Naming Other Countries Like The Ivory Coast

[@NameExplain]

What would your country be called if it was named like The Ivory Coast?

[@Zikos1127]

The Fish and Chips Islands (UK)

[@loubaxo9339]

The Cork Coast (Portugal)

[@Fanny-Fanny]

The Cocaine Jungle

[@arielgaray302]

The Banana Valley (Ecuador)

[@KINGHB190]

The Medicine Island 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@thundercheckov9782]

France has a diverse geography, but is gifted with a large amount of fertile plains, It's main export is aircraft parts. Hence, France is "The Aero Plain".

[@AudieHolland]

Nah, it's the Wine Country in most people's minds. Greetings from Tulip Country.

[@jirieskelinen5607]

​@@AudieHolland Hey when you were in school did you get taught about the tulip bubble.

[@AudieHolland]

​@@jirieskelinen5607 It was mentioned once I think. Just as an example of how crazy investors could be when a fad took them. But I remember an example about how in old times, poor people would gamble away what little they had because they were addicted to dice. In Utrecht, there's even a spot of green lawn named 'Smakkelaarsveld.' Smakkelaars were skippers who would gamble using their freight to bet with.

[@mysterystainontherug6290]

Breadland

[@froggybookworm9120]

​@@AudieHolland greetings from ,,thats in russia right?" Good luck guessing which tiny USSR devoured recently free country in eastern europe that one is....i mean we get confused for austria too bc of something else-

[@ILCMango]

Japan aka the Carchipelago

[@TheLilium117]

lol good one

[@diegoarmando5489]

Nintendisland Electronica Man. Mine suck.

[@JGGNGHS]

That's hilarious :D

[@olig6769]

And Slovakia, located in the CARpathians

[@HayTatsuko]

Brilliant.

[@spddiesel]

If this turns Switzerland into Chocolate Mountain then I'm all for it. Edit: Blood Mountain is pretty metal as an alternative...

[@josephaddington4082]

Bloody Peaks maybe

[@Wertzuio]

do i detect a sabaton reference?

[@dezzmotion4475]

@@Wertzuio ah, a fellow Sabaton fan

[@lucasbakeforero426]

Why Blood? 😅

[@0Super0Manuel0]

@@lucasbakeforero426 surprisingly because blood is one of the biggest exports of Switzerland next to medicine, vaccines and toxins overall stuff that has to do with the Pharmaindustry. Then there is also gold, watches and Nitrogen Heterocyclic Compounds.

[@pyglik2296]

Apparently the top export from Poland are vehicle parts and machinery, and its name already comes from the word for a field, so it'd probably be Machine Fields.

[@chilfang2422]

The Mechanical Fields

[@Aciek25]

I need to add my suggestions for Poland. Firstly Poland is located around one big river which flows through most of notable polish cities. Secondly Poland is the biggest fruits producer in Europe. So I will go with Apple River or Fruit River Basin. Or even funnier referring to the current name Blueberry Field.

[@realcanadian67]

@@chilfang2422 that sounds stupidly cool

[@Hadar1991]

If we go by historical exports then in the Middle Ages basically any Slavic land exported mostly... slaves.. To that extend that in many languages Slavs and slaves where synonymous (in English "slave" is just corruption of Slav). So: Poland = Slave Fields Ukraine = Slave Borderland Belarus = Slave Swamps Czechia = Slave Massif Slovakia = Slave Mountains

[@-AirKat-]

Guar Plains

[@Martin97perussini]

Well, Argentina is called like that because of the silver

[@jan_harald]

argentum, makes sense, but never thought of it, lol

[@philtarpehdixon7441]

It could be the Silver Plains. But the guachos might want a say.

[@thepopulationofkazakhstan1116]

@@philtarpehdixon7441 it's colonial name was already "Rio de la Plata" which means silver rivers, so we could just use that

[@felipea1399]

We never had much natural silver tbh

[@raakone]

So it could be "The Silver Plains"?

[@feiradragon7915]

I think the US' biggest universal geographic feature is that from coast to coast, we get really crazy weather/natural disasters compared to average. Also we have Hollywood so I'd imagine entertainment media is a big export from us. Thus I'd call the US "Media Disaster Zone".

