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India (only has a small part of the Indus River) Ghana (hundreds of miles south of the historic Ghana Empire) Benin (the OG Benin is in Nigeria) Ukraine (Ukraini means borderlands, it’s not a borderland anymore)
How many oxymoronic official country names? UNITED States of America; GREAT Britain; DEMOCRATIC People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea); BURKINA Faso (Incorruptible Fatherland) I’m leaving off the most obvious one, because ppl will love it or hate it
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Anonymous 8w

Bonus: Bhutan’s native name is Druk Yul, meaning land of the dragon. There are no dragons in Bhutan

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