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I was recently reading a war thriller and a lot of the events in the book took place in Turkmenistan. well, turns out Turkmenistan is a real country and happens to be presty sizeable at that.

What is the least believable name for a country that you have heard?

well, turns out Turkmenistan is a real country and happens to be presty sizeable at that.

Well, duh...

What is the least believable name for a country that you have heard?

"Saint Kitts and Nevis" and "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines".

I was recently reading a war thriller and a lot of the events in the book took place in Turkmenistan. well, turns out Turkmenistan is a real country and happens to be presty sizeable at that.

What is the least believable name for a country that you have heard?


:rolleyes:


Kinda had to...I knew about that former soviet republic for years.


As for names.....try Mayotte...(departmental collectivity of France)

well, by "recently" i mean a year ago, but meh...

I was recently reading a war thriller and a lot of the events in the book took place in Turkmenistan. well, turns out Turkmenistan is a real country and happens to be presty sizeable at that.

What is the least believable name for a country that you have heard?

Well, of course Turkmenistan is a country.

As for the oddest nation name I've ever heard?

...Azerbaijan.

Well, of course Turkmenistan is a country.

As for the oddest nation name I've ever heard?

...Azerbaijan.

hm. a speech and debate team i used to be on took a flight out there as some sort of democratic exchange because azerbaijan was becoming democratic.

i was a freshman... i think, so i couldnt go.

Poland.

C'mon, think about it. It literally means "the land of the Pos."

http://pbskids.org/teletubbies/noflash/coloring/po.gif

a speech and debate team i used to be on took a flight out there as some sort of democratic exchange because azerbaijan was becoming democratic.
Until the government decided that they liked democracy much better when they were in charge and everybody had to love them. Thanks to the West looking away (oil deals and all that), they cracked down on demonstrations, and now Azerbaijan isn't democratic any longer.

And I think Tuvalu is a funny word.

Until the government decided that they liked democracy much better when they were in charge and everybody had to love them. Thanks to the West looking away (oil deals and all that), they cracked down on demonstrations, and now Azerbaijan isn't democratic any longer.

And I think Tuvalu is a funny word.

Brunei and Zanzibar come to mind as funny as well.

I was recently reading a war thriller and a lot of the events in the book took place in Turkmenistan. well, turns out Turkmenistan is a real country and happens to be presty sizeable at that.

What is the least believable name for a country that you have heard?

OK, it's not a country, it's a state - but how 'bout The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations?

That's the official name of the state commonly called Rhode Island.

OK, it's not a country, it's a state - but how 'bout The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations?

That's the official name of the state commonly called Rhode Island.

do you happen to watch a show called robot chicken, perchance?

Belgium, what a weird name that is.

Great Britain, for having the arrogance and weirdness to put "great" in its name.

Belgium, what a weird name that is.
I agree.

Belgium, what a weird name that is.

in the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Belgium" is the most offensive word in the universe.

I digress.

Great Britain, for having the arrogance and weirdness to put "great" in its name.


I agree.

Wasn't it put there to differentiate it from Brittainy in France? I'm sure I read that someplace..

greenland. it's not even green!

yeh, i know it's not a country and the 'green' bit is just a bastard.... errr, anglicisation of some danish word or something.

Swaziland ... and Burkina Faso!

The funniest to me are the ones whose names we've Anglicized to something pretty far off the name the country gives itself.

Poland.

C'mon, think about it. It literally means "the land of the Pos."
you're not even close. besides, the country's name is Polska. and you prolly have no idea where that came from.

Turkey - at least it's not named Chicken or Duck. :p

Turkey, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

you're not even close. besides, the country's name is Polska. and you prolly have no idea where that came from.

From the dance, right? :p

greenland. it's not even green!

yeh, i know it's not a country and the 'green' bit is just a bastard.... errr, anglicisation of some danish word or something.
No, it's meant to be Greenland. The Vikings named it so for two reasons:

1. Around the 11th century, Earth was a bit hotter than it is now, so the southern portion of Greenland was covered in rich grasslands.

2. Propaganda to get Norwegians to move there.

Trilby63;12154294']Wasn't it put there to differentiate it from Brittainy in France? I'm sure I read that someplace..

It just means larger as far as I know

From the dance, right? :pNot quite. Pol (http://www.answers.com/topic/pol-1)ska (http://www.answers.com/ska)

From the dance, right? :p

still very far off. the dance is called Polka. you see, no s.


BTW, polka is dead.

Micronesia

oh and Holland, hol can be translated as ass in my dialect.

http://www.kub.kz/images/people/borat_video.jpg

Kazakhstan or those bastards in the south Uzbekistan:p

you're not even close. besides, the country's name is Polska. and you prolly have no idea where that came from.

Who cares.

Great Britain, for having the arrogance and weirdness to put "great" in its name.

Great Britain isn't a country, it's an island. The largest in the British Isles, hence the name Great Britain.

Oddest name I've heard would have to be the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", as North Korea apparantley refer to themselves - now that's arrogance and weirdness.

Trilby63;12154294']Wasn't it put there to differentiate it from Brittainy in France? I'm sure I read that someplace..
Yes.

Grand Bretagne (Great Britain) instead of Bretagne (Brittany). We just translated the name, pretty much.

