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.
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”.
It’s funny because our neighbor is also literally called United States, Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
From 1968 Brazil is not United States anymore, we are a Federative Republic.
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.
Finally I see the map on which they study geography!
Argentina’s national anthem we say Provincias Unidas del Sur
there’s no such thing as a pacific or atlantic ocean, only the californian ocean and the floridian ocean
