Country name in Japanese – 国名

Country name in Japanese – 国名

Where are you from?

あなたはどこから来ましたか？

So far people from more than 100 countries visit this site.

Thanks!

You may answer to this question like this,

わたしは○○から来ました。

In 〇〇, you can say your country name.

In my case, わたしは日本からきました  is answer.

In this post, let’s study your country name in Japanese.

List of country name in Japanese language 

This is list of country name.

Country name starts from アto ロ.

I add additional information about some countries in Note.

Can you find your country name in list?

Most of country name in Japanese come from English sound or Chinese but there are some exceptions.

UK is イギリス since it is said that イギリス come from Inglês in Portugal language and Engels in Dutch language.  

Both mean English and Japanese had relationship with Portugal and Dutch people since 17 century.

Germany is also tricky a bit. Germany is called ドイツ and this comes from ドイチュランド（Deutschland）in German language, which means their country name.

This is not from English.

We often use country name in conversation and report.

It’s useful to know some of these country name you are interested in.

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