[@nascenticity]

i feel like this name is accurate in a number of levels.

[@detipacier]

The US is a Sonic level, noted

[@feiradragon7915]

@@detipacier Of course. There's a Green Hills grocery store in the States and Sonic often runs around in levels based on San Francisco.

[@animarthur5297]

Just looked it up, the U.S. top export is gasoline. Their geography is really diverse too, but i'm gonna guess forests are the most common feature - So Gasoline Forests? That doesn't aound like a good combination... Anyway, if the U.S. were a Sonic zone, then they would either be Oil Ocean or Studiopolis

[@feiradragon7915]

@@animarthur5297 Funny thing is, there's a natural gas forest landmark called the "eternal flame" because a crack in the rocks there seeps enough gas to keep a flame lit for weeks at a time. I think the only reason it goes out is because it's behind a waterfall.

[@hyun-shik7327]

This sounds like if the world was a video game map.

[@DJKLProductions]

With authors that are not creative.

[@埊]

me naming one of the kingdoms the Gwyllwladdwengdewangchilillilotlotzalatlanciqio'urrwerreraaiandaahziiallaruqquerengwyyrlgois:

[@henkkaperkele666]

oil lake (finland)

[@KarolusImperator]

"Petrol Plains" sounds like something out of Fortnite

[@henkkaperkele666]

@@KarolusImperator You are correct. I thought it actually was

[@folcolor1918]

My country is notable for having a generally more stable economy than the rest of Central America, and we have access to both the the Caribbean and the Pacific, and are known for our beaches. So maybe something like the Rich Coast? We speak Spanish so in our language it would be Costa Rica... oh dang jk: we are known for being big exporters of all kinds of fruit and are part of the isthmus of central america so the Fruit Pass might be a could sounding name

[@aaronsirkman8375]

Fruitsthmus

[@Aciek25]

A Banana Coat it will be ABC country.

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

Costa Rica is such an awesome country! I’d love to visit someday, especially for the nature reserves!

[@Retroist2024]

Costa Rica may be semi-rich, but they don't produce or export riches

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

@@Retroist2024 it's just if you translate from Spanish to English. But compared to its neighbors, it's like Sweden compared to Brazil

[@lizyarikus]

So I'm from Moldova and I coin "Sunflower Hills" for us (sunflower seeds are our top-2 export, after insulated wire, i refuse to be named the interfluve of insulated wire)

[@Retroist2024]

Wired River

[@abdullahrizwan592]

To be honest when it comes to Canada, when people outside of the country think (if at all) they usually think of the cold. Since it was an outsider's perspective that named the Ivory coast, I think that "The Golden Tundra" is a more fitting name. Also, as a Canadian, I didn't know that our top export is gold. That is so cool!

[@TheRenegade...]

It's not the top export, just a major one

[@tomasdvorak7307]

Tar Tundra.

[@elyciacormier5235]

In the video it's also mentioned that Canada is really big, so I'd go for The Big Gold, or The Big Tar

[@kjyost]

It used to be beavers when 'discovered', so maybe Giant-pelt land? Snowy Beaver?

[@TheRenegade...]

@@kjyost Pelt Tundra

[@SeSmokki]

Finland is well-known for exporting lumber and telecom devices, and is quite forested, so it could be called "Lumber Woods" or "Teletrees"

[@jomar_sl]

Telephone Forest has a nice ring to it ;)

[@Mnnvint]

You should probably name them after their top relative export, normalize it by how much of that thing is produced int the world. Like, tulips aren't the Netherland's topmost export, but not many countries export much tulips at all. You'd get less oil countries this way. I mean, the Tulip Lowlands for the Netherlands is pretty boring, but the Blood Mountains for Switzerland is totally badass.

[@jaroslavstastny4400]

There is one more country that is named after it’s former important export. Cyprus. Back in ancient times, it was a major exporter of copper (cuprum), which it got named after. Many people even claim that the copper actually got named after the island.

[@micaldomlancer1494]

Australia's (my country) largest individual export is iron and concentrates (stuff that help make iron more pure) making up 1/3rd of our exports and we are known for being an entire continent so the iron continent would work, we are also known for the Outback so the iron outback could also be used. Though looking at the top 10, 7 of them are some form of natural resource making up 59% of the export market so the Natural Continent or Natural Outback would be nice.

