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The City of Light Paris is no stranger to nicknames, 'Lutèce', 'Paname', 'Pantruche' and even 'th ...

The Eternal City The Eternal City is one of the most popular nicknames for Rome for excellent reaso ...

China has several different nicknames for different reasons; the 3 most popular being the Middle Kin ...

Switzerland may be known as the Playground of Europe in part because of its ski and resort destinati ...

Swede (nickname) #sweden ...

It is nicknamed the "Land Down Under" because it is below the equator. Australia is made up of six s ...

Indeed, Sydney is more often called 'The Harbour City' — a tag that doesn't demand a great deal of i ...

Many Thai nicknames are derived from English words. They may be English sounding names (such as 'Ann ...

What nickname did your friends or family members give you that you absolutely hate? Answer ...

within tropical latitude, the general height of the plateau gives Zambia a moderate climate which h ...

The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name for the Chewa people who inhabit the area. The ...

Croatia is often called “the land of a thousand islands” A more accurate nickname might be “the land ...

White Russia The name Rus' is often conflated with its Latin forms Russia and Ruthenia, thus Belaru ...

1/3 of the country is in the Arctic Circle hence the nickname: “Land of the Midnight Sun“. Currently ...

Likewise 'Cockpit of Europe' is the nickname of Belgium, since this is where the largest number of d ...

The country earned the nickname the “Battlefield of Europe” for being a battleground for historic co ...

But once they got going in the name game, monikers fairly cascaded in: Éire, Erin, the Emerald Isle, ...

Poland, “The Land of Fields“, is a very good example. ...

There are many stereotypes about Canada and Canadians that other nationalities get wrong. But when t ...

"Toronto the Good" from its history as a bastion of 19th century Victorian morality and coined by ma ...