Italy Isn't Really Called Italy
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Your commonwealth map looks a bit out of date as Ireland is not in the commonwealth... Nor has it been since 1949 haha
Not to mention the fact that Italy's official name is the Italian Republic, not the Republic of Italy.
And at 4:40, you're forgetting the Principality of Liechtenstein
New Zealand's official name is Aotearoa New Zealand.
Now you should do the official names of countries in their own languages. Like how Japan in Japan is Nihon/Nippon.
It's called Italy but it may not be named them.
Why didn't you call this video "Greece isn't really called Greece"
He already did that video.
eddiemuff03 Republica hellenica
it's Graacerland.
Because is Hell ass of a name :v ok no. Sorry
Greece isnt Greece at all.
* psst * Who's going to be the pedant who tells him Italy's official name is "Italian Republic" not "Republic of Italy"?
WorldNews92 That’s not pedantry, that’s correctness. It’s on the first line of the Wikipedia page that it’s Italian Republic, not like it’s some little-known thing...
It bugged me to no end.
After all that buildup to "this is their real name," he doesn't give us their real name 🙄
In his defense, the FAO website has it wrong. However, from the official coat of arms: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Emblem_of_Italy.svg
@@louismelahn1805 yeah he should've used the CIA World Factbook www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/it.html
Correction: Italy isn't called "The Republic of Italy", it is called "The Italian Republic".
Correction:
Repubblica Italiana
Correction:
The Roman Empire
Correction:
Roman Empire III: the Revenge of the Romans
Mamma mía supermario è italianano
@@giovannipedulla4257 Correction:
Western Byzantium
Isn't Liechtenstein also called "The Principality of Liechtenstein"?
How dare you forget little Liechtenstein ;-;
The principality of Sealand was also left out.
Yeah mate u beat me to it
It's called Fürstentum Liechtenstein (I live 1km from its border). I don't know if that translates to principality.
@@Emil-yd1ge No, Fürstentum would be translated as Principality. Duchy would be Herzogtum, e.g. Großherzogtum Luxemburg = Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
You neglected to use the full official name of your home nation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Yeah, that's like minimal research, he missed out the Russian Federation too.
I just popped in to check someone had mentioned this.
🍌🇬🇧😀
United kingdom of great Britain, northern Ireland and Berwick upon tweed
@@yetigriff and overseas territories and crown dependencies
He forgot about Taiwan, the Official name is the Republic of China.
When you clickbait a title with Italy, then you get Italy wrong.
I thought he was going to talk about how Italian identity is a pretty recent thing and how most Italians actually identify with their specific region (e.g. sicilians, sardinians, tuscans...)
I used to work in a toy store, and one of my managers there was a foreigner, so I asked him "Where are you from?"
and he said "I'm Sicilian."
So yeah, fair duce. No pun intended
I thought he was gonna say it's actually "Italia"
Yea they ask where I'm from and I also say "I'm Sicilian"
this is what Americans do now. They give a state name and im like where tf are u talking about lol
Why did you expect that from a channel called Name Explain?
"Japan" is an exonym, that's why we don't have a long name for it; their actual short name is Nihon, while the long one is Nihon-koku, literally "State of Japan". Greece is a similar case, with "The Hellenic Replublic" making so much more sense when we consider that their own short name for it is actually Hellas.
Facundo Corradini nihon is also an exonym technically.
Wait, isn’t Japan called ‘Dai Nippon Tekoku’ (大日本帝國), literally the Empire of Japan?
@@LodiJP because it is a romanised version? Isn't the hiragana and katakana writing of Nippon and Nihon official, or you actually have to use the Kanji 日本 as you actually have in your screen name?
Tommy Crosby no, because Nihon is a Chinese word. It means land of the rising sun. But Japan is only the land of the rising sun if you are in China.The original Japanese word was Yamato or Wa
オランダ日本JN well but Japanese people have been calling it Nihon for some centuries now, right? It’s not an exonym anymore
Name Explain: There are two principalities
Liechtenstein: Am I a joke to you?