[@chrisanderson8889]

The Iron Continent sounds pretty badarse!

[@torgranael]

As a runner up, the name is (very loosely) translated from Southland. The Steak South or the Beefy Below would be amusing.

[@micaldomlancer1494]

@@torgranael According to www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/australias-goods-services-by-top-25-exports-2020-21.pdf the runnet up apart from natural resources is education. Which could make us be called the College Continent, University of Underland or the Southern Tafe Continent

[@sambojinbojin-sam6550]

The Great Steel Lands

[@cementskies3933]

The Iron Desert

[@bepsi6204]

it'll be a bit funny to have the republic of the medicine isle, and northern medicine isle

[@Mnnvint]

I suppose Tax Loophole Island is no good, there are too many other Tax Loophole Islands.

[@bnsrsa]

My country (Chile) would be either named "The Copper Mountains" or "The Copper Coast"

[@0O806tYfOr]

Too bad there's not a single word in English for cordillera . It sounds way cooler than montañas.

[@benjaminprietop]

wena lml

[@o_s-24]

@@0O806tYfOr It could be called Cordillera del Cobre. Or a anglonization like the Cordillary of Copper. Or just Longland

[@hershmysson]

That actually works remarkably well, also kinda like Argentina with Silver? huh

[@ronaldm.7101]

The Copper-Lithium Range Mountains Republic Range mountains es lo más cercano a cordillera 😅

[@renatoe9648]

Lol lets try Peru: the Anchovy highlands (or copper mountains most likely) Japan: Anime islands New Zealand: Sheep islands Arabia: Oil desert Panama: Trade channel Germany: car forest Switzerland: Chocolate mountain / Clock mountain Bolivia: Lithium Lake (Lithium not a coast lol) Korea: Electronics Peninsula Argentina: Barbecue coast

[@nick72486]

Russia: big fuel

[@questionmaker5666]

@@nick72486 Russia: Big Misery

[@nick72486]

@@questionmaker5666 😢

[@whathell6t]

*Japan: Tokusatsu islands

[@Kim_Kardashi-un]

Chile is more suitable for "Copper Mountains"

[@kainingyao7873]

Interesting fact: Brazil was named under a similar naming convention with it being named after the brazilwood tree that was used to make red dye. Argentina was named after silver.

[@gabriellebertrand3054]

It’s actually “Grenada” 🇬🇩 pronounced “Gren-nay-da” it already has the nickname the “Spice Isle”

[@Somebodyherefornow]

grenade'a

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

Hence the seemingly erroneously placed nutmeg thingy on its flag!

[@snomcultist189]

@slovenian empire 💀💀💀 Grenada is not english

[@graffiti9145]

You're literally just making sheet up now

[@LordDim1]

@@kashubian_linguist The official pronunciation according to to the Grenadian government. It’s the pronunciation used for centuries

[@alexparker5127]

USA is tough, it's very large and has a very diverse environment. In addition, it's top export depends on how you categorize things. So the US's top export is gasoline (go figure),but If you bunch things up into categories, then food , beverages, and feed are the top exports with soybeans being the top export in that category and 9 overall. However, America's biggest single exporter is Boeing with all of it's airplanes. So I prepose Boeing's Backyard.

[@iggywhodatwhodat]

sort of adjacent to the spirit of the video but if you wanted to highlight the diversity among the nation's exports, you could rename each state after its biggest export, either alongside renaming the country or instead of it. food for thought lol

[@BirdOnATypwriter]

Apparently my countries (Austria) biggest export is machinery and vehicles and we got a lot of mountains, I would say "Machine Mountains" has a nice ring to it

[@retrodarktrooper6372]

Man, yall mfs get to be Machine Peaks.

[@bigalmou2261]

Also failed painters, but I guess that doesn't export that well, does it?

[@Retroist2024]

@@bigalmou2261 the diplomatic victory of Austria is that they make the world think Mozart was Austrian and Hitler was German.

