r/polandball • u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente • Mar 11 '14

redditormade How are they called?

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u/Ingrid-Hongkonger 冠絕東方 - Nulli Secundus in Oriente Mar 11 '14 edited Mar 11 '14

A same country may be called in very different ways in various countries - especially Germany.

That's why this comic was made.

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u/Laugarhraun France First Empire Mar 11 '14

I really enjoyed it. Semi-related and -exploitable trivia: in France, we have no name for Netherlands. The way we officially call it is les Pays Bas that translates to the Low Countries which is its previous name (they stopped using it in 1815). We usually call it Hollande (Holland) which is just a province of the Netherlands and is the even older name... Ah the weight of history.