Vyjz yeah I thought of it too lmao
There's also Wales as well
@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 Wales is not an independent country though
@@Vyjz It's a ceremonial title, but it's still a principality though
@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 I know
Small correction on the Swiss Confederation. It's actually called the Helvetic Confederation or more accurately Confederatio Helvetica (CH)
That isn't correction.
In English official name is Swiss Confederation. Latin version (which is "Confoederatio", not "Confederatio" BTW) isn't more correct and neither is its translation.
@@martinsriber7760 yes but Helvetic ≠ Swiss
And both are english.
Also, it is not a true confederacy anymore
@@joelp7665 So? I repeat - official English name is Swiss Confederation. Not Helvetic, Swiss.
@@martinsriber7760 Just though I'd add more facts to what you said for others. I did not disprove nor disaprove your statement.
Swiss comes from Schwyz, a small canton(state) inside Switzerland.
"Repubblica Italiana" or, second best, the "Italian Republic" is it's official name. Not "the Republic of Italy". If you're gonna be pedantic at least get it right!
And then there's the moment you remember that Germany isnt Germany in German, just as Japan isnt Japan in Japanese
Was hoping this video would be about that!
Germany: "WE ARE DEUTSCHLAND!"
UK: "Okay, Germany."
Germany: "NEIN! DEUTSCHLAND!"
Spain: "Okay, Alemania."
Germany: "NEIN!!!"
Russia: "Nyemestkiy."
Germany: "NEIN!!! AND THAT MEANS 'ONE WHO CAN'T SPEAK, YOU VODKA-DRINKING ARSCHLOCHS!!!"
Japan: "Doitsu."
Germany: "NEI...close enough."
Thank you, Brits, for calling Deutsch German and calling Nederlands Dutch.
kuroneko97 probably goes back to the hre times
Nippon
Deutschland
Alternate names for Italy:
Spaghetland
Italia
Mario Party 7
Mafioso Somalia
Tomatosauce Mcnoodle-alia
Discount Rome
Mediterranean Bootstrap
The Unified Kingdom of Italy
No no no
La santa terra dello spaghetto
@@FalB27 ah, ok
The Republic Of The Last Remaining Pisanos of the Roman empire.
Funny Lookin' Spaghetti Noodle
I think maybe
Unified former kingdom of Italy, would be a cool alternative.
Discount Rome xD
"Jordan is special in that it has the name of its ruling family contained in its name" --- literally mentioned Saudi Arabia a couple of seconds earlier
5:41 UK, USA, UEA
I guess we're going for a "United Emirates of Arabia"
aadz93 and the RSF
- Republic State of Francoria
I really like the Swiss’ official name in German: “Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft”. Which I think has a quite different connotation from “Confederation”. Eidgenossenschaft would sorta translate literally to “Group of comrades with an oath”.
So.. Swiss Community?
you could have mentioned the federated states of micronesia at that one part
And also THE Gambia
@@Emil-yd1ge and "the" Bahamas too.
But that's weird when you think in other languages. In Portuguese nearly all country names required specific gendered articles.
Or the United States of Indonesia, as opposed to the United States, which is a short name for the United States of America.
stop that's not the point
*Pastafarians have left the chat* \ #FSM
Canada is what we are registered with at the UN currently.
"Dominion of Canada is the country’s formal title, though it is rarely used."
😂🤣😂🤣 sorry but it's funny
Canada was a Dominion while under colonial rule. After independence it stopped being one and became a confederation.
@@blackoak4978
Canada
>Independent
>Still recognizes Elizabeth II as Queen
CHOOSE ONE!
@@blackoak4978 um no. Your wrong. We became a dominion in 1867. Under the British North American Act. I just re read it to double check.
@@blackoak4978 only partly correct the articles of confederation label Canada's formal name as "The Dominion of Canada" so yea we stopped being a dominion of Britain and became a dominion of ourselves?
I'm Italian and you clickbaited the hell out of me
Same
Same
Idem
;)
I like the Most Serene Republic of San Marino.