[@BirdOnATypwriter]

@@bigalmou2261 Is that a joke, cause if it is, Hitler existing is not very funny at all

[@The_Copper_Element_Itself]

​@@bigalmou2261 i mean. It did get pretty far beyond austria so maybe it does export well

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

This is actually helpful since I tend to struggle with naming countries in my writing. Much like actual countries, a lot of mine are named after who/what lives there (Faerie where faeries live, Trolle where trolls live for instance,) or geographic features (Bogden is mostly marshlands as the names implies,) along with a couple named after their founder, ruling dynasty, or some legendary figure. This should add some variety, because I do actually know what a lot of my fictional countries export...

[@Everythingwithonehand]

U.k. could be the Painted Isles. Has a nice ring to it.

[@jordanbloomfield]

Aw, I was hoping Canada would be the Maple Domain or something like that 😂 🇨🇦 🍁

[@helenbaumander3953]

Really, that's mostly Quebec.

[@Retroist2024]

Quebec: the maple river

[@twinboo529]

More like maple dominion

[@agiordano17]

Going with a geographical feature instead of using the alternate related option of a direction lost us the opportunity for "The Golden North," which is, I think, better

[@allanrichardson3135]

Maplestan

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

I think the reason it counts Netherlands for oil is that in the entire Kingdom, Curaçao is counted too. Curaçao is known for its massive oil and gas importance. I had a teacher who worked for O&G for a bit and said that it refined some of the oil from Venezuela. During WW2, it was actually the worlds largest oil refinery and critical to the Allied war effort!

[@Retroist2024]

For allies in WWII most important petroleum producers were US and USSR

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

@@Retroist2024 true, but I'd say it's safe to assume that crude oil was refined there & shipped abroad for the Allied war effort (ofc the US + USSR had oil refineries too)

[@natenae8635]

@@Retroist2024 They joined the war late

[@DustfeatherOfFire]

Other than some of the common industries (cars etc.), Wales exports a lot of steel. We're also known for our mountains and valleys, so perhaps 'The Steel Valleys' :)

[@MuriKakari]

Steel Snowcaps.

[@aaronsirkman8375]

Steel Valleys sounds like some Dwarven country or something.

[@DJKLProductions]

To make it more peotic: The Vale of Steel

[@Retroist2024]

Wales should have 🐏

[@radec1566]

As a region sure, but its not a country just a state within Britain.

[@TheAlison1456]

Ivory Coast, Petrol Plains, Cheese Lands. Perfect naming convention for a factory automation game.

[@bruzovap]

The Czech Republic is probably best known for its beer (our top export article is cars and machinery, but it's so boring). Geografic feature is complicared. We have a wall of mountains and highlands around our borders, but inner parts are mostly lowlands. So it could be named The Beer Valey. But I'd prefer The Beer Pit. It sounds right to me :o). We also grow and export most of the world's food grade poppy seeds. It would make funny sounding The Poppy Pit.

[@tomasdvorak7307]

Good ideas there. 👌🏻 How about Beer Bowl?

[@MZTYT]

Please do pt. 2!! Love this!

[@Abraxium]

Jokes on you, Sweden already has a historic region in this naming system. Järnbäraland - Iron-bearing-land

[@AtarahDerek]

Canada's most notable feature is its latitude. We (North America at large) call it the Great White North. So calling it the Gold North would make the most sense. Not sure what the US's largest export is, but the geographical feature I would name us after is a supervolcano. The US has more active supervolcanoes than any other country, and they are responsible for our fertile prairies. So we would be the Wheat Popper, or something like that. The Gluten Time Bomb. I don't know. Edit: We would be the Fossil Fuel Exploders. Or the Volatile Mountains of a Variety of Gas. Vomovog for short.

[@kencube86]

My hometown Hong Kong (香港) literally means Incense Harbour. Hong Kong used to have a lot of agarwood. People used agarwood to make incense (香) and export them to South East Asia and Middle East through the deep harbour (港). Hence the name Hong Kong (香港).

[@IONATVS]

The US would probably have been the Tobacco Coast in its earliest days, Cotton Swamps, Coal Mountains, Whale Oil Coast, or Oil Plains if named later in the 19th or early 20th centuries and something related to staple foods (The Corn Plains?) or Arms exports (The Missile Coast?) if named today.

[@nicolasrenaud6875]

For Canada, if you keep the gold export idea, it would be cleverer to call the country "The Golden Shield"

[@helenbaumander3953]

I imagine if he'd had more time for research, he might have found that, but he was doing 11 countries, so he had his limits.

