Every Country With A Terrible Name (How NOT To Name A Country) 

As a punishment for this joke, make a video on Rhode Island, and its joke name 'Rouge Island'

yes it is also the name of a bar. if you google this, it will appear first, so instead add state to the end. second, All Hail the BIG BLUE BUG, It is a NATIONAL monument

If you do this with languages you'd be like Afrikaans, that sounds perfectly fine to me?

France is france too in french hence airfrance

Ouai, l’ivoire est illégal en France. Alors l’acheter sera un “faux pas"

East Timor: finally a worthy opponent

@@vruuumvruumm1355 east east?

@@vruuumvruumm1355 *laughs in lake chad and avon river*

The spiderman pointing at each other meme but it's every name in this set of comments

[laughs while drinking my “chai tea”...]

I can’t tell if this is a compliment or insult but I completely agree

In Spanish is called talking "cantinfladas" from Cantinflas a Mexican comic who mastered the art of talking a lot and in the end saying nothing.

and we'll watch every second of it

😄☕

he could do it for way more than 24 minutes, walk up to him and ask him to explain the history of Australia and I reckon he will have so many tangents he could keep talking for at least 3 hours.

I swear it sounds like “New Finland” when people pronounce it and I hate that.

in spanish is costa de marfil (which means Ivorycoast)

@@MrLump cause that is how it's supposed to be pronounced

Newfoundland is particularly funny when coupled with later knowledge that suggests it was the first part of America to be discovered by Europeans.

​@MrLump Blame the british lol

For some reasons it's spelled Tchad in swedish...

@@Veroxzes It's "Tschad" in German, but that's because you need the "t" at the beginning to mark the "t" sound, different from English, where it's all included in "ch". But I guess it might be just for the same reason that Swedish has the "t" in front.

@@bowser1166 Tsjaad in Dutch 😁

@@bowser1166 T posing chad

The best country names in the world are Chad and Djibouti. They should form an alliance.

Nice Profile Picture.

@@andknuckles101 Guess what, it's also the french term for the country.

@@andknuckles101 Française is the feminine of français, which means "French", as in, someone that is french. It doesn't apply to the country of France itself. Source: I'm french.

La France :)

@@andknuckles101 you don’t even know what you’re talking about lmao

Look at it in chinese characters and it has no problem.

This is a problem WHEN YOU FUCKING LOOK AT IN ENGLISH

Chinese characters are rich in a way that the English alphabet can't compare, so I'm sure Jinan mean a totally different thing than Ji'nan. The same with Shanxi and Shaanxi. Depending on the character u pick, even if they have the same sound, the meaning is totally different.

Yeah if they do that no one is gonna be able to pronounce it and they will just call it new Zealand Some people might even confuse it with Eritrea in africa

It also completely disregards the majority Anglo population of NZ, but you’re from there so what do I know

So you would support calling a country a name that isn't easily pronounceable to the majority of its population. That sounds incredibly stupid.

You know what’s a good idea? Renaming your country to its name in a language that less than 5% of your population speaks.

@@rustybayonette6641 exactly what I’m saying, I’m on the left but this whole renaming NZ thing is just stupid

*yes*

Y e s

@@alexanderballa6152 *y* *e* *s*

Technically that applies to any "North -" or "South -". Two things that were previously one thing. And just to piss of the Scots, I'll call them North British, becase they were two things that became one things.

So South Sudan is part of south Sudan that also once part of southern part of Sudan?

Another fact: dprk doesn’t change their name cause the don’t exist

why does it sound like a brand of eReaders... oh

@@moonjae-in12thpresidentofr20 they're just a sitcom set up by the South Koreans and Chinese

I would keep it cause no one wants to visit it so people get confused and buy tickets to it instead for Switzerland

also because they wanted to use their own native language for the name of the country

Ah yes, northern Northern Ireland.

@@puff6796 North of northern ireland. Here, fixed it for you.

@@kushtalin9180 thing is people in Northern Ireland often refers to itself as the North of Ireland... So Northern North of Ireland? North of the Republic of Ireland??

@@liandrysanguishinshin7955 well, i guess if you want to say that you just gotta change the usual "north of ireland" thing. But only when you talk about the northern part of it.

@@kushtalin9180 I'd do that, it's just that Northern Ireland is associated with British Imperialism. Either way, people refer to the north of the north of ireland by its county, not by... well that normally, so it doesn't matter too much.

