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.
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A
Afġānestān / افغانستان = Persian (Dari-Persian) for Afghanistan- Afġānistān / افغانستان = Pushtu for Afghanistan
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 / Albann = 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
Aṗsny / Аҧсны = Abkhazian for Abkhazia
Àomén / 澳門 = Mandarin for Macau
Aotearoa = Maori for New Zealand
Arḍ aṣ-Ṣūmāl = Arabic for Somaliland
Argentina = Spanish for Argentina
Aruba = Dutch for Aruba
As-Sūmāl = Arabic for Somalia
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
Bhārat / भारत = Hindi 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 or Česko = Czech for Czech Republic
Chile = Spanish for Chile
Chosŏn / 조선 = Korean for North 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)- Cheen / چین = Urdu for China
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 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
Dai-wan = Taiwanese for Taiwan
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 / Éireann = Irish for Ireland
Elláda / Ελλάδα = Greek for Greece
Ellan Vannin = Manx for Isle of Man
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- Filipinas = 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- Guinée Équatoriale = French 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
Hoeng Gong / 香港 = Cantonese for Hong Kong- Hong Kong = English for Hong Kong
Honduras = Spanish for Honduras
Hrvatska = Croatian for Croatia
I
- Ikwadur = Kichwa for Ecuador
Al-Imārāt Al-Arabiyyah Al-Muttahidah / الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة = Arabic for United Arab Emirates
Ilankai / இலங்கை = Tamil for Sri Lanka- Bharat/भारत = Hindi for India
- Hindustan = Hindi/Urdu for India
Indonesia = Indonesian for Indonesia
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)
- Joseon / 조선 = North Korean for Korea DPR (see also Chosŏn)
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 / Қазақстан = Kazakh for Kazakhstan
Kenya = English and Swahili for Kenya
Kıbrıs = Turkish for Cyprus
Kirgiziya / Киргизия = Russian for Kyrgyzstan
Kiribati = English and Kiribati for Kiribati
Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka = Sango for Central African Republic- Kongo = Swahili for Democratic Republic of Congo
- Kongo = Kongo and Kituba for Democratic Republic of Congo
- Kongó = Lingala for Democratic Republic of Congo
- Kongu = Tshiluba for Democratic Republic of Congo
- Komori = Comoro for Comoros
Kosova = Albanian for Kosovo- Kosovo / Косово = Serbian 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 Republic
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
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
Moldova = Moldovan for Moldova
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 and German for Namibia- Namibië = Afrikaans 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
Nistria / Нистря = Moldovan for Transnistria
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
P
Pākistān / پاکستان = Urdu for Pakistan Independent 1947(14 August)- 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 / ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜐ = 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- 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 = English for Somaliland
- Soomaaliland = Somali for Somaliland
- Soomaliya = Somali 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- Soudan / سوڈان = Urdu 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- Shaam / شام = Urdu 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 and Swahili 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- Volívia = Guarani for Bolivia
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, Shona, and isiNdebele 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
- List of countries and capitals in native languages
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