Not something I thought of a lot when I was back in US since USA is… a pretty bureaucratic name by all means. But I just realized that some countries have really fascinating names in their local language
Like how China names itself Central/Middle country in a very grandiose way (as in, we are the center of the world), or Japan being “land of the rising sun”
Ukraine: Україна [ookraïna] means literally “our land”
It doesn’t. It means “У country”
Oh, look at them. Ok, explain to me how exactly you got “наша країна” out of “Україна”.