Mostly people who have never heard of austria

Guinea. Now that's a terrible confusing name of a country. There is The Guinea, there's the Equatorial Guinea, there is Guinea-Bissau, there is Papua New Guinea. Just how many Gunieas you need?

@@onewxrldmusic7303 enough to stock all the guinea pigs in the world

I don't think people mix up New Zealand and Zeeland (The Netherlands) with eachother.

@@whoeverest_the_whateverest Guinea pig which isn't a pig and isn't from Guinea. It's a rabbit from Peru, so it should be called PERU RABBIT instead of GUINEA PIG

@@helloahla239 lol

Except that he starts out talking about a country that was named about ten years ago, then one that changed its name two years ago, and then one named by the Portuguese. He doesn't get into stuff named by the British for quite a while.

Ah yes, my favourite British colony of North Korea.

@@NeasCZ I would like your comment, but it’s on 69 likes

@@spyone4828 well the British did control and split the area known as Sudan and South Sudan with Egypt during the colonial era

This might shock you, but people aren't countries.

To be fair he is talking about the names of countries in his language. Why should I as an native English speaker be expected to call Germany Deutschland? It's not that we dislike the culture or anything it is just easier to call it Germany in English. You can call it Deutschland in German if you want but I should not be required to.

@@thebasileus4793 not to say you *should* call it ðat, but "Deutschland" is not even remotely more difficult to pronounce in English ðan Germany. In fact, it seems easier to me, given it has fewer syllables. And for ðat matter, ðe country wasn't referred to as "Germany" in English until surprisingly recently, being usually called Alemania/Alemany prior to ðat.

@@oyoo3323 Yeah but no American is taught to call it that thus it would be harder to make people call it that. Also the spelling in English makes no sense with how it sounds which would only add to the problem.

@@thebasileus4793 given English usually retains ðe original spelling of all vocabulary it takes in, ðe spelling makes perfect sense. As for ðe first part, who cares? We weren't talking about yankees specifically to begin wið, so why focus in on ðem exactly?

@@oyoo3323 Well as a native English speaker I can say for certain that if I showed most English speakers 'Deutschland' they would have no idea how to pronounce it and also I was talking about Yanks as I am one. I suppose I cant speak for other English speakers who are not Americans but I can assure you that very few Americans would know how to pronounce Deutschland. I imagine they would pronounce more like De-utchs-land and not like how its actually pronounced.

or 'please don't talk about Ebola here'

Imagine if a part of Democratic Republic of the Congo broke away and became the People's Republic of the Congo. What a mess that would be.

@Comrade JJ I'll just keep calling them by the name of their capitals.

@@Liggliluff It's usually the People's Democratic Republic of X, so you'd have the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the People's Democratic Republic of the Congo.

DR Congo lost its medical licence now they're called MR Congo

To be fair, "Macedonia" refers to a geographic region including North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and parts of western Bulgaria. Calling it North Macedonia is a decent compromise that no longer associates it with part of Greece

@@raidb0ss29 in other words,average balkan bullshit.

True

"North Macedonia" is so much better and more understandable than "Former Yugoslavic Republic Of Macedonia"...

In Argentina Macedonia is a salad made with fruits

I picked up on this just living in North America. There are states named North Carolina and South Carolina, North Dakota and South Dakota, and West Virginia. “Western Canada” means the region consisting of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Australia, meanwhile, is terribly inconsistent with the names of its states and territories.

While there's no script, he does have a video plan beforehand.

He is just having fun exploring the world through the internet. No harm in that. He doesn’t claim to be some reputable source that should be cited in academic papers

He says every video that he doesn't care.

So true.. time wasterer..a d people believe him😂

of great britain AND northern ireland

A brilliant name describes it perfectly

"""united""" ""king""dom of ""great"" britain and ""northern"" ire""land""

"United States"

@@Sightnado ‘great’ Britain

"Old York"

*Old Zealand*

Mexico 2

@@jesalt8230 West York

East Virginia

Same in Spanish, "Paises Bajos" in plural.

@@nullValo Maybe it's because centuries ago, we were called 'the republic of the seven united Netherlands', but that was between 1588 and 1795, so it's been a while

@@Roozyj I guess so? Names tend to stick if there is not much of a bigger change, lul

Im confused why it’s much more common in Denmark to call your country Holland than Nederland

@@Sebbir Holland is the name of our two most populated and I suppose richest provinces. Most boats from the Netherlands came from Holland, so that might be it? I was looking up if Danish cities was ever part of the Hanseatic leagion, but apparently, they were at war, so that's a kind of relationship too I suppose xD

Yeah...no shit

Me still finding where old zealand is

@@sammie5998 Try looking in the Netherlands

@@GuntisTerauds deadass?

