If you want to find out more about a country name, ... Myanmar, or Burma, has a complicated history for one of the more complimentary translations in this world map – Swift and Strong.

On the map - generated using Google search data - country names have been supplemented with their residents' most-searched-for bucket-list experience.

The predominance of Christian names on the map is telling about European colonialism and Christianity’s influence on world history. Here’s an explanation of each country’s name.

This Funny World Map Shows What Every Country Leads The World In. By Michael B Kelley. 2014-01-10T12:14:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in the shape of ...

In March I wrote about a world map where the country names had been translated to their original literal meanings, as far as anyone could be sure. Language, after all, is a complex and confusing ...