Country Equivalency

The development of nations on Terra Nova paralleled in many important ways the development of nations on Earth. Partly this was due to colonization decisions made by the Earth nations; partly due to migration of ethnic and cultural groups; but primarily due to nationalistic pressures resuming unabated on Terra Nova as the influence of the United Earth and its Fleet diminished.

South Columbia ~ North America

 * Secordia ~ Canada
 * Gatineau ~ Ottawa
 * Federated States of Columbia (FSC) ~ the United States of America (USA)
 * McKinley ~ Alaska
 * Arcadia ~ Louisiana?
 * Sequoia ~ California?
 * Wilcox's Folly ~ Hollywood [ML Ch. 18]
 * First Landing ~ New York City
 * Federal District (FD) ~ District of Columbia (DC)
 * Hamilton ~ Washington
 * Dominion ~ Virginia? [C Ch. 9]
 * Oglethorpe ~ Georgia [ADCP Ch. 8]
 * Phoenix Rising ~ Atlanta? Marietta? Decatur?
 * Maiden Islands ~ Virgin Islands [ADCP Ch. 7]

Colombia Central

 * Atzlan ~ Mexico
 * Cienfuegos ~ Cuba
 * Batabanó ~ Havana
 * Lempira ~ Honduras [ML committed mountain troops w/ Valdivia p.351]
 * San Vicente (possibly aka Atlacatl) ~ El Salvador
 * Atlacatl ~ El Salvador
 * Cordoba ~ Nicaragua [DoBDoW Ch 2]
 * Santa Josefina ~ Costa Rica
 * Balboa ~ Panama
 * Shimmering Sea coast (south coast) ~ Caribbean Sea coast (north coast)
 * El Toro ~ Bocas del Toro
 * Golfo de los Antaniae ~ Golfo de los Mosquitos
 * Cristobal ~ Colón (Christopher Colombus in Spanish is Cristobal Colón)
 * Mar Furioso coast (north coast) ~ Pacific Ocean coast (south coast)
 * Puerto Armados ~ Puerto de Armuelles
 * Valleys of the Moons ~ Chiriquí
 * Isla Santa Catalina ~ Isla de Coiba
 * Ciudad Balboa ~ Panama City
 * Isla Real ~ Isla del Rey

Columbia del Norte

 * Santander ~ Colombia
 * Belalcázar ~ Cali? [LE Ch. 10]
 * Maracaibo ~ [LE Ch. 18] Venezuela
 * La Plata ~ Argentina


 * Valdivia ~ Chile
 * Pizarro (possibly aka Cajamarca) ~ [ML p.352] Peru


 * Bolivar ~ [ML p.352] Bolivia
 * Stroessnern ~ [ML p.352] Paraguay
 * _________ ~ Brazil

Tauran Union ~ "European Union" Powers

 * Anglia ~ Britain [Although possibly all of UK or even British Isles]
 * Gaul ~ France, they call these people the pejorative of frogs
 * Lumière ~ Paris [ML TNN HQ]
 * Kingdom of Haarlem ~ The Netherlands
 * Castilla ~ Spain
 * Lusitania ~ Portugal
 * Cimbria ~ Denmark
 * Sachsen Reich ~ Germany. The Sachsen capital is Potsdam, per ADCP Ch. 27
 * North Sachsen ~ East Germany, implied by ADCP Ch. 12
 * South Sachsen ~ West Germany
 * Tuscany ~ Italy
 * Jagelonia ~ Poland
 * Hordaland ~ Norway
 * Götaland (possibly aka Scandi) ~ Sweden
 * Mannerheim (possibly aka Suomi) ~ Finland

Tauran Powers (possibly in the Tauran Union)

 * Hibernia ~ Ireland
 * Helvetia ~ Switzerland
 * New Vatican Hill ~ Vatican City
 * Biohomum ~ Bohemia (or possibly Czechoslovakia)
 * Ostmark ~ Austria

Uhuran Powers ~ African Powers

 * Robertsonia ~ Liberia [C Ch. 5]
 * Middle Uhuru? ~ Central Africa
 * Kush ~ The Sudan
 * Mpende ~ East Africa? (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda) [mpende is a Swahili word