And I'd like to say that Eritrea is a pretty wacky name. Hurrah.

The Polska, as well as the Polka both exist as dances.

This as reference to someone claiming that Polka is a dance and Polska is not.

Kyrgyzstan is a weird name. It's almost as if the Welsh named it, as it's got so few vowels. No 'l's though.

Not sure about Burkina Faso, but its capital, Ouagadougou (say "waggadoogoo"), has got to be a contender for silliest capital city.

Somaliland. Sounds like a sub-section of Disney World :D

EDIT: OH AND DJIBOUTI! Everyone loves djibouti.

Uruguay. Get it? You-are-gay.

Turkey - at least it's not named Chicken or Duck. :p

When I was a kid I always thought it was funny that Turkey and Greece are right next to each other.

Micronesia

oh and Holland, hol can be translated as ass in my dialect.

in my dialect Belguim means "desolate shithole fit only for the French and wannabe dutch people with no footballing talent":D

I was recently reading a war thriller and a lot of the events in the book took place in Turkmenistan. well, turns out Turkmenistan is a real country and happens to be presty sizeable at that.

What is the least believable name for a country that you have heard?

Richard Clark wrote a novel in which there was a Middle Eastern country named "Islamia."

Other than that, did Team America have a country called "Durka Durkastan?"

in my dialect Belguim means "desolate shithole fit only for the French and wannabe dutch people with no footballing talent":D

That's English then?

Somaliland. Sounds like a sub-section of Disney World :D


Apparently the UN agrees with you because they don't believe it's a country either.

Great Britain, for having the arrogance and weirdness to put "great" in its name.


Actually, the Romans called it that.

EDIT: OH AND DJIBOUTI! Everyone loves djibouti.

Dammit! You beat me to Djibouti!!!

Great Britain isn't a country, it's an island. The largest in the British Isles, hence the name Great Britain.


Yeah, let's not get back into this type of conversation shall we?

The United States of America

*hides*

greenland. it's not even green!


Greenland=Danish colony. Denmark FTW!

Anglalond?

greenland. it's not even green!

True. Named along the saem logic as Iceland. They were trying to attracdt people to Greenland's desolation, while attempting to restrict the attractiveness of Iceland's rich mineral and natural resources.

Turkey - at least it's not named Chicken or Duck. :p

In Turkey it's actually called Turkiye. We jsut call it Turkey for soem damnned reason... :rolleyes:

In Turkey it's actually called Turkiye. We jsut call it Turkey for soem damnned reason... :rolleyes:

Because it's an anglicisation?

You know the animal's only called that because the first traders to sell them to Englishmen were Turkish?

In India they're "peru-birds" (translated from the Hindi); in France they're "Dindes" (d'Inde = from India), and so on.

I was always amused by "Chad", personally.

Because it's an anglicisation?

You know the animal's only called that because the first traders to seellthem to Englishmen were Turkish?

In India they're "peru-birds" (translated from the Hindi); in France they're "Dindes" (d'Inde = from India), and so on.

Cool :D , I heard a different story about that; they thought the brid was so exotic it had to come from Turkey or somethign similar

*snip*
EDIT: OH AND DJIBOUTI! Everyone loves djibouti.

I've always hoped a minor (non-damaging) earthquake would hit there, so the headline would read:

EARTHQUAKE ROCKS DJIBOUTI.

or

TREMORS SHAKE DJIBOUTI.

I know. I'm silly.

How's about Kiribati (pronounced KEER-ih-bahts), or Myanmar (sounds like an alien race from Star Trek), or Seychelles (sounds like a name for a "sistah").

And what's with all the damned "guinea" nations? Equatorial Guinea, New Guinea, Guinea-Bissau -- who IS this Guinea person, anyway?

Uruguay. Get it? You-are-gay.

No. I don't get it. It could be perhaps because it's not even close to what you're trying to make it? "U-R-uguay?"
:rolleyes:

I was recently reading a war thriller and a lot of the events in the book took place in Turkmenistan. well, turns out Turkmenistan is a real country and happens to be presty sizeable at that.

What is the least believable name for a country that you have heard?

Bongistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongistan)- Credits too the Daily Show

In Turkey it's actually called Turkiye. We jsut call it Turkey for soem damnned reason... :rolleyes:

I guess Turkiye can be so easily turned to Turkey spelling and well, phonecially.

Apparently the UN agrees with you because they don't believe it's a country either.

Because its not, somaliland is Somalia now.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia

Niger.

One more letter and it'd be a slur just to mention it.

Turkey, or Kyrgyzstan.

And any country/territory that begins with "saint".

And of course honorable mentions: Chad, Niger, and all the "Guinea" countries (there's four of them, for Christs sake!)

Il Ruddinf,

Niger.

One more letter and it'd be a slur just to mention it.

I really dont understadt why Niger is a hot topic name.

It's immature to think anout the terms.

I was always amused by "Chad", personally.

In my language this country's name is written "Czad", which also means "carbon monoxide", and also something like "cool!":)

As for Poland - I am a Pole, but the only Teletubbies I've seen were on the TV. Probably the pollution of natural environment, y'know :p

Swilatia, wyluzuj trochę ;)