To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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    5 days ago

    While it is quite common that countries have different names in other languages, germany is special because it really has a lot of very different names. Alemagne in french, germany in englisch, deutschland in german, tyskland in danish, Niemcy in poland and so on.

    There is actually a wikipedia article about it, that also explains the origin of the different names.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany