Elements are named after countries, not countries after elements ! Countries: francium, germanium, gallium, ruthenium, indium Regions: scandium, hassium, californium Continents: americium Also many towns.
Germanium and Francium are 2 elements which are named for a large region and includes several countries.
The only country named after an element is Argentina. Elements are Latin, they are not named for the person who discovered them......Latin for silver is argenti or argento.
8 main villages=5 countries named after the 5 elements of Water,Fire,Earth,Thunder,and Wind.
Americium and Europium are the elements named for large regions which include several countries.
americium, germanium, scandium, polonium
Polonium, francium, and americium.
Some of them and some of someone else like the teddy bear named after Theodore Roosevelt.Some are even named after countries, like Francium.
I can think of Germanium, Indium, Polonium, Francium, Americium and Nihonium.
Many elements names are of Greek and Latin words. Some elements are name after where named after countries like France, German ect.
America: Americium, France: Francium, Poland: Polonium, and Germany: Germanium.
Francium was named after France. Germanium was named after Germany. Polonium was named after Poland.