List of adjectival forms of place names

In most cases, a person from these places is referred to with the same word. In cases where this is not so, this form is given after the adjective. This is always the case in places in East Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese. See demonym for further details.

Typically, names ending in the letter a add an n to the end to make an adjective, while other vowels add an an.

List of adjectival forms of place names

Place name	Adjective	Person (if different than Adjective)
Aberdeen	Aberdonian
Afghanistan	Afghan	Afghan (Afghani is the currency)
Africa	African
Alabama	Alabamian
Alaska	Alaskan
Albania	Albanian
Alberta	Albertan
Aleutian Islands	Aleut
Algeria	Algerian
Alsace	Alsacian
America	American
Andalusia	Andalusian
Andorra	Andorran
Angola	Angolan
Antarctic	Antarctic
Argentina	Argentinian or Argentine
Aragon	Aragonese
Arizona	Arizonan
Arkansas	Arkansan
Armenia	Armenian
Asia	Asian
Asturias	Asturian
Australia	Australian
Austria	Austrian
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijani
Bahamas	Bahamian
Bahrain	Bahraini
Bali	Balinese
Baltic	Baltic
Bangladesh	Bangladesh	Bangladeshi
Barbados	Barbadian or Badian or Bajan or Bajun
Bavaria	Bavarian
Belarus	Belorussian
Belgium	Belgian
Belize	Belizean
Benin	Beninese or Beninois
Bermuda	Bermudan
Bhutan	Bhutanese
Birmingham	Birminghamian	Birminghamian or Brummie
Bohemia	Bohemian
Bolivia	Bolivian
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnian
Botswana	Tswana	Motswana (plural: Batswana)
Brazil	Brazilian
Bristol	Bristolian
Brittany	Breton
Brunei	Bruneian
Bulgaria	Bulgarian
Burkina Faso (2)	Burkina	Burkinabe
Burma (3)	Burmese
Burundi	Burundian
California	Californian
Cambodia	Cambodian
Cambridge	Cantabrigian
Cameroon	Cameroonian
Canada	Canadian
Cantabria	Cantabrian
Cape Verde	Cape Verdean
Caribbean	Caribbean
Carinthia	Carinthian
Carthage	Carthaginian
Castile	Castilian
Catalonia	Catalan, Catalonian
Cayman Islands	Cayman Island	Cayman Islander
Central African Republic	Central African
Chad	Chadian
Chicago	Chicagoan
Chile	Chilean
China	Chinese
Colombia	Colombian
Congo	Congolese
Connecticut	Connecticut	Nutmegger
Cornwall	Cornish
Corsica	Corsican
Costa Rica	Costa Rican
Crete	Cretan
Crimea	Crimean
Croatia	Croatian	Croatian or Croat
Cuba	Cuban
Cyprus	Cypriot
Czech Republic	Czech
Dallas	Dallasite
Denmark	Danish	Dane
Denver	Denverite
Dominica	Dominican
Dominican Republic	Dominican
East Timor	East Timorese
Ecuador	Ecuadorian
Egypt	Egyptian
El Salvador	Salvadorian
England	English	Englishman or Englishwoman
Equatorial Guinea	Equatorial Guinean
Eritrea	Eritrean
Estonia	Estonian
Ethiopia	Ethiopian
Europe	European
Fife	Fife	Fifer
Fiji	Fijian
Finland	Finnish	Finn
Flanders	Flemish
Florida	Floridian
France	French	Frenchman or Frenchwoman
Gabon	Gabonese
Galicia	Galician
Gambia	Gambian
Georgia (4)	Georgian
Germany	German
Ghana	Ghanaian
Gibraltar	Gibraltarian
Glasgow	Glaswegian
Great Britain	British	Briton
Greece	Greek
Greenland	Greenlandic	Greenlander
Grenada	Grenadian
Guatemala	Guatemalan
Guiana	Guianan
Guinea	Guinean
Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissauan
Haiti	Haitian
Halifax	Haligonian
Harrow	Harrovian
Hawaii	Hawaiian
Honduras	Honduran
Hong Kong	?	Hong Konger
Hungary	Hungarian
Iceland	Icelandic	Icelander
India	Indian
Indiana	?	Hoosier
Indonesia	Indonesian
Iowa	Iowan
Iran	Iranian
Iraq	Iraqi	Iraqi
Ireland	Irish	Irishman or Irishwoman
Isle of Man	Manx	Manxman or Manxwoman
Israel	Israeli
Italy	Italian
Ivory Coast	Ivorian
Jamaica	Jamaican
Japan	Japanese
Java	Javanese
Jerusalem	Jerusalemite
Jordan	Jordanian
Jupiter	Jovian	(1)
Kazakhstan	Kazakh
Kenya	Kenyan
Korea	Korean
Korea, North	North Korean
Korea, South	South Korean
Kosovo	Kosovar, Kosovan
Kurdistan	Kurdish
Kuwait	Kuwaiti
Lancashire	Lancastrian
Laos	Laotian
Lapland	Lapp or Saami
Latvia	Latvian
Lebanon	Lebanese
Lesotho	Sotho	Mosotho (plural: Bosotho)
Liberia	Liberian
Libya	Libyan
Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein	Liechtensteiner
Lithuania	Lithuanian
Liverpool	Liverpudlian	Liverpudlian or Scouser
London	London	Londoner
Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Angeleno
Luxemburg	Luxemburg	Luxemburger
Macedonia	Macedonian
Madagascar	Malagasy
Madrid	Madrilene
Maine	Maine	Mainer or Down Easter
Malawi	Malawian
Malaysia	Malaysian
Maldives	Maldivian
Mali	Malian
Malta	Maltese
Manchester	Mancunian
Mars	Martian	(1)
Marshall Islands	Marshall Islander
Martinique	Martinican
Mauritania	Mauritanian
Mauritius	Mauritian
Mediterranean	Mediterranean
Melanesia	Melanesian
Mexico	Mexican
Micronesia	Micronesian
Minnesota	Minnesotan
Moldova	Moldovian
Monaco	Monegasque or Monacan
Mongolia	Mongolian	Mongolian or Mongol
Montenegro	Montenegrin
Montserrat	Montserratian
Morocco	Moroccan
Mozambique	Mozambican
Murcia	Murcian
Namibia	Namibian
Naples	Neapolitan
Nauru	Naurian
Navarre	Navarrese
Nebraska	Nebraskan
Nepal	Nepalese
Netherlands	Dutch	Dutchman or Dutchwoman
New York	New York	New Yorker
New Zealand	New Zealand	New Zealander or Kiwi
Newcastle	Novocastrian	Novocastrian or Geordie
Nicaragua	Nicaraguan
Niger	Nigerien
Nigeria	Nigerian
Normandy	Norman
Northumberland	Northumbrian
Norway	Norwegian
Nova Scotia	Nova Scotian
Nubia	Nubian
Okinawa	Okinawan
Oklahoma	Oklahoman
Oman	Omani
Oregon	Oregonian
Orkney Islands	Orcadian
Oxford	Oxonian
Pacific	Pacific
Pakistan	Pakistani
Palestine	Palestinian
Panama	Panamanian
Papua New Guinea	Papuan
Paraguay	Paraguayan
Paris	Parisian
Pennsylvania	Pennsylvanian
Persia	Persian
Peru	Peruvian
Philippines	Philippine	Filipino or Filipina
Poland	Polish	Pole
Polynesia	Polynesian
Portland	Portlandian	Portlander
Portugal	Portuguese
Puerto Rico	Puerto Rican	Puerto Rican or Boricua
Qatar	Qatari
Quebec	Quebecois	Quebecer
Romania	Romanian
Rome	Roman
Russia	Russian
Rwanda	Rwandan
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Kittitian or Nevisian
Saint Lucia	Saint Lucian
Samoa	Samoan
San Marino	Sanmarinese
São Tomé and Príncipe	Sao Tomean
Sardinia	Sardinian
Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabian	Saudi or Saudi Arabian
Scotland	Scottish or Scots	Scot, Scotsman or Scotswoman
Seattle	Seattle	Seattleite
Senegal	Senegalese
Serbia	Serbian or Serb	Serb or Serbian
Seychelles	Seychellos
Siberia	Siberian
Sicily	Sicilian
Sierra Leone	Sierra Leonean
Singapore	Singaporean
Slovakia	Slovak
Slovenia	Slovene	Slovenian
Solomon Islands	Solomon Islander
Somalia	Somali
South Africa	South African
Spain	Spanish	Spaniard
Sri Lanka	Sri Lankan
Sudan	Sudanese
Surinam	Surinamese	Surinamer
Swaziland	Swazi
Sweden	Swedish	Swede
Switzerland	Swiss
Sydney	?	Sydneysider
Syria	Syrian
Tahiti	Tahitian
Taiwan	Taiwanese
Tajikistan	Tajik
Tanzania	Tanzanian
Tasmania	Tasmanian
Texas	Texan
Thailand	Thai
Tibet	Tibetan
Togo	Togolese
Tonga	Tongan
Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidadian
Tunisia	Tunisian
Turkey	Turkish	Turk
Turkmenistan	Turkmen
Tuscany	Tuscan
Uganda	Ugandan
Ukraine	Ukrainian
United Arab Emirates	Emiratis
United Kingdom	British
United States	American (5)
Uruguay	Uruguayan
Utah	Utahn
Uzbekistan	Uzbek
Valencia	Valencian
Vanuatu	Vanuatuan
Venezuela	Venezuelan
Venice	Venetian
Venus	Venusian	(1)
Vermont	Vermonter
Vienna	Viennese
Vietnam	Vietnamese
Virginia	Virginian
Wales	Welsh	Welshman or Welshwoman
Washington	Washingtonian
Yemen	Yemeni
Yorkshire	Yorkshire	Yorkshireman
Yugoslavia	Yugoslavian	Yugoslav
Zaire	Zairean
Zambia	Zambian
Zimbabwe	Zimbabwean

Notes

• 1: There is, of yet, no one from Jupiter, Venus, or Mars
• 2: The former name of Burkina Faso was Upper Volta.
• 3: The new name of Burma is Myanmar.
• 4: Both the country and the US state use Georgian.
• 5: The only adjective in widespread use is American, though many substitute words have been proposed.

• list of people by nationality, list of ethnic slurs