.
In Dutch/Flemish it always has been Tsjechië wich means Czechia. We also say Kaapverdië en Ivoorkust in our own language.
klopt
It is actually Bosnia and Herzegovina not Bosnia
Some people get triggered because of that so I just wanted to address it
And republic of srpska
@bis225 Unlike
The United States of America
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
Bear in mind that when you shorten Bosnia and Herzegovina to Bosnia you are ignoring the entire region of Herzegovina, and the people that live there. it's somewhat like referring to the UK as just "England", and ignoring the existence of the Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish, only somewhat more sensitive at the moment.
Bosnia I Herzegovina*
@@akoden2667 Bosnia and Herzegovina is the English name. Bosnia I Herzegovina is a made-up mix. Bosna I Hercegovina is the Bosnian name
Hugo 57k thanks for correcting me I’ll be sure to use proper name
It's really nice when you encounter your fellow countrymen doing stuff you are used to only watch from outside people. Keep it up!
Continuação do excelente trabalho! Força nisso! :D
2:36 in Poland we call Czechia as Czechy,very similar to that in Czech language
Montessori teachers during geography lesson about countries of Africa: Swaziland - a country in Southern Africa
King Mswati III: *changes the country’s name to Eswatini cause it sounds like Switzerland*
Siam to Thailand
Burma to Myanmar
Federation of Malaya to Malaysia (Malaya+Sabah+Sarawak)
Maitsaire -> Hungary
Malaya To Federation of Malaya
dont include sabah...its ours (philippines)
No it's Malaysia now.
@@jameschristianarmada4434
Okay, keep claiming...
Burma: Myanmar
Siam: Thailand
Formosa: Taiwan
Mesopotamia: Iraq
Anatolia: Turkey
Turkey was never called anatolia
Region is called Anatolia or Asia Minor not the state
Formosa means beautiful in Latin :)
Iraq has been always called Iraq. Mesopotamia was the name the Greeks gave it during the Macedonian empire, but it's name was Uruk, than transliterated in Iraq, just like Iran
Scotland was Albania
Hello thnx for translating Cote D Ivore to Elefantcsontpart correctly
Hi. Bolivian here. Just a little correction about what is stated from 1:33. The current official name of Bolivia is not "Plurinational _Republic_ of Bolivia" but "Plurinational *State* of Bolivia" (or in Spanish: *Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia* . The former official name until 2009 was _República Nacional de Bolivia_ so I guess this is where the confusion is coming from. Interesting video nonetheless. Greetings!
You are pronouncing Czechia incorrectly. It should be pronounced as "Checkia", not "Sheckia".
I think he knows that; he just has trouble pronouncing it.
he is portuguese, and in both portugal and brazil portuguese we say Shekia because in portuguese, people normally say República Checa rather than República Tcheca.
Or, you know, it's an accent. That's why so many names are pronounced differently in different languages
Same discussion here applies to his pronunciation of Cape Verde.
@@pinkywind1302 You're right about Portugal but wrong about Brazil.
In Portugal we write República Checa (and 'ch' in Portuguese is pronounced as 'sh' in English)
In Brazil they write República Tcheca, precisely to make the sound like "Cz", not "Sh"
Island: exists*
Portuguese: it's real free estate!
Spain: yes
Overused meme, i mean its an historic meme so its kind of impossible to be original but come on, the same memes over and over again
Australia actually used to be New Holland. In 1642, Abel Tasman from the Netherlands, the first person to chart eastern Australia was the person to name it after Holland (The Netherlands). The name was then changed to Australia In 1824, though it took a while for the new name to catch on.
