Czech Submitted Place Names

AFRIKA (Region) Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek
Form of AFRICA.

AKÁDIE (Region) Czech
Czech form of Acadia.

ARKÁDIE (Political Subdivision & Region) Czech
Czech form of ARCADIA.

BOJÓTIE (Political Subdivision & Region) Czech
Czech form of Boiotia (see Boeotia).

BURUNDI (Country) Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian
The name of the Country in East Africa. Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

EUFRAT (River) Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish
Form of EUPHRATES.

EVROPA (Region) Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene
Form of Europa (see EUROPE) as well as a Russian variant transcription of YEVROPA.

GALILEA (Region) Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Spanish
Form of GALILEE.

GEDRÓSIE (Region) Czech
Czech form of Gedrosia.

GRAN CANARIA (Island) Spanish, English, Esperanto, Dutch, Welsh, Breton, Asturian, Aragonese, German, Estonian, Faroese, Galician, Croatian, Italian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Icelandic, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Scots, Slovene
From Spanish gran "grande, great" and Canaria referring to the CANARY ISLANDS. Gran Canaria is the third largest and second most populous island of the Canary Islands.

HELLAS (Country) Norwegian, English (Rare), Czech (Rare)
From Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás) "Greece". This is the Norwegian name for GREECE, used since 1932. It was previously called Grekenland (compare Grekland, Griekeland)... [more]

INDONÉSIE (Country) French, Czech
French and Czech form of INDONESIA.

ISLAND (Country) Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Breton, Czech, Estonian, German, Serbian, Slovak, Croatian
Form of ICELAND.

JEMEN (Country) Afrikaans, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish
Form of Yemen.

JEREVAN (Settlement) Bosnian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish
Form of YEREVAN.

JERUZALÉM (Settlement) Czech
Czech form of JERUSALEM.

JIČÍN (Settlement) Czech, Medieval Czech
Name comes from first name Jitka. Literally Jitka's town.

KALEDONIE (Region) Czech
Czech form of Caledonia.

KANAÁN (Region) Czech, Slovak
Czech and Slovak form of Canaan.

KARTÁGO (Settlement) Czech, Slovak
Czech and Slovak form of Carthage.

KATAR (Country) Afrikaans, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian
Form of Qatar.

KAVKAZ (Region) Avar, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chechen, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Ingush, Karachay-Balkar, Kazakh, Lezgin, Macedonian, Ossetian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Tatar, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of CAUCASUS.

KORINT (Settlement) Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Norwegian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene
Form of Corinthus (see Corinth).

KUBA (Country) Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Ukrainian
Form of CUBA.

LAKÓNIE (Political Subdivision & Region) Czech
Czech form of LACONIA.

LIBANON (Country) Afrikaans, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish
Form of LEBANON.

LIDICE (Settlement) Czech
Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic, which was completely destroyed by German Nazis in 1942. All people from Lidice, including over 100 children, were murdered. People and places all over the world have been named after the village to commemorate the massacre.

LISABON (Settlement) Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovak, Ukrainian
Form of LISBON.

LUSITÁNIE (Political Subdivision & Region) Czech
Czech form of Lusitania.

MADRID (Settlement) Spanish, Croatian, English, Catalan, Czech, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish
Newer form of Magerit. The etymology is uncertain, but it could be derived from Arabic المجريط (al-Magrīt) "source of water". This is the name of the capital of Spain.

MAKEDONIE (Region) Czech
Czech form of MACEDONIA.

MALTA (Country) English, Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Galician, German, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Turkmen, West Frisian
Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta, is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.... [more]

MEKKA (Settlement) Afrikaans, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian
Form of MECCA.

MESSÉNIE (Political Subdivision & Region) Czech, French
Czech and French form of Messenia.

OSETIE (Region) Czech
Czech form of OSSETIA.

PALESTINA (Country & Region) Afrikaans, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish
Form of Palestine.

PANAMA (Country) English, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Irish, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish
The name of the Country in Central America. Panama is a country on the isthmus linking Central and South America. The Panama Canal, a famous feat of human engineering, cuts through its center, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to create an essential shipping route... [more]

RIGA (Settlement) Afrikaans, Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Form of RĪGA.

SARAJEVO (Settlement) Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish
Capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The name is believed to be derived from the term saray ovası meaning "the plains around the palace". The first element is derived from the Turkish word saray meaning "palace"... [more]

SINAJ (Region & Mountain) Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene
Form of SINAI.

SINGAPUR (Country) Spanish, German, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Croatian, Polish, Turkish, Bosnian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene
Form of SINGAPORE.

TOKIO (Settlement) Afrikaans, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Ukrainian
Form of TOKYO.

TRÓJA (Settlement) Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Slovak
Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic and Slovak form of TROY.

VENEZUELA (Country) English, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish
The name of the Country in South America. Venezuela is a country on the northern coast of South America with diverse natural attractions. Along its Caribbean coast are tropical resort islands including Isla de Margarita and the Los Roques archipelago... [more]

VILNIUS (Settlement) Lithuanian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Faroese, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish
Capital of LITHUANIA. Named after the Vilnia River whose name is derived from Lithuanian vilnis "wave".