Thursday, May 22, 2008

Tunis, Tunisia

What is the difference between Tunis and Tunisia?

Tunis is the capital of Tunisia, a country in North Africa. It is a small country situated between Libya and Algeria. I will be visiting Tunis in June. It will be my first trip to the continent of Africa.

A few countries have a name ending with "sia", e.g. Malaysia, Indonesia, Tunisia, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Polynesia.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

there are only other three countries whose name ends with 'sia': micronesia, polynesia, russia.

if we include non-countries: andalusia, eurasia, australasia, asia, melanesia, nicosia, prussia, persia.

(taken from my spellchecker database)

May 22, 2008 11:43 AM
Raymond T said...

Sidetrack a bit... Cambodia was once also known as Kampuchea

May 22, 2008 2:53 PM
Vincent Sear said...

My understanding is that "nesia" as in Indonesia, Polynesia and Mironesia means a group of islands. So Indonesia means a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, Polynesia means a group of many islands and Micronesia means a group of small islands.

"Sia" as in Rhodesia, Prussia and Russia means land. But interesting, "sia" as in Malaysia was actually made up with "si" for Singapura inserted into Malaya during the merger.

May 22, 2008 10:23 PM

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