Israel: Palestine isn’t a country.
US: it’s a village in Ohio.
Edit
Marvel: Batman is a hero.
Turkiye: It’s a city.
Edit2: i can’t believe no one caught my mistake of saying marvel instead of DC. Imma leave it there.
I work for the federal government and had a coworker get incredulous I over the phone because she didn’t believe Georgia was a country. She eventually quit before she was fired but people get real ignorant when it comes to things outside of their immediate sphere.
I still remember when Russia invades Georgia was a headline and how confused Americans where.
What’s the actual name of Georgia the country? Like how we call Turkiye Turkey, or Nippon Japan.
საქართველო, apparently
Sakartvelo if romanized. There is a page about them all.
sakartwelo
Fwiw the word you were looking for was “endonym”, as opposed to the exonym of Georgia.
Ray Charles: It’s on my mind
Pluto is a planet
But why not :(
Georgia is a state. A sovereign state
Only English, Spanish or Italian speaking Europeans
I didn’t realize Europeans were so pro-Georgian independence
Well, of course. There hasn’t been a legitimate question on that point since 1991.
Oh this was satirical, I meant the US state
But I don’t wanna secede, though! : (
(I’m in GA, US.)
Por que no los dos?
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Well there IS a country in Europe called Georgia, located in Eastern Europe and West Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region. In America the people of Georgia ACT like it’s its own country, but it ain’t. But then again people here in Utah act like our state is actually the whole world, so…