List of countries by native names

This List of countries by native names is an alphabetical list of countries of the world with the names in the official (national) native languages, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. The list includes only entities listed in the List of countries.

A

• Aṗsny / Аҧсны = Abkhazian for Abkhazia
• Afġānestān / افغانستان = Persian (Dari-Persian) for Afghanistan
• Afġānistān / افغانستان = Pushtu for Afghanistan
• Algeria/ Al-Jazā'ir / الجزائر = Arabic for Algeria
• Akrotiri = English for Akrotiri
• Åland = Swedish for Åland
• Al-ʿArabiyyah as-Saʿūdiyyah / المملكة العربية السعودية = Arabic for Saudi Arabia
• Al-Yaman / اليمن = Arabic for Yemen
• Alba = Scottish Gaelic for Scotland
• American Samoa = English for American Samoa
• Andorra = Catalan for Andorra
• Angola = Portuguese for Angola
• Anguilla = English for Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda = English for Antigua and Barbuda
• Àomén / 澳門 = Mandarin for Macau
• Aotearoa = Maori for New Zealand
• Argentina = Spanish for Argentina
• Aruba = Dutch for Aruba
• Ascension Island = English for Ascension Island
• Australia = English for Australia
• Ayiti = (native word) Haitian Creole or Taino for Haiti
• Azərbaycan = Azeri for Azerbaijan

B

• The Bahamas = English for The Bahamas
• al-Baḥrayn / البحرين = Arabic for Bahrain
• Bălgarija / България = Bulgarian for Bulgaria
• Banglādeś / বাংলাদেশ = Bengali for Bangladesh
• Barbados = English for Barbados
• Belarus or Biełaruś / Беларусь = Belarusian for Belarus
• Belarussiya / Белоруссия = Russian for Belarus
• Belau = Palauan for Palau
• België = Dutch for Belgium
• Belgique = French for Belgium
• Belgien = German for Belgium
• Belize = English for Belize
• Bénin = French for Benin
• Bermuda = English for Bermuda
• Bharatha Deshamu = Telugu for India
• Bhārata / ಭಾರತ = Kannada for India
• Bhārat / ভারত = Bengali for India
• Bhārat / भारत = Hindi and Marathi for India
• Bhārat / ભારત = Gujarati for India
• Bhārata / ಭಾರತ = Kannada for India
• Bhāratam / ഭാരതം = Malayalam for India
• Bhārat / بھارت = Urdu for India
• Bhārata / भारत = Sanskrit for India
• བོད་ / bod = Tibetan for Tibet
• Bolivia = Spanish for Bolivia
• Bosna i Hercegovina = Bosnian and Croatian for Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина = Serbian for Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana = Tswana and English for Botswana
• Brasil = Portuguese for Brazil
• British Virgin Islands = English for British Virgin Islands
• Brunei = Malay for Brunei
• Bulibya = Quechua for Bolivia
• Burkina Faso = French for Burkina Faso
• Burundi = French for Burundi

C

• Cabo Verde or Kabu Verdi = Portuguese/Kriolu for Cape Verde
• Cameroon = English for Cameroon
• Cameroun = French for Cameroon
• Canada = English and French for Canada
• Cayman Islands = English for Cayman Islands
• Česká republika = Czech for Czech Republic
• Chile = Spanish for Chile
• Chosŏn / 조선 = North Korean for Korea
• Christmas Island = English for Christmas Island
• Chungkuo or ]z]Zhongguó / 中國 = Mandarin for China as used in the Republic of China (Taiwan) (see also Zhōngguó)
• Città del Vaticano = Italian for Vatican City
• Čiṅkappūr / சிங்கப்பூர் = Tamil for Singapore
• Civitas Vaticana = Latin for Vatican City
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands = English for Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• Colombia = Spanish for Colombia
• Comores = French for Comoros
• Congo = French for both Democratic Republic of Congo
• Congo = French for Republic of Congo
• Costa Rica = Spanish for Costa Rica
• Côte d'Ivoire = French for Côte d'Ivoire
• Crna Gora / Црна Гора = Montenegrin for Montenegro
• Cuba = Spanish for Cuba
• Cymru = Welsh for Wales

D

• Danmark = Danish for Denmark
• Dhekelia = English for Dhekelia
• Deutschland = German for Germany
• Divehi Rājje / ގުޖޭއްރާ ޔާއްރިހޫމްޖު = Divehi for Maldives
• Djibouti = French for Djibouti
• Dominica = English for Dominica
• Druk Yul / འབྲུག་ཡུལ = Dzongkha for Bhutan

