Guess the Country

[Delfos]

those magazines that talk about VIPs and people that became important recently by appearing at the TV..or just weird teenaging gossips about sex

[St Oz]

Portugal?

[FeherTigris]

Should be The Netherlands (you know The Netherlands had VERY high mountains but then the Dutch come and make it Netherlands  )

[Delfos]

feher trigis, yeap, aka Holland. you'r turn.

[FeherTigris]

let it be this.
this country is named after a different nation.

[tak]

let it be this.
this country is named after a different nation.

Belarus?

[FeherTigris]

I mean the world has given a name for the country which is actually wrong because the name is after a different nation. Belarus is named after themselves (they call themselves belo russia). so my question is not a poitical or ethnical quiz. it is just the naming you have to look at.

[tak]

I'm not sure if this is the one you are thinking of, but Burma fits in the criteria

[FeherTigris]

They call themselves Myanmar now but to tell the truth I don't know. Please explain: which nation is 'burmian'? And which nation lives there instead?

[tak]

Burmese is actually a minority group living between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
That was the reason why they changed the country name to Myanmar.

Another guess: Macedonia?

[Daimiaen]

Eire....which is called Ireland???

[FeherTigris]

Sorry, I have limited knowledge of Macedonian history but if I am right Macedonia existed already in the ancient times (Alexander the Great) using this name and still the people call themselves Macedonian (no Greeks). (If you think of FYROM it is again political and definitely out of scope here)
Just to be more exact: NO minority issue, NO one nation-two countries issue (not Austria), NO two nations-one country issue (so no Tibet). There are two separate, 'sovereign', 'majority' nations with no links. And the country of the second nation is named by the world after the first.

(what is the majority nation in Myanmar?)

[tak]

Sorry, I have limited knowledge of Macedonian history but if I am right Macedonia existed already in the ancient times (Alexander the Great) using this name and still the people call themselves Macedonian (no Greeks). (If you think of FYROM it is again political and definitely out of scope here)
Just to be more exact: NO minority issue, NO one nation-two countries issue (not Austria), NO two nations-one country issue (so no Tibet). There are two separate, 'sovereign', 'majority' nations with no links. And the country of the second nation is named by the world after the first.

(what is the majority nation in Myanmar?)

The whatever republic of congo which was once called Zaire?

[FeherTigris]

Ireland: well, many countries have different names locally. E.g. Finland is Soumi, Germany is Deutschland. But they just identify the same nation. Even if Deutsch is just part of the German tribes nobody would deny in Germany that they are the heirs of Germans. Same for Celts and Ireland. (but please I am not a professor of history so I am open for corrections)

So - not a translation issue. Think of sg. like: you name us Squareland - well actually we are Circles and not Squares.

[FeherTigris]

Congo does not contain a name of a nation (or majority tribe) (If I am correct). Moreover there is another Congo -> one nation two countries.
It is not tricky even if it is not well-known.