Culture of Malta
Identification. The Maltese archipelago consists of Malta, Gozo, Comino, Cominotto, and Fifla, plus a few minute limestone outcroppings.
Culture of Marshall Islands
Culture of Martinique
Culture of Mauritania
Identification. The name of the country is derived from the Latin Mauretania, meaning "west," which corresponds to the Arab name of North Africa, Maghreb.
Culture of Mauritius
Identification. The island of Mauritius was apparently uninhabited until 1638.
Culture of Mayotte
Identification. The name "Mayotte" comes from the Swahili word for Mahore, Maote.
Culture of Mexico
Culture of Federated States of Micronesia
Identification. Formed in 1978, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is an island nation in the Caroline archipelago of the western Pacific Ocean.
Culture of Moldova
Moldavian, Romanian, Bessarabian. Moldavia is the Anglicized version of the Russian Moldavija and is not used by Moldovans.
Culture of Monaco
Identification. Officially known as the Principality of Monaco, or the Principaute de Monaco.
Culture of Mongolia
Culture of Montserrat
Identification. Before 1995, this pear-shaped island had a population of about ten thousand and was lush, green, mountainous, isolated, and unspoiled.
Culture of The United Kingdom of Morocco
Culture of Mozambique
Identification. Arab traders who made their way down the East African coast mingled with African peoples, creating a hybrid culture and language called Swahili.
Culture of Namibia
Identification. Namibia was colonized by Germany and South Africa and was named Südwestafrika or South West Africa.
Culture of Nauru
Nauruan is the indigenous name used on official documents. Politically, the country is called the Republic of Nauru (RON).
Culture of Nepal
Identification. Nepal is named for the Kathmandu Valley, where the nation's founder established a capital in the late eighteenth century.
Culture of The Netherlands
Netherlands culture, Hollandic culture. The Dutch use Nederlandse cultuur and Hollandse cultuur to describe their culture.
Culture of Netherlands Antilles
Identification. The Netherlands Antilles consists of the islands Curaçao ("Korsow") and Bonaire; the "SSS" islands, Sint Eustatius ("Statia"), Saba, and the Dutch part of Saint Martin (Sint Maarten); and the uninhabited Little Curaçao and Little Bonaire.
Culture of New Caledonia
The word "Caledonian" is used by the French and others who have settled in the islands. The term "Kanak" is used to designate native residents of this South Pacific archipelago and their culture.
Culture of New Zealand
Identification. Originally discovered by Polynesians between 1200 and 1300 C.E., the country was settled by Maori ("the people") and areas were named after the iwi (tribes).
Culture of Nicaragua
Nicas; formally known as the Republic of Nicaragua.
Culture of Niger
Identification. From the early twentieth century until independence in 1960, the colony of Niger was part of French West Africa.
Culture of Nigeria
Identification. Though there is archaeological evidence that societies have been living in Nigeria for more than twenty-five hundred years, the borders of modern Nigeria were not created until the British consolidated their colonial power over the area in 1914.
Culture of Niue
Identification. The origin of the word "Niue" is obscure.