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
This list of dog breeds includes both extant and extinct dog breeds, varieties and types. A research article on dog genomics published in Science/AAAS defines modern dog breeds as "a recent invention defined by conformation to a physical ideal ...
, and
horse breeds
The following list of horse and pony breeds includes standardized breeds, some strains within breeds that are considered distinct populations, types of horses with common characteristics that are not necessarily standardized breeds but are someti ...
. (See
List of words derived from toponyms.)
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Planets
Continents
Entries in ''italics'' are continental regions (taking as reference the 7 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
The Greco-Roman world , also Greco-Roman civilization, Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture (spelled Græco-Roman or Graeco-Roman in British English), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and co ...
antiquity
n 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
Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...
' "Histories";
Thucydides
Thucydides ( ; ; BC) was an Classical Athens, Athenian historian and general. His ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts Peloponnesian War, the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been d ...
' "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 civilization
A civilization (also spelled civilisation in British English) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken langua ...
s, former
colonies
A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their '' metropole'' (or "mother country"). This separated rule was often or ...
,
renamed countries and regions,
annexation
Annexation, in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. In current international law, it is generally held t ...
s,
secession
Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a Polity, political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence). A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal i ...
s, etc. (''other than Greco-Roman, which see
above'').
Fictional regions
Counties
Ireland
United Kingdom
Cities
See also
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Demonym
A demonym (; ) or 'gentilic' () is a word that identifies a group of people ( inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. Demonyms are usually derived from the name of the place ( hamlet, village, town, city, region, ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for astronomical bodies
The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable. Attested adjectival forms of the larger bodies are listed below, along with the two small Martian moons; in some cases they are accompanied by their demony ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for continental regions
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 th ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for subcontinental regions
The following is a list of adjectival forms of subcontinental regions in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these subcontinental regions.
Note: Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular form ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for Australia
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 th ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for Canada
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 th ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for India
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 th ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for Malaysia
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 th ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for Mexico
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 th ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for New Zealand
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 th ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for the Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for the United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities
The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities.
Demonyms ending in ''-ese'' are the same in the singular and plural forms.
The ending ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for former regions
The following is a list of adjectival forms of former regions in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these former regions.
Note: Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for Greco-Roman antiquity
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 th ...
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List of adjectivals and demonyms for fictional regions
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 th ...
Notes
References
External links
{{Wiktionary, demonym, gentilic
Alphabetical list of world demonymsDemonyms of the World
Adjectival Forms Of Place Names
Adjectival Forms Of Place Names
Placename Etymologies