Länder, deren Hauptstädte denselben oder einen verwandten Namen wie das Land haben
Von Impressive_Produce3
Länder, deren Hauptstädte denselben oder einen verwandten Namen wie das Land haben
Von Impressive_Produce3
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Austria and Australia: Vienna and Wien.
TIL Taipei means „North Taiwan“
Don’t forget Québec 🙂
Rep. Dominicana is a cool find, I never thought of the capital’s name as related to its name
Does the Maldives count ?
Not capitals but countries with the cognate of one their cities: Portugal – Porto, Morocco – Marrakesh
Now, for each country, which came first, the country name or the capital name?
(Here in Brazil I know the country name came first)
Kuwait – Kuwait City
Tunisia/Tunis= Tounes
Algeria/Algiers= Al Jaza’ir
Surprisingly, the official name of Paraguay’s capital Asunción in Guaraní is *Paraguay*, so there’s that too.
The official Spanish name is *Asunción del Paraguay*, which maybe also kind of counts, but most people shorten it to just *Asunción*. Pretty much the same thing happens with Chile’s capital, formally *Santiago de Chile* but most commonly known as just *Santiago*.
Also, many Arabic speakers use the name of their country to refer to the capital, most notably Egyptians who may use *Maṣr* (the Arabic name for ‚Egypt‘) for Cairo, even though the city is formally known as *al-Qāhirah* (‚The Cairo‘).
(Of course, none of those names are commonly used in English, so the don’t really apply for this map)
Mexico and Panama were basically named after their capitals.
Makes me wonder why Mexico named their country after the capital city
Sao Tome is the capital of Sao Tome & Principe
Not the capital, but one of the suburbs of Ottawa is Kanata, which is derived from the same word as Canada. (Village/Settlement)