ジョージア

Japanese
Map of US highlighting Georgia

Etymology

Borrowed from English Georgia.

In reference to the country, this term officially displaced the Russian-derived name グルジア (Gurujia) in April 2015[1] for diplomatic reasons. Compare Korean 조지아 (Jojia).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

ジョージア • (Jōjia) 

  1. Georgia (A transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea, often considered to belong politically to Europe)
  2. Georgia (a state in the Southern United States)

References
  1. 国名呼称の変更（グルジア） (2015 April 22) “mofa.go.jp”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (in Japanese), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, retrieved June 6, 2017
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  3. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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