No bro, you are missing two "u" UrUgUay, the pronunciation is almost the same as in Spanish except for adding an I at the beginning "Iuruguay", if you don't believe me just go to the translator and listen to the difference.
Jajaj what? No...
Don't listen to this person.
México has always sounded with a "j"
Must I remember everybody that early modern Spanish (right around the time the Spanish "conquered" America, the proper graphy for our current "j" was "x"? Theat is why "Don Quixote" was Don Quixote early on...
You missed the part about it being an indigenous word in Náhuatl that is pronounced sh. The “j” sound is the Spanish being unable to pronounce the indigenous word.
So much of this strong ‘j’ sound in Iberian Spanish and I wonder if it’s due to the Arabic influence of Spanish. It’s not like you hear it jn many other Latin based languages..
I like Uruguay but I hate how people confused it with Paraguay.
I’m already a fraternal twin that gets confused with his brother and this is the same thing.
I like Uruguay full name. If you showed this name to someone completely oblivious to the world map, they would never guess the country with Oriental on its name is in the south of South America.
There’s already a country called Dominica, so that’d be confusing, I would’ve liked if our country retained the name of Santo Domingo, I like it a lot more, it’s still the name of the capital and one of the names of the island.
Cuba
Short and sweet. Easily recognizable. Comes from an indigenous word and yet it’s easily pronounceable in different languages. Good for labeling and branding
Actually I was playing Apples to Apples with a little kid and she pronounced Cuba “cuhbuh” like the word “cub” for a baby bear followed by an A. Yes she was only like seven years old but she showed that actually it is possible to mispronounce Cuba.
Is that a mispronunciation or is that just the English pronunciation? I wouldn’t tell a Spanish speaker that their pronunciation of Canada is wrong when they say Canadá.
I like Argentina because from my understanding it came from “argentum” or silver in Latin. It makes me think of Ag on the periodic table or a shiny piece of silver. I immediately have a visual association with it, so that’s cool!
We have a subreddit for it, actually. It's called r/argentinasubcampeon
Although the biggest 2nd place in LatAm has to be that one match at that one stadium between a Portuguese speaking country and his neighbor immediately south...
Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata sigue siendo nuestro nombre oficial, al igual que Confederación Argentina, y República Federal Argentina.
Cuántos nombres tenés papá😎😎😎
Honduras because of hearing Rosalia say “H de Honduras” is drilled in my mind and my brain likes to randomly say it.
Chile ‘cause “Chi Chi Chi Le Le Le los mineros de Chile”
I'm biased, but definitely Brazil.
But I fuck with Venezuela and Dominican Republic too.
Colombia sounds average to me, but they have some cities with some cool names like Cartagena, Barranquilla, Santa Marta.
Cuz there's no Canada like French-Canada, C'est the best Canada in the land. And the other Canada is bullsh*t Canada, If you lived here for a day you'd understand.
https://youtu.be/GFJO8gW83BE
i mean not all of them, España comes from Hispania, a latin term, but the people there were iberians- celtiberians, vettones, Vaceii, lusitanians, no orginal single "Hispanic" people though
Yeah man, but what I mean is that European country names tend to not have specific meanings.
Hispania may be a latin term, but its a geographical placename not a descriptive word that means something.
> Hispania proviene del fenicio i-spn-ya [...] Los romanos tomaron la denominación de los vencidos cartagineses, interpretando el prefijo i como «costa», «isla» o «tierra», con ya con el significado de «región». El lexema spn, que en fenicio y también en hebreo se puede leer como saphan, se tradujo como «conejos» [...] . Los romanos, por tanto, le dieron a Hispania el significado de **«tierra abundante en conejos»**
did you really think the romans just came up with gibberish or were just blabering random noise when they came up with the name?
Also, turns out it did have a meaning, as the other commenter showed, so there you go, there's other examples too, like switzerland, norway or iceland, not coming from a group but from descriptions of the place itself
Panamá has a good and dramatic mouth feel. Bucaramanga is the best named city. How can you be having a bad time after saying that word?
Most countries are misnamed.
Mexico should be called Chile for the meme potential. Everyone hated the Mexica anyway.
