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Most of these should be pretty easy but you still may wish to spoiler your answers. Depending on how this goes I might share the B's tomorrow, and C~E the day after that, until I've gone through all the names I've come up with.

Today's list includes:

  • 3 continents
  • 9 UN member countries
  • 1 partially recognized non-UN member country
  • 4 colonies^[Perhaps I'm using this term a bit loosely. I'm thinking of territories that are politically, economically, militarily, and/or diplomatically subordinated to a geographically distant metropole/"mainland".]
  • 1 disputed territory
  • = 18 names in total

Unsolved names are bolded.

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| | Abya-Yala | Name associated with Indigenous activism. | | Afgániya | | | Afrika | | | Aíti | | | Akrotiri u Dekeliya | | | Aksá | Pars pro toto. | | Alaska | | | Aĺamane | Endonym. | | Alžehi | French name. | | Andora | | | Aňgola | | | Aotearowa | Endonym. | | Apsni | Endonym. | | Aŕentina | | | Aruba | | | Azeriya | | | Aziya | | | Azoriya | |

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ResponseAksá is indeed the Manjatian name of Al-Quds / Jerusalem and does indeed come from the name of al-Aqsa, the compound of Islamic religious buildings atop the Temple Mount. I'd also considered calling the city Alkuc-As̋arífe as a simple transliteration of the Arabic name al-Quds ash-Shareef. I suppose both these names could be in free variation.

Aĺamane has zero etymological relation to the Alemanni. The letter Ĺ in this name comes from a regular assimilation of /lj/.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In that case

Aĺamane is اليمن

And the word for Akrotiri and Dekeliya is fully recognizable as the British military bases on Copper Island.