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Image:LocationJapan.png|thumb|Map showing Japan
Etymology
From a Italian traveller, Marco Polo's notation Chipangu.
Most probably brought to Europe via sailors: Portuguese Jipang from Malay Jepang, ultimately from Chinese ��.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Japan
- An island nation in the Pacific Ocean, located the east of China, Korea and Russia.
Synonyms
Nihon, Nippon
Related terms
Jap
Japanese
Japanize
Japanophile
Japanophilia
Nip
Nipponism
Nipponize
Translations
Japan
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Afrikaans t-|af|Japan|xs=Afrikaans
Albanian: t-|sq|Japonia|xs=Albanian
Arabic: t-|ar|ا��ابا�|tral-Y�b�n|scArab
Aragonese: Chapón
Aramaic: �ܦܢ
Asturian: Xapón
Azeri: Yaponiya
Basque: Japonia#Basque|Japonia
Belarusian: Япон��
Bengali: t-|bn|�াপান|scBeng|xsBengali
Croatian: t-|bs|Japan|m
Breton: Japan#Breton|Japan
Bulgarian: t+|bg|Япони�|f|sc=Cyrl
Buginese: Japan#Buginese|Japan
Catalan: el Japó m
Cebuano: Hapon
Chamorro: Japan#Chamorro|Japan
Cheyenne: Japan#Cheyenne|Japan
Chinese: �� (traditional and simplified) (Rìb�n)
Cornish: Nihon
Croatian: t-|hr|Japan|m
Czech: t+|cs|Japonsko
Danish: t+|da|Japan
Dutch: t+|nl|Japan
Dzongkha: Japan#Dzongkha|Japan
Esperanto: t-|eo|Japanio|xsEsperanto, t-|eo|Japanujo|xsEsperanto
Estonian: Jaapan
Finnish: t+|fi|Japani
French: le Japon#French|Japon m
Frisian: Japan
Galician: Xapón
Georgian: �������
German: t+|de|Japan
Gheg Albanian: Japan
Greek: t-|el|�α��νία|f|sc=Grek
Gujarati: �ાપાન
Hebrew: �פ� (Yapan)
Hindi: t-|hi|�ापान|scDeva|xsHindi
Hungarian: t+|hu|Japán
Icelandic: t+|is|Japan
Ido: Japonia#Ido|Japonia
Ilocano: Japon#Ilocano|Japon
Indonesian: t-|id|Jepang|xs=Indonesian
Interlingua: Japon#Interlingua|Japon
Irish: an-tSeapáin f
Italian: t+|it|Giappone|m
Japanese: ��#Japanese|�� (����, Nippon; ���, Nihon)
Kannada: �ಪಾನ�
Kashubian: Japò�skô
Korean: �본 [��] (Ilbon)
Kurdish: Japon#Kurdish|Japon, KUchar|�اپ��
Lao: �ີ��ຸ��
Latin: t+|la|Iaponia, t-|la|Japonia
Latvian: t-|lv|Jap�na|xs=Latvian
Lithuanian: t+|lt|Japonija|xs=Lithuanian
Limburgish: Japan#Limburgish|Japan
Lojban: pongu'e
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Low Saxon: Japan#Low Saxon|Japan
Luxembourgish: Japan#Luxembourgish|Japan
Macedonian: �апони�а
Malagasy: Japana
Malay: t-|ms|Jepun|xs=Malay
Malayalam: �പ�പാന��
Maltese: t-|mt|Ä appun|xs=Maltese
Maori: Nipono
Marathi: �पान
Marshallese: Japan#Marshallese|Japan
Min Nan: Ji�t-pún
Mongolian: Япон
Nauruan: Djapan
Norwegian: t-|no|Japan
Northern Sami: Japána
Nynorsk: Japan#Nynorsk|Japan
Occitan: Japon#Occitan|Japon
Old English: Iapan
Oriya: Japan#Oriya|Japan
Persian: t+|fa|�اپ�|trZhâpon|scFAchar|xs=Persian
Polish: t+|pl|Japonia
Portuguese: t+|pt|Japão
Pushto: جاپا�
Quechua: Nihun
Romanian: t+|ro|Japonia|f
Russian: t+|ru|Япони�|trYaponiya|scCyrl
Sicilian: Giappuni
Scots: Japan#Scots|Japan
Serbian:
Slovenian: Japonska f
Slovak: t-|sk|Japonsko
Somali: Jabaan
Spanish: Japón, el Japón m
Sundanese: Jepang#Sundanese|Jepang
Swahili: t+|sw|Japani|xs=Swahili
Swazi: Japan#Swazi|Japan
Swedish: t+|sv|Japan
Tagalog: Hapon
Tahitian: T�p�n�
Tamil: �ப�பான�
Thai: �ี��ุ�� (Yīpun)
Tibetan: �ི��ེ�
Tigrigna: Japan#Tigrigna|Japan
Turkish: t+|tr|Japonya
Ukrainian: Япон��
Upper Sorbian: Japanska
Urdu: جاپا�
Uyghur: �اپ�����
Uzbek: Yaponiya
Vietnamese: t-|vi|Nháºt Bản|xs=Vietnamese
Volapük: Yapän
Welsh: t-|cy|Japan|xs=Welsh
Wu: ��
Yiddish: ��פ��
Zulu: IJapani
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See also
Countries of the world
Category:Countries
Category:Exonyms
Category:Japanese derivations
Category:Japan|*
Afrikaans
Proper noun
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- #English|Japan
Category:af:Countries
Bosnian
Proper noun
infl|bs|proper noun|g=m
- #English|Japan
Category:bs:Countries
Croatian
Proper noun
infl|hr|proper noun|g=m
- #English|Japan
Category:hr:Countries
Dutch
Proper noun
infl|nl|proper noun
- #English|Japan
Category:nl:Countries
German
Proper noun
infl|de|proper noun
- #English|Japan
Category:de:Countries
Icelandic
Icelandic declension hk sb örnefni 02|Japan
Proper noun
Japan n (Japans|Japan-s, -)
- #English|Japan
#* �g fer til#Icelandic|til Japans.
#*: I'm going to Japan.
#* hvar|Hvar er Japan á kortinu?
#*: where|Where is Japan on the map?
See also
Japani
japanska
Category:Icelandic proper nouns
Category:is:Countries
Norwegian
Proper noun
infl|no|proper noun
- #English|Japan
Related terms
japaner
japansk
Category:no:Countries
Serbian
Proper noun
infl|sr|proper noun|g=m
- #English|Japan
See also
�апан#Serbian|�апан
Category:sr:Countries
Swedish
Proper noun
infl|sv|proper noun
- #English|Japan
Category:sv:Countries
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