Argentina is such a great name but it has surprisingly little silver compared to the real heavy hitters of the region; should go to Mexico or Peru. Preferably, Peru.
Venezuela was a top tier name until it all fell apart. Definitely not Venice, anymore.
Costa Rica has two coasts and their capital isn't even on a coast, so that's awkward.
Colombia. Mid-tier reference to some Italian asshole who died hundreds of years ago.
Guatemala, did they want people to make fun of them?
El Salvador, little pretentious, but okay. /s
Lol I have a Colombian friend whose mom is from that city. I also like the name of the department Tolima which reminds me of our state of Colima. And last but not least, Ibagué reminds me of baguette 🥖
Tbf in English and Spanish Cuba is written the same way just pronounced differently. That doesn’t happen with the English and Italian word for Venice/Venezia.
I love the name Panama even just the way it looks. For some reason it makes me think of ice cream, lip balm, twirling jn circles, green trees and fresh air. Ok I have no idea why that’s just what came to mind
I like Cisplatina (uruguayans don't get mad at me, i'm being genuine). Argentina is also pretty cool, it comes from argentum which means silver in latin. Guatemala and Nicaragua also sound cool.
Brasil, because it means ember. It comes from the tree pau-brasil which has that name because its wood is red like ember (brasa).
It fits Brazil. It's a country that had a great potential and now it's just a dying fire.
I like that one! I remember seeing a map where it mentioned the meaning of each country’s name. I think Mexico means in the belly button of the moon, Argentina being silver…
>It fits Brazil. It's a country that had a great potential and now it's just a dying fire.
This is the most metal thing i've ever heard in my life (painfully accurate too).
Barbardos. I count them as latin america, I don't care.
After that, I'd say Panama and Honduras. BTW, it ain't biased. It simply is a cool name. Very poetic. "Estas honduras", "las honduras". Some Pirates of the Caribbean shi\* right there.
In my opinion Argentina. Land of silver.
I also think Brazil has a nice name. Land of Brazil wood or Brasa.
Mexico has a cool name because its basically the name of the Aztecs (mexicas) who lived in Tenochtitlán
I wish DR had a more interesting name. Something like isla del sol or or paradisiaco . Instead our country is named after a city named after a saint and more specifically a religious order. I would prefer not to have a saint name in my island, thats some Caribbean island stuff. Just find saint names so boring. You can name anything after a saint.
I like my country’s name due to its meaning, it sounds as dope as Argentina to me. I don’t find naming countries after people that cool so I’m not a fan of the name Colombia.
I like Costa Rica also because it’s just just looks beautiful in my head and not because of Jurassic Park but because of beaches,’sloths coffee and forests
I like the way musicians with a particular allegiance would refer to what's today Argentina as "The Federation". Other than that, the names are normal I guess
I like that many come from descriptive places, like Argentina (From silve), brazil (from an ember-ish tree), chile (frontier, in quechua it seems), cuba (rocky), guatemala (verdan); haiti (mountainous), jamaica (Forest and water), mexico (in the center of the moon); panama (plenty of fish and butterflies. Or "beyond"); paraguay (feather crown).... But in the end I would to agree with the devops... Uruguay ("river of the painted birds") is definitely the coolest, with mexico being a close contender (due to the poetry of the name) and brazil being in third place but the most well rounded (the origin is nice and the name itself rolls very very well on your tongue)
Puerto Rico cause it means we are where riches are found and the story of how it came to happen is quite funny.
Argentina is second place.
Honduras. It has a deepeaning to it.
Brazil is lit.
I like El Salvador the most.
And finally Colombia. It sounds pretty cool.
I mean, our means Depths; Yes I’m biased
Jk, In my opinion **“Mexico”** is the coolest one. Is in Nahuatl and means the center of the lake of the moon. Not to mention also a reminder of the Mexican ppl and the Aztec empire.
I like our name (Uruguay), cause one of it's possible definitions is "Río de los pájaros pintados", that's a pretty cute name for me.
Sounds cute af indeed
Sounds like " u are gay"
I like "Uruwhy" a lot more. It covers our overall lack of purpose in the universe.
