Well, I got a list of every city or principality in the world here (3 MB download). Then I made it a spreadsheet so that I could search within fields (so as not to have to dig through every city in India), and then filtered, sorted, blah blah blah. Here’s the results:

India, Gambia (549 people).

That’s it! Fascinating, huh? There were tons of “Indian-thises” and “Indiana-thats,” but only one India.

Out of curiousity, what is the nature of the research?

Probably homework ;)

Honestly, if it is homework unless the assignment is to better acquaint yourself with the Internet, that’s a bit strange for a question.

Yeah, it didn’t strike me as a homework question. I was actually wondering if a more general question wouldn’t make a great question “What cities in other places are named for countries?”. SC has a Norway But I suppose @tonedef‘s spreadsheet could answer that.

I was just curious to know what prompted this question. (No attempt to be snarky at all).

I learn so much here…

@Grisson Ha, it’s actually for NCFCA (ncfca.org) team policy debate, which the resolution is “Resolved: That the United States Federal Government should significantly change its policy towards India.”

Naturally, everyone takes this as The Republic of India. But with tonedef’s AMAZING answer, this should be a nice curve ball. :D

@redsfan1324 Awesome! Go for it!

@redsfan1324, you should take a less dishonest perspective if you want to argue this more effectively.

well, it’s not dishonest.

I think that drawing focus away from the intended discussion to another, wholly unrelated issue is intellectually dishonest. At the very least, the judges will take a very dim view of your performance.

Well, “Intended discussion” is a very dangerous term. If we allow for assumptions to be made about the actual resolution, the need for evidence to prove anything is completely null.

There are some assumptions you can make. Defining “India” as the country of India is one of them.