Top Ten Names of Countries That English Speakers Get Wrong
Please don't take this as an assault on English language speakers. It's just an interesting look at how the English names for countries differ from the local names.The Top Ten
1 Mexico
2 Türkiye
3 Brasil
We pronounce it Brasil not Brazil!
4 Nippon
Americans call it Japan. This mistake is something that weeaboos have been known to rant about.
5 Italia
6 Zhonghua
The actual name for China. Quite different from the English name, no?
The Chinese* name for China
Its also a car.
7 España
Pronounced Es-PAWN-yaw. Spain.
8 Rossiya
Russia, pronounced "Ross-SEE-ya".
9 Deutschland
10 Pilipinas
The Philippines.
The Contenders
11 Bharat
It's the actual name of India. I don't know from where the name "India" came? But it's actually "Bharat"
12 Iran
13 Sverige
14 Iraq
15 Uganda
16 Korea
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