My wisdom:
- “The United States of America” is not a name but a description
- It’s a bad description since there’s multiple unions of states in america
Tell that to Austria - Österreich. That means “Eastern realm”, since there are no countries more to the East of anything than them. Or hell, Iceland. And Niger is named after the river Niger, which might come from ger-n-ger meaning “river of rivers”, so that’s another wonderfully unambiguous name.
I’m sure there are other great examples.
Deutschland (Germany) means “land of the people” :D
Meanwhile Czech name for Germans is “Němci”, which means “Those who can’t speak”, as compared to Slavs (Slovani) which is “Those who can speak”.
Åland (a region of Finland) means “land of rivers”. The are no rivers there
When you have a dream and a corrupt cartographer
Also there is Greenland
And then USA is still a thousand times better then US
- “The United States of America” is not a name but a description
From 1968 Brazil is not United States anymore, we are a Federative Republic.
Isn’t a federation a union of states?
I’m talking about the name, we were “United states of Brazil” from our republic until 1968, after that the name changed to “Federation republic of Brazil”. I’m dont know a lot about how powerful states were back then, so what changed, but today states in Brazil have a little fraction of the independence that US states have.
Argentina’s national anthem we say Provincias Unidas del Sur
Finally I see the map on which they study geography!
there’s no such thing as a pacific or atlantic ocean, only the californian ocean and the floridian ocean
Any dispute in the Fauklins about to get ZESTY
So the only ones not a united states is only as big as a single state.
Hate hate hate that there’s no one cute unambiguous unabbreviated name for the United States of America:
- United States: welcome to the large club of other United States
- America: just like the rest of the Western Hemisphere
- oh btw United and States or literally mutually exclusive adjectives: United means together; States means not together
