Origin of etymology of countries

I don't think Ukraine as a word has anything to do with Little Russia, but it is true that Ukraine was officially called "Little Russia" until rather recently.

I am curious, are you half Korean half Brazillian, or an immigrant living in Brazil?  Does that mean you know Portugese?

It's not clear where the names Hellas and Greece come from. Some common explanations are that Hellenes comes from the Troyan war and means "children of Hellen" because that was the first time the Greeks of the time united (Helen was also the daughter of Zeus and Leda). Another explanation is that it derives from a small Greek tribe that settled in Thessaly. Helenos in ancient Greek means "the bright one".

Greeks, probably comes from the name of an Eboean colony in Italy with which the Roman came first in contact thus naming all Hellenes as "Greeks". Aristotle, who was the first to use Graikhos as equivalent to Hellenes ("Meteorologica" I.xiv) wrote that it was the name originally used by Illyrians for the Dorian Greeks of Epirus, from Graii, native name of the people of Epirus.

Btw, Aigyptos is also a Greek word meaning "sunburned" :-)

I did some extra research and enhanced my knowledge on the matter. Of course I was ridiculously wrong in my previous post (the Hellen part). So here goes:

In Greek mythology, the Hellenes were descendants of Hellen, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, survivors of the Deluge. The Aeolians, Dorians and Ionians were descendants of Hellen's sons,Aeolus and Dorus, and Hellen's grandson Ion.

After the Deluge, Pyrrha bore Deucalion, king of Phthia, in Thessaly, five children: Hellen, Amphictyon, Protogeneia, Pandora and Thyia.

Amphictyon became the king of Athens, after deposing Cranόs (Cranus), his father-in-law. Amphictyon ruled for twelve years before Erichthonius deposed him.

From Zeus or Aeolus, Protogeneia became the mother of Aλthlius  or possibly of Endymion (?). Her other sisters, were also seduced by Zeus. Pandora bore Graecus, eponym of the Greeks. Thyia became mother of Magnes and Macedon.

Hellen became the eponym of the Hellenes. Hellen married the nymph Orseοs (Orseis), who bore him three sons: Xuthus, Dorus eponym of the Dorians, and Aeolus, eponym of the Aeolians.

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Prometheus.htm

Slavic tribes generaly took their names after the name of the territory they dwelled or the name of territory was transferred onto the tribal name. These terms: "field" or "plain", are not specific geografical names. The problem is that the closest toponym Lach /Lah/ is placed in... Turkestan. There's an interesting information about Central Asia:

The third chapter of the Chinese chronicle of Bejshu (from the beginning of the VII c.) mentions Ferghana under the name of "Bokhan�"

"When describing the possession of Nin�juan the Tanshu chronicle says that it is "in fact a possession of Bokhan�na, otherwise known as Bokhan�. At the time of the Juan Vej dynasty it was called Polona"." (sic.)

"The compilation of the evidence in the ancient source and the archaeological data made B.A. Litvinskij suggest that Ferghana was connected with particular group of Hephthalites � the "Red Chiones". [www.kroraina.com]

Isn't it wondering?

  Mexico

  Comes from the Nahuatl and means " in the middle of the moon ".