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List of adjectival forms of place names
In most cases, a person from these places is referred to with the same word. In cases where this is not so, this form is given after the adjective.
Typically, names ending in the letter a add an n to the end to make an adjective, while other vowels add an an.
- Afghanistan - Afghan
- Africa - African
- Alabama - Alabamian
- Alaska - Alaskan
- Alberta - Albertan
- Aleutian Islands - Aleut
- Algeria - Algerian
- Alsace - Alsacian
- Andalusia - Andalusian
- Andorra - Andorran
- Argentina - Argentinian
- Arizona - Arizonan
- Arkansas - Arkansan
- Armenia - Armenian
- Asia - Asian
- Australia - Australian
- Austria - Austrian
- Azerbaijan - Azerbaijani
- Bahamas - Bahamanian
- Bali - Balinese
- Bangladesh - Bangladeshi
- Bavaria - Bavarian
- Belgium - Belgian
- Bermuda - Bermudan
- Bohemia - Bohemian
- Bolivia - Bolivian
- Bosnia - Bosnian
- Brazil - Brazilian
- Bulgaria - Bulgarian
- California - Californian
- Canada - Canadian
- Carinthia - Carinthian
- Carthage - Carthaginian
- Catalonia - Catalonian
- Chile - Chilean
- China - Chinese - Chinaman (usually pejorative)
- Colombia - Colombian
- Congo - Congolese
- Connecticut - ??? - Nutmegger
- Cornwall - Cornish
- Corsica - Corsican
- Costa Rica - Costa Rican
- Crete - Cretan
- Crimea - Crimean
- Croatia - Croatian
- Czech Republic - Czech
- Denmark - Danish
- Dominica and the Dominican Republic - Dominican
- East Timor - East Timorese
- Egypt - Egyptian
- El Salvador - El Salvadorean
- Eritrea - Eritrean
- Estonia - Estonian
- Ethiopia - Ethiopian
- Europe - European
- Fiji - Fijian
- Finland - Finnish - Finn
- Flanders - Flemish
- France - French - Frenchman or Frenchwoman
- Georgia (both the US state and the country) - Georgian
- Germany - German
- Ghana - Ghanaian
- Greece - Greek
- Greenland - Greenlander
- Guatemala - Guatemalan
- Guinea - Guinean
- Haiti - Haitian
- Hawaii - Hawaiian
- Honduras - Honduran
- Hungary - Hungarian
- Iceland - Icelandic
- India - Indian
- Indiana - ??? - Hoosier
- Indonesia - Indonesian
- Iowa - Iowan
- Iran - Iranian
- Iraq - Iraqi
- Ireland - Irish - Irishman or Irishwoman
- Israel - Israeli
- Italy - Italian
- Japan - Japanese
- Java - Javanese
- Jordan - Jordanian
- Kazakhstan - Kazakh
- Kenya - Kenyan
- Korea - Korean
- Kurdistan - Kurdish
- Kuwait - Kuwaiti
- Lapland - Lapp or Saami
- Latvia - Latvian
- Liberia - Liberian
- Libya - Libyan
- Lithuania - Lithuanian
- London - ??? - Londoner
- Isle of Man - Manx
- Macedonia - Macedonian
- Malaysia - Malaysian
- Malta - Maltese
- Mars - Martian
- Martinique - Martinican
- Melanesia - Melanesian
- Mexico - Mexican
- Micronesia - Micronesian
- Minnesota - Minnesotan
- Mongolia - Mongolia
- Morocco - Moroccan
- Murcia - Murcian
- Naples - Neapolitan
- Nebraska - Nebraskan
- Nepal - Nepalese
- Netherlands - Dutch - Dutchman or Dutchwoman
- New York (city or state) - ??? - New Yorker
- New Zealand - ??? - New Zealander
- Nicaragua - Nicaraguan
- Normandy - Norman
- Norway - Norwegian
- Nova Scotia - Nova Scotian
- Nubia - Nubian
- Okinawa - Okinawan
- Oklahoma - Oklahoman
- Oregon - Oregonian
- Pakistan - Pakistani
- Palestine - Palestinian
- Panama - Panamanian
- Papua New Guinea - Papuan
- Paris - Parisian
- Pennsylvania - Pennsylvanian
- Persia - Persian
- Peru - Peruvian
- Philippines - Filipino
- Poland - Polish - Pollack (sometimes derogatory)
- Polynesia - Polynesian
- Portugal - Portuguese
- Puerto Rico - Puerto Rican
- Quebec - Quebecois
- Romania - Romanian
- Rome - Roman
- Russia - Russian
- Samoa - Samoan
- Sardinia - Sardinian
- Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabian
- Scotland - Scottish - Scot
- Senegal - Senegalese
- Siberia - Siberian
- Sicily - Sicilian
- Slovakia - Slovak
- Somalia - Somali
- Sorbia[?] - Sorbian
- Spain - Spanish
- Sweden - Swedish
- Switzerland - Swiss
- Syria - Syrian
- Tahiti - Tahitian
- Tajikistan - Tajik
- Taiwan - Taiwanese
- Tanzania - Tanzanian
- Tasmania - Tasmanian
- Texas - Texan
- Thailand - Thai
- Tibet - Tibetan
- Trinidad - Trinidadian
- Tunisia - Tunisian
- Turkey - Turkish
- Turkmenistan - Turkmen
- Tuscany - Tuscan
- Ukraine - Ukrainian
- United States - American (only term in widespread use, though substitute neologisms have been proposed)
- Uzbekistan - Uzbek
- Venezuela - Venezuelan
- Venice - Venetian
- Venus - Venusian
- Vienna - Viennese
- Virginia - Virginian
- Wales - Welsh - Welshman or Welshwoman
- Washington - Washingtonian
- Yemen - Yemeni
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