And in Van Diemans Land the Vandemonians had a bad reputations from being a penal colony and became Tasmania
@@lexneville6544 Isn't Tasmania named after Abel Tasman
I know it's an old video and with 5k+ comments these have probably been pointed out multiple times but two omissions I was surprised to not see here were Zaire which changed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burma which is now Myanmar
You should do a video on countries that have different names for themselves. For example, in English it's called Armenia but in Armenia it's called Hayastan. In English it's called India but in India it's called Bharat/Hindustan. In English it's called Japan in Japan it's called Nippon. In English it's called Greece but in Greece it's called Hellas/Ellas. In English it's called Germany but in Germany it's called Deutschland
Pretty much every country is like that
@@gayvideos3808 nope, not really. These are complete word changes, not just pronunciation and a few letter changes.
It is called Nihon not niPPon wtf is niPPon?!
@@Bazinga3972 it's spelt Nippon, that's what it is.
شھران بلؤچ i can speak Japanese we call it Nihon, nobody says nippon.
Transjordan ("On the other side of the river Jordan") became Jordan when, after the Arabs lost the war against the newly-formed State of Israel, Transjordan annexed the West Bank (or Cisjordan, i.e., "On this side of the river Jordan"). The country had then territory on both sides of the river, hence the name change.
When Jordan lost the West Bank in 1967, after the Six Days War, they kept their name unchanged because changing it back to Transjordan would be akin to accepting the territorial loss.
They did accept the loss. In 1988 they withdrew al their claims to the West Bank in favor of the PLO, and revoked the Jordanian nationality from the Arabs of the West Bank, who then became the Palestinians.
Could you possibly to a part two with countries such as burma-myanmar, siam-thailand, kampuchea-cambodia, zaire-DROC,
East timor-timor leste, rhodesia-zimbabwe, abbysinia-ethiopia, Zanzibar-tanzania and dahomey-benin
I was expecting to see Holland--> The Netherlands on here.
but holland is a part of the Netherlands. Like Bavaria in Germany, New York in USA or Kosovo in Serbia ;)
@@thelastprussian6491 I’m aware but in the past, it was correct to refer to the whole country as Holland. It was not until semi-recently that the government „re-branded“ everything to The Netherlands mostly for tourism reasons.
@@hakon_brennus_wolff106 No that’s not true. When the Dutch began colonization and trade by ships practically all ships were sent from 2 havens: Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Amsterdam is located in North-Holland and Rotterdam is located in South-Holland. North-Holland is 1 of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands. South-Holland is also 1 out of 12. But back then, North and South were still 1 province called Holland. So when these people went sailing, other countries would ask “where are you from?” And they would say Holland. That’s why so many languages say Holland in stead of the Netherlands. Later in the future North and South Holland split into 2 provinces which is the current situation. The Netherlands was never officially called Holland, and it was never right to say Holland when referring to the entire country. Not even in the past.
@@alaakalaf21 you're absolutely right. In 1579 it was the Republic of the seven united provinces, in which Holland was the most important territory, contributing about 60% of the state budget. In 1815 the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded, that also included Belgium and Luxemburg. Belgium broke away in 1830, and the country was named Kingdom of the Netherlands.
I’m so happy Swaziland changed the name, as a wee lad I was so confused as to why the Swiss were in Africa
It was still called 🇸🇿 Swaziland in English
There's a country called Germany/Allemagne/Alemania/Tedeschi/Deutschland.
Dutch people are from Holland/Netherlands.
Also Tyskland I believe 🤔
And keep in mind that Holland doesn't make up all of the Netherlands.
You just translated Germany into French and German. But it's still the same name.
What ?
A very interesting video would be how locals call their countries and how people from abroad call them. For example, Greece is called Hellas by its people but Greece from other countries. I am sure there are a lot of other examples, like Albania, Finland, Germany etc.
The one I don't think anyone in the comments has mentioned yet is the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts & Nevis which used to be known as St. Chris and Nevis between 1980-82 :)
Kazakhstan's capital changed it's name from Astana to Nur-Sultan
But before it was Akmola, then Akmolinsk, then Tselinograd and only then Astana and Nur-Sultan.
Persia and the Czech Republic sound cooler tbh
TributesAndUnique Czech sounds like chick
@@LovePrayGame Only if you pronounce one of them wrong.
