What do you think of the official new name for Swaziland?
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July 13th, 2018
It is now called the Kingdom of Eswatini during the 50th Anniversary of that nation’s independence. The UN officially acknowledged the new name change a while ago. I even watched a video about it from a favorite Youtuber of mine.
Fun fact: The name change was partially decided to prevent confusion with Switzerland.
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They can call themselves whatever they want.
And hey, at least the new name does not rhyme with “Naziland.”
So they want to go from a mostly unknown country name to a completely unknown country name. Whatever floats their boat.
Seems like an utter waste of meager resources.
Their country, their choice.
Australia & Austria, Slovakia & Slovenia monitoring the situation.
No problem, it’s just gone back to its original pre colonial name.
I kinda like it, it has a nice ring to it.
Sounds fine to me. They get to choose. I can’t remember the names of all the countries around the world to begin with, let alone the ones that have changed names since my school days when I took world geography.
Probably, the worst is my geographical knowledge of the continent of Africa. I remember getting 100% on that test funny enough. I bet now I could only place 60–70 percent of the countries on that continent. I pay people in Africa every month for the company I work for, I probably should stare at a map a little.
Sounds better than Trumplandia.
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