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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

Contents:	Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Abkhaziya or Abchazija / Абхазия = Russian for Abkhazia
• Afġānestān / افغانستان = Persian (Dari-Persian) for Afghanistan
• Afġānistān / افغانستان = Pushtu for Afghanistan
• Akrotiri = English for Akrotiri
• Åland = Swedish for Åland
• 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
• Aṗẖazeṭi / აფხაზეთი = Georgian for Abkhazia
• Aṗsny / Аҧсны = Abkhazian for Abkhazia
• Al-ʿArabiyyah as-Saʿūdiyyah / العربية السعودية = Arabic for Saudi Arabia
• Argentina = Spanish for Argentine
• Aruba = Dutch for Aruba
• Ascension Island = English for Ascension Island
• Australia = English for Australia
• Ayiti = Haitian Creole for Haiti
• Azərbaycan = Azeri for Azerbaijan

B

• The Bahamas = English for The Bahamas
• al-Baḥrayn / بحرين = Arabic for Bahrain
• Bălgarija / България = Bulgarian for Bulgaria
• Banglādeś / বাংলাদেশ = Bengali for Bangladesh
• Barbados = English for Barbados
• 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
• Bhārat / भारत = Hindi and Marathi for India
• Bhārat / ભારત = Gujarati for India
• Bhārat / ಭಾರತ = Kannada for India
• Bhārat / بھارت = Urdu for India
• Bhārata / भारत = Sanskrit for India
• Bjelarúś or Biełaruś / Беларусь = Belarusian for Belarus
• Bjelorussija or Byelorussiya / Белоруссия = Russian for Belarus
• 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
• Burkina Faso = French for Burkina Faso
• Burundi = French for Burundi
• Byelorussiya or Bjelorussija / Белоруссия = Russian for Belarus

C

• Cabo Verde = Portuguese 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 = Korean for North Korea
• Christmas Island = English for Christmas Island
• Chungkuo or Jhongguó / 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 and Republic of Congo
• Cook Islands = English for Cook Islands
• Costa Rica = Spanish for Costa Rica
• Côte d'Ivoire = French for Côte d'Ivoire
• Cuba = Spanish for Cuba

D

• Dağlıq Qarabağ = Azerbaijan for Nagorno Karabakh
• 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
• Ellan Vannin = Manx for Isle of Man
• El Salvador = Spanish for El Salvador
• Ertra = Tigrinya for Eritrea
• Espainia = Basque for Spain
• España = Spanish and Galician for Spain
• Espanya = Catalan for Spain
• eSwatini = Swazi for Swaziland

F

• Færøerne = Danish for Faroe Islands
• Falkland Islands = English for Falkland Islands
• Fiji = English for Fiji
• Filastīn / فلسطين = Arabic for Palestine
• Finland = Swedish for Finland
• Føroyar = Faroe for Faroe Islands
• France = French for France

G

• Gabon = French for Gabon
• The Gambia = English for The Gambia
• Ghana = English for Ghana
• Gibraltar = English for Gibraltar
• Grenada = English for Grenada
• Grønland = Danish for Greenland
• 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; = Korean for South Korea
• Hayastan / Հայաստան = Armenian for Armenia
• Hiong Gong / 香港 = Hakka for Hong Kong
• Hoeng Gong / 香港 = Cantonese for Hong Kong
• Honduras = Spanish for Honduras
• Hong Kong = English for Hong Kong
• Hrvatska = Croatian for Croatia

I

• Al-Imarat Al-Arabiyah Al-Muttahidah / الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة = Arabic for United Arab Emirates
• India = English for India
• Indonesia = Indonesian for Indonesia
• Intiyā / இந்தியா Tamil for India
• Īrān / ایران = Persian for Iran
• Al-ʿĪrāq / العراق = Arabic for Iraq
• ʿĪrāq / عراق = Kurdish for Iraq
• Ireland = English for Ireland
• Irītriyā / إريتريا = Arabic for Eritrea
• Ísland = Icelandic for Iceland
• Isra'il / اسرائيل = Arabic for Israel
• Italia = Italian for Italy
• Ityop'iya / ኢትዮጵያ = Amharic for Ethiopia

J

• Jamaica = English for Jamaica
• Al-Jazā'ir = Arabic for Algeria
• Jersey = English for Jersey
• Jibuti / 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

