Elements are named after countries, not countries after elements !
Countries: francium, germanium, gallium, ruthenium, indium
Regions: scandium, hassium, californium
Continents: americium
Also many towns.
Several countries have elements named after them, including francium (named after France), polonium (named after Poland), berkelium (named after Berkeley, California, where it was discovered), americium (named after America), and dubnium (named after Dubna, Russia, where it was synthesized).
Americium and Europium are the elements named for large regions which include several countries.
americium, germanium, scandium, polonium
Francium - named after France. Germanium - named after Germany. Californium - named after California, USA.
Several countries do not have elements named after them, including Brazil, Canada, and Mexico. While many elements are named after places, scientists often choose names based on historical figures, minerals, or geographical features rather than directly referencing countries. Notably, elements like francium and polonium are named after France and Poland, respectively, but many nations remain unrepresented in the periodic table.
I can think of Germanium, Indium, Polonium, Francium, Americium and Nihonium.
Scandium is named after the entire Scandinavian peninsula which contains three countries (Norway, Sweden, and Finland). Thulium is named after the northernmost part of the world.
Many elements names are of Greek and Latin words. Some elements are name after where named after countries like France, German ect.
americium, francium, im not sure about the last one, hope i helped!
America: Americium, France: Francium, Poland: Polonium, and Germany: Germanium.
Some elements in the periodic table are indeed named after scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of chemistry. For example, Curium is named after Marie and Pierre Curie, Mendeleevium honors Dmitri Mendeleev, and Seaborgium is named after Glenn T. Seaborg.
Offhand I can't think of any that are directly named after their discoverer personally. There are several named after scientists (curium, einsteinium, seaborgium, mendelevium, etc.), but those scientists did not discover these particular elements (Seaborg discovered, or at least participated in the discovery of, several elements, but seaborgium was not one of them; likewise for Curie and curium; Einstein didn't discover any elements). There are some named after countries: francium and polonium were named after France and Poland... the countries where their discoverer, Marie Curie, was living and was born respectively. Finally, there are at least two named after an employer: californium and berkelium were named by a team working at the University of California - Berkeley. ("At least" because while lawrencium is supposedly named after Ernest O. Lawrence, it was discovered at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, which was ALSO named after Ernest O. Lawrence, making it a bit ambiguous.)