Brem still they are similar
Persia sounds good but CP sounds too formal.
Bohemia sounds cool, though.
Excellent video. Was hoping to find about the change of Zaire to Democratic Republic of Congo though
Well, the last change worked. Ive never confused The Kingdom of Eswaitini with Switzerland.
Under Donald Trump, China has changed its name to "Tchai-nah"
@John Rambo Johnny, dude. The Trumpster call it "Jaina" as in vagina. He has a real problem with reality. I'm sure you know what I mean.
Nice
No it should be Chingto
@Trevor The Collector You mean 'your stupidity'? Also, can you respect everyone's opinion and stop throwing hate at people?
As you're the one getting offended, it appears that your stupid is showing.
Shekia 😂
My guess is that the guy making this video is a native speaker of Portuguese. It is extremely difficult for Portuguese speakers to say CH like most other people. I teach English to foreigners in the US and I have a lot of experience with Brazilians. I find it fascinating that in situations where we say Ch in English, they’ll say Sh, HOWEVER when they pronounce the letter T in most cases they say CH. For example 22 for a Brazilian person is Chwenty Choo. Laptop is lappy-choppy. What’s even funnier, is that they always try to convince me that they say everything right.
Side note, the guy in the video also says YugoZlavia.
Good video, but for the entirety of that SHekian section my ears were bleeding
dont forget Shri Lanka
Oh lord it killed me hearing this part... č makes a different sound to š 😩
@@colinafobe2152 "Shri" Lanka is correct
Nice of you to mention Yugoslavia, but should have ended the name change debacle to present. My grandpa lived his life in 7 countries without leaving this home. There was A LOT of personal document change.
"Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" (1918) >>> "Kingdom of Yugoslavia" (1929) >>> "Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia" (1945) >>> "Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (1963) >>> "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (1992) >>> "Serbia and Montenegro" (2003) >>> "Republic of Serbia" (2006)
We are about to add America to that list. Pansiland, Nomomenherenomo, or
Mydadleftandimmad or Wokfonuttin or
Gimmefree many accurate and fitting replacements. Or maybe Eightplacetrophy
You’re right, Trump did ruin you guys…
In our country Egypt is called/pronounced : Mishor.
Egypt is probably used by Europeans like Persia.
Mishor is the arab name, the original name is actually km.t, more commonly known as Kemet. Egypt comes from what the ancient greeks called it: Aigyptos.
That makes sense because when the Arabs conquered the Byzantine province of Egypt they changed the name but the West kept it in it's old form. Perhaps it's time for a change?
@@christianfreedom-seeker934 I'm not Arabic. I'm south Asian.
@@BamBamGT1 its actually masr in egypt and misr in fusha and most other arabic dialects
Kemet
How about Myanmar?
HOW DID THAT ONE NOT GET TALKED ABOUT, HERE!?
ikr
@@jubileegabrielmateo7437 no
@@jubileegabrielmateo7437 its like calling Germany the German reich, its no longer an official name of any sorts.
loophole Germany is how english speakers call them not their real or official name
Brazil, in it's earliest history was called Pindorama (land of the palm trees) by some of it's indigenous people (the tupis). Later when the portuguese arrive they first named the land Terra de Santa Cruz (land of the holy cross) and a few years later Terra de Vera Cruz (land of the true cross). They finally settled on the name Brazil because of the redwood 'pau brasil' that was extracted in the early days of colonisation. One thing I find interesting is that the name Brasil in portughese is actually an adjective meaning 'like embers', so that in the end Brazil's name just means red or more specifically ember red.
O fato de ter vindo da árvore não é a única versão
6:52 Egypt also is the western name of MASR مصر ... However , our Egyptian brothers never asked you guys to change it to the real one 😅 .
Didn't the pharoah used to call it Egypt too?
@@Darkest_matter
I don't think so , Egypt is 100% English name , I believe they called themselves KUMAT or something.
But it was the Greece (or Latin I dont know) who called them AEGYPTUS back then .
Here is a video 😅 :
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