Italy Isn't Really Called Italy 

Your commonwealth map looks a bit out of date as Ireland is not in the commonwealth... Nor has it been since 1949 haha

Not to mention the fact that Italy's official name is the Italian Republic, not the Republic of Italy. And at 4:40, you're forgetting the Principality of Liechtenstein

New Zealand's official name is Aotearoa New Zealand.

Now you should do the official names of countries in their own languages. Like how Japan in Japan is Nihon/Nippon.

It's called Italy but it may not be named them.

He already did that video.

eddiemuff03 Republica hellenica

it's Graacerland.

Because is Hell ass of a name :v ok no. Sorry

Greece isnt Greece at all.

Correction: Repubblica Italiana

Correction: The Roman Empire

Correction: Roman Empire III: the Revenge of the Romans

Mamma mía supermario è italianano

@@giovannipedulla4257 Correction: Western Byzantium

How dare you forget little Liechtenstein ;-;

The principality of Sealand was also left out.

Yeah mate u beat me to it

It's called Fürstentum Liechtenstein (I live 1km from its border). I don't know if that translates to principality.

@@Emil-yd1ge No, Fürstentum would be translated as Principality. Duchy would be Herzogtum, e.g. Großherzogtum Luxemburg = Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

WorldNews92 That’s not pedantry, that’s correctness. It’s on the first line of the Wikipedia page that it’s Italian Republic, not like it’s some little-known thing...

It bugged me to no end.

After all that buildup to "this is their real name," he doesn't give us their real name 🙄

In his defense, the FAO website has it wrong. However, from the official coat of arms: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Emblem_of_Italy.svg

@@louismelahn1805 yeah he should've used the CIA World Factbook www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/it.html

Yeah, that's like minimal research, he missed out the Russian Federation too.

I just popped in to check someone had mentioned this. 🍌🇬🇧😀

United kingdom of great Britain, northern Ireland and Berwick upon tweed

@@yetigriff and overseas territories and crown dependencies

He forgot about Taiwan, the Official name is the Republic of China.

Facundo Corradini nihon is also an exonym technically.

Wait, isn’t Japan called ‘Dai Nippon Tekoku’ (大日本帝國), literally the Empire of Japan?

@@LodiJP because it is a romanised version? Isn't the hiragana and katakana writing of Nippon and Nihon official, or you actually have to use the Kanji 日本 as you actually have in your screen name?

Tommy Crosby no, because Nihon is a Chinese word. It means land of the rising sun. But Japan is only the land of the rising sun if you are in China.The original Japanese word was Yamato or Wa

オランダ日本JN well but Japanese people have been calling it Nihon for some centuries now, right? It’s not an exonym anymore

I used to work in a toy store, and one of my managers there was a foreigner, so I asked him "Where are you from?" and he said "I'm Sicilian." So yeah, fair duce. No pun intended

I thought he was gonna say it's actually "Italia"

Yea they ask where I'm from and I also say "I'm Sicilian"

this is what Americans do now. They give a state name and im like where tf are u talking about lol

Why did you expect that from a channel called Name Explain?

Vyjz yeah I thought of it too lmao

There's also Wales as well

@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 Wales is not an independent country though

@@Vyjz It's a ceremonial title, but it's still a principality though

@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 I know

That isn't correction. In English official name is Swiss Confederation. Latin version (which is "Confoederatio", not "Confederatio" BTW) isn't more correct and neither is its translation.

@@martinsriber7760 yes but Helvetic ≠ Swiss And both are english.

Also, it is not a true confederacy anymore

@@joelp7665 So? I repeat - official English name is Swiss Confederation. Not Helvetic, Swiss.

@@martinsriber7760 Just though I'd add more facts to what you said for others. I did not disprove nor disaprove your statement. Swiss comes from Schwyz, a small canton(state) inside Switzerland.

No no no La santa terra dello spaghetto

@@FalB27 ah, ok

The Republic Of The Last Remaining Pisanos of the Roman empire. Funny Lookin' Spaghetti Noodle

I think maybe Unified former kingdom of Italy, would be a cool alternative.

Discount Rome xD

Was hoping this video would be about that!

Germany: "WE ARE DEUTSCHLAND!" UK: "Okay, Germany." Germany: "NEIN! DEUTSCHLAND!" Spain: "Okay, Alemania." Germany: "NEIN!!!" Russia: "Nyemestkiy." Germany: "NEIN!!! AND THAT MEANS 'ONE WHO CAN'T SPEAK, YOU VODKA-DRINKING ARSCHLOCHS!!!" Japan: "Doitsu." Germany: "NEI...close enough."

Thank you, Brits, for calling Deutsch German and calling Nederlands Dutch.

kuroneko97 probably goes back to the hre times

Nippon Deutschland

aadz93 and the RSF - Republic State of Francoria

And also THE Gambia

@@Emil-yd1ge and "the" Bahamas too. But that's weird when you think in other languages. In Portuguese nearly all country names required specific gendered articles.

Or the United States of Indonesia, as opposed to the United States, which is a short name for the United States of America.

stop that's not the point

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So.. Swiss Community?

Same

Same

Idem ;)

😂🤣😂🤣 sorry but it's funny

Canada was a Dominion while under colonial rule. After independence it stopped being one and became a confederation.

@@blackoak4978 Canada >Independent >Still recognizes Elizabeth II as Queen CHOOSE ONE!

@@blackoak4978 um no. Your wrong. We became a dominion in 1867. Under the British North American Act. I just re read it to double check.

@@blackoak4978 only partly correct the articles of confederation label Canada's formal name as "The Dominion of Canada" so yea we stopped being a dominion of Britain and became a dominion of ourselves?

I'ts not an official name tho

Maybe "San Marco". Anyway yes, That's right

Sounds like something straight out of EU4

Lets restore the Respublica Venetiarum!

@@TheManinBlack9054 I visited the country myself and I can assure you 1000% that the Sammarinese official name is "La Serenissima Republica di San Marino", which in English it simply translates to "The most Serene Republic of Saint Marino".

Nobody: Not a single republic: Poland: Rzeczpospolita Polska

@@kacperwoch4368 nobody: not a single soul: poland: szczszczszczszczszczszczszczcin

Is this Polish Rzecz related to the German Reich? And is pospolita related to polite, politics, police, policy, Greek polis? (Or should that be polos?)

@@rodschmidt8952 'Pospolita' is related to the word 'społem' which means 'together'. They may be related in broader sence, as all 3 languages you mention share a distant common origin. So they may be just as related as Polish Woda and German Wasser.

@@rodschmidt8952 It comes from latin rather

New Zealand is also officially Aotearoa New Zealand.

AholeAtheist no it isn’t it’s the dominion of New Zealand

i saw CGPGrey video about the Difference between Britania/United Kingdam/England/The British Monarch and Commonwelth and i still get confused (except for England, it's that part Scotish, welsh and Irish people hate being called being from)

And it isn't even true. The official name is "The Italian Republic". There is no Republic of Italy.

Ok BoOmEr

He's done another video on that

it doesn't exist. it's just a fantasy.

@@carultch precisely, but then differently or is it? I have no clue.

Very strange, because it would be very interesting to learn about the difference between a confederation and a federation in the modern political-administrative sense of these terms.

Roman Empire 3: You talkin' to me?!

Yeah, “Electric Boogaloo” only works for the second entry.

@@lewatoaofair2522 It's my understanding that the Italians don't like to talk about "the second entry"

Isn't bogalloo a Korean food ?

Nope. the DR Congo was called Zaire for many years.

I wish it was still called Zaire; that was a cool name and now it's confusing with 2 Congos.

