American (word) ("United States person"), which derives from ' ("United States of America"). The Spanish term ' ("North American") is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada and Mexico. Among Spanish-speakers, North America generally doesn't include Central America or the Caribbean. In other languages, however, there is no possibility for confusion. For example, the Chinese word for "U.S. national" is ' () is derived from a word for the United States, ', where ' is an abbreviation for "Yàměilìjiā" ("America") and ' is "country". The name for
Name of Georgia (country) in Old Armenian "virk"' (վիրք), it being a source of Ancient Greek "iviria" (ιβηρία), that resulted in Latin "hiberia" (i.e. "Iberia"). Today the full, official name of the country in English is "Georgia", as specified in the Georgian constitution which reads ""Georgia" shall be the name of the State of Georgia." Before the 1995 constitution came into force the country's name was the "Republic of Georgia". The Georgian government works actively to remove Russian-derived exonym "Gruziya" from usage around the world. The native Georgian name for the country is Sakartvelo (საქართველო). The word consists of two parts. Its root, "kartvel-i"