While I'm not personally a fan of place-names in general, I wonder: do the Latin versions work better?
- Anglia (ANG-lee-ah)--England
- Avenio (ah-VEN-ee-oh)--Avignon, France
- Berytus (BEHR-ee-toos)--Beirut, Lebanon
- Britannia/Brittania (brit-TAN-yah)--Great Britain
- Caledonia (kal-eh-DOHN-yah)--Scotland
- Cambria (KAM-bree-ah)--Wales
- Dania (DAHN-ee-ah)--Denmark
- Fennia (FEN-nee-ah) / Finnia (FIN-nee-ah)--Finland
- Florentia (floh-REN-tee-ah, floh-REN-shah)--Florence, Italy
- Francia (FRAHN-kee-ah, FRAN-shah)--France
- Galatia (gah-LAH-tee-ah, gah-LAY-shah)--central Turkey
- Genua (GEN-oo-ah)--Genoa, Italy
- Helvetia (hel-VET-ee-ah, hel-VEE-shah)--Switzerland
- Hibernia (hye-BURN-ee-ah) / Ivernia (eye-VER-nee-ah)--Ireland
- Italia (ee-TAHL-ee-ah, it-AL-yah)--Italy
- Lentia (LEN-tee-ah, LEN-shah)--Linz, Austria
- Londinium (lun-DIN-ee-um)--London, Great Britain
- Lutetia (loo-TEH-tee-ah, loo-TEE-shah)--Paris, France
- Lydia (LEE-dee-ah, LID-ee-ah)--western Turkey
- Melita (MEL-ee-tah, meh-LEE-tah)--Malta
- Noricum (NOH-rik-oom)--Austria
- Numidia (noo-MID-ee-ah)--Algeria
- Phoenicia (fee-NEE-kee-ah, fen-EE-shah)--Lebanon & Western Syria
- Portugallia (por-too-GAHL-lee-ah)--Portugal
- Raetia (RYE-tee-ah, REE-shah)--western Switzerland, northern Italy, & southern Germany [basically the area around the central Alps]
- Scotia (SKOH-tee-ah, SKOH-shah)--originally Ireland, later Scotland
- Sena (SEH-nah)--Siena, Italy [where the modern color-name Sienna comes from]
- Suecia (soo-EH-kee-ah) / Svecia (SVES-ee-ah)--Sweden
- Syene (see-EN-eh, sye-EE-nee)--Aswan, Egypt
- Tyrus (TEER-oos, TYE-rus)--Tyre, Lebanon
- Valentia (vah-LEN-tee-ah, vah-LEN-shah)--Valencia, Spain, and Valence, France
- Venetia (ven-EH-tee-ah, ven-EE-shah)--Venice, Italy
- Vindelicia (veen-deh-LEE-kee-ah, vin-del-EE-shah)--Switzerland & southern Germany [above Raetia]
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