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Have you ever wondered why countries are called one thing in the local language, but something else in a different language?

For example, The United States is called "Les Etates Unis" in France & Quebec and Germans refer to Canada as "Kanada".

It always seemed strange to me that we wouldn't just refer to a country by what the locals have named it.

Germany isn't Germany....to them it's Deutschland. Poland is Polske to the Poles. To the locals, Japan has always been Nippon.

You can see the whole list here.


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