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Why do some countries call their homeland fatherland while others call it motherland?

Fatherland is the nation of one’s fathers or forefathers. It can be viewed as a nationalist concept, in so far as it relates to nations. Groups that refer to their native country as a fatherland associate with primarily with paternal concepts. Motherland is a term that may refer to a mother country, the origin of a colonial power or an ethnic group or immigrant. Motherland is otherwise a synonym for fatherland, though perhaps carrying different psychological associations.It especially has the connotation of one’s country of birth and growing up,with the country being respectfully viewed as a benign mother nurturing its citizens as her children.

Why is Greenland called so though it has no vegetation?

The name Greenland comes from Scandinavian settlers. In the Norse sagas, it is said that Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder. He sat out in ships to find land rumoured to be to the northwest. After settling there, he named the land Grfnland (greenland),possibly to attract more people to settle there. Greenland was also called Gruntland (groundland) on early maps.Whether green is an erroneous transcription of Grunt (ground), which refers to shallow bays,or vice-versa ,is not known.The southern portion (not covered by glacier) is very green in summer.

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