E

• Ecuador = Spanish for Ecuador
• Eesti = Estonian for Estonia
• Éire = Irish for Ireland
• Elláda / Ελλάδα = Greek for Greece
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• El Filipinas = Chabacano for Philippines
• El Salvador = Spanish for El Salvador
• Ertra = Tigrinya for Eritrea
• Espainia = Basque for Spain
• España = Spanish and Galician for Spain
• Espanha = Aranese for Spain
• Espanya = Catalan for Spain
• eSwatini = Swazi for Swaziland

F

• Færøerne = Danish for Faroe Islands
• Falkland Islands = English for Falkland Islands
• Félipinas = Spanish for Philippines
• Filipinas = Ilokano, Kapampangan, and Pangasinense for Philippines
• Suomi = Finnish for Finland
• Finland = Swedish for Finland
• Føroyar = Faroese for Faroe Islands
• France = French for France

G

• Gabon = French for Gabon
• Germany= English for Germany
• The Gambia = English for The Gambia
• Ghana = English for Ghana
• Gibraltar = English for Gibraltar
• Grenada = English for Grenada
• Grønland = Danish for Greenland
• Guåhan = Chamorro for Guam
• Guam = English for Guam
• Guatemala = Spanish for Guatemala
• Guernsey = English for Guernsey
• Guinea Ecuatorial = Spanish for Equatorial Guinea
• Guiné-Bissau = Portuguese for Guinea-Bissau
• Guinée = French for Guinea
• Guyana = English for Guyana

H

• Haïti = French for Haiti
• Hanguk / 한국(韓國) or Daehanminguk / 대한민국(大韓民國) = Korean for the Republic of Korea, aka South Korea
• Hayastan / Հայաստան = Armenian for Armenia
• Hiong Gong / 香港 = Hakka for Hong Kong
• Hoeng Gong / 香港 = Cantonese for Hong Kong
• Xiang Gang / 香港 = Mandarin/Putonghua for Hong Kong
• Hong Kong = English for Hong Kong
• Honduras = Spanish for Honduras
• Hrvatska = Croatian for Croatia

I

• Al-Imārāt Al-Arabiyyah Al-Muttahidah / الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة = Arabic for United Arab Emirates
• Inde = French for India
• India = English for India
• Indonesia = Indonesian for Indonesia
• Intiyā / இந்தியா = Tamil for India
• Īrān / ایران = Persian for Iran
• Al-ʿIrāq / العراق = Arabic for Iraq
• ʿErāq or Ērāq / ێراق or عێراق = Kurdish for Iraq
• Iritriyā / إرتريا = Arabic for Eritrea
• Ísland = Icelandic for Iceland
• Isra'el (Yisrā'el) / ישראל = Hebrew for Israel
• Isrā'īl / إسرائيل = Arabic for Israel
• Italia = Italian for Italy
• Ityop'iya / ኢትዮጵያ = Amharic for Ethiopia

J

• Jamaica = English for Jamaica
• Al-Jazā'ir / الجزائر = Arabic for Algeria
• Jèrri = Jèrriais for Jersey
• Jībūtī / جيبوتي = Arabic for Djibouti
• Jhongguó or Chungkuo / 中國 = Mandarin for China as used in the Republic of China (Taiwan) (see also Zhōngguó)
• Južnaja Osetija or Yuzhnaya Osetiya/ Южная Осетия = Russian for South Ossetia
• al-Jumhūrīyah al-`Arabīyah as-Saharāwīyah ad-Dīmuqrātīyah /الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية = Arabic for Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

K

• Kalaallit Nunaat = Greenlandic for Greenland
• Kâmpŭchea / កម្ពុជា = Cambodian for Cambodia
• Kazakhstan or Kazachstan / Казахстан = Russian for Kazakhstan
• Kenya = English and Swahili for Kenya
• Kıbrıs = Turkish for Cyprus (Cyprus is occupated by turkish since 1974)
• Kirgiziya / Киргизия = Russian for Kyrgyzstan
• Kiribati = English and Kiribati for Kiribati
• Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka = Sango for Central African Republic
• Komori = Comoro for Comoros
• Kosova = Albanian for Kosovo
• Kūki 'Āirani = Cook Islands Māori for Cook Islands
• al-Kuwayt / الكويت = Arabic for Kuwait
• Kypros / Κυπρος = Greek for Cyprus
• Kyrgyzstan / Кыргызстан = Kyrgyz for Kyrgyzstan

