Not something I thought of a lot when I was back in US since USA is... a pretty bureaucratic name by all means. But I just realized that some countries have really fascinating names in their local language

Like how China names itself Central/Middle country in a very grandiose way (as in, we are the center of the world), or Japan being "land of the rising sun"

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago

It's the low countries because it's the land around the river delta's, not because of the height of the land. It's originally meant as downriver.

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