How Nations Acquired Their Names: A Global Etymological Inquiry

Learn how countries like Saint Lucia and Namibia got their names. Discover the history behind national titles from saints to deserts.

#CountryNames, #Etymology, #SaintLucia, #Namibia, #GeographyFacts

https://newsletter.tf/how-countries-got-their-names-saint-lucia-namibia-examples/

Did you know Saint Lucia is named after a saint? Namibia is named after the Namib Desert. This article explains how countries get their names.

#CountryNames, #Etymology, #SaintLucia, #Namibia, #GeographyFacts

https://newsletter.tf/how-countries-got-their-names-saint-lucia-namibia-examples/

Is it just me, or does it look like Trump’s or one of his lackey’s reaction to the Myanmar earthquake was to complain that Myanmar wasn’t named Burma on the map?
Between the search result and the USGS page the country name changes from Myanmar to Burma.

(And they us Trump’s fantasy name for the Gulf of Mexico)

#MandalayEarthquake #Burma #CountryNames #USGS #Myanmar

New major release of the #country_converter #coco - 0.8.0!

https://github.com/konstantinstadler/country_converter

Now with several new classifications, including top-level domain names. EEA has been updated (#Brexit ...) and the new official #Türkiye name got implemented.

A huge thanks to all contributors!

#OpenSource #Python #OpenScience #CountryNames #Geography

As always available on #PyPI and #conda-forge, and you get a #doi via #Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/record/7324703 )
If you use it extensively in a scientific article, please cite it: doi:10.21105/joss.00332 !