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[–] cmbabul 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both named in honor of Brendan Fraser’s classic performance in the live action adaptation of George of the Jungle (1997).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, weren't they named in honour of George the Curious?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Georgia was, but not Georgia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey buddy, it's pronounced 'Jeorjia'.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Georgia gets double points because it was also known as Iberia for a long tìme, completely unrelated to the peninsula at the opposite end of Europe

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Previously parts of the larger states Czechoslovenia and Yugoslovakia of course

[–] mx_smith 3 points 1 year ago

Niger and Nigeria