TheCheeser The country’s acronym should be EAU because English possessives are backwards of Arabic. In Arabic the name is Al-Emiraat Al-Arab Al-Mutahida(United)

@@IssamHalabi Actually it's "al-imarat al-ʿarabiyya al-muttahida" (الإِمارات العَرَبية المُتَّحِدة) which translates to "The united Arab(ic) Emirates". The english acronym makes no sence in arabic either way. Arabs instead just say the Emirats/Al-imarat for short.

UEA... it's in the game!

Erm, King of the Belgians, not King of Belgium, if we're being quite correct about it. ;-)

I'm curious, how is it?

@tvrhd2021 thanks

Most Serene Islamic Arab People's Democratic Socialist Oriental Plurinational Turkish Co-operative Pridnestrovian United Hashemite Independent Federative Federated Federal Federation of the Union of Kekistan

I think San Marino is called serenissima 😂

@@realerobin Venice was also popularly referred to as la Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta..

And the funny thing is, it's not even called the Republic of Italy, it's the Italian Republic

Well i guess you shouldnt watch anymore videos, problem solved :)

@@juniorverbakel7535 Well no, the problem wouldn't be solved, I just wouldn't be here to see it. I'm saying this because I care and I think he should take it into account, not because I'm hating. Being factual is important when the point of your channel is to *explain* stuff.

Because the name of the country was originally an adjective

Translate that Latin into English and tell me what you get

@@dresdi Yes it is just the latin translation but the latin version, not the german, frensh, romansh or italian translation is the "main" offical one. I think they choose the latin one to not prefer one language over another. Even their ISO 3166 code Is "CH", so I think this a fact worth mention.

@@ohh_mega2042 every single name there was translated - there's no good reason for Switzerland to be an exception

@@dresdi If you think so

@@ohh_mega2042 Another example Egypt is called "Misr" in Arabic ... but the official name employs Egypt in the English translation ... same for many countries in the video

@Oilen Right, but it's how they identify as. If it were reversed and 46 identified as commonwealths you could easily see the country calling itself The United Commonwealths of America. It's more than just in their name though, it's in their constitutions. Edit: I should add that while calling them "states" wouldn't be entirely wrong, it wouldn't be entirely right either. "State" is a very broad term, it's just not very precise. It just so happens that it's also used for the very specific usage of how States are in the United States, as well as it's broader sense. You could say Saudi Arabia is a state, and it is, in the way that other nation states are, but calling it a kingdom would be more correct. There's some other fun ways in which the nomenclature used by states vary from one to other. Most states have counties, but some states have parishes. One of the most interesting to me though is that Wisconsin doesn't use the term "township" like most states do, instead they use the term "town". And if you're wondering how they differentiate between a town that's a township and a town that's a town, they don't... they don't have towns as most states do. They have villages and cities, their towns are only equivalent to townships.

Wrong. It's pronounced LESS TEH

Well, I guess you addressed that in the end. But still.

He even said UEA (which is our local university here in Norwich) instead of UAE. Also totally mangled Mauritania.

kurwonks

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@MrZapparin It's Italy in Polish, we named it after different tribe than most other nations and it ended up being a bet on a wrong horse.

I mean Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a massive ass misnomer and should actually be called Bat Shit Insane Dictatorship of Northern Korea.

Yeah, it's funny how actual democracies hardly ever feel the need to mention in their name that they're in fact democratic.

I'll have you know that North Korea is every bit as republican as it's democratic.

@@ArkadiBolschek which is to say not at all lol.

@@maximaldinotrap lol indeed.

Andrean Romanky Republic State of Francoria it's my official name for the Union of Indochina

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Also, in more modern laws it's called "Argentine Nation" and the national anthem refers to "United provinces of the south"...

Yeah I messed up. I have friends who go to the University of East Anglia so I’m blaming them for getting UEA in my head instead of UAE.

Really, calling it the Italian Republic is useless. Useless, useless, useless.