List of countries named after people

This is a list of countries named after people.

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Country	Person(s) Named After
Armenia	Armenak (traditional)
Azerbaijan	Atropat
Belize	Peter Wallace (name Hispanicized)
Bermuda	Juan de Bermúdez
Bharat (India)	Bharata
Bolivia	Simon Bolivar
Cambodia	Kambu Svayambhuva
China	Qin Shi Huang
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	William Keeling
Colombia	Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo in Italian)
Cook Islands	Captain James Cook
Dominican Republic	Saint Dominic
El Salvador	Jesus (literally, The Savior)
Falkland Islands	Viscount Falkland
Gibraltar	Tariq ibn-Ziyad (Jebel Tariq = Tariq's Mountain)
Israel	Jacob
Kiribati	Thomas Gilbert
Marshall Islands	John Marshall
Mauritius	Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
Mozambique	Musa Mbiki (traditional)
Northern Mariana Islands	Marie-Anne of Austria
The Philippines	King Phillip II of Spain
Pitcairn Island	Robert Pitcairn
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)	Cecil Rhodes
Saint Helena	Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Christopher
Saint Lucia	Saint Lucy
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Saint Peter
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Vincent of Saragossa
San Marino	Saint Marinus
São Tomé and Príncipe	Saint Thomas
Saudi Arabia	Muhammad bin Saud
Seychelles	Jean Moreau de Sechelles
Solomon Islands	Solomon
Swaziland	King Mswati I
United States of America	Disputably Amerigo Vespucci or Richard Amerike (See Naming of America)
Wallis and Futuna Islands	Samuel Wallis