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
• Kiribati = English and Kiribati for Kiribati
• Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka = Sango for Central African Republic
• Komori = Comoro for Comoros
• Kosova = Albanian for Kosovo
• Kosovo i Metohija / Косово и Метохија = Serbian for Kosovo
• al-Kuwayt / الكويت = Arabic for Kuwait
• Kuzey Kıbrıs = Turkish for Northern Cyprus
• Kypros / Κυπρος = Greek for Cyprus
• Kyrgyzstan / Кыргызстан (Kyrgyz and Russian for Kyrgyzstan

L

• Lao / ນລາວ = Laotian 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
• Lībiyah / ليبية = Arabic for Libya
• Liechtenstein = German for [Liechtenstein]]
• Lietuva = Lithunian for Lithuania
• Llankai / இலங்கை = Tamil for Sri Lanka
• Lubnān / لبنان = Arabic for Lebanon
• Luxembourg = French for Luxembourg
• Luxemburg = German for Luxembourg

M

• Macau = Portuguese for Macau
• Madagascar = French for Madagascar
• Madagasikara = Malagasy for Madagascar
• al Maġrib / مغرب = Arabic for Morocco
• Magyarország = Hungarian for Hungary
• Makedonija / Македонија = Macedonian for 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
• Moldova = Romanian/Moldovan for Moldova
• Monaco = French for Monaco
• Mongol Uls / Монгол Улс = Mongolian for Mongolia
• Montserrat = English for Montserrat
• Mūrītāniyyah / موريتانية = Arabic for Mauritania
• Myanma / ဴမန္မာ = Burmese for Myanmar (Burma)
• Mzantsi Afrika = Zhosa for South Africa

N

• Namibia = English for Namibia
• Naoero = Nauruan for Nauru
• Nauru = English for Nauru
• Nederland = Dutch for the Netherlands
• Nederlandse Antillen = Dutch for Netherlands Antilles
• Nepāl / नेपाल = Nepali for Nepal
• New Zealand = English for New Zealand
• Nicarahua = Spanish for Nicaragua
• Niger = French for Niger
• Nigeria = English for Nigeria
• Nihon / 日本 = Japanese for Japan
• Ningizimu Africa = Zulu 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
• Özbekistân or Ŭzbekiston / Ўзбекистон = Uzbek for Uzbekistan

P

• Pākistān / پاکستان = Urdu for Pakistan
• Palau = English for Palau
• Panamá = Spanish for Panama
• Papua New Guinea = English for Papua New Guinea
• Paraguái = Guarani for Paraguay
• Paraguay = Spanish for Paraguay
• Perú = Spanish for Peru
• Philippines = English for Philippines
• Pilipinas = Filipino for Philippines
• Pitcairn Islands = English for Pitcairn Islands
• Polska = Polish for Poland
• Polynésie Française = French for French Polynesia
• Portugal = Portuguese for Portugal
• Prathēt Thai / ราชอาณาจักรไทย = Thai for Thailand
• Pridnestrovye or Pridnestrovje / Приднестровье = Russian for Transnistria
• Puerto Rico = Spanish and English for Puerto Rico

Q

• Qaṭar / قطر = Arabic for Qatar
• Qazaqstan / Қазақстан = Kazakh for Kazakhstan
• Qumur / قمر = Arabic for Comoros

R

• República Dominicana = Spanish for Dominican Republic
• République Centrafricaine = French for Central African Republic
• România = Romanian for Romania
• Rossiya or Rossija / Россия = Russian for Russia
• Rwanda = Rwandese, French and English for Rwanda

S

• Al-Saḥrāwiyyah / صحراوية = Arabic for (Western) Sahara
• 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
• Sierra Leone = English 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
• Soomaliya = Somalian for Somalia
• South Africa = English for South Africa
• Srbija i Crna Gora / Србија и Црна Гора = Serbian for Serbia and Montenegro
• Sri Lankā = Sinhala for Sri Lanka
• Stînga Nistrului = Moldovan for Transnistria (inofficial)
• As-Sūdān / السودان = Arabic for Sudan
• Suid Afrika = Afrikaans for South Africa
• Suisse = French for Switzerland
• Suomi = Finnish for Finland
• Suriname = Dutch for Suriname
• Sūriyyah / 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 = Arab 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 = English 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
• Ukraina / Украина = Russian for Ukraine
• Ukrayina or Ukrajina / 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
• 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

• Wallis-et-Futuna = French for Wallis and Futuna

X

• Xiānggǎng / 香港 = Mandarin for Hong Kong
• Xinjiapo = 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

• List of countries and capitals in native languages