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Cartographic of the Day: This is a map of the world in which the names of the countries have been allegedly replaced with the origins of said names (embiggen).

I say “allegedly,” because according to the comments on Reddit, some of these etymologies might be slightly south of correct (e.g., “Argentina doesn’t mean Silver, rather ‘Of the silver’”), so do yourself a favor and swing by Wikipedia to confirm before you go on Jeopardy.

[reddit.]

I think this is all pretty much all kind of bullshit.

For one, Tanzania does not mean that at all. It’s a combination of the names Tanganyika and Zanzibar, created when the two nations combined in 1964.

Zanzibar does come from the Arabic words for black and coast, so I guess they at least got one bit correct.

Lesson learned: Do some actual etymology and stop relying on Wikipedia.

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    recuerdo ke en el colegio nos dijeron ke Chile era el nombre de un pájaro….

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    or where they came from. It’s easier for...french, spanish, english ones.

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    Still pretty interesting.

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