Bulgareti(Country)Georgian From Georgian ბულგარული (bulgaruli) referring to the Bulgarian people and the suffix -ეთი (-eti) used to indicate location. This is the Georgian name for Bulgaria.
Byrzentwyla(Country)Abkhaz From Abkhaz абырзен (abyrzen) meaning "Greek" (derived from Mingrelian) and атәыла (atwyla) meaning "country". This is the Abkhaz name for Greece.
Caledonia(Country & Political Subdivision)English, History Borrowed from Latin Caledonia, meaning "land of the Calēdonēs", from Latin Calēdonēs, probably of Celtic origin, possibly from Proto-Celtic *kaletos "hard" and *ɸēdo- "foot", with an added country-forming suffix -ia... [more]
Cambodia(Country)English From French Cambodge taken from Khmer កម្ពុជា (Kampuchea). The name comes from Sanskrit कम्बोजदेश (Kambujadesha), derived from काम्बोज (kamboja), the name of an ancient tribe and kingdom described in Hindu literature, combined with देश (desha) meaning "kingdom, country"... [more]
Cambria(Country)Medieval Latin, English (Archaic) Latinised form of Cymru, used as the Latin and archaic English name of Wales. This name was first used in the 12th century.
Cape Verde(Country)English From the name of the Senegalese peninsula Cap-Vert meaning "green cape" in Portuguese. Cape Verde is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean.
Champa(Country)Champa Located in south and central Vietnam from the 7th century through 1832.
Champa(Country)Cham, Khmer, Lao, English From Vietnamese Chăm Pa ultimately derived from Sanskrit चम्पक (champaka) referring to a type of flowering tree (genus Magnolia). This is the name of a collection of ancient kingdoms that existed between the 2nd and 17th centuries in what is now central and southern Vietnam.
Cheko(Country)Japanese, Korean Shortened form of Japanese チェコスロバキア (Chekosurobakia) or Korean 체코슬로바키아 (Chekoseullobakia) both referring to the historical country of Czechoslovakia... [more]
Chernogoriya(Country)Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Uzbek From a calque of the Serbo-Croatian name Crna Gora meaning "black mountain", derived from Russian чёрный (chyorniy) meaning "black" and гора (gora) meaning "mountain"... [more]
Chetthamada(Country)Burmese From Burmese ချက် (chet) meaning "Czech" and သမ္မတ (thamada) meaning "president". This is the Burmese name for the Czech Republic.
Chexiya(Country)Uzbek Uzbek form of Čechy, used as a name for the Czech Republic.
Chezmeh(Country)Pakistani Chezmeh meaning Pakistani. Chezmeh is a acronym of 'Cheh Zameeneh' which translates to 6 lands in Urdu. Chezmeh is a ethnonym (endonym) for Pakistanis referring to the people and its 6 regions Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashsmir, Gilgit Baltistan & Sindh.
Chinastan(Country)Armenian From Persian چین (Chin) referring to China combined with the suffix ستان (stan 2) meaning "land of". This is the Armenian name of China.
Chineti(Country)Georgian From Georgian ჩინური (chinuri) referring to the Chinese people and the suffix -ეთი (-eti) used to indicate location. This is the Georgian name for China.
Circassia(Country & Region)English, Italian From Turkish Çerkes or Russian Черкес (Cherkes) referring to the Circassian (Adyghe) people. The name is of uncertain meaning, possibly derived from Kerkety, the name of a Circassian tribe, or from Persian چهار کس (čahâr kas) meaning "four people"... [more]
Crimea(Country, Political Subdivision & Region)English, Italian, Spanish From Crimean Tatar Qırım, which is of uncertain origin. It may have been derived from a corruption of Latin Cimmerium or Greek Κιμμερικόν (Kimmerikon), the name of an ancient city, from Old Turkic qurum meaning "protection, defense" or qirum meaning "fosse, trench", or Ancient Greek κρημνοί (kremnoi) meaning "cliffs"... [more]
Crimée(Country, Political Subdivision & Region)French French form of Crimea.