# If it's Deutschland ...

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-deutschland/342032
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 29, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-deutschland/342032 "2006-01-29T02:14:07Z")
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### Author: ![emdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9d8465/32.png) [@emdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emdash)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-deutschland/342032/1 "2006-01-29T02:14:07Z")

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Why do we call it Germany? And it’s my understanding that several other countries have different names for it as well. What’s the story?

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### Author: ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-deutschland/342032/2 "2006-01-29T02:24:39Z")

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Welcome to the boards. Many of the points of universal bazzlement have been prepackaged and ready to go by our Master.

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_162.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_162.html)