@@sammie5998 the "Old Zealand" is Zeeland of the Netherlands

Hi same pfp guy

yeah

@@dr.syedmuhammadmanazer-ul-414 its cause u have D in your name.

Well you're right there.

Word

I heard you were democratic and a republic at the same time

i love you

@@FirstnameLastname-qe3ry You earn a seat on the Politboro

Nice to see you in the chat sir. All hail.

Dear leaderrrr

Yeah, honestly a lot of this video seems to like to ignore the politics and history that goes into some of these, particularly when it comes to the "similar name" category. Like, the fact that the two Koreas have similar names, when from the point of view of each of them, the other should not exist, as the fact there is the two of them is, in essence, an unresolved civil war.

Lol

Eswatini is my favorite RU-vidr.

eSwatini*

@@Armadeus Not in English.

@@Armadeus Electronic Swatini*

...But why

Same in Australia,we have a state with that name.

The worst region names in New South Wales have to be the South Coast, Central Coast, and North Coast, all of which are on the East coast.

If you look at the councils in NSW you'll find Campbelltown, Canada Bay, Liverpool City, Newcastle City. The commonwealth sucks at naming.

@@AnimeReference Canada Bay has always been amusing to me. The stolen British names I get but it's a mystery how we managed to steal any from Canada. There's a suburb in Newcastle called Toronto, too. Very weird.

Don't forget Wessex, which stretched from Devon up towards Surrey.

Yeah, I'm Polish and when I drive to Hungary (through Slovakia) I see "Magyarország" sign. Next to the border in Hungary is Sátoraljaújhely.

MAGYARIA

In sweden we call it Ungern.

Jó látni, hogy magyarok is néznek minőségi tartalmat.

@@plislegalineu3005 That's a north eastern city that i go to when going to tesco

China, too, since they call themselves basically the middle kingdom.

Eastern realm is more correct

Yes, that big island with kangaroos

@@marcosboehme4862 you mean Australia, not Austria. Lol

@@apocm6784 Nehh, obviously not. Australia has the Alps, Tirol, castles, Haupstadt Wien (Vienna). Everybody knows that.

14:18 glitch in the matrix wtf

It's even worse because they used to be the same state and then West Virginia broke away

should’ve been called East Virginia damn

I got confused cuz my brain tricked me into thinking virginia = west virginia

It's more of a north-south split. It occurred during the civil war, and everyone was just happy to survive that. West Virginia went over to the North and helped elect Lincoln to a second term in 1864. The rest of Virginia led the southern rebellion.

@@AndyZach And now they've completely changed places because Virginia became Democrat while West Virginia became Republican. The only reason West Virginia broke away was because the rest of Virginia at the time was wayy too conservative and supportive of slavery, and now the conservative ones are West Virginians lol. How the tables have turned.

@@Joe_Mama661 Well, as far as I'm concerned, it ended up being false information.

@@ivanhozjan7137 i see, good to know

@@ivanhozjan7137 what ended up being false information?

@@masterzz57 That Slovenia and Slovakia exchange the mail addressed to the wrong country's institutions once a year.

This got me when I was playing Geoguessr, I thought Slovenska Republika meant Slovenia.

everyone knows we all call it République française all the time smh

ibx2cat yes eswatini

Spotted

You’re everywhere

@@ibx2cat * cinquième république française because france has had 5 republics in 250 years

Talk about Austria and Australia in english

Eswatini 15/12/2020*

@@flp322 why is everyone calling him swaziland lmao

@@paddaboi_ have you watched the video yet?

@@andknuckles101 /whooosh

"The United Kingdom of relatively large Britain which includes Wales, England, scotland, some northern parts of ireland but not the most northern part, isle of man, guernsey, jersey, and you know the Rest, falklands i guess"

@@nevize6660 “and some islands named after sandwiches”

@@nevize6660 The fact that the Republic of Ireland is more Northern than Northern Ireland makes me laugh

@@nevize6660 well jersey, Guernsey and the isle of man are not part of the UK, they are crown dependencies, therefore they can't be included in the name of the Kingdom.

@@stgr0186 sigh, i wrote that already

Even the flags are similar.

@@Ogeroigres Almost xD

And if you say "slovensko" in either languages, it refers to something of that particular country/language :D

@@matic.m Woow xD

@@Ogeroigres its because they are slav countries, most of them have similar flags, but u prob havent seen romania and chad flags

“Northern North Korea”

@@ortherner Well, that could easily be used to describe the northern half of North Korea, as opposed to the northern half of the Korean peninsula, thereby eliminating the issue with having cardinal directions in the name of a nation.

Or "north/south/west/east of"

But the British Northern Ireland still calls itself Northern Ireland and not North Ireland. They should call themselves "British country of northern Ireland" which is like Northern Cyprus calls itself

North Ireland and North Cyprus is still called this way even tho it's a political entity and not a georgaphov path of an entity

More like 'Land of the coastal land' But hey, if you really wanna shit your pants, let me introduce you to the brilliant toponym of 'Cartagena'.

@Rede Emitel Apparently "New New City". Cartagena from Carthago Nova from Carthago which is the Latin form of the Phoenician Qart Hadasht which means "New Town"... But Cartagena, Colombia is only called Cartagena (de Indias) and not Nuova Cartagena so the fun stops there.

That's the Yankee spirit!

Forgiven Sinner NEW YORKER

We take no prisoners, all captives are executed.

But, if you're killing somene for not being free, You are enforcincing something on that person, and this is the new hampshire paradox

@@basaltotwoo can't be unfree if dead

To be fair, Mexico underwent different regimes in the course of its history. So, pretty much the labels 'Mexico' and 'Mexican' can encompass all of them. ...and you can call it as the 'Mexican Republic', if you're not satisfied with UMS, anyways.

One of the unofficial names of Mexico before independence and which was proposed and popular to be name of the country was Northern America, in Spanish "América Septentrional" (it was the northernmost part of Spanish America)

Not to mention Mexico is in the Americas to boot.

Yeah I'm Mexican and we almost never call it The United Mexican States, we just use it on important documents like your ID, passport etc. We either say Mexico or Mexican Republic

USA united snake of america

In Spanish: "Alemania"

​In Lithuanian - Vokietija

In bosnian: Njemacka

In Danish: Tyskland

In German: Deutschland

But they do call the country La France

@@Nexandr whoosh

@@JuniperBoy *S H U T*

In Greek we call France "Gallia" which means the country of the Gauls

@@nikostsiolis7102 Yeah, you got our ancien name. 😂 In French « Gaule » (pronounce “gol”) is the ancien name of France.

Remember that this name also must be said in very specific language or it is wrong

sir this is a mcdonalds i don't speak alien languages do you want sauce with your nuggets or not

@@rhyanmedina1130 I don't want to get nuggets at all because I don't want to eat dead animals.

@@YellowBunny sorry bout that i didn't know you were vegan/vegetarian

Kesatuan republik Nuwels et centre nord de Nouveau-Zeestan berpenduduk demokratis

Has Democratic in the name so he’d still be unhappy.

Western Sahara is their short name. It's like Russia to the Russian Federation.

"Western Sahara" is a name for a region, as there is no full government control. The "Sahrawi Democratic Republic" claims this land as well as Morocco. It's not a name dispute/ confusion, it's a territorial dispute between two governments.

@@spacehawkreviewsvideos8262 Sahrawia would be a bad ass alternative, though I don't know if that would work in their Hassaniya Arabic

it's just South Morrocco

Lmaoooo

Fun fact: the old name for Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, is literally translated to "Capital City" in their language

@@neyte7313 In a similar vein in Japan, Toukyou means "eastern capital". As opposed to the older capital in the west, Kyouto, "capital city".

Its capital is Bangui on the Ubangi River- they are anagrams. Over the river from Bangui is the DR Congo.

Forgot Central America

Also that in latin (America) countries it's only 1 continent which is America and it's only divided by regions and not continents ( North America is the northern part of America from Mexico); Central America, from Panamá to Guatemala and South America going from Colombia to Chile/Argentina. Also calling the civilians of USA "Americans" is more confusing because that makes it sound that if you're not from the USA you're not from the continent, confusing stuff. In spanish and other romance languages, I think, there's a word for their citizens which is "Estadounidenses", which makes a little bit of sense because it's called United States, and besides some other countries like The United States of Mexico, there's a bast majority calling it "US" or United States. I guess they can change the name like Prussia did with the title of king, from "King of Prussia" to "King in Prussia (Region)" it was for certain reasons and when they were united it was changed back to King in Prussia but it's not the . Maybe it won't change anything but it would solve some problems when refering to something, just like "region countries" (South Sudan / South Africa)

