What could go wrong? (That’s not a place name, by the way.) This global map of literal translations of country names from Credit Card Compare is extraordinary and insightful.

In March I wrote about a world map where the country names had been translated to their original literal meanings, as far as anyone could be sure. Language, after all, is a complex and confusing ...

What's in a name? Some pretty illuminating insights into the history and culture of a place, it turns out. Credit Card Compare, an Australia-based website that offers its users assistance with ...

Find out what countries your family name is most common in with Public Profiler's World Names search and map. Enter your last name and you'll get back a world map with the countries where your ...