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my first thought was Colombia but then went searching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_named_after_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c

• rudiv 7y ago
  Most of those are not named after someone who lived on the 21st century. The point I was making was not that it is unusual for a country to be named after an individual. Rather, it was that a country named after an individual that is still directly controlled by that individual's direct descendants is some medieval shit that is relatively unusual.