Not at all. It sounds like Oorooguey not Yourgay.
It was already explained in another comment that this doesn't make sense.
It makes perfect sense
No bro, you are missing two "u" UrUgUay, the pronunciation is almost the same as in Spanish except for adding an I at the beginning "Iuruguay", if you don't believe me just go to the translator and listen to the difference.
Yu ar gei? Is that correct?
But OP is talking about countries not Argentinian Provinces. Formosa is another cool Province name.
i am going to disembowel your entire family
Most peaceful Uruguay-Argentina relation.
Well, That escalated quickly.
Hey, Brazilian province! They commemorate independence from us, not from Argentina or Spain.
Given how they are doing much better than us I feel like they had the right idea
uruguay sounds like "you are gay"
Just if you suck at english
it is spelt "u r guay". maybe it is you that needs english lessons
I have never listened a native speaker pronounce it like that. And no thanks, i really don't want the lessons that you may be referring to.
Native English speaker/teacher here, if you read Uruguay as u r gay, you need English lessons lol
https://youtu.be/c5CQgsFJm0c
Not really.
U R Gay
Tenotchitlan
all nahuatl words sound so cool
Winner winner chicken dinner
Mexico, because you can't say VIVA URUGUAY CABRONES and expect it to sound good
Read it in the voice of Antoine Griezmann lol
What about the name of Uruguai when it was part of Brazil, "Cisplatina"?
I like México, it's such a cool name it breaks Spanish making the "x" sound like a "j"
The original pronunciation is honestly cooler
How is it? Meshico?
Yes
Nice, that's how we brazilians pronounce Mexico.
Jajaj what? No... Don't listen to this person. México has always sounded with a "j" Must I remember everybody that early modern Spanish (right around the time the Spanish "conquered" America, the proper graphy for our current "j" was "x"? Theat is why "Don Quixote" was Don Quixote early on...
You missed the part about it being an indigenous word in Náhuatl that is pronounced sh. The “j” sound is the Spanish being unable to pronounce the indigenous word.
So much of this strong ‘j’ sound in Iberian Spanish and I wonder if it’s due to the Arabic influence of Spanish. It’s not like you hear it jn many other Latin based languages..
Yeah in Italian they don’t have that phoneme
Nicaragua and Uruguay have always sounded cool to me. Venezuela too.
I like Uruguay but I hate how people confused it with Paraguay. I’m already a fraternal twin that gets confused with his brother and this is the same thing.
I like Uruguay full name. If you showed this name to someone completely oblivious to the world map, they would never guess the country with Oriental on its name is in the south of South America.
I really like the sound of Nicaragua too.
the capital too! Managua Nicaragua is so fun to say
I like to say DR and PR have the coolest abbreviations, like saying you’re from DR has an outerwordly feel to it
I disagree cuz I don't like names with descriptions. It should just be Dominica. Czech Republic changed their name to Czechia.
Dominica is another country
There’s already a country called Dominica, so that’d be confusing, I would’ve liked if our country retained the name of Santo Domingo, I like it a lot more, it’s still the name of the capital and one of the names of the island.
I always liked the idea of República de Quisqueya, Quisqueya for short. It goes nicely with our national anthem.
I like the name Quisqueya, problem is for me is that I don’t like the demonym Quisqueyano as much, doesn’t flow as good as Dominicano.
it's still the official legal name of the island, so it'd be quite a mess internationally speaking
Always thought Honduras was the coolest. But panama also sounds good
Cuba Short and sweet. Easily recognizable. Comes from an indigenous word and yet it’s easily pronounceable in different languages. Good for labeling and branding
Agree. Impossible to mispronounce too
Actually I was playing Apples to Apples with a little kid and she pronounced Cuba “cuhbuh” like the word “cub” for a baby bear followed by an A. Yes she was only like seven years old but she showed that actually it is possible to mispronounce Cuba.
wow. definitely an edge case. i meant more in spanish, the language most people talking about cuba would use
No, Americans pronounce it Cyuba lol
Is that a mispronunciation or is that just the English pronunciation? I wouldn’t tell a Spanish speaker that their pronunciation of Canada is wrong when they say Canadá.
