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Chapter 17

Demonyms: Names of Nationalities
[Demonym is a name given to a people or inhabitants of a place.]
Country Demonym* Country Demonym*
Afghanistan Afghan. Costa Rica Costa Rican.
Albania Albanian. Cote d’Ivoire Ivorian.
Algeria Algerian. Croatia Croat or Croatian.
American Samoa American Samoan. Cuba Cuban.
Andorra Andorran. Cyprus Cypriot.
Angola Angolan. Czech Republic Czech.
Anguilla Anguillan. Denmark Dane.
Antigua and Barbuda Antiguan Barbudan. Djibouti Djiboutian.
Argentina Argentine. Dominica Dominican.
Armenia Armenian. Dominican Republic. Dominican.
Aruba Aruban. Ecuador Ecuadorian.
Australia Australian. Egypt Egyptian.
Austria Austrian. El Salvador Salvadoran.
Azerbaijan Azerbaijani. Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinean or Equatoguinean.
The Bahamas Bahamian. Eritrea Eritrean.
Bahrain Bahraini. Estonia Estonian.
Bangladesh Bangladeshi. Ethiopia Ethiopian.
Barbados Barbadian or Bajan. Falkland Islands. Falkland Islander.
Belarus Belarusian. Faroe Islands Faroese (singular and plural).
Belgium Belgian. Fiji Fijian.
Belize Belizean. Finland. Finn.
Benin Beninese (singular and plural). France. Frenchman (men) or Frenchwoman (women).
Bermuda. Bermudian. French Polynesia. French Polynesian.
Bhutan Bhutanese (singular and plural). Gabon Gabonese (singular and plural).
Bolivia Bolivian. The Gambia Gambian.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Georgia Georgian.
Botswana Motswana (singular), Batswana (plural). Germany German.
Brazil Brazilian. Ghana Ghanaian.
British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islander. Gibraltar Gibraltarian.
Brunei Bruneian. Greece Greek.
Bulgaria Bulgarian. Greenland Greenlander.
Burkina Faso Burkinabe (singular and plural). Grenada Grenadian.
Burma (Myanmar[1]) Burmese (singular and plural). Guam Guamanian.
Burundi Burundian. Guatemala Guatemalan.
Cambodia Cambodian. Guernsey Channel Islander.
Cameroon Cameroonian. Guinea Guinean.
Canada Canadian. Guinea-Bissau Guinean.
Cape Verde Cape Verdean. Guyana Guyanese (singular and plural).
Cayman Islands Caymanian. Haiti Haitian.
Central African Republic. Central African. Honduras Honduran.
Chad Chadian. Hong Kong. Chinese/Hong Konger.
Chile Chilean. Hungary Hungarian.
China Chinese (singular and plural). Iceland Icelander.
Christmas Island Christmas Islander. India Indian.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cocos Islander. Indonesia Indonesian.
Colombia Colombian. Iran Iranian.
Comoros Comoran. Iraq Iraqi.
Congo, Democratic Republic of the. Congolese (singular and plural). Ireland Irishman (men), Irishwoman (women),
Congo, Republic of the Congolese (singular and plural). Irish (collective plural).
Cook Islands. Cook Islander. Israel. Israeli.|-
  1. Since 1989 the military authorities in Burma have promoted the name Myanmar as a conventional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the U.S. Government did not adopt the name, which is a derivative of the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw.