Sorry, Deutsch people

The Latin root theodiscus is actually just the latinised form of the Old High German thiutisk from Indo-European teuta and means "people". Similarly, Alemanni means "all men". The Saxons were named after their typical sword or fighting knive, the Seax or Sax. It's still discussed where the term "German" originates from.

For good measure, in Arabic, Niemcy (actually “Namsa”) is what we call Austria. Germany is “Almania”, same as in French.

Of course, we have as many curveballs as you could want for European place names. Like Venice. Somehow we ended up with “Al Bunduqiya” for Venice. Have fun with that one.

Just to add one more sidenote: France is of course named after the Franks, a German people who lived next door to the Alemanni and the Saxons.

Any idea about how English came to call it Germany?

Niemcy and Nemetorszag both stem from old slavic “nem” (or something similar) meaning “mute”.

More precisely, the first one is from Proto-Slavic root *něm- ("mute") and suffix *-ьcь ("person with that characteristic"); ě was not quite the same sound as e, so linguists mark it with the haček, just as it is marked in Czech to this day. In modern languages the nationality is called: Ru. nemec, Pol. Niemiec, Cro. Nijemac... But the country itself is called Ru. Germanija (from Latin), Pol. Niemcy (literally plural "Germans"), Cro. Njemačka (actually a feminine adjective, taken from the syntagm "Njemačka zemlja" = "German land").

The Hungarian name is a combination of the Slavic loaned *němьcь > "német" ("German") and "ország" ("land"): Németország.

the “Alemanni” who lived in modern day Germany and bordered modern day france.

Alemans still live in Baden-Württemberg, parts of Bavaria, Switzerland and I think there's also a splattering in Austria. Basically, High Germans which aren't Austro-Bavarian (same culture, different kingdoms) are Alemans.

“Saksa” is derived from the German region “Saxony”.

That one can be a bit misleading: The modern state of Saxony has nothing to do with the Saxon tribe, the place the title was applied to slowly drifted over the ages. They're much more related to Prussians and Thuringians and even Franks, going all the way over to Flanders and Holland, than Saxons proper. (Holland, not Netherlands).

Here's a rough splotch of where Old Saxon was spoken, which you can consider "core Saxony". At least linguistics-wise it spread quite a bit especially during the days of the Hanse (becoming a minority language as far up as Estonia), but it definitely stops before arriving at a place where "goose meat" means "could you please". Utter gibberish.

I'm guessing saksa is more like the others and based on the Saxon people that once lived there rather than the modern region named for the same

thiutisk/ theodisk is from a Germanic/ old high German root meaning "belonging to the people"

As is the root of most self descriptions, the name of a group for themselves means "we" or "the people" or "humans".

Because it's solely an "issue" that exists to stoke nationalistic thought in the populace. It's propaganda

Honestly Sakartvelo sounds so much better than Georgia, everyone should be using that instead. Others are equal in my opinion but Sakartvelo is just great.

They probably just want people to stop confusing their country for a bird.

The exonym doesnt have to be identical to the endonym. Some countries try to align the terms, most countries dont care.

I think the main reason Greece hasnt tried to change its exonym is because Hellas is similar to hell. Still, Norway calls Greece Hellas, mostly in order to show how different they are from Sweden. (H)Ellas is so much better sounding, more airy and refined to my Greek ears. Greece sounds too rough and barbaric.

You could drop the H(it is just there for accent/spirit), using just Ellas and/or use the longer Ellada variant but ultimately Greece doesnt care.

Turkey are just assholes so they decided to use a name that most people cant type. They could have chosen Turkia(which is basically the same thing), kinda like the Czech Republic chose to be Czechia but Turkey is not a normal country.

Yes, it's ridiculous. Different countries have different languages, including the words for other countries. Turkish for England is İngiltere, that's not a problem.

English doesn’t use umlauts,

Oyē, cünt. Yèr âbùt tû.

Could be worse, I know that some Germans who settled in the US got the name Black Germs cause they were from the black forest.

Also the Dutch angle in cinema, named after the expressionist German film of the early 20th cinema (think Nosferatu)

You mean the heiliges römisches Reich deutscher Nation?

It was never Holy Roman Empire.

It was Holy Roman Empire of the German nation.

Tyksland it is! Thank you, @cholesterol.

So it's Tyskland most of the time, and during the reign of Charles III it can be Tyksland

English-speakers used to use it to mean all non-Scandinavian Germanic peoples. When the Netherlanders became a distinctly separate group Britain had way more contact with them than with anyone else that the word used to cover, so we used it to refer to them specifically

Yeah, it's always so confusing

Nobody talks about the Dutch :(

That's nobodie's business but the Turks Danish Netherlands

Also why the Nederlanders are called Dutch by English speakers. Since the Dutch descent from a bunch of Germanic tribes.

Das heilige römische Reich deutscher Nation has entered the chat.

Or English speakers calling München Munich.

Italians call Munich ‘Monaco’

They do what ?

I posted a few European Polandball comics here, I think it fits the mood

Polandball on a world scale might need some heavy moderation due to potential political debates

France puts a lot of effort into evolving the language very specifically to avoid loanwords and the perceived dilution of the language they might create. They have an entire government cultural body responsible for this.

Goes all the way back to at least Proto-Germanic *finnaz for Sami, possibly from "to travel by foot, walk". Not terribly unrealistic given the semi-nomadic lifestyle of Sami, Sami and Suomi might just be the same word via general Uralic relatedness (and sound the same to Germanic ears anyway) also what's now considered Finns was back then a rough assemblage of tribes consisting of multiple Uralic immigration waves known to Swedes as "Forest Finns", as supposed to the herding Finns (ie. nowadays Sami) further north.

Which I guess makes Estonians Swamp Finns (in so far as Finland-Finns aren't claiming that one for themselves with their swamp forests) and Hungarians... Paprika Finns.

Same with Hungary and Greece

Deutschland on the ocean

Japan is Japan everywhere except Japan.

Canada.

suggestions off the top of my head are countries with or near significant colonial influences, eg madagascar and indonesia seem to be pretty similar across the board

although far from comprehensive such is the case of languages listed on wiktionarys translations dropdown on the english entries of the countries at least

the only notable exception i spotted is the navajo name for indonesia apparently being "Kéyah Dah Ndaaʼeełí Łání" which is quite interesting and i dont really have an explanation for that discrepancy (perhaps its pronounced similarly and orthography just isnt idunno) but navajo isnt a national language anywhere anyways so it doesnt really matter for the original question

Without thinking much about it, my guess would be the United States of America.

Edit: my reasoning was that most countries translate USA verbatim to their language, as most replies here demonstrate.

So that's where all these god damn Voke people come from

Same for allemagne

Well, the German people are called "Deutsche" which sounds very similar to doitsu when spoken. And if someone is a German the he is "Deutsch".

Also Finland doesn't sound that wrong, just ancient. One of the larger "Clans" that lived in the area that later was called Germany were the Saxons, in German "Sachsen" which again sounds very similar to Saksa. No idea if that's the actual reason for the word though.

incorrect. It's "Germania". Tedesca / tedesco means "German" (as in a person, or the language)

Greek: Germaniα (Γερμανία)

Funny to meet a Vietnamese speaker here! Is there any Vietnamese-speaking community around?

You're literally calling yourself France too...

Netherlands getting rid of their kings in 1581; England getting rid of their kings in 1649: ...

Sure both went back under constitutional rather than absolute monarchies later, but so did France, and Netherlands and England have gone 229 and 364 years without major revolt (excluding Ireland, but France couldn't claim 150 if they included Algeria)

That's an interesting point. How would you prefer to be called?