An A-Z of country name origins

The Oxford Dictionary blog has taken on an ambitious task today: looking at the origin stories behind the names (in English) of every single country in the world – using the list of countries as determined by the UN and information from the "Oxford Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names." From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
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