Place names in Quelpartian

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*For the names of Quelpart Island, see Names of Quelpart.*

The **Quelpartian language has numerous exonyms of other places,** stemming from its long history of trade and contact with other cultures.

Countries in Asia have names either deriving from Chinese (e.g. the name of China itself is *Cheung Bac*, which is the Quelpartian reading of Mandarin *Zhongguo*) or from the native language of the country in question, though rarely from the name itself (e.g. Hermosa's name is *Hua Dal*, originating from Kavalan *kbaran* meaning "Kavalan"; ancient documents state that this was reinterpreted as a place name due to the locative suffix -an which became -al).

Countries in Europe often have names deriving from Danish (e.g. Sweden's name is *Suai Ya* from Danish *Sverige*), while those in America and Africa have names from English. However, most of these countries' names were calqued into native Quelpartian words by the Academy of the Quelpartian Language in the 1950s to promote the use of the Quelpartian language (e.g. Argentina's name is *SILVER Bac* meaning "silver land").

## East Asia

As mentioned above, East Asia has the most exonyms in Quelpartian. Many of these are natively coined, while others are borrowed from a native language or ultimately derived from an older Chinese name (usually either Old Chinese or Middle Chinese and not modern varieties). The official names of places in Japan (the Republic of Japan and the People's Republic of Japan) were rarely in common use before independence, either being historical names or native creations, and were coined due to anti-Japanese sentiment.

* Quelpart (see Names of Quelpart):
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	+ Sea of Quelpart: ***Sao Dang***, meaning "our sea". From Middle Quelpartian *Saodadeng*, from Old Quelpartian *Saodaden*, from Classical Quelpartian *Saonaten*, equivalent to *sao* "sea" + *naten* "our".
* Chosun and the Jinhyung Peninsula:
	+ The modern country, the historical Chosun dynasty, and the peninsula as a whole are all called ***Chao Re***, from Middle Quelpartian *Chaozie*, from Old Quelpartian *Thiaoze*, from Classical Quelpartian *Tiaosai*, from Old Chinese 朝鮮 /\*t<r>aw [s][a]r/ which supposedly meant "morning calm" and referred to what is now called Gochosun. It is cognate with *Chosun* itself.
	+ The southern part of the peninsula is sometimes called SOMETHING ULTIMATELY DERIVED FROM PENINSULAR JAPONIC
* China:
	+ Yellow Sea: ***Sao Diu Re***, meaning "Sea of Qi". Contracted from *Sao Diu Di Re*, from Middle Quelpartian *Saodiudizie*, from Old Quelpartian *Saoduidize*, from Classical Quelpartian *Saonudizai*, equivalent to *sao* "sea" + *nu* "distal genitive marker" + *Dizai* "Qi". Following the conquest of the State of Qi by the Qin dynasty, many locals and nobles alike fled to the Kingdom of Heidong, which already had good relations with Qi; King \_\_\_\_ made the name, which was already in use, official, and it has stuck ever since.
	+ Gulf of Jili: ***Sao Duai***, meaning "Sea of Yan". From Middle Quelpartian *Saoduhaiŋ*, from Old Quelpartian *Saoduqen*, from Classical Quelpartian *Saonuken*, equivalent to *sao* "sea" + *nu* "distal genitive marker" + *Ken* "Yan". Although the State of Yan was hostile to the State of Qi, the aforementioned King \_\_\_\_ chose that name anyways as there were no other major polities around it.
		- The official name is
		- The historical name is ***Pan Kuai***, an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 本土 *Hondo*, which means "mainland" and was the historical name of Honshu. The pronunciation is from Middle Quelpartian *\*Pankait*, from Old Quelpartian *\*Pankhidak*, from Classical Quelpartian *\*Bankidak*, from Old Chinese /\*C.pˤə[n]ʔ \*tʰˤaʔ/.
		- As a whole, they are

## Southeast Asia

Quelpartian has many exonyms of places in Southeast Asia due to historical trade links such as the Maritime Jade Road and later the BLAH. They are usually derived from a word in a country's native language aside from the name of the country itself.

## Europe

Many place names in Europe come from either Portuguese or Danish.

* Italy: ***Raⁿ Mo***, presumably from Italian *veniamo dall'Italia* "we come from Italy". Lee Keuan-De supposedly wanted to replace this with *I Ta Lia Bak* from Italian *Italia* (plus *bak*) but the Academy of the Quelpartian Language rejected it due to it being too similar to *Italy*.

* Malaysia