Challenge:
How could some placenames be more 'native' to their land for example, like Canada (which comes from the Iroquois word 'kanata' meaning settlement or village), or Mexico (which is derived from the name of the Mexica people and their god Huitzilopochtli who possessed Mexitl or Mexi as a secret name), or even some American/Canadian States/Provinces/Territories like Alabama, Mississippi, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North and South Dakota, Alaska, Hawaii Saskatchewan, Nunavut, Manitoba, Yukon, Ontario, Quebec, and others.
instead of names like
America (named after Amerigo Vespucci), Australia (mythical land of Terra Australis), New Zealand (after the Dutch province of Zeeland), South Africa (a kinda boring European name), Brazil (the mythical island of Brasil/ named after Brazilwood), Indonesia (which means India island in Greek), Indochina (India-China) which all sound very European and colonial.
The challenge is to have as many countries or places (cities, states, provinces etc) having native names for example, Aotearoa (Maori for 'land of the long white cloud') for New Zealand.
Good luck