[@pikatheminecrafter]

I love how the thumbnail could be interpreted such that Ireland's main export is ire.

[@spadesytells]

Canada’s geography is very diverse and unique, however one thing that our country’s geography has in common is being up North, so I think that a more appropriate name for Canada in this style would be the “Golden North”

[@witthyhumpleton3514]

Imagine going from he Emerald Isle to bloody Medicine Island.

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

If I remember right, Mozambique is the only country to have all the vowels (100% agreed upon, sorry Y) in its name! So it’s unique in that sense

[@davidmoore1253]

The Vowel Coast

[@davidebacchi9030]

It doesn’t (at least in Italian) > Mozambico lacks the ‘U’.

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

@@davidebacchi9030 and the "E" as well it seems

[@PauxloE]

The u and e in this name don't really work as vowels, though.

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

@@PauxloE wdym? A, E, I, O, U are the 5 agreed upon, 100% of the time vowels, why wouldn't they work here?

[@Infixfun]

As a colony, Canada would have been named back when its major exports were cod and furs. So the Cod Coast or Fur Forests seem more likely.

[@nitsguy]

I'm from Vancouver and surrounded by mountains, but even so, Canada is so diverse and sparsely populated, my name for Canada would be the Golden Wilds! Also, would the rest of the UK be okay with being named the Scotch Isles?? That gets my vote! lol

[@jordanbloomfield]

Yes it’s hard to lump Canada into one geographic feature. I thought of “Maple Domain” lol. Ps, hey neighbour! I’m from Victoria ⛴️

[@New_Wave_Nancy]

I live in the US and thought a great name for Canada would be The Golden North.

[@sophiepomerleau708]

Canada : the bilingual mess 😂

[@helenbaumander3953]

I was wondering how he would handle Canada. Wilds does make sense.

[@brianedwards7142]

Ginland.

[@vladutcornel]

The Engine Forest. Romania exports vehicle parts. It doesn't have a major geographical feature. There's the Carpathian Mountains, but also quite a lot of planes. One feature you can find a lot of, maybe not fully a "geographical" one, are forests. Growing up, I thought every village was required to have a forest.

[@neathizar9743]

For the US I was thinking Propane Plains or Diesel River so it's something other than oil and not based on mountains since most of our easy transport comes from Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio River valleys that cover ~1/2 of the country

[@randomdumbarse1music]

Tasmania, despite being a state & not it's own country, is already nicknamed "The Apple Isle" for the amount of them we grow down here, so that's something, but as for the whole of Australia, the biggest export seems to be iron ore so we'd end up being called "the Iron Islands" It's all very Game of Thrones lol

[@fanassy9109]

Portugal's most famous export is perhaps Cork, so we could say that Portugal is the Cork Coast

[@meetaverma8372]

Corkland

[@carrigadaashcroft]

The Cork coast exists already! I live there, it's in the south of medicine island

[@yoo571]

One of the mejor exports from my country (Argentina) is maze, and it has a lot of grasslands, so it would be the "maze grasslands" or in Spanish "pasturas de maíz/choclo"

[@CallunaNightWolf]

I would love more silly videos like this. Perhaps if nations were named by a famous person associated with it - for those this is not already the case.

[@DJKLProductions]

Germany and Austria start to shiver...

[@mgsp5871]

@@DJKLProductions no problem here; more people are familiar with Mozart then with the other one

[@alexanderm.635]

Georgia: Stalinland

[@zeroyuki92]

Indonesia is quite straight forward. The biggest palm oil producer and the biggest archipelago, so Palm Archipelago it is.

[@ogdalovshka3457]

Love your channel ❤️

[@japanpanda2179]

Surprised no one here is mentioning Sierra Leone. Its name literally means "lion mountains", which is basically the same pattern as "ivory coast" since it's mountains and they assumably hunted lions there.

[@rienksjoerdsma]

I would prefer to use delta for the Netherlands because of the various branches of the river Rhine that meet the North Sea. The Flower Delta sounds quite nice.