I'ts not an official name tho
Maybe "San Marco". Anyway yes, That's right
Sounds like something straight out of EU4
Lets restore the Respublica Venetiarum!
@@TheManinBlack9054 I visited the country myself and I can assure you 1000% that the Sammarinese official name is "La Serenissima Republica di San Marino", which in English it simply translates to "The most Serene Republic of Saint Marino".
04:48 You missed the Principality of Liechtenstein.
The official name of Switzerland is the Latin form of Swiss Confederation, Confoederatio Helvetica. That's why our abbreviation for money, urls etc. contains CH
Since so many times word "republic" was said, here's fun fact:
In Polish there's a word "Rzeczpospolita" (rzecz - thing, pospolita - common) which basically means "Republic", but is only used for Poland, and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth* (Which in Polish is called "Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów" - Republic of Both Nations), hence there's "Republika Czeska" for Czechia, not "Rzeczpospolita Czeska" in Polish for example.
*Also for Free City of Kraków ("Rzeczpospolita Krakowska") and short lived Republic of Zakopane ("Rzeczpospolita Zakopiańska").
Nobody:
Not a single republic:
Poland: Rzeczpospolita Polska
@@kacperwoch4368
nobody:
not a single soul:
poland: szczszczszczszczszczszczszczcin
Is this Polish Rzecz related to the German Reich? And is pospolita related to polite, politics, police, policy, Greek polis? (Or should that be polos?)
@@rodschmidt8952 'Pospolita' is related to the word 'społem' which means 'together'. They may be related in broader sence, as all 3 languages you mention share a distant common origin. So they may be just as related as Polish Woda and German Wasser.
@@rodschmidt8952 It comes from latin rather
Canada has never officially dropped the name “The Dominion of Canada”.
New Zealand is also officially Aotearoa New Zealand.
AholeAtheist no it isn’t it’s the dominion of New Zealand
Before I watch the video: Hundred percent this is like "yEa iTS nOT itALy itS rEepuBLiC oF iTAly".
Edit: I saw 1:22, I knew it!!!!! CLICKBAIT but not really.
Edit 2: Yea and it is also not Great Britain/UK/England. It is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
i saw CGPGrey video about the Difference between Britania/United Kingdam/England/The British Monarch and Commonwelth and i still get confused (except for England, it's that part Scotish, welsh and Irish people hate being called being from)
And it isn't even true. The official name is "The Italian Republic". There is no Republic of Italy.
Ok BoOmEr
I thought you were going to go into endonyms and exonyms… or at least mention them… but nope.
He's done another video on that
Regular People: Taiwan
Me as an intellectual: *Republic of China*
7:01 - “...Name Explain which is officially called the Name Explain Republic...”
Why didn't he mention the "Russian Federation"
it doesn't exist. it's just a fantasy.
@@carultch precisely, but then differently or is it?
I have no clue.
Very strange, because it would be very interesting to learn about the difference between a confederation and a federation in the modern political-administrative sense of these terms.
3:35 I don't want to sound picky, but Uruguay is called The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, because Oriental is a group of people inside the more general Platine/Argentine
I thought Italy was actually named Roman Empire 3: Electric Bogaloo
Roman Empire 3: You talkin' to me?!
Yeah, “Electric Boogaloo” only works for the second entry.
@@lewatoaofair2522 It's my understanding that the Italians don't like to talk about "the second entry"
Isn't bogalloo a Korean food ?
I'm sure you enjoy making your videos and you like sharing interesting stuff but I've had a problem with some of them for quite a while now. It's just badly researched, for example the official name of Italy is "Italian Republic", not "Republic of Italy", it's literally the first sentence of the Wikipedia page. It wouldn't be that big of a problem if the video wasn't *literally* focusing on that and if you didn't go on talking about how France uses the adjective. You also failed to mention the *Principality* of Liechtenstein. Not to mention the blatant clickbait.
I wouldn't be able to tell you what bugged me about some of your other videos, I just don't remember, but I know that I've had the impression that they're poorly documented, and contain a lot of mistakes or inaccuracies.
