Japan

→ Faroese: Japan

→ Icelandic: Japan

From Dutch Japan, from Malay Jepang, from Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún), from Middle Chinese 日本 (nyit pwon^X, literally “sun origin”).

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Japan (a country and archipelago of East Asia)


Ukraine

Ukraine (a country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea)


Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia)


Jordan

Jordan (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)


Rom

(historical) Rome, Ancient Rome (an ancient empire based out of the city of Rome, covering vast territories in Europe, Asia and Africa; in full, Roman Empire)


Jerusalem

Jerusalem (the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of Israel; the claimed capital city of Palestine)


Indonesien

Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)


Estland

Estonia (a country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea)


Nederlandene

Definite plural form, probably from Older Dutch Nederlanden.

Kingdom of the Netherlands
Kingdom of the Netherlands#English

constituent countries
constituent country

Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten)


Albanien

Southeast Europe
Southeast Europe#English


Armenien

Armenien er et land i Kaukasus.

Armenia (a country in the South Caucasus region of Asia, sometimes considered to belong politically to Europe)


Australien

Australia (a country consisting of a main island, the island of Tasmania and other smaller islands, located in Oceania; historically, a collection of former colonies of the British Empire)

(geology) Australia (a continent consisting of the land on the Australian tectonic plate, i.e. Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands)


Belgien

Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France)


Kina

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

China (a large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949)


Tyskland

From tysk (“German”) + land (“land”). Compare Norwegian, Swedish Tyskland, German Deutschland and Dutch Duitsland.

Germany (a country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany)


Spanien

Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula)


Brasilien

Brasilia er hovedstaden i Brasilien.

Brazil (a large Portuguese-speaking country in South America)


Bulgarien

Bulgaria (a country in Southeast Europe)


Kroatien

Balkan Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula#English

Croatia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)


Slovenien

Slovenia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Central Europe)


Montenegro

Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)


Cypern

Via German Zypern and Latin Cyprus from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros)

Cyprus (an island and country in the Mediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part of Southeast Europe but geographically part of Western Asia)


Georgien

Georgia (a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea, often considered to belong politically to Europe)


Litauen

Lithuania (a country in northeastern Europe)


Ungarn

Ungarn er et land i Centraleuropa.


Libanon

Lebanon (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)


Makedonien

Macedonia (a geographic region in Southeast Europe in the Balkans, including North Macedonia and parts of Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Serbia)

(historical) Macedonia (an ancient Greek kingdom in Southeast Europe)

Macedonia (former name of North Macedonia: a country in Southeast Europe in the Balkans)

Bulgarian Macedonia
Bulgarian Macedonia#English

Macedonia (a geographic region in southwestern Bulgaria; in full, Pirin Macedonia or Bulgarian Macedonia)


Letland

Latvia (a country in northeastern Europe)


Prag

Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)


Athen

Via German Athen and Latin Athēnae from Ancient Greek Ἀθῆναι pl (Athênai).


Korsika

administrative region
administrative region

Corsica (an island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia)


Bukarest

Bukarest er hovedstaden i Rumænien.

Bucharest is the capital of Romania.


Hamborg

Hamburg (the second-largest city in Germany)


Gøteborg

/ˌɡøːtəˈbɔrɡ/

[ˌɡ̊øːd̥əˈb̥ɒwˀ]


Kreta

[ˈkʰʁ̥ɛːtˢa]

[ˈkʰʁ̥æːtˢa]

Via German Kreta and Latin Crēta from Ancient Greek Κρήτη (Krḗtē).


Venedig

Venice (the capital city of Veneto, Italy)

Venice (a metropolitan city of Veneto, Italy)


Syrien

Syria (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)


Damaskus

Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)


Tasmanien

Tasmania (an island group and state of Australia; a former British colony, from 1856 to 1901)


Serbien

Serbia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)


Sardinien

Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)


Storbritannien

From stor (“great”) + Britannien. Calque of English Great Britain.

Great Britain
Great Britain#English:_Q145

(loosely) Great Britain (the United Kingdom, a kingdom and country in Northern Europe including the island of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland on the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland)


Filippinerne

Philippines (a country in Southeast Asia)


Grækenland

[ˈɡ̊ʁɛˀɡ̊ŋ̩ˌlanˀ]

A compound of græker + land, but the form with -en- is influenced by German, cf. German Griechenland, Low German Grekenland, Dutch Griekenland.

(historical) an ancient region of Southeast Europe, home of the Greeks


Frankrig

[ˈfʁɑŋkʰʁ̥i]

From Middle Low German Frankrīke, from Old Saxon *Frankrīki. The name is a compound of Proto-West Germanic *frankō (“a Frank”) and *rīkī (“kingdom”).
See also German Frankreich, Dutch Frankrijk, and Yiddish פֿראַנקרײַך (frankraykh). The Low German word has been borrowed into Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish Frankrike. The Old Norse and Icelandic name is Frakkland.

France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)


Østrig

Calque of German Österreich, equivalent to øst (“east”) + rige (“realm, kingdom, country”).


Ægypten

Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)


Tyrkiet

[tˢyɐ̯ˈkʰiˀəð]

Southeastern Europe
Southeastern Europe#English

Turkey (a country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in western Asia)


Tjetjenien

Chechnya (a republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus)


Tjekkiet

[tɕɛˈkʰiˀəð]

Czech Republic
Czech Republic#English:_Q213

Czech Republic (a country in Central Europe)


Nilen

Nilen (definite nominative singular)
Nils (genitive indefinite singular)
Nilens (definite genitive singular)

Via Latin Nīlus from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).


Sicilien

Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)


Rumænien

Rumænien er et land i Østeuropa.


Catalonien

autonomous community
autonomous community

Catalonia (an autonomous community in northeast Spain)


Arabien

[ɑˈʁɑːˀb̥iən]

[aˈʁɑːˀb̥iən]

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

(broader sense) Arabia (the region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)


Jeriko

Jericho (a city in the West Bank, Palestine)


Themsen

Thems (indefinite)
Thems (indefinite nominative singular)
Themsen (definite nominative singular)
Themss (genitive indefinite singular)
Themsens (definite genitive singular)

Via German Themse from Middle English, Old English Temese, from Latin Tamesis.


Dalmatien

(historical) Dalmatia (a province of the Roman Empire)


Peloponnes

Borrowed from German Peloponnes, from Latin Peloponnēsus, from Ancient Greek Πελοπόννησος (Pelopónnēsos).

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Πελοπόννησος

Peloponnese (the peninsula of southern Greece)