L

• Lao / ລາວ = Lao for Laos
• Latvija = Latvian for Latvia
• Lernayin Gharabagh / Լեռնային Ղարաբաղ = Armenian for Nagorno Karabakh
• Lesotho = English and Sotho for Lesotho
• Lëtzebuerg = Luxembourgian for Luxembourg
• Liberia = English for Liberia
• Lībiyā / ليبيا = Arabic for Libya
• Liechtenstein = German for Liechtenstein
• Lietuva = Lithuanian for Lithuania
• Llankai / இலங்கை = Tamil for Sri Lanka
• Lubnān / لبنان = Arabic for Lebanon
• Luxembourg = French for Luxembourg
• Luxemburg = German for Luxembourg

M

• Madagascar = French for Madagascar
• Madagasikara = Malagasy for Madagascar
• al-Maġrib / المغرب = Arabic for Morocco
• Magyarország = Hungarian for Hungary
• Makedonija / Македонија = Macedonian for Republic of Macedonia
• Malawi = English for Malawi
• Malaŵi = Chewa for Malawi
• Malaysia = Malay and English for Malaysia
• Mali = French for Mali
• Malta = Maltese and English for Malta
• Man, Isle of = English for Isle of Man
• Marshall Islands = English for Marshall Islands
• Maurice = French for Mauritius
• Mauritanie = French for Mauritania
• Mauritius = English for Mauritius
• Mayotte = French for Mayotte
• México = Spanish for Mexico
• Micronesia = English for Micronesia
• Mişr / مصر = Arabic for Egypt
• Moçambique = Portuguese for Mozambique
• Monaco = French for Monaco
• Mongol Uls / Монгол Улс = Mongolian for Mongolia
• Montserrat = English for Montserrat
• Mūrītāniyā / موريتانيا = Arabic for Mauritania
• Myanma / ဴမန္မာ = Burmese for Myanmar (Burma)
• Mzantsi Afrika = Xhosa for South Africa

N

• Namibia = English for Namibia
• Naoero = Nauruan for Nauru
• Nauru = English for Nauru
• Nederland = Dutch for the Netherlands
• Nederlân = Frisian for the Netherlands
• Nederlandse Antillen = Dutch for Netherlands Antilles
• Nepāl / नेपाल = Nepali for Nepal
• Yambu/ ཡམྦུ།= Tamang for Nepal
• New Zealand = English for New Zealand
• Nicaragua = Spanish for Nicaragua
• Niger = French for Niger
• Nigeria = English for Nigeria
• Nihon / 日本 = Japanese for Japan
• Ningizumu Africa = isiZulu for South Africa
• Nippon / 日本 = Japanese for Japan, see also Nihon
• Niue = English for Niue
• Norfolk Island = English for Norfolk Island
• Norge or Noreg = Norwegian for Norway
• Northern Mariana Islands = English for Northern Mariana Islands
• Nouvelle-Calédonie = French for New Caledonia

O

• Österreich = German for Austria
• Ou Mun / 澳門 = Cantonese for Macau
• O'zbekiston / Ўзбекистон = Uzbek for Uzbekistan
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P

• Pākistān / پاکستان = Urdu for Pakistan
• Palau = English for Palau
• Panamá = Spanish for Panama
• Papua Niugini = Tok Pisin for Papua New Guinea
• Paraguái = Guarani for Paraguay
• Paraguay = Spanish for Paraguay
• Perú = Spanish for Peru
• Pilipinas = Filipino/Tagalog and Bisaya (Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Kinaray-a, etc.) for Philippines
• Piruw = Quechua and Aymara for Peru
• Pitcairn Islands = English for Pitcairn Islands
• Pitkern Ailan = Pitkern for Pitcairn Islands
• Poblacht na hÉireann = Irish for Republic of Ireland
• Polska = Polish for Poland
• Polynésie Française = French for French Polynesia
• Portugal = Portuguese for Portugal
• Prathēt Thai / ประเทศไทย = Thai for Thailand
• Pridnestrovye or Pridnestrovje / Приднестровье = Russian for Transnistria
• Puerto Rico = Spanish for Puerto Rico

Q

• Qaṭar / قطر = Arabic for Qatar
• Qazaqstan / Қазақстан = Kazakh for Kazakhstan
• Al-Qumur /القمر = Arabic for Comoros

