Galician Submitted Place Names

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ABKHAZIA (Country) Armenian, Basque, English, Galician, Indonesian, Malay, Filipino, Tagalog, Urdu
From Russian Абхазия (Abkhaziya) from Georgian აფხაზეთი (Apxazeti), which is derived from აფხაზი (Apxazi), the Georgian name for the Abkhaz people... [more]

ALXERIA (Country) Galician
Galician form of ALGERIA

ANCARA (Settlement) Galician, Portuguese
Galician and Portuguese form of ANKARA.

ARABIA SAUDITA (Country) Asturian, Galician, Italian, Occitan, Spanish
Form of SAUDI ARABIA.

BAKÚ (Settlement) Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Icelandic, Spanish
Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Icelandic, and Spanish form of BAKU.

BIXKEK (Settlement) Asturian, Basque, Catalan, Galician
Asturian, Basque, Catalan, and Galician form of BISHKEK.

BUTÁN (Country) Asturian, Galician, Spanish
Asturian, Galician and Spanish form of BHUTAN

CAGLIARI (Settlement) Italian, English, Danish, French, Galician, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
From Latin Calaris, itself from Phoenician Krly, of uncertain meaning. This is the name of the capital city of Sardinia, an island in the Mediterranean Sea and a region of ITALY.

CALABRIA (Political Subdivision) Italian, English, Finnish, Galician, Spanish
From Ancient Greek Καλαβρία (Kalabría), itself derived from the name of a local Oscan tribe. This is the name of a region in southern Italy.

CALIFORNIA (Political Subdivision) Spanish, English, Asturian, Estonian, Galician, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Romanian, Tagalog
From the name of a fictional utopian island featured in the 16th-century novel Las sergas de Esplandián by Spanish author Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The name comes from the island's queen, Calafia (or Califia), whose name is derived from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa) meaning "caliph"... [more]

CAMERÚN (Country) Galician, Spanish
Galician and Spanish from of CAMEROON

CAMPANIA (Political Subdivision) Italian, English, Galician, Spanish, Ancient Roman
From Latin Campania, itself from campania felix, denoting the fertile countryside around Mount Vesuvius. This is the name of a region in southern Italy.

CHECHENIA (Political Subdivision) Spanish, Asturian, Galician
Spanish, Asturian, and Galician form of CHECHNYA.

CIRCASIA (Region) Asturian, Galician, Spanish
Asturian, Galician, and Spanish form of CIRCASSIA.

COMORES (Country) French, Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish
Form of COMOROS.

CRACOVIA (Settlement) Galician, Italian, Ancient Roman, Sicilian, Spanish
Galician, Italian, Latin, Sicilian and Spanish form of KRAKOW.

EUROPA (Region) Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Corsican, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Galician, German, Italian, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish
Form of EUROPE.

GABÓN (Country) Galician, Spanish
Galician and Spanish form of GABON

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.

GUINEA ECUATORIAL (Country) Galician, Spanish
Galician and Spanish form of Equatorial Guinea

IEREVÁN (Settlement) Galician
Galician form of YEREVAN.

ISTAMBUL (Settlement) Galician, Kabyle, Lak, Portuguese
Form of ISTANBUL.

KATMANDÚ (Settlement) Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Icelandic, Spanish
Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Icelandic, and Spanish form of KATHMANDU.

KAZÁN (Settlement) Asturian, Galician, Spanish
Asturian, Galician, and Spanish form of KAZAN.

LISBOA (Settlement) Portuguese, Asturian, Basque, Catalan, Galician, Indonesian, Norwegian, Quechua, Spanish, Tagalog
Form of LISBON.

LIVONIA (Region) History, Albanian, Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, English, Galician, Indonesian, Italian, Romanian, Spanish
Livonia was a historic region in the Baltic, located approximately in present-day southern ESTONIA and northern LATVIA... [more]

LONGYEARBYEN (Settlement) Norwegian, English, Afrikaans, Asturian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Malay, Manx, Maori, North Frisian, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sami, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Silesian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, West Frisian
Means "The Longyear town" in Norwegian. Longyearbyen is the main settlement of the Norwegian archipelago SVALBARD in the Arctic Ocean. The town was named after American businessman John Munro LONGYEAR (1850-1922) whose company helped develop the settlement.

LUZÓN (Island) Spanish, Portuguese, Asturian, Galician
Spanish, Portuguese, Asturian and Galician form of LUZON.

MADRID (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Spanish, Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek
From the older name Magerit, which is of uncertain meaning and origin. It may be derived from Arabic اَلْمَجْرِيط‎ (al-majrīṭ) meaning "source of water", from Latin matrix meaning "mother, source, origin (of rivers)", or from Celtic mageto ritu meaning "great bridge"... [more]

MÓDENA (Settlement) Asturian, Galician, Icelandic, Portuguese, Spanish
Icelandic, Portuguese and Spanish form of MODENA.

NÁPOLES (Settlement) Portuguese, Spanish, Asturian, Galician
Portuguese, Spanish, Asturian, and Galician form of NAPLES.

NÍXER (Country & River) Galician
Galician form of NIGER

NIXERIA (Country) Asturian, Galician
Asturian and Galician form of NIGERIA

PAQUISTÁN (Country) Asturian, Galician
Asturian and Galician form of PAKISTAN

PEQUÍN (Settlement) Catalan, Galician, Spanish
Catalan and Galician form of BEIJING as well as a Spanish variant of PEKÍN.

SÁ (Other) Portuguese, Galician
Variant spelling of SAA.

SAA (Other) Portuguese, Galician
Habitational name from any of the numerous places named Saa, mainly in northern Portugal and Galicia.

SEIXELES (Country) Asturian, Galician
Asturian and Galician form of SEYCHELLES.

SERRA LEOA (Country) Galician, Portuguese
Galician and Portuguese form of SIERRA LEONE

SURABAIA (Settlement) Belarusian, Galician, Georgian, Portuguese
Belarusian, Galician, Georgian, and Portuguese form of SURABAYA.

TEHERÁN (Settlement) Czech, Galician, Hungarian, Slovak, Spanish, Filipino, Tagalog
Form of TEHRAN.

TUNISIA (Country) Basque, English, Finnish, Galician, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Romanian, Swahili, Thai
The name of a country in North Africa, named after its capital city TUNIS.

VARSOVIA (Settlement) Aragonese, Basque, Breton, Galician, Greek, Spanish, Filipino, Tagalog
New Latin form of WARSAW, which some countries have adopted as their name for the Polish city.

XAPÓN (Country) Asturian, Galician
Asturian and Galician form of JAPAN

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