NAGGIO (Settlement) ItalianMeaning uncertain, the name of a small town in Lombardy.
NAPLES (Settlement) EnglishFrom Latin
Neapolis, from Greek
Νεαπολις (Neapolis) meaning
"new city". This is the name of a city in southern Italy, originally founded as a Greek colony.
NEPAL (Country) Nepali, Indian, Hindi, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, SanskritFrom Sanskrit
नेपाल (Nepal), of unknown meaning. This is the name of a landlocked country in south Asia.
NETHERLANDS (Country) EnglishFrom English
nether meaning "lower" and
land, referring to the low-lying position of the country. This is the name of a country in northwestern Europe. It is sometimes called
Holland in English, though this is properly one of its subregions. In English it is usually referred to using the definite article,
the.
NEUVILLE (Settlement) FrenchMeans
"new town" in French. This is the name of various towns in France.
NIEMCY (Country) PolishFrom Slavic
němici meaning
"mute, not able to speak", extended to mean
"foreigner, German". This is the Polish name of
Germany.
NIFTRIK (Settlement) DutchMeaning unknown. This is the name of a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.
NIGER (River & Country) English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Croatian, Serbian, Late RomanMeaning unknown, possibly of Berber origin, though influenced by Latin
niger "black". This is the name of a river in western Africa (and a country that is named after it).
NIGERIA (Country) English, French, Italian, Spanish, GermanFrom the name of the
NIGER River, applied in the 19th century to the British colonial territory in western Africa. It continued to be used after the territory became an independent country in 1960.
NIL (River) Arabic, French, German, Luxembourgish, Catalan, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, AzerbaijaniForm of
NILE in various languages. In Arabic it is properly written with the definite article:
النيل (al-Nil).
NILE (River) EnglishFrom Latin
Nilus, which was from Greek
Νειλος (Neilos), possibly of Semitic origin meaning
"river". This is the name of a long river in Africa.
NINEVEH (Settlement) English, BiblicalFrom Akkadian
𒉌𒉡𒀀 (Ninua), possibly related to
𒄩 (nūnu) meaning
"fish". When written, the name is usually prefixed with
𒌷 indicating a city. This may have referred to an aspect of
Ishtar, as from an early time the city was a center of worship of the goddess. The cuneiform symbols used to represent the city's name depict a fish within a house.
... [more] NIPPON (Country) JapaneseMeans
"origin of the sun, sunrise", from Sino-Japanese
日 (nichi) meaning "sun" and
本 (hon) meaning "root, origin". This is the Japanese name for
Japan.
NIZOZEMSKO (Country) CzechFrom Czech
nízký "low" and
země "land". This is the Czech name for the
Netherlands (for which it is also a translation).
NØRUP (Settlement) DanishMeaning unknown. This is the name of towns in Denmark.
NORWAY (Country) EnglishFrom Old English
Norþweg meaning
"north way". This is the name of a country in Scandinavia in northern Europe.
NUBIA (Region) English, Late RomanPossibly derives from the Egyptian word
nbw meaning
"gold". This was the name of an ancient region and kingdom in Africa, south of Egypt.
NYSA (Region) Greek MythologyPossibly from an archaic Greek word meaning
"tree". In Greek mythology Nysa was the mountainous region where young
Dionysos was raised.