R

• Raja Anachakra Thai / ราชอาณาจักรไทย = Thai for Kingdom of Thailand
• República Dominicana = Spanish for Dominican Republic
• Republica Moldova = Romanian/Moldovan for Moldova
• République Centrafricaine = French for Central African Republic
• România = Romanian for Romania
• Rossiya or Rossija / Россия / Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federatsija / Российская Федерация = Russian for Russia or Russian Federation
• Rwanda = Kinyarwanda, French and English for Rwanda

S

• Saint Helena = English for Saint Helena
• Saint Kitts and Nevis = English for Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia = English for Saint Lucia
• Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon = French for Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines = English for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Sakartvelo / საქართველო = Georgian for Georgia
• Samoa = Samoan and English for Samoa
• San Marino = Italian for San Marino
• São Tomé e Príncipe = Portuguese for São Tomé and Príncipe
• Schweiz = German for Switzerland
• Sénégal = French for Senegal
• Sesel = Seselwa for Seychelles
• Seychelles = English and French for Seychelles
• Shqipëria = Albanian for Albania
• Serra Leoa = Portuguese for Sierra Leone
• Singapore = English for Singapore
• Singapura = Malay for Singapore
• Slovenija = Slovene for Slovenia
• Slovensko = Slovak for Slovakia
• Solomon Islands = English for Solomon Islands
• Somaliland = Somalian for Somaliland
• As-Sūmāl,Soomaliya = Arabic,Somalian for Somalia
• South Africa = English for South Africa
• Srbija / Србија = Serbian for Serbia
• Sri Lankā = Sinhala for Sri Lanka
• Stînga Nistrului = Moldovan for Transnistria (unofficial)
• as-Sūdān / السودان = Arabic for Sudan
• Suid-Afrika = Afrikaans for South Africa
• Suisse = French for Switzerland
• Suomi = Finnish for Finland
• Suriname = Dutch for Suriname
• Sūriyah / سورية = Arabic for Syria
• Svalbard = Norwegian for Svalbard
• Sverige = Swedish for Sweden
• Svizra = Raeto-Romance for Switzerland
• Svizzera = Italian for Switzerland
• Swaziland = English for Swaziland

T

• Táiwān or T'ai-wan / 台灣 = Chinese for Taiwan
• Tanzania = Swahili for Tanzania
• Tašād / تشاد = Arabic for Chad
• Tchad = French for Chad
• Timor-Leste = Portuguese for East Timor
• Timor Lorosa'e = Tetum for East Timor
• Tojikistan / Тоҷикистон = Persian (Tajikii-Persian) for Tajikistan
• Togo = French for Togo
• Tokelau = English for Tokelau
• Tonga = Tongan and English for Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago = English for Trinidad and Tobago
• Tristan da Cunha = Portuguese for Tristan da Cunha
• Turks and Caicos Islands = English for Turks and Caicos Islands
• Tūnis / تونس = Arabic for Tunisia
• Türkiye = Turkish for Turkey
• Türkmenistan = Turkmen for Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu = Tuvaluan and English for Tuvalu

U

• Uburundi = Kirundi for Burundi
• Uganda = English for Uganda
• Ukraїna / Україна = Ukrainian for Ukraine
• ʿUmmān / عمان = Arabic for Oman
• United Kingdom = English for United Kingdom
• United States of America = English for United States of America
• Al-Urdunn / الاردن = Arabic for Jordan
• Uruguay = Spanish for Uruguay
• Uvea mo Futuna = Fakauvea and Fakafutuna for Wallis & Futuna
• Ŭzbekiston or Özbekistân / Ўзбекистон = Uzbek for Uzbekistan

V

• Vanuatu = Bislama, English and French for Vanuatu
• Venezuela = Spanish for Venezuela
• Việt Nam = Vietnamese for Vietnam
• Virgin Islands = English for Virgin Islands
• Viti = Fijian for Fiji

W

• Waitikubuli = Kalinago for Dominica
• Wuliwya = Aymara for Bolivia

X

• Xiānggǎng / 香港 = Mandarin Chinese for Hong Kong
• Xīnjiāpō / 新加坡 = Mandarin Chinese for Singapore
• Xussar Iryston / Хуссар Ирыстон = Ossetian for South Ossetia

Y

• Al-Yaman / اليمن = Arabic for Yemen
• Yisra'el / ישראל = Hebrew for Israel
• Yuzhnaya Osetiya or Južnaja Osetija / Южная Осетия = Russian for South Ossetia

Z

• Zambia = English for Zambia
• Zimbabwe = English for Zimbabwe
• Zhōngguó / 中国 = Mandarin for China, see also Jhongguó or Chungkuo

See also

• Geographical renaming
• List of indigenous names of Eastern Caribbean islands