List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names
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The following is a partial list of adjectival forms of place names in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these places.
Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms refer also to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. (Sometimes, the use of one or more additional words is optional.) Notable examples are cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds. (See List of words derived from toponyms.)
Planets
Continents
Entries in italics are continental regions (taking as reference the seven continents model).
Subcontinental regions
Countries and nations
States, provinces, regions and territories
Australian states and territories
Brazilian states
Canadian provinces and territories
Federated states and other territories of Germany
Indian states and territories
Bangladeshi divisions
Malaysian states and territories
States of Mexico
Regions of New Zealand
Philippine provinces
U.S. states
Regions in Greco-Roman antiquity
Regions tracing their origins (or otherwise referenced) in Greco-Roman antiquity [in cases where ancient regions are extant, this table is limited to cases where the present-day regional names retain their original/ancient form].
(References: Herodotus' "Histories"; Thucydides' "Peloponnesian War"; Pausanias' "Description of Greece"; Lemprière's Bibliotheca Classica; Leverett's 1838 edition of the "Lexicon of the Latin Language"; Freeman's "The History of Sicily..."; et al.)
Other former nations and regions
Ancient civilizations, former colonies, renamed countries and regions, annexations, secessions, etc. (other than Greco-Roman, which see above).
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