Micronesia

Micronesia (a geographical region of Oceania)

Micronesia (A country consisting of about 2000 islands in Oceania)


Congo

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Congo (a country in Central Africa, larger and to the east of the Republic of the Congo)

Congo (a country in Central Africa, smaller and to the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Congo (a region of Central Africa, comprising the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo)

Congo (a large river in Africa, which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo)


Scandinavia

Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”).

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Scandinavian Peninsula
Scandinavian Peninsula

(politics, cultural, linguistic, etc.) Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively


Iberia

Iberian peninsula
Iberian peninsula#English

Iberia, the Iberian peninsula (A region of Europe south of the Pyrenees, consisting of Andorra, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar)


Abkhazia

Republic of Abkhazia
Republic of Abkhazia

Abkhazia (A region and de-facto independent but largely unrecognized country on the coast of the Black Sea and the south-western flank of the Caucasus, which considers itself an independent state called the Republic of Abkhazia; considered part of Georgia's territory by the Georgian government and the vast majority of the international community)


Transnistria

Transnistria (a breakaway country in Moldova)


Boemia

Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic)


Alto Adige

From alto (“high, tall”) + Adige (“Adige”), in relation to the river Adige and its surrounding mountainous area, Tyrol.

South Tyrol (a predominantly German-speaking region of north-eastern Italy, known in German as Südtirol)


Friuli

→ English: Friuli

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli (a region in northeastern Italy, part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia)


Epiro

From Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).


Alsazia

From Medieval Latin Alsatia, from Old High German ali sazzo (“inhabitant of the other”) (referring to the opposite bank of the Rhine), from Proto-Germanic *aljaz (“other”) + *sitjaną (“inhabitant”, literally “sitter”).

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administrative region
administrative region

Alsace (a region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est)


Borgogna

Compare French Bourgogne, Late Latin Burgundia.

Burgundy (a region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)

Burgundy (An early-medieval kingdom and later former duchy in France and the Netherlands)


Tessaglia

From Ancient Greek Θεσσαλία (Thessalía).


Logudoro

From Sardinian; the place name means "golden place," corresponding to logu (“place”) (Italian luogo) + d'oro (“gold”).


Ampezzo

a region of the Dolomites in the province of Belluno, Veneto, Italy


Carelia

From Medieval Latin Carelia, Latinized from Swedish Karelen, Finnish Karjala, ultimately from an earlier Finnic endonym.

Karelia (historical Nordic Baltic-Finnic ethnocultural region, now divided along the frontiers of eastern Finland and northwestern Russia)


Bisiacaria

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia#English

A region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, corresponding to the southern part of the province of Gorizia


Comelico

A mountainous region in northeastern Italy


Altomilanese

A region of Lombardy that includes the provinces of Milano, Varese and Como


Asia occidentale

Holonym: Asia


Nurra

A geographical region in the northwest of Sardinia, Italy


Nagorno Karabakh

Adaptation of Russian Наго́рный Караба́х (Nagórnyj Karabáx, literally “Mountainous Karabakh”).

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Наго́рный Караба́х

Nagorno-Karabakh (a region of the South Caucasus)


Mugello

A region of Tuscany, Italy, also the namesake of the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello.


Asia meridionale

Holonym: Asia


Asia orientale

Holonym: Asia

Near-synonym: Estremo Oriente