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I am building a multilingual web application with a possibility to change the interface language on the fly. This implies, among many other things, a country name selector on registration/profile forms should be translated too.
So I'm wondering if there is some kind of a centralized resource somewhere on the web for country names in all or many (or some) languages. I need only three of them, and I know most likely I'll end up translating the English names (can be found easily on the web) to the other two languages myself. Which is OK, unless my customers add more languages that I don't speak. And of course there should be some mapping between the names through, say, their 2-letter codes.
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Germany is one of several countries that have completely different names in different languages. In French, Germany is Allemagne; in German, it's Deutschland; in Finnish, it's Saksa; in Danish, it's Tyskland; in Polish, it's Niemcy.
Papua New Guinea, an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, is the most multilingual country on Earth. With just under 9 million people, there are 840 active languages spoken every day!
Sometimes it's simply due to places being referred to by different tribes or groups that once lived there. Germany, for example, is called “Deutschland” in German, which translates to “the land of [our] people.” Its English name comes from a tribe that resided there.
The 55 bilingual countries in the world | Compendium of Language Management in Canada (CLMC) | University of Ottawa.
http://cldr.unicode.org/ - common standard multilanguage database include country list and other localizable data.
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