[@SwizzyExtraz]

Tree jungle, sea swamp, oil desert, kiwi island, ice mountain and cheese mountains

[@AhimtarHoN]

Big props for not butchering Slovakia's top TV channel pronunciation. FYI "Jednotka" basically means "number one" and yes, it is the main channel here in Television Mountains!

[@barrydheil]

For Canada, I would've gone with one of our features, and called ourselves The Mineral Shield, as we are known for several major mining industries, including gold, copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel, and Graphite. Lithium will likely become a large export of ours, as companies begin transitioning away from the african lithium and cobalt mines.

[@modmaker7617]

Ivory Coast is called in Polish; "Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej" meaning "Elephant Bone Coast" as ivory is actually elephant bones.

[@nehcooahnait7827]

Ivory is teeth 🦷, not bones. They are not the same.

[@modmaker7617]

@@nehcooahnait7827 Well teeth are technically bones. IDK

[@goatgamer001]

It's called something similar to Ivory coast in many languages

[@Chordat3]

@@nehcooahnait7827 but they're part of skeleton. Prolly elephant skeleton is more suitable

[@meetaverma8372]

​@@nehcooahnait7827 I was gonna say that. I asked my teacher a Question about the two being same, I was surprised they are not

[@curtgozaydin922]

Hey, I thought I would offer you a suggestion for my country the United States. Now the US is such a huge country with so many different geographic features from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains to the wonderful low-lying coasts of you know maybe the Carolinas and Georgia and Florida, but it is dominated in its center by the Great Plains. Now looking up the exports of the US of course oil petroleum products are high on the list, but about fourth down the list are civilian aircraft parts (!) so guess what, I think our country should be called “The Aero Plains”! 😊

[@elliothennessy8360]

I love that some objects got their names in reverse. Like china and ottomans. Anyone got any more?

[@johanoskarsson8209]

Sweden could be THE IRON COAST, which is insanely badass and I wanna switch names to that right now.

[@airconditionedBreeze]

Why would it be the iron coast? Are you thinking about when Sweden gave iron to the Nazis?

[@johanoskarsson8209]

​@@airconditionedBreeze Sold, not gave. Also, Sweden's been a huge iron exporter for a long time. It produces like 90% of the iron ore in the EU. The iron mines are so important that the LKAB mining company is literally paying to move an entire city in the north of Sweden (Kiruna) to a different spot because there's iron enough under the city to justify the costs. So yeah, if we go by the "Ivory Coast" logic, "The Iron Coast" makes plenty of sense.

[@sebestyenhriczu9510]

Hungary is the Paprika Plains. Although the top 3 exports in 2021 were electrical products, vehicles, machines and nuclear reactors. So a more fitting name could be the Machine Basin or Mech Basin, as the country is located in the Carpathian Basin.

[@random-pe9mh]

If Indonesia is named in the style of Ivory Coast, Indonesia would still be called the Spice Islands (Indonesia is the number one exporter of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, mace, cardamom) just like in the era of colonialism. If you named it by today's top export, it would be called Palm Oil Islands/ Archipelago. But in some sources, palm oil is actually dethroned and replaced by coal in 2022, so Indonesia would be called Coal Islands/ Archipelago. Bonus: Indonesia would also be named Coconut Islands/ Archipelago since it is also the number one agricultural exports alongside spices.

[@rateeightx]

Norway's most notable geographical feature is probably the many Fjords around the nation. Their top export is Oil, From what I can tell, But since that's also the top export of some other countries, I propose we look at their secondary export, Fish. With that, I then propose the new name of The Fishy Fjords.

[@leserb9228]

According to the OEC website, Serbias biggest export is actually Industrial Wires.... And the most important geographical feature are the mountains.... So Serbia would be called "Industrial Wire Mountains" or just "Wire Mountains" Or if we go by the second biggest export, Corn, it would be "Corn Mountains"

[@alfkristianrh]

Country: Norway Export: Fuels/electricity/fish Geographical features: Coast/fjords/mountains New name(s): (1) The Fuel Coast/The Fuel Fjords/The Fuel Mountains (2) The Electric Coast/The Electric Fjords/The Electric Mountains (3) The Fish Coast/The Fish Fjords/The Fish Mountains

[@ForkLefts]

The electric coast/fjords sounds pretty damn good

[@airconditionedBreeze]

The Ivory Coast in Swedish translates to Elfbenskusten, which rougly translates it literally into The Elephant Bone Coast

[@MsPymParticles]

I believe the nation of Grenada is spelled like this, rather than Granada as used in the video. Great video regardless!

