Is "united states" the stupidest country name in the world ?

is "united states" the stupidest country name in the world ?

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probably

it reflects the lack of culture and history

it's on par with Central African Republic
>we jus got independant and we iz a cunt in the middle of Africa, how we gunna call our new cunt?

>Sophia Lillis will get BLACKED in your timeline
feels good desu

What does 'Paraguay' mean?

>create bunch of states in America
>unite them as one country

I don't see the issue.

>Brazil
>named after a fucking tree

>t. country is named after a cash crop

>Germany aka "Deutschland"
>"land of the people"

failipenis

Triggered

'federative republic' sounds even dumber

What's even 'federative'

Oh wow i don't know maybe Paraguay is near the river paraguay? And maybe India is near the river of Indus, really makes me think

>Bolivia
>yeah you know that person who never once set a foot on the horrid shithole that is Bolivia
>aha right, we will name it like that

No faggot it makes sense if you know the history of the name.

India isn't actually anywhere near the Indus valley.

Bolivia's official name is actually Plurinational State of Bolivia. There are about 20-30 states with very unusual country names.

>DEMOCRATIC
>PEOPLE'S
>REPUBLIC
>OF
>KOREA

>HOLY
>ROMAN
>EMPIRE

do me do me

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United american federation. Or back when states had more power than the federal government, the United American Confederacy. Not to be confused with confederationboos from the civil war.

Is Brazil the largest monkey exhibit in the world?

>land of the franks
Wow literally so unique, not just a label or anything

HOLY AMERICAN EMPIRE

what he said >Paraguay is near the river paraguay?
it goes across our countery
what does paraguay itself mean? well it's an ancient native word, more ancient than the Union of States in North America
it either means "river of feather crowns" or "river that is born from the green sea" depending on which historian you ask

>literally just a Latin descriptor for the peninsula your country is on

It literally just means “that river right there lmao”

haha yeah
just like before this we were just "Tanah Melayu", land of the Malays

>No faggot it makes sense if you know the history of the name
>"hey Reedus da peeps been askin': now dat we iz independant frum dem bastard brits weza need a proper name, we reckon'"
>"ya know, i read on this fancey books i stole frum some redcoat we wuz discover'd by sum guy named Columbus. we shoulda call ourselves Columbia, it'd be nice and proper"
>"nah Junior dat be taken by the peeps in South America. me thinks we jus' gonna settle for 'Union of States'. everyun' agree raise hands? settl'd"

>Bolivia's official name is actually Plurinational State of Bolivia
socialism not even once. seriously

Retard it was before separation and india was named so long before that

It would be like calling the US "Mississippi" or "Colorado" or "Columbia"

>Malaysia
>Not even "Federation of Malaysia" or something anymore, literally Malaysia
>Being a namelet

>UNITY
>IS
>STRENGTH

>UNITED
>STATES
>OF
>AMERICA

>"Mississippi"
a much better name than Union of the Continent
>Muh Manifest Destiny
you could arguably use this excuse tho, 2bh

That's not why we call ourselves the United States faggot. Basically the founding fathers were huge Holy Roman empireboos and they wanted to make the individual colonies more powerful than the central head of state. So for the first 30 years or so of the US being a country, each state had their own currency, trade laws, armies, government model etc. So the US was literally 13 countries acting under an organization like the EU is today. But then there were instances like spiraling inflation in southern "states", trade conflicts, almost wars waged between states. Eventually the federal government saw that this was an issue and it stripped the states of most of their power and then the US became sort of recognizable as a modern head of state. The name stuck because states still do have some independent powers but for the most part, all states are under the federal government.

i knew it all except for this part
>But then there were instances like spiraling inflation in southern "states", trade conflicts, almost wars waged between states.
makes me wonder if this is the reason why some of your countrymates roleplay that you want to see the EU become an actual country (USE or something kek)

They originially wanted to call themselves Columbia, but they did not want to be associated with Spanish America.

we are the Federation of Malaysia though

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we're a mutt country too so yeah

>The Plurinational State of Bolivia
>The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
>The Most Serene Republic of San Marino
>The Union of the Comores
>The Co-operative Republic of Guyana
>The Oriental Republic of Uruguay
>The Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace
>The Argentine Federation
>The Hellenic Republic
>The Commonwealth of Australia
>The Republic of the Union of Myanmar
>The Swiss Confederation
>The Independent State of Papua New Guinea(lol)

Yes that's why

>The Hellenic Republic
Pretty sure Greeks call themselves Hellenic so that just translates to Republic of Greece

Columbia would be a great name for the country desu

Their official name is literally 'Hellenic Republic' in pretty much any language. Look it up. 'Hellenische Republik' in German or 'République hellénique' in French.

The founding fathers thought so too until they realized that the spanish fags had a colony called Colombia. Unites States of Columbia would be dank though

>The Argentine Federation
Argentine Republic*

A lot of them have a certain charisma to it, exceptions being PNG, Guyana and Australia

it's taken already
Alleghania could have been great

>Alleghania
Where does this name come from

Bolivia wins.
I don't see how United States of America is bad.

Washington Irving
it didn't stick, along with Appalachia

>Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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It is unique. There's no other land on earth the Franks conquered. There are plenty of union of states on the planet, even in the continent of America there are plenty.

MUCH better. Mississipi would be awesome given how huge and important the river basin is.

brunei is based ngl

Is that pic the girl who was murdered moments after?

>UNITED
>MEXICAN
>STATES

United states should've been called Columbia

Yeah but we are the OG federal republic

Mississippi has sort of a negative connotation to it here in the states.

>Oriental Republic of Uruguay
I love how their name basically says in which side of the Plata they are

we are a united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland tho

>UNION OF
>SOVIET
>SOCIALIST
>REPUBLICS

>tfw just “Canada”

>united
not for long ayyyy

You're not a proper country if your name didn't set off Queen Victoria's autism

>burgers can't banter

>named after a fucking tree
better than A FUCKING LEAF

It had a nice ring back in 1776. But got pretty stupid after a while so they went to "America" the same way that "Mexican United States" went to Mexico.

>united ireland
lel a hard-right wing british national conservative party is ruling northern ireland right now and they are part of a coalition that rules the entire country. united ireland isn't happening any time soon lad.

>hard-right wing
i w i s h

how are the DUP not?

It's the Dominion of Canada

you forgot
>The Utter State of Germany

>They originially wanted to call themselves Columbia, but they did not want to be associated with Spanish America.

That's not true at all. The Spanish-speaking country Colombia didn't exist until more than 30 years after the US was founded. When the US gained its independence, Colombia was called Nueva Granada. There was no barrier to the United States calling itself Columbia, and for a long time Columbia was actually a common nickname for the US as a whole. It was just never made official and gradually fell out of favor.


The individual states were pretty distinct culturally when the country was first founded. People didn't identify as American, they identified based on their home state/region. It was kind of like a slightly more centralized European Union where everyone spoke the same language and most were some form of Protestant Christian. The idea of the states being "one nation" didn't really rise until after the Civil War. You can see this change in documents and articles from the 19th century. Before the Civil War it was "the United States are", afterwards it was "the United States is".

Didn’t we get rid of that after WW2 sometime?

No, we never got rid of it. The Dominion of Canada "remains the country's formal – if seldom used – national title." The only reason it's not Kingdom of Canada is because they were afraid the title would anger the volatile post civil war Americans.

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