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World map from China, first time I see this projection (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's annoying when English names of countries are significantly different than what the countries call themselves. Besides China = Zhongguo, off the top of my head there's Japan = Nippon and Germany = Deutschland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's a thing in all languages, because not every language has all the sounds of every other language.

For example, in Chinese, Canada is Jianada, America is Meiguo, Brazil is Baxi, England is Yingguo.

My understanding is that Japan has a similar story as the European explorers who first made contact there were Portuguese and couldn't pronounce Nippon correctly.