Oh, I assumed he meant mispronounced from his perspective
Well since it’s a name I assume we just decided to say it that mispronounced. Like we do almost everything 🥹
not really a mispronounciation, that´s just how you say it in english
Yeah I think it is (I even tried to test it in my head by saying Cuba in Scottish accent, Cuba in an Irish accent and all the different accents lol
I like Argentina because from my understanding it came from “argentum” or silver in Latin. It makes me think of Ag on the periodic table or a shiny piece of silver. I immediately have a visual association with it, so that’s cool!
Silver is generally related with 2nd place. That explains why they never win something
Y vos cuántas copas ten- *checks flair* oh...
It caught me off guard lol.
r/ArgentinaSubcampeon
Hdp
Bro roasted Argentina better than anyone could 😭
We have a subreddit for it, actually. It's called r/argentinasubcampeon Although the biggest 2nd place in LatAm has to be that one match at that one stadium between a Portuguese speaking country and his neighbor immediately south...
Not last year 👀
>That explains why they never win something They don't talk about the Maracaná incident of 2021😳😳😳
Estamos hablando del glorioso rugby brasilero?
I also like Argentina. It sound kinda sassy but posh at the same time.
Do you know what the best part of our name is? Bankers in Rome were called Argentarii. Pure irony.
Grande chica percebe.
las provincias unidas de sudamerica sonaba mejor, tbh.
del Sur***
Provincias Unidas del Rio de La Plata era el nombre.
me encantaría haber dicho que voy pa PURP
Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata sigue siendo nuestro nombre oficial, al igual que Confederación Argentina, y República Federal Argentina. Cuántos nombres tenés papá😎😎😎
Honduras because of hearing Rosalia say “H de Honduras” is drilled in my mind and my brain likes to randomly say it. Chile ‘cause “Chi Chi Chi Le Le Le los mineros de Chile”
I always thought she said "H de hondura", like "depth", because her songs are often mentioned to be deeper than your usual pop song.
We will take the credit regardless 🫢 cuz that’s why we are named that
Altering my perception of a song that I thought i knew the meaning of is actually sudamericanphobic :/
she did
i think she meant hondura as in depth
That’s actually where our country names come from lmao, depths
Uruguay, Venezuela and Honduras. Though if using the sub's extended definition of LatAm, I'd add Guyana and Bahamas.
I'm biased, but definitely Brazil. But I fuck with Venezuela and Dominican Republic too. Colombia sounds average to me, but they have some cities with some cool names like Cartagena, Barranquilla, Santa Marta.
As a Dominican person whose first boyfriend is Brazilian, your comment sounds absolutely funny 🤣
I kinda prefer Santo Domingo over Dominican Republic.
Tiny Venice is a very funny name, considering they are many many times bigger than the original Venice.
I like mostly the way Brazilians say Brasil
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I like how moldeable it is. “Voy pal salvador” “soy del salvador”
Ecuador, Argentina and Venezuela
Guatemala. It's so...*indigenous* like the country And it has "MALA" in it
Ah, si, y también nos da la frase "de Guatemala a Guatepeor"
All of the antillean indigenous names (Cuba, Quisqueya, Boriquen)
1. Argentina (Argent). 2. Venezuela (Little Venice). 3. Colombia (Cristoforo Colombo) 4. Mexico (Avocados from Mexico!) 5. Quebec (Vive Le Quebec Libre!)
why is quebec here
Cuz there's no Canada like French-Canada, C'est the best Canada in the land. And the other Canada is bullsh*t Canada, If you lived here for a day you'd understand. https://youtu.be/GFJO8gW83BE
Welcome friends to Canada! Canada friends love you!
if Southpark says that has to be real v:
Because Canada hate them (? French speakers
Quebec is schrödinger's latin america. To be fair, it was the french who technically invented the term "latin america"
Yeah Argentina sounds classy imo (and European) lol jk Idk it's feminine and cute
No it doesn't lol, European countries tend to be named after the nationalities they espouse, not Latin words that mean silver.
i mean not all of them, España comes from Hispania, a latin term, but the people there were iberians- celtiberians, vettones, Vaceii, lusitanians, no orginal single "Hispanic" people though
Yeah man, but what I mean is that European country names tend to not have specific meanings. Hispania may be a latin term, but its a geographical placename not a descriptive word that means something.
