Land (suffix) explained
The suffix -land, which can be found in the names of several countries or country subdivisions, indicates a toponymy - a land. The word derived from the Old English land, meaning "ground, soil", and "definite portion of the earth's surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries". It evolved from the Proto-Germanic *landą and from the Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- "land, open land, heath".
Below is the list of places that ends with "-land" or "Lands".
Sovereign states
Common name:
Derived name:
Sub-national administrative divisions
- , Australia
- , Austria
- , Canada
- , Canada
Greenland, Denmark- , Finland
- Lapland, Finland
- , Germany
- , Germany
- , India
- , the Netherlands
- , the Netherlands
- , the Netherlands
- , the Netherlands
- , Somalia
- , Somalia
- , United Kingdom
- , United Kingdom
- , United States
Derived name:
- , the Netherlands
- , the Netherlands
- , United Kingdom
- , United States
Other places
Australia
See main article: Local government in Australia.
- Central Highlands Council, Tasmania
- Central Highlands Region, Queensland
- City of Merri-bek (previously City of Moreland), Victoria
- Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria
- City of Maitland, New South Wales
- City of Nedlands, Western Australia
- Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania
- Town of Port Hedland, Western Australia
- South Gippsland Shire, Victoria
- Southern Midlands Council, Tasmania
- Tablelands Region, Queensland
- Redlands City, Queensland
- Maitland, South Australia
- Other places
- Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
- Central Highlands, Tasmania
- Central Queensland
- Far North Queensland
- Gippsland, Victoria
- Midlands, Tasmania
- Murraylands, South Australia
- New England, New South Wales
- North Queensland
- Northern Tablelands, New South Wales
- Portland, Victoria
- Riverland, South Australia
- South East Queensland
- Southern Highlands, New South Wales
- Southern Tablelands, New South Wales
- List of islands of Australia
Canada
- Province level
- County level
- Town level
Denmark
See main article: Lands of Denmark.
Finland
See main article: Lands of Finland. (Names in Swedish/Names in Finnish)
Germany
See main article: Lands of Germany.
The Netherlands
- City level:
New Zealand
Norway
See main article: Lands of Norway.
Sweden
See main article: Lands of Sweden.
United Kingdom
- Counties
Other places:
United States
- Multi-state regions
- Regions entirely in a single state
- State level
- City level
- Village level
Other countries
Former place names
Thematic parks
Fictional places
From Peter Pan
From Alice in Wonderland
From Middle-Earth:
- Brown Lands
- Dark Land
- Dunland
- Sun-Lands
From Chronicles of Narnia
Other common names
See also
Finland
Iceland
Ireland
Switzerland
Thailand
New Zealand
Swaziland (now Eswatini)
Poland
Marshall Islands
Solomon Islands