(Ooh, ooh! Something I know! I NEVER get to use this info. >:) )

One correction, misophist: You said "Sometimes the name is derived from a language, as in Farsi = Persia." Actually, Persia isn't named after the language, Farsi. Farsi means "from Fars," in SW Iran, the traditional homeland of the Persian people. We get "Persia" from the Greek name for Fars, "Persis." Of course, the "Persians" (and most people on Earth) call their land by the modern version of it's ancient, native name, Iran, which ultimately, means something like "land of the Aryans." ("Aryans" being the ancient Indo-Iranian tribes, not the modern ethnonym-hijacking Nazi pricks) :)

---Lepus Rex