[@Syria_Free_Palestine_will_too]

I believe the nation is spelled as in the video: Granada and the city in Spain is spelled as you said: Grenada. I'm not sure!

[@Wanking_wanker]

Imagine trying to get tourist to come to your country named “the slave coast” now “the Gold Coast” on the other hand….

[@alexross1816]

"The Swiss are the number one exporter of blood" Oh God... BLOOD MOUNTAINS?!

[@bioLarzen]

Fun :) (One note: the island county's name is "Grenada". Granada is a Spanish city.)

[@kristophersurma6459]

Ok so I’m doing my State because the US would just be another Oil “region”. So for Indiana there are three names I’ve come up with 1) the Plane Plains (we are a rather flat state, though not the flattest) and Airplanes are one of our top ten exports. We could also go with the Transport hills (Southern Indiana is rather hilly) and finally the Medicine coast/lake (we are one of four states to boarder Lake Michigan.

[@Retroist2024]

Carplain

[@kaiden7063]

i live down in the knobs in kentuckiana, weird to think of indiana as flat

[@kristophersurma6459]

@@kaiden7063 Indiana’s highest point is Hoosier hill only about 1257 ft above sea level. Again definitely not the flattest but still pretty flat compared to many other states.

[@kaiden7063]

@@kristophersurma6459 definitely a flat state, I'm just in a very hilly part so I don't think about it

[@voidFelinoid]

I feel like with Canada, it would make most sense to name it after its biggest import from the time it was colonized, beaver furs, similar to how Ivory Coast was named. Something like Mount Beaver or the Pelt Mountains. Bonus points: Maple Mountains

[@Psyk60]

So if Switzerland exports a lot of blood, and it's a mountainous country, maybe it could be called "The Blood Mountains". Such a metal name.

[@blob7963]

Australia's largest export is Iron. And depending on who you ask, it is the world's only Continental Country This means Australia is the Great Metal Continent

[@junofall]

Rather than Cheeseland for the Netherlands, I think Bloomland / Blumeland would be nice, playing into the flowers.

[@Retroist2024]

Tulip lowland

[@hamaczech13]

Floral lowlands

[@TheLegend2T]

As someone who lives in Cape Cod, I really enjoy this kind of naming scheme

[@nirutivan9811]

Well for my country the top export is Gold and the most prominent geographic feature are the Mountains. So like Canada it could be the Gold Mountains. Alternative names would be Medicine Mountains or (a bit more unique) the Watch Mountains.

[@frostykyogre]

I think other candidates for Canada could reference "The Great White North" but sub out gold for "The Great Gold North". Or to play up the vastness: "The Golden Expanse", which could also refer to the grain production of the prairies, while being vague enough it doesn't exclude the Canadian Shield and Rockies.

[@goraningesson3938]

I feel like you should do this But with the countries largest historical export

[@potassium1311]

Portugal - The cork coast (they aren't the largest export, but portugal is the largest exporter of them)

[@crushermach3263]

I wonder what it'd look like if you used a different metric than "exports by value". Exports by volume or products made and consumed seem like they'd be more interesting.

[@FoggyD]

Neat idea for a vid! I've said "The Ivory Coast" on national TV before. Saw the thumbnail and thought maybe Patrick was referring to whiskey as medicine! Pretty sure I walked past the headquarters of the Slovak public service broadcaster some years back.

[@dolevlitvin8904]

More videos of this premise please!

[@manuelviellieber4763]

I think Argentina would also count under the premise of the Ivory Coast. It’s Name is literally derived from the Latin word for Silver: "Argentum". There is in fact also the "Rio de la Plata" in Argentina, translating to silver river.

[@jbejaran]

Living in the U.S., the "export" could be a ton of different things. Plus, the U.S. is almost continent sized. (So, is Canada which could have been called the Golden Continent.) We could be the Silicon Continent (for technology), or the Wheat Lands (or corn, or any number of other crops as well). Or, we could be the Entertainment Continent. So many to choose from...

[@nehcooahnait7827]

The United States of War, or the Warring States of Murica.

[@nehcooahnait7827]

Or Porkland

[@Oujouj426]

Your top export is fuel products, like the Netherlands and Oman.

[@OnlyGrafting]

The Oil Wastes

[@bananatassium7009]

I'd be interested to see a list of top exports (or realistically top products even if most of the item is consumed domestically but thats besides the point) but weighted against the most common exports - for example, obviously a lot of countries' top exports would be fossil fuels, but that gets a reduced weight since its so common. Would be a very cool way to see what each country's specialty/obession is

[@Sienrel]

I live in The Nurse Islands

[@OGrandomunknownperson]

phillipines

[@robertmiller9735]

Yeah, that one's obvious, I worked many years in nursing homes.😊

[@Mnnvint]

Sailor Islands and Au Pair Islands too, maybe? Ireland used to say its saddest export was its people, but they've got nothing on the Philippines. Though if we go by historical exports, I guess "Desperate Farmers Island" is a cute name for Ireland.

[@OGrandomunknownperson]

@@Mnnvint per capita Ireland lost way more, otherwise it would be india anyway not phillipines

[@thejellykinz]

I'm saddened that you didn't call Canada "the great gold cold"

[@west8715]

This is definitely an interesting idea

[@theanonymousmrgrape5911]

The traditional Japanese name for the USA literally meant rice country, which isn’t terribly inaccurate considering the US is a prolific rice exporter globally, but that name had more to do with the very strict nature of the Japanese writing system at the time.

[@krickfizz]

Hmm, interesting... According to the Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Buro of Statistics), Germany's main export is cars, followed by machines. As for geographical features, we have a lot of variety, but I'd personally go with River, since we got plenty of those. Since cars are themselves a kind of machine Germany would be "Machine Rivers"... ...although, coming to think of it, we also are pretty much dab smack in the middle of the continent. So... "Machine Central" maybe^^? :D

[@christopherstokes9393]

For the UK: we export a lot of TV shows, and Granada was one of our main TV stations... so, following the logic of your Slovakian suggestion, perhaps "Granada Islands"?

[@kevinrwhooley9439]

Ireland is an island nation on the complete opposite end of Eurasia from Japan, so i'm surprised no one has called it "the land of the setting sun".

[@MuriKakari]

Japan historically used that as a subtle insult for China I heard.

[@padraigpearse1551]

It cant set if it never appears

[@JesseKuiper]

"The sun may rise in the east, at least it's settled in the final location". Oh wait that song is about California.

[@burner555]

The title is already taken by Morocco

[@iggywhodatwhodat]

if i remember correctly, one of the theories behind ethiopia's name was it is possibly derived from an amharic word meaning "incense" which at one time was its biggest export (i don't actually know if that's the country's true etymology but i thought it was worth a mention). today's version could be something like "the coffee highlands"; coffee is a billion-dollar industry there, and despite its vast geo-diversity i am of the opinion that the highlands are its most prominent feature

[@ecurewitz]

I would have called Canada 'Maple Syrup Fields'

[@somedudethatripsplanetinha4221]

Switzerland being _the blood mountains:_

[@generalZee]

Argentina is named after the spanish word for silver which Argentina has in abundance.

[@Aciek25]

You meant Silver Plains?

[@danielroca9547]

Not Spanish, but Latin. And it's not abundant in Argentina. So you've got it all wrong

[@Mnnvint]

Based on the same naming convention, Peru could be Cuprinia, Mexico could be Aurumia, Brazil could be Aluminia... and Bolivia just has to be Lithumania.

[@TheSkullPanda]

Argentina is literally the "land of silver" Cyprus may also derive its name from Copper, or Cypress trees. Brunei may have once had another name relating to "island of camphor"

[@Jan_Koopman]

Japan, AKA the Anime Islands

[@KustikTheSilly]

'Bloody Mountains' for Switzerland sure sounds fun

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Brazil is named after brazil-wood!

[@HenrySchach]

I was thinking about countries like Deutschland (Germany) and বাংলাদেশ (Bangladesh) that they are named after the language which is spoken there, followed by its word for country: 🇩🇪 Deutsch (German) - land (country) 🇧🇩 বাংলা (Bangla, Bengali) - দেশ (desh, country)