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UDMURTIA (Political Subdivision) EnglishFrom the name
Udmurt, denoting the native ethnic group that originally inhabited the area. The word
Udmurt is most likely derived from
*odo-mort meaning "meadow people"; a combination of Permic
*od(o) "meadow, glade, turf, greenery" and
murt meaning "man--ultimately deriving from Scythian
*mertä, *martiya meaning "person, man"...
[more] UFA (Settlement) Russian, EnglishMeaning unknown. It could possibly be derived from Turkic
ufak meaning "small",
uba meaning "hill" (possibly a reference to a hill it sits atop of),
up meaning "water" in Persian, or from the name of Bashkir tribe,
upai...
[more] UKRAINE (Country) EnglishThe meaning of the name is not fully certain, but different sources claim that it means "borderland", "homeland", "region", or "country". Before becoming an independent country, it was referred to as "the Ukraine", but the formal name for the nation is now "Ukraine".
ULAANBAATAR (Settlement) Mongolian, EnglishDerived from Mongolian
улаан (ulaan) meaning "red" and
баатар (baatar) meaning "hero"; literally means "red hero". Ulaanbaatar is Mongolia's capital and largest city.
ULAN-UDE (Settlement) Russian, EnglishMeans "red Uda" in Buryat, referring to communism (red) and the Uda River. It was formerly called Udinskoye, Udinsk, and Verkhneudinsk. Ulan-Ude is a city in Russia and the capital of the Russian federal subject of Buryatia.
ULEÅBORG (Settlement) SwedishCombination of
Ule, the name of a river whose name derives from the Finnish dialectal word
oulu "floodwater", Swedish
å "river, stream", and
borg "castle, fortification"...
[more] UMEÅ (Settlement) SwedishPossibly derived from Old Norse
úma "roaring" and the place name element
-eå "river". Another theory is that the name is derived from Finnish
uoma "riverbed". Umeå is the largest city in
Norrland and the 12th largest city in Sweden...
[more] UNITED STATES (Country) EnglishThe name of a country in North
America. The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean...
[more] UPPLAND (Region) SwedishUppland is a Swedish historical province. The name is a combination of Swedish
upp "up" and
land "land". The name is believed to refer to its location north of Lake
Mälaren.
URUGUAY (Country) EnglishThe name of the Country in South America. Uruguay is a South American country known for its verdant interior and beach-lined coast. The capital, Montevideo, revolves around Plaza Independencia, once home to a Spanish citadel...
[more] ÜRÜMQI (Settlement) UyghurDerived from the Oriat word for "beautiful pasture". Ürümqi is the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China.
UTAH (Political Subdivision) English (American)Name of a state in the United States, from Spanish
yuta, name of the indigenous Uto-Aztecan people of the Great Basin perhaps from Western Apache (Athabaskan)
yudah "high" (in reference to living in the mountains).
UTSUNOMIYA (Settlement) JapaneseThis is the name of a city which is the capital and most populous city of Tochigi Prefecture, located in central Japan. The kanji used are 宇 (u) meaning "eaves, heaven, house, roof", 都 (tsu, to, miyako) meaning "capital, metropolis" and 宮 (kyuu, ku, kuu, guu, miya) meaning "constellations, palace, princess, Shinto shrine."...
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