Alternate Names for Regions of the World

Virginia could be Queensland.
Heck Maryland could be Queensland.
Texas could be Texia.
Arizona could be Sonora or Colorado.
New York could have been kept as New Netherlands.
 
Occidea: from Latin occidentalis which means "west." This is for South America.

Sahul: Australian continent. This was the name of the continent given by scientists for Ice-Age Australia.

Laurentia: From the St. Lawrence River, this is commonly used by scientists to denote the North American Craton.

Rawan: Anglicization of Thai word ระหว่าง which means between, indicating the Indochina Peninsula's location between Indian and Chinese cultural spheres.

Nusantara: Javanese word for Indonesia. nusa means "island" and antara means "within." This has historically been a name for Indonesia.

Rivninia: From Ukrainian рівнини which means "plains." This denotes the grand North European Plain that covers much of Eastern Europe, where most Slavs reside.

Nowara: Igbo for "coast" this denotes West Africa, especially the Nigeria region.

Mu: this term is for the Pacific Islands. This comes for the supposed lost continent Mu, proposed by James Churchward, which was in the Pacific.
 
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So, the name of the continent. What will you call the United States then?

Apart from that, here's a few suggestions for alternative names:

  • Argyria > Argentina, taking a Greek root instead of a Latin one.
  • We could take the names of the four Suyu (regions) and the Huamani (provinces) of the Tawantisuyu (Incan Empire) for regions more or less equal to current countries: Collasuyu for Chile (as has been proposed), Antisuyu for Bolivia, Contisuyu for Perú, and Chinchasuyu for Ecuador, although the Chinchasuyu is bigger than current Ecuador, controlling most of modern Perú, and the Antisuyu barely controls any territory of modern Bolivia.
  • Paraná > Entre Ríos province in Argentina, because of the river, and the provincial capital is also named Paraná, so it would continue the trend in Argentine provinces of province and capital having the same name (or an "elaborate" version of it), which is a trend shared by 14/23 (and Buenos Aires would if the city of Buenos Aires wasn't a separate entity from the province).
  • Darien > a Scottish dominated central america.

T develop yours and previous posters ideas, /u/ next to uvular consonants in Quechua sounds more like /o/, so Hispanised could be Antisú [with influence from Perú]/Antiso/Antisia, Chinchaisú/Chinchaiso/Chinchaisia (Chinchasa?), Contisú/Contiso/Contisia, and Collasú/Collaso/Collasia
 
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