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Sometimes it's less cool. The word for America is "Beautiful Country". Měiguó (Měi is beautiful guó is country).
France is "Country of laws". Although I think they didn't sit down and decide they should be complementary it's still less cool.
Should make it country of pedophiles lol
I think they're a little constrained by needing to make it close-ish phonetically
They did decide it should be complimentary I think. This was back in the imperial days when they wanted to cultivate good relations with foreign countries.
That's possible, I will admit to not knowing and google giving me contradictory answers.
Yeah I don’t know for sure either it’s just something I was told when I was a kid
No no the origin of 法国 is a transliteration of removed
That's an unfortunate censor
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It's a bitAh. My bad.