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FAGUO (Country) ChineseFrom Chinese 法
(Fǎ), a shortened form of 法兰西
(Fǎlánxī) or
(Fàlánxī), a poetic name for France, and 国
(guó) meaning "country"...
[more] FALGA (Country) ManxPoetic Manx word for the Isle of Man.
FALKLAND (Settlement) ScottishA village, parish and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland. It is derived from Scottish Gaelic, a combination of an unclear first element, possibly
falach meaning "hidden,"
failc meaning "wash" or
falc meaning "heavy rain," and the second element
lann meaning "enclosure" (might also come from a Pictish cognate).
FALKLAND ISLANDS (Island) EnglishAn archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf and an overseas territory administered by the United Kingdom and claimed by Argentina (known in Spanish as
Islas Malvinas)...
[more] FANO (Political Subdivision) ItalianHabitational name for someone who comes from
Fano, Italy.
FAROE ISLANDS (Country) EnglishEnglish form of
FØROYAR. The name is probably derived from Old Norse
fær "sheep". The Faroe Islands are an autonomous country within the Danish kingdom.
FEATHERSTONHAUGH (Settlement) EnglishA town in Northumberland, England. From Old English
feðere "feather",
stān "stone", and
healh "corner."
FERMANAGH (Political Subdivision) IrishCounty in Northern
IRELAND. Meaning "men of the country of the lakes".
FÍDJÍEYJAR (Country) IcelandicCombination of
Fidji "Fiji" and
eyjar "islands". This is the Icelandic name for
FIJI.
FINNMARK (Political Subdivision) NorwegianFrom the Old Norse
finn(ar) (the Old Norse same of the Sami), and
mǫrk meaning "woodland, borderland, or march/mark."...
[more] FLINT (Settlement & River) EnglishThe name of a town in north Wales and numerous communities in the United States, notably the city in Michigan, as well as several rivers in the United States and Jamaica....
[more] FLORENCE (Settlement) English, Dutch, French, LatvianFrom Latin
FLORENTIA, derived from
florens, ("flowering"), ultimately from
flos, meaning "flower". This is the name of the capital city of
TUSCANY, in central Italy, as well as several settlements throughout the United States....
[more] FLORIDA (Political Subdivision) Spanish, English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, UzbekMeans "flowery, ornate" in Spanish, a short form of either
la Florida meaning "the flowery one" or
Pascua Florida meaning "flowery Easter" (a Spanish name for Palm Sunday, so named because the region was discovered by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León on that day in 1513)...
[more] FORILLON (Other) FrenchNational park in
QUEBEC,
CANADA. The name is thought to refer to a flowerpot island or sea stack in the area that has since been submerged in the ocean.
FØROYAR (Country) FaroeseProbably derived from Old Norse
fær "sheep" and
oyer, an archaic Faroese word meaning "islands".
FRENCH GUIANA (Other) EnglishFrench Guiana is an overseas region of France on the northeast coast of South America, composed mainly of tropical rainforest. The ruins of 17th-century Fort Cépérou overlook the capital, Cayenne, with its colorful Creole houses and street markets...
[more] FUJI (Mountain) Japanese, EnglishThe name of a mountain (a symbol for the Japanese for centuries), known in Japanese as
Fuji-san or
Fujiyama (富士山), located on the boundaries of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures in central Japan...
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