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[1]
  • 1 disputed territory
  • = 18 names in total

Unsolved names are bolded.

Name Hint
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

  1. 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”. ↩︎

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    2 months ago
    Response

    Aksá 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/.