Thrillers, alternate histories and games often need a country that doesn't exist but sounds as if it might. This fictional country name generator makes believable modern countries: small European republics, Nordic states and island nations, with an official name like the Grand Duchy of Velaria, or a capital city.
Fictional Country or Fantasy Country?
Use this generator for a country that could sit on a modern map: a small European republic in a spy thriller, an island nation in a satirical novel, or a delegation in a Model UN crisis. The names sound like real places and come with official titles and capitals.
For a kingdom in a world of dragons and castles, use the Fantasy Country Name Generator instead. Its names are made to sound older and stranger.
Writers have been inventing countries like this for a long time. Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) was set in Ruritania, which gave its name to a whole genre of stories set in small invented kingdoms.
How real countries get their names
The generator borrows real naming patterns, so the results sound right:
- Small European states often end in -ia, the Latin ending for a land, as in Romania and Bulgaria: Corovia, Velenia.
- Nordic names use -mark, an old word for a borderland (Denmark is the march of the Danes), and -heim, meaning home: Vestmark, Iskheim.
- Island nations often carry a saint's name from Spanish or Portuguese explorers: Santa Esperanza, Santa Ondina.
Official names say how the country is run. Luxembourg is the only grand duchy left, Monaco and Liechtenstein are principalities, and Dominica and the Bahamas are both commonwealths. Choose Official name for titles like the Grand Duchy of Port Perla, or choose With its capital city to give it a capital to match.
For more maps and settlements, see all the place name generators.