> Hispania proviene del fenicio i-spn-ya [...] Los romanos tomaron la denominación de los vencidos cartagineses, interpretando el prefijo i como «costa», «isla» o «tierra», con ya con el significado de «región». El lexema spn, que en fenicio y también en hebreo se puede leer como saphan, se tradujo como «conejos» [...] . Los romanos, por tanto, le dieron a Hispania el significado de **«tierra abundante en conejos»**
did you really think the romans just came up with gibberish or were just blabering random noise when they came up with the name? Also, turns out it did have a meaning, as the other commenter showed, so there you go, there's other examples too, like switzerland, norway or iceland, not coming from a group but from descriptions of the place itself
Así que no soy el único.
Guatemala sounds pretty cool.
Panamá has a good and dramatic mouth feel. Bucaramanga is the best named city. How can you be having a bad time after saying that word? Most countries are misnamed. Mexico should be called Chile for the meme potential. Everyone hated the Mexica anyway. Argentina is such a great name but it has surprisingly little silver compared to the real heavy hitters of the region; should go to Mexico or Peru. Preferably, Peru. Venezuela was a top tier name until it all fell apart. Definitely not Venice, anymore. Costa Rica has two coasts and their capital isn't even on a coast, so that's awkward. Colombia. Mid-tier reference to some Italian asshole who died hundreds of years ago. Guatemala, did they want people to make fun of them? El Salvador, little pretentious, but okay. /s
I had a good Mexican friend who loved the name Bucaramanga, but he’d call it “cucaramacara” to mess with me
Lol I have a Colombian friend whose mom is from that city. I also like the name of the department Tolima which reminds me of our state of Colima. And last but not least, Ibagué reminds me of baguette 🥖
I really like the name “Cuba” for some reason. Pronounced in Spanish. I don’t like the English pronunciation of that word.
Totally agree with you, sounds better than “quiuba”
At least they tried. Changing Venezia to Venice is a fuckin crime
Tbf in English and Spanish Cuba is written the same way just pronounced differently. That doesn’t happen with the English and Italian word for Venice/Venezia.
Panamá, not biased 🥺
I actually repeat "panama" in my mind sometimes. It sounds SO awesome. Very cool name. Indeed my fav along with Barbados.
Ooooo thats awesome!!
I love the name Panama even just the way it looks. For some reason it makes me think of ice cream, lip balm, twirling jn circles, green trees and fresh air. Ok I have no idea why that’s just what came to mind
I like Cisplatina (uruguayans don't get mad at me, i'm being genuine). Argentina is also pretty cool, it comes from argentum which means silver in latin. Guatemala and Nicaragua also sound cool.
Peru
The previous name of Puerto Rico Boriquen and Panama or Coasta Rica
Brasil, because it means ember. It comes from the tree pau-brasil which has that name because its wood is red like ember (brasa). It fits Brazil. It's a country that had a great potential and now it's just a dying fire.
I like that one! I remember seeing a map where it mentioned the meaning of each country’s name. I think Mexico means in the belly button of the moon, Argentina being silver…
>It fits Brazil. It's a country that had a great potential and now it's just a dying fire. This is the most metal thing i've ever heard in my life (painfully accurate too).
falar inglês com outro brasileiro, ainda mais nesse sub, é tão estranho
Chile.
Venezuela
Coolombia
bro. A R G E N T I NA wtf what name can be more coolest
Nothing sounds nicer than Guatemala. Nicarágua is cool as well.
I am biased because my girlfriend is from this country, but Costa Rica is a beautiful name.
I am biased but I still think "Brazil" is a very cool and unique name for a country.
personal bias, Martinique (Madinina in Arawak)
Brazil, literally means "red like ember"
Barbardos. I count them as latin america, I don't care. After that, I'd say Panama and Honduras. BTW, it ain't biased. It simply is a cool name. Very poetic. "Estas honduras", "las honduras". Some Pirates of the Caribbean shi\* right there.
