Japanese/Vocabulary/Countries, languages and nationalities

Languages - 言語
In most cases, the name of a language will be the name of the country where it is spoken with the suffix "". Example: "France/French" becomes "フランス/フランス語". There are exceptions to these and they are so noted in the country names below.

English is spoken in several countries. These are all called except in the case of the United States, the language of which is sometimes referred to as.

Nationalities - 国籍
The nationality of a person from a particular country is generally that of the country appended with ". For example: A Chinese person is " and a Canadian would be カナダ.

East Asia - 東アジア

 * Japan categorizes Mongolia as an East Asian nation (Mongolia is considered a central Asian nation)
 * The Korean peninsula is called 朝鮮半島 (ちょうせんはんとう)

Central Asia - 中央アジア

 * Middle East (Central Asia, West Asia) tables will be fixed later. Some difficulties due to Japan system of categorizing countries.
 * Some Middle Eastern/Central Asian countries are lumped into Europe category as NIS諸国 (Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union)
 * NIS list: (Armenia), (Azerbaijan), (Belarus), (Georgia), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, (Moldova), (Russian Federation), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, (Ukraine), Uzbekistan
 * Resource: &

The United Kingdom - イギリス
The English language is called.

Pacific Nations - 太平洋諸国
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