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Some countries whose endonyms are not like their English exonyms (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 8 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 14 points 8 months ago

Morocco being “al-Maghrib” is suprising to me, since I know al-Maghrib as the Maghreb region, aka the part of north Africa that speaks Maghreb Arabic (al-Maġrib al-ʿArabī).

Wikipedia says it's المملكة المغربية which is “al-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyah” but I don't know if the map's version is an acceptable shorthand.

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