@@kikeruiz539 It gets more complicated than that. Basically, for anglos and pretty much all of Europe except some countries, there are only 2 Americas: South and North. However, for Latinos, there are 3: South, Central, and North

He didn't say there wasn't a problem. North America & South America are entire continents, so comparing 2 massive land bodies to 2 smaller countries is much different. I don't know if you've looked at a map, but South America is a pretty massive place... so if someone says they're from South America in English, literally EVERYONE knows what you're referring to & would NOT be confused. I've lived all over the US, and never once in 30 years has someone ever told me they lived in "South America" and meant Florida or Arizona. In fact, if you're referring to people living in the US specifically, they would say they lived in "the South" (if for some reason they didn't just say their specific state). Trying to mess with semantics that don't work in real life situations doesn't really work.

@@anti-spiral159 No, that's a new attempt at revising geography. "The Americas" refers to both continents. Being barely attached by a small sliver of land does not make it "one continent." Unless you want to say Africa, Europe & Asia are all "one continent," then sure. In that case, Latin countries believe there are only 4 continents on the planet: 1) America, 2) Eurasica, 3) Oceania, 4) Antarctica. Tectonic plates give a pretty good indication of land masses, and guess what... North & South America are distinctly divided! Being barely attached by a small land area doesn't make you "one continent." That depends on ocean levels, in which case Asia & North America would be one continent any time the Bering Land Bridge attached Russia to Alaska.

Truly triggered: Liverpool is a million times more famouse than Manchester!

@@gerrardjones28 The ultimate question: which is more famous, the Beatles or Manchester United?

@@idot3331 the LFC obviously

Omg I just wrote an almost identical comment haha. Get out of my brain

@@idot3331 Manchester city haha jks

It’s not English-centric, it applies to every language. It’s like when Chinese calls America “Meiguo”, or whatever the other European countries call Germany. Nobody’s forcing them to use the name “USA” or “Deutschland”, so an English speaker should also be allowed to use the English version of their names instead of the local name.

Agree with your first part of the argument, but then people always need to make it be about the 'Anglophones' smh^

How is the "english-centrism of the argument" ridiculous when he's specifically talking about the english names of the countries? Is a British man supposed to talk about Portuguese names of countries? What are you on about?

@@Fragum19 Country names are not arbitrary. The formation of compound names follow the grammar of the language they are being formed in. Some names are "bad" more because of the instrinsic structure of the English language than because of any "naming process". This relationship between grammar and name labelling is what he totally misses. He is not conscious of how that is determined by his mother tongue.

@@Fragum19 Portuguese is just a counter-example. Some languages compound names like English, some do not. And those that do not differ in more than one way. He is not aware of this because is studied more Geography than History or Linguistics. Which is fine, because he is so young.

Uruguay is called like that because the entirety of it's western border is the Uruguay river

is there a river named Guay? Because URU-GUAY and PARA-GUAY

@@helloahla239 no but it must be an indigenous word related to rivers

@@helloahla239 there's a river called Uruguay which my country is located at the east. They teach us at school that the name Uruguay stands for 'river of the colored birds'. And indeed it all comes from the indigenous language of the natives so as Paraguay.

People from Uruguay in Spanish are technically called "Orientales" (Easterns) formally, which kinda sounds more like if they were in East Asia, but in common speech anybody call them ever like that and instead they are said "Uruguayos" (Uruguayans). Before being an independent country, Uruguay was called Banda Oriental ("Eastern Side" I think, banda has many meanings that can fit to name a territory or polity while awkward to be in a placename and I don't know which exactly is here) and Provincia Oriental (Eastern Province).

And there's a city in Germany also called Limburg, to make it even more confusing ;-)

All the brabants: am i a joke to you?

Is that because you can smell Limburg cheese as far as Limburg to Limburg?

Let’s go on vacation to Limburg! Sure! Let’s go next week! *next week* Hey where are you?? In Limburg, Germany!! WHAT IM IN THE NETHERLANDS

StanSearchesLife There’s more than two?

He better not be in Manchester and vise versa any time soon

@@easytiger6570 You mean that Manchester better not be in him very soon?

Oh God

Let's just call it "Kimland".

@David Montgomery Why don’t we just call it New Democratic republic of north south bhjbhjvyughbhhygy, that would make it much easier

The colonial names were Congo Free State (1880-1908) and Belgian Congo (1908-1960). Zaire was used from 1971 to 1997.

I would go with "Congo-Brazzaville" and "DR Congo." In "Casablanca," Renault mentions the "Free French garrison in Brazzaville." So it's in the pop culture canon.

Kim Korea, like Saudi Arabia

Yep or the “State of Hungary” if pressed. Same as several other communist/socialist countries who dropped “republic” after returning to classicalism, going by just the name in most official contests and “State of” if pressed; off the top of my head Romania and Ukraine are two other examples in Europe. Interestingly the Commonwealth realms are not officially kingdoms, they also try to go by only their name, and go by “Commonwealth realm of” if pressed. The exceptions off the top of my head are Canada, which used to be the British Dominion of Canada and never dropped the “Dominion of” when they fully dropped the British (besides the monarch) in 1982, Australia, which is just “Commonwealth of Australia”, a name that predates its independent status as a Commonwealth realm in 1986, as it its full name historically was the British Dominion of the Commonwealth of Australia, so that title had always been in there and Australia kept it when it gained full independence as a Commonwealth realm. The other exception I can think of is New Zealand, which is basically the same story as Australia except it was called the “British Dominion of the Realm of New Zealand” and is now simply the Realm of New Zealand. But all the other Commonwealth realm countries try to mainly just use their name, a la the post-Communist countries like Hungary, and only use “Commonwealth realm of” when pressed

Lmao you can't do that because Ulster the province is made up of 9 counties 3 of which are in the Republic

While in English, the names of their habitats are quite similar: Swiss and Swedish.

We know 😢😢 Greetings Sweden 🇸🇪

A lot of Americans think that Sweden and Switzerland are the same thing, but that’s just due to poor education and Americentrism.

In Polish: Szwajcaria 🇨🇭 and Szwecja 🇸🇪 Sz is š / sh C is tz/ts W is v J is y in yes

In Filipino sub language we call it Swissko and Swedenya☺

That's why they keep building Captain Cook Statutes

One of my favorite Mitchel and Webb bits is the naming of

East New South Wales?

West Australia was, technically, French.

@@christopherellis2663 I believe you mean Dutch

not really... in Portuguese Peru is called Turkey... XD

@@tonnyfigueira3119 Wtf dude haha what a plow twist

@@tonnyfigueira3119 then what do you call Turkey lmao

@@unslaadkrosis9435 just to make it clear: * Turkey the country in Portuguese is "Turquia" * Peru the country is Peru * but the word "Peru" in Portuguese means Turkey the bird =P

@@tonnyfigueira3119 ooh okay

It’s more fun in Slovak language. Slovensko - Slovakia Slovinsko - Slovenia Compared to that English translations are quite distinct. But when I think about it, that’s probably source of confusion. If someone writes on postcard Slovakia in Slovak language (Slovensko), some foreign post office worker might get quite confused, since they probably will see first 6 letters identical to Slovenia only with different suffix.

Worse is the names of the languages in their own languages: slovenčina - Slovak in Slovak slovenščina - Slovene in Slovene

And their flags are similar, and they use the same currency

You all forgot the best part: Slovenec - Slovakian person in Slovak Slovenec - Slovenian person in Slovene

@@TheAndro5 Not true, though. Slovakian male person is called Slovák, female is called Slovenka.

and São Tomé and Príncipe

@@Jeremiah1110 And El Salvador

@@bloomingapril7547 well El Salvador doesen't even have an english name, the literal translation is "The Savior" so I think it's better to keep it that way, same with Sao Tome and Principe.

@@C003 In polish we do have a name for sao tome and principe "Wyspy Świętego Tomasza i Książęca" Which translates to "Islands of Saint Thomas and princely" The last part doesnt really make sense

United Kingdom in Swedish is called Storbritannien*, meaning Great Britain, and Great Britain is also called the same. So you got Great Britain inside Great Britain. *In Finland-Swedish, it's called Förenade konungariket, meaning United Kingdom. So this only applies to Standard Swedish.

Well, I guess he perfectly knows it, but if he acknowledged that in the video, it would sound much less funny... North Macedonia is an interesting case, because for many, many years they were in a conflict with Greece, which wanted Macedonia monopoly and was therefore opposing very strongly to Macedonia the country (now North Macedonia) calling themselves Macedonia... This way they were probably the only country in the world with no internationally established and accepted name, and had to be referred to by a long description (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). But finally, they recently gave up and renamed themselves to North Macedonia.