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Geographic Surnames

	Title	Place
Can you identify a location by its colorful name? Click here to flip columns.
36.	Mother of presidents of the USA	Virginia. Eight U.S. presidents were born in Virginia.
35.	Land of Eagles	Albania
34.	Switzerland of Central America	Costa Rica. Referring to the financial prosperity and peaceful nature
33.	Land of Long White Cloud	New Zealand. In Mâori, New Zealand has come to be known as Aotearoa, which is usually translated into English as The Land of the Long White Cloud.
32.	Land of the blue sky	Mongolia
31.	Land of a Thousand Hills	Rwanda
30.	The Kingdom in the Sky	Lesotho. Due to the fact that Lesotho is high up in the Drakensberg Mountains
29.	The Hermit Kingdom	Korea
28.	The Armpit of Africa	Cameroon. From its location on the 'armpit' between west and central Africa
27.	Bread Basket of Europe	Ukraine. From the rich dark soil and the vast fields of wheat
26.	City of Canals	Venice
25.	Land of Poets	Chile. Due to its two Nobel Prize winners in literature (Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda)
24.	Land of the thunder dragon	Bhutan. Translation of Bhutanese name for the country (Druk Yul)
23.	Land of White Eagle	Poland. The Coat of Arms of Poland consists of a White Eagle on a red shield, and hence the name.
22.	Daughter of the Baltic	Helsinki
21.	Middle East's Switzerland	Lebanon
20.	Rainbow Nation	South Africa. Term coined by Desmond Tutu to describe the multiethnic nature of post-apartheid South Africa, and in very wide use today
19.	Mother-in-law of Europe	Denmark
18.	Land of the Midnight Sun	Finland, Iceland
17.	An island surrounded by land	Paraguay. First used by author Augusto Roa Bastos in reference to both the country's insularity and landlocked geography
16.	Land of the morning calm	Korea
15.	Land of Smiles	Thailand
14.	City on Water	Stockholm. From the motto 'Staden på vattnet'
13.	The Dead Heart of Africa	Chad. From its remoteness and largely desert climate
12.	Golden Peninsula	Thailand
11.	Land of a Thousand Lakes	Finland. Referring to the fact that Finland has over 188,000 lakes
10.	The Cradle of Civilizations	Egypt
9.	Pindorama - from Tupi, "land of palm trees".	Brazil. Almost always used disparagingly, when discussing some backward aspect of the country.
8.	Gateway to Asia/Melting Pot of Asia	Philippines
7.	Land of Silvia Night	Iceland
6.	Crossroads of the Pacific	Honolulu
5.	Friendly Islands	Tonga. The name given by Captain Cook because of the friendly reception he received
4.	The Emerald Isle	Ireland. From the lush green of the Irish landscape
3.	City of Light	Paris
2.	Island of Flying Fish	Barbados
1.	Land of Frost and Fire	Iceland
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