Well i guess you shouldnt watch anymore videos, problem solved :)
@@juniorverbakel7535 Well no, the problem wouldn't be solved, I just wouldn't be here to see it. I'm saying this because I care and I think he should take it into account, not because I'm hating. Being factual is important when the point of your channel is to *explain* stuff.
8:43 I always thought it was the ”Democratic Republic of the Congo” that was called just ”Congo”.
Nope. the DR Congo was called Zaire for many years.
I wish it was still called Zaire; that was a cool name and now it's confusing with 2 Congos.
You forgot to mention that the full name of the UK is actually the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, while it might not be their official name (though I think it is) it is their full name
5:44
Do we have to pay for the pronunciation expansion for uEA?
I once got cut off in traffic by the king of Belgium
Erm, King of the Belgians, not King of Belgium, if we're being quite correct about it. ;-)
5:45
UAE was pronounced as UEA
TheCheeser The country’s acronym should be EAU because English possessives are backwards of Arabic. In Arabic the name is Al-Emiraat Al-Arab Al-Mutahida(United)
@@IssamHalabi
Actually it's "al-imarat al-ʿarabiyya al-muttahida"
(الإِمارات العَرَبية المُتَّحِدة)
which translates to "The united Arab(ic) Emirates".
The english acronym makes no sence in arabic either way. Arabs instead just say the Emirats/Al-imarat for short.
UEA... it's in the game!
3:33 Technically, it's actually "the Republic East of the Uruguay" (as in, the Uruguay River), but since the adjective usually goes after the noun in Spanish anyway, it's understandable that its official title is often translated this way.
0:36 you missed Trieste on the map there.
I thought it was gonna be about how Italy has such a different name in languages like Hungarian and Polish.
I'm curious, how is it?
@tvrhd2021 thanks
I really like this video, but there is some misinformation.
"United Kingdom" is already the short name. The full name is:
"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
One of the best Name Explain vids yet!!! Thank you
Although New Zealand is New Zealand, we also call the country after the Maori name Aotearoa and it’s heavily used here.
tl;dr: He means the official name, The Republic of Italy.
I just saved you twelve minutes of getting bored by someone thinking they're clever and educational
And the funny thing is, it's not even called the Republic of Italy, it's the Italian Republic
Haven't watched yet, but I'm gonna guess it's something along the lines of "Serenissima Republicca de Italia". 😂😂😂
Edit: Watched through to the end. I was using the wrong language. LoL.
Most Serene Islamic Arab People's Democratic Socialist Oriental Plurinational Turkish Co-operative Pridnestrovian United Hashemite Independent Federative Federated Federal Federation of the Union of Kekistan
I think San Marino is called serenissima 😂
@@realerobin Venice was also popularly referred to as la Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta..
@Name Explain Hold up right there at 8:11
Japan's official name is Nippon/Nihon/Nippon-Koku/Nihon-Koku The first two pretty much get translated to Japan but the second two are roughly translated to State of Japan.
Great video like always!!!
i was literally thinking of italy then this video was uploaded
"Commonwealth" also applies to several American states, such as Virginia and Pennsylvania. So the United States actually has 46 States and 4 commonwealths, not 50 states.
@Oilen Right, but it's how they identify as. If it were reversed and 46 identified as commonwealths you could easily see the country calling itself The United Commonwealths of America.
It's more than just in their name though, it's in their constitutions.
Edit: I should add that while calling them "states" wouldn't be entirely wrong, it wouldn't be entirely right either. "State" is a very broad term, it's just not very precise. It just so happens that it's also used for the very specific usage of how States are in the United States, as well as it's broader sense. You could say Saudi Arabia is a state, and it is, in the way that other nation states are, but calling it a kingdom would be more correct.
There's some other fun ways in which the nomenclature used by states vary from one to other.
Most states have counties, but some states have parishes. One of the most interesting to me though is that Wisconsin doesn't use the term "township" like most states do, instead they use the term "town". And if you're wondering how they differentiate between a town that's a township and a town that's a town, they don't... they don't have towns as most states do. They have villages and cities, their towns are only equivalent to townships.