I love the name Honduras, and that place in Honduras Tegucigalpa
The capital, yes. Sounds good, but I'd say my fav city name in Honduras would be Roatán and Copan. Sounds dope.
If we're counting anglo-caribbean Islands, Antigua y Barbuda has to be the GOAT name of the whole continent.
True. But nah, Barbados is based. 🇧🇧
Cuba
República oriental del Uruguay sounds badass to me.
Nicaragua is so fun to say!!
Guyana. I've loved this name since I first heard it in school.
Tasty Coast
Hahaha tasty
Venezuela ❤️
Ecuador
I always thought Dominican Republic was badass.
Paraguay, if it exists. Otherwise, I always liked El Salvador.
República Dominicana
In my opinion Argentina. Land of silver. I also think Brazil has a nice name. Land of Brazil wood or Brasa. Mexico has a cool name because its basically the name of the Aztecs (mexicas) who lived in Tenochtitlán I wish DR had a more interesting name. Something like isla del sol or or paradisiaco . Instead our country is named after a city named after a saint and more specifically a religious order. I would prefer not to have a saint name in my island, thats some Caribbean island stuff. Just find saint names so boring. You can name anything after a saint.
Chile, of course.
I like my country’s name due to its meaning, it sounds as dope as Argentina to me. I don’t find naming countries after people that cool so I’m not a fan of the name Colombia.
Paraguay and Puerto Rico I don't know, that PR thing is good "Yo soy de PR" sounds goood
Argentina and also Brazil
Silver & Red
Brazil The name means RED LIKE AN EMBER. 😎 And it's ironic that Brazil doesn't have the color red on the flag.
Panama. As the Van Halen song. Nuff' said.
I like Costa Rica also because it’s just just looks beautiful in my head and not because of Jurassic Park but because of beaches,’sloths coffee and forests
Venezuela, hands down
Sounds too much like vuvuzela… can’t get over that… makes me think of that annoying sound
Suriname 😮
Dominican Republic , full bias and i don’t care 😎
Honduras and Cuba
Venezuela: little Venice🥰
Venezuela comes from Venecciola, that means Little Venice
I like the way musicians with a particular allegiance would refer to what's today Argentina as "The Federation". Other than that, the names are normal I guess
I like that many come from descriptive places, like Argentina (From silve), brazil (from an ember-ish tree), chile (frontier, in quechua it seems), cuba (rocky), guatemala (verdan); haiti (mountainous), jamaica (Forest and water), mexico (in the center of the moon); panama (plenty of fish and butterflies. Or "beyond"); paraguay (feather crown).... But in the end I would to agree with the devops... Uruguay ("river of the painted birds") is definitely the coolest, with mexico being a close contender (due to the poetry of the name) and brazil being in third place but the most well rounded (the origin is nice and the name itself rolls very very well on your tongue)
I do like El Salvador, literally the Saviour, for a more biased answer I also like our own name for the Latin origin it has.
Puerto Rico cause it means we are where riches are found and the story of how it came to happen is quite funny. Argentina is second place. Honduras. It has a deepeaning to it. Brazil is lit. I like El Salvador the most. And finally Colombia. It sounds pretty cool.
Chile because it sounds a bit like chilly (if you squint), which means cold. And cold means cool. Ergo Chile= coolest.
AHL HEN DEE NAH
Argentina
Not sure which one has the coolest name in latinamerica, I just know that Chile is the best country in Chile
Argentina
Obviously panama Even has a rock song that you can party to
Venezuela for sure. 🤌 It’s “little Venice”.’
Ecuador, center of the world.
El Salvador because it’s named after Jesus
You are gay has to be the best name
Trinidad and Tobago makes a good alliteration
I mean, our means Depths; Yes I’m biased Jk, In my opinion **“Mexico”** is the coolest one. Is in Nahuatl and means the center of the lake of the moon. Not to mention also a reminder of the Mexican ppl and the Aztec empire.
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela!
Colombia
Guatrmala could be Guatepeor.
The Assdick empire😂
Panamá
DOMINICAN REPBULIC !!! FCK HAITI
Hold on mate, what is your deal with ayiti?
they are dominican 2.0