Fun fact is that in some medieval English texts Germany is called “Almayn” or “Almain”.
For example, sons of Richard, Earl of Cornwall were called Henry and Edmund of Almain since they had been born while their father had been the German king.
abihiram on
Why Crimea is in green? It should be in Ukrainian colors.
_Undo on
Germany is confusing
RareQueebus on
Germans (and Dutch): “What’s wrong with you guys?”
Kya_Bamba on
It is believed that the slavic ‘Niemcy’ (and other forms) is derived from proto-slavic ‘němьcь’, meaning “mute, unable to speak”.
VulpesVulpes90 on
Italy could be blue-green stripes, because the name is Germania, but, adjective “german” is tedesco.
Jormakalevi on
Finnish name Saksa comes from Sachsen, which is one federal state in Germany.
fakegermanchild on
Russia ~~should~~ could be green and purple stripes. The country is Germanija but the people would be Niemcy.
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Eckes24 on
Germania for Switzerland sounds wrong.
Tiphaiz on
In some Dutch dialects it is also still “Preuschen”
S-Markt on
many names came from tribes, like germany – germannen, tyskland – teutonen.
Traditional-Storm-62 on
while russians call the country of Germany “Germanija” we call the German people themselves “niemcy”
ActuallyjustDavid on
Wasn’t expecting the Frisian translation, nice.
Suspicious_Cowboyyy on
Who the fuck made this map?
Part of occupied Ukrainian territories are Green. Abkhazia is part of Georgia.
Why it’s mentioned as separate?
RuZZian propaganda source map
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Saksa (short form for Saksanmaa) and Saksamaa is called after the Saxons of the Lower Saxony who also gave scissors, or “sakset” in Finnish. The name of the Saxon tribe comes from the seax, a fighting knife, used by them and scissors are basically two seax joined together.
Fun fact: you can only say “Saksan saksojen sakset Saksista” (Scissors of German Saxons from the (Lower) Saxony) in Finnish. It doesn’t work in other languages.
Spicy-hot_Ramen on
From the perspective of the Russian language that’s right but if you refer to the population of Germany then you say “Nemtsy” pretending to be a slavic language
GreenCorsair on
In Bulgarian we call the country Germania, but the language is Nemsky, which is a derivative of the other Slavic word for the country.
peev22 on
We call the country “Germania”, but the language “Nemski”.
buddhistbulgyo on
“Hi my name is ____________.” – European country
“That’s nice but I am going to call you something else.” – all other European countries
Final-Principle9347 on
Finally a European map with my country on it.
deri100 on
In some areas of Romania the language is called Nemțească and the people Nemți, but everyone agrees the country is called Germania.
dead97531 on
Germans who live(d) in Hungary are also either called “szász” or “sváb” referring to where they came from.
The word szász came from the german word Sachsen (Saxony).
The word sváb came from the german word Schwaben (Swabia).
Vokasak on
Given that they spreken de Deutsch in Deutschland, it sure seems like we should be calling the Germans “Dutch”, but then what do you call Dutch? Nederlander? Hollander?
KesterAssel on
I love that “scale” lable in the bottom right corner.
KaiserCheifs on
It’s Germania in Armenian not Kermania
TheLogicult on
I’ve seen a few of these now, I think it would be great if OP could put the etymology for each name grouping in the comments!
SBR404 on
China would be blue i guess: **Déguó** consisting of Dé (Virtuous, Kind) and guó (Land, Nation)
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aaaaaaaaaaaaay Saksa lady
opp opp opp opp
Oppenheimer style
Fun fact is that in some medieval English texts Germany is called “Almayn” or “Almain”.
For example, sons of Richard, Earl of Cornwall were called Henry and Edmund of Almain since they had been born while their father had been the German king.
Why Crimea is in green? It should be in Ukrainian colors.
Germany is confusing
Germans (and Dutch): “What’s wrong with you guys?”
It is believed that the slavic ‘Niemcy’ (and other forms) is derived from proto-slavic ‘němьcь’, meaning “mute, unable to speak”.
Italy could be blue-green stripes, because the name is Germania, but, adjective “german” is tedesco.
Finnish name Saksa comes from Sachsen, which is one federal state in Germany.
Russia ~~should~~ could be green and purple stripes. The country is Germanija but the people would be Niemcy.
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Germania for Switzerland sounds wrong.
In some Dutch dialects it is also still “Preuschen”
many names came from tribes, like germany – germannen, tyskland – teutonen.
while russians call the country of Germany “Germanija” we call the German people themselves “niemcy”
Wasn’t expecting the Frisian translation, nice.
Who the fuck made this map?
Part of occupied Ukrainian territories are Green. Abkhazia is part of Georgia.
Why it’s mentioned as separate?
RuZZian propaganda source map
Saksa (short form for Saksanmaa) and Saksamaa is called after the Saxons of the Lower Saxony who also gave scissors, or “sakset” in Finnish. The name of the Saxon tribe comes from the seax, a fighting knife, used by them and scissors are basically two seax joined together.
Fun fact: you can only say “Saksan saksojen sakset Saksista” (Scissors of German Saxons from the (Lower) Saxony) in Finnish. It doesn’t work in other languages.
From the perspective of the Russian language that’s right but if you refer to the population of Germany then you say “Nemtsy” pretending to be a slavic language
In Bulgarian we call the country Germania, but the language is Nemsky, which is a derivative of the other Slavic word for the country.
We call the country “Germania”, but the language “Nemski”.
“Hi my name is ____________.” – European country
“That’s nice but I am going to call you something else.” – all other European countries
Finally a European map with my country on it.
In some areas of Romania the language is called Nemțească and the people Nemți, but everyone agrees the country is called Germania.
Germans who live(d) in Hungary are also either called “szász” or “sváb” referring to where they came from.
The word szász came from the german word Sachsen (Saxony).
The word sváb came from the german word Schwaben (Swabia).
Given that they spreken de Deutsch in Deutschland, it sure seems like we should be calling the Germans “Dutch”, but then what do you call Dutch? Nederlander? Hollander?
I love that “scale” lable in the bottom right corner.
It’s Germania in Armenian not Kermania
I’ve seen a few of these now, I think it would be great if OP could put the etymology for each name grouping in the comments!
China would be blue i guess: **Déguó** consisting of Dé (Virtuous, Kind) and guó (Land, Nation)
I’m not a historian but I guess [finnish soldiers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakkapeliitta) used to kill Saxons, hence the name in Finnish
I can’t find Krautland
Isn’t the word “Niemcy” and its derivatives a bit disrespectful?
Why does no call it similar to what it is in German?
I wonder how they got to be called “Scale 1: 6’000’000” in the Middle East
Sounds very different from Germany
In Romania we unofficially call Germany “Nemția” and the people of Germany “Nemți” probably influence by central Europe
For the Lithuanian and Latvian, some linguists believe those names stem from the Indo-European word “wek”- “to say”.