Dear Name Explain, may I know what is the meaning of Hellenic for you said Greece for the Hellenic Republic of Greece? What kind of nations' administration?
The name of this video is misleading. It's more to "the official names of countries".
Well, I guess you addressed that in the end. But still.
Wow, I got clickbaited, am I the only one who already knew this? :/
The PRINCIPALITY of Liechtenstein: *_sad German noises_*
love this video!
keep up the good work!
LOOOve YOOu
Well, the Chinese translation of Greece (希腊) is actually from the noun form of its official name: Hellas.
Liechtenstein is a principality. So there are 3 principalities left.
The female adjective for argentinian in spanish is "Argentina", the same as the noun, so...
Because the name of the country was originally an adjective
Patreon Saint of Official Country names is probably my favorite one so far.
Fun fact: the eastern republic of uruguay is called that because we are east to the uruguay river
Nobody:
Not a single soul:
Like, for real, no one ever:
Patrick: Italy isn't called Italy.
I thought that you'd said, "This video is sponsored by the rich."
Lucky you.
One of your best videos, i love it
LOL, "Timor Lechte".
Finally, someone noticed that the Portuguese pronounce most of their esses with a 'ch' sound.
Wrong. It's pronounced LESS TEH
Bro please fact check your pronunciations, it doesn’t take much time to look up how you pronounce names
He even said UEA (which is our local university here in Norwich) instead of UAE. Also totally mangled Mauritania.
So many mistakes. Re-upload?
Officially me favorite video...
Very informative... And actually makes sense...
It seems there's a lot of confusion about the official name of some countries. The official names according to their own constitution might not be the same as their official name according to the UN, and that may also be different to the ISO standard. For Italy, some things say the Republic of Italy, and others say the Italian Republic. For the UK, some sources list the United Kingdom as the short name, others say there is no short name.
5:47 “UEA”
Of course "Italy" isn't called "Italy". It's Włochy!
kurwonks
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@MrZapparin It's Italy in Polish, we named it after different tribe than most other nations and it ended up being a bet on a wrong horse.
*Rzeczpospolita Polska: Allow me to introduce myself*
Cool, greetings from the UMS!
Umm... Italy's official name is the "Italian Republic," and Iceland's official name is just Iceland.
Jordan isn't unique in having the dynastic name in the official name: Arabia uses the same format with the Saudi dynasty.
Useful Charts' intro song playing in the background😏
6:20 Well it is called "the Plurinational State of Bolivia" today, but I don't think it will stay that way for long :(
Why didn't you use Greece for your title
Then atleast it would've made more sense
6:30 actually it´s Confoederatio Helvetica
Translate that Latin into English and tell me what you get
@@dresdi Yes it is just the latin translation but the latin version, not the german, frensh, romansh or italian translation is the "main" offical one.
I think they choose the latin one to not prefer one language over another.
Even their ISO 3166 code Is "CH", so I think this a fact worth mention.
@@ohh_mega2042 every single name there was translated - there's no good reason for Switzerland to be an exception
@@dresdi If you think so
@@ohh_mega2042 Another example Egypt is called "Misr" in Arabic ... but the official name employs Egypt in the English translation ... same for many countries in the video
Malta used to be an elective monarchy / elective principality between 1530-1798, the Knights Period (era).
My favorite example of making short names is combing to words in the official name to make a short name. The only example I know is ConFed, a sci-fi example I know but still cool. I used this method when I turned Solar Confederation into SolCon.
In 5:44 you said “UAE” as “UEA” lol
The standards seem to be down. Lots of mistakes and left out a lot of countries
I thought you said “this video is sponsored by the rich” and I didn’t even question it
No matter how boring a topic may be, you always manage to make it seem interesting ;-)
“Tons of countries have ‘republic’ in their official names,”
Even if they’re not actually republican in practice. [Looking at you, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.]
Also, in Latin, it’s pronounced “rehs-poob-lee-kah.”
I mean Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a massive ass misnomer and should actually be called Bat Shit Insane Dictatorship of Northern Korea.
Yeah, it's funny how actual democracies hardly ever feel the need to mention in their name that they're in fact democratic.
I'll have you know that North Korea is every bit as republican as it's democratic.
@@ArkadiBolschek which is to say not at all lol.
@@maximaldinotrap lol indeed.
Nort Korea-Democratic People's Republic of Korea,But is not democratic it is dictatorship,it's not peoples it is in hand of one person,and it is not republic,it is apsolute monarchy with Kim dynasty.
Fun Fact:
Commonwealth is a synonym of Republic, coming from the same words (common, public, wealth, thing), even though THE Commonwealth (of Nations) is not a national entity.
Commonwealth does seem to be treated as more inclusive of 'foreign' lands than Republic, like Empire vs. Kingdom, despite being pretty much the same thing. I.e. it's the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but Republic of Poland, even though in polish both are called Rzeczpospolita (literally Common Thing), and thus ARE synonymous.
One explanation is that since these are "Nation-States" you need different names for the nation and the state. The nation's name of course is the word traditionally used to describe the place and people, which tends to be short. The state's name combined the nation's name with a word to describe how they derive their legitimacy. A representative democracy is going to have the word "republic," a constitutional monarchy will have "Kingdom," etc.
How you gonna talk make this video and not bring up, “The Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace”
Actually, the official name of Italy is "Italian Republic" - "Repubblica Italiana", not "Republic of Italy", which would be "Repubblica d'Italia".
Also, Iceland's official name is just "Iceland" - "Ísland", not "Republic of Iceland", which would be "Lýðveldi Ísland".
Honestly I'm worried about the videos. You didn't even say your country's full name--United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland--UK is only its short name. I think it'd be better if you talked about why does Greece's official name is the "Hellenic" Republic, not the "Greek" Republic. (seriously though I'm curious, why not Greek Republic)
Andrean Romanky Republic State of Francoria it's my official name for the Union of Indochina
The case of Uruguay is rather strange, as it doesn't have a proper name.
"República Oriental del Uruguay" means "Republic at the East of the Uruguay (river)", so it's more a location indicator than a name.
I was really hoping this video would be on countries that call themselves differently than the world does. Examples: Japan calls themselves "Nippon" which means "where the sun begins", or "the sun's origin"; and China calls themselves "the middle kingdom", or "the middle country".
"Italy isnt called Italy" have you forgotten what a name really is? If italy refers to itself in its constitution as Italy, then its name is italy.
This is the final straw, I'm unsubscribing.
#SubscribeToTSeries
Why didn’t you call this video “Why Greece isn’t really called Greece” instead?
Another official name of argentina is "Las provincias unidas del rio de la plata" (The united provinces of the silver river)
Which is the most badass name i ever heard
Also, in more modern laws it's called "Argentine Nation" and the national anthem refers to "United provinces of the south"...
Man.
- Principality and emirate are technically the same thing.
- Brunei and Oman are sultanates. Both of them are rules by a sultan but only Oman has that in its name
- Jordan and Saudi Arabia has the ruling family’s name in the official name
- Italy’s official name is the Italian republic
Im in class notice me for my dedication
UEA? 5:44
Yeah I messed up. I have friends who go to the University of East Anglia so I’m blaming them for getting UEA in my head instead of UAE.
Fun fact, the noun for Argentina is the same as the femenine adjective for being Argentinian in spanish is also Argentina (and "republic" in spanish is a femenine noun) so in Spanish it still has the short name in it technically, despite being used as an adjective
"La República Argentina"
Switzerland may have a 'boring' name in English, but in French, it is called "la confédération helvétique" (hence the .ch for Swiss websites) where "helvétique" is a word that is a synonym of "Swiss" but more preceisely refers to the old Helvet people who inhabited the area before the foundation of the country.
So the situation with Switzerland is to some extent comparable to the Hellenic Republic.