List of Countries Named After Famous People

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Country Name Person(s) Named After
Armenia Armenak (traditional)
Azerbaijan Atropat
Bermuda Juan de Berm?dez
Bharat (India) Bharata
Bolivia Sim?n Bol?var
Cambodia Kambu Svayambhuva
China Qin Shi Huang
Cocos (Keeling) Islands William Keeling
Colombia Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo in Italian)
Cook Islands Captain James Cook
Dominican Republic Saint Dominic
El Salvador Jesus (literally, The Savior)
Falkland Islands Viscount Falkland
Gibraltar Tariq ibn Ziyad (Jebel Tariq = Tariq's Mountain)
Hellenic Republic (Greece) Hellen
Israel Jacob
Kiribati Thomas Gilbert
Liechtenstein Princely Family of Liechtenstein
Marshall Islands John Marshall
Mauritius Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
Mozambique Musa Mbiki (traditional)
Northern Mariana Islands Marie-Anne of Austria
The Philippines King Phillip II of Spain
Pitcairn Island Robert Pitcairn
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Cecil Rhodes
Saint Barth?lemy Bartholomew the Apostle
Saint Helena Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis Christopher Colombus
Saint Lucia Saint Lucy
Saint Martin Saint Martin of Tours
Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Peter
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent of Saragossa
San Marino Saint Marinus
S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe Saint Thomas
Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Saud
Seychelles Jean Moreau de Sechelles
Solomon Islands Solomon
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands George III of the UK, and the 4th Earl of Sandwich
Swaziland King Mswati II
Tristan da Cunha Trist?o da Cunha
United States of America Disputably Amerigo Vespucci or Richard Amerike
Wallis and Futuna Islands Samuel Wallis

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