| Czechia on 23:47 - Jun 14 by Guthrum |
It's an older useage from when Ukraine was a region of other states (the Soviet Union, Russia, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Khanate of the Golden Horde), or was divided up between several of them, which was the case for for most of the last thousand years, until 1991. Well after many people got their dose of geography in school. |
It's not really about geography its actually a grammatical thing mixed in with a bit of politics, it's the 'the' bit, its Ukraine not 'the' Ukraine.theres no definite article of 'the' in Ukrainian or Russian languages, we added it when they were part of the Soviet union,so it became a symbolic break to remove it when speaking about Ukraine in English after the collapse of the USSR.
And the official name for Netherlands is really Kingdom of the Netherlands.
As for the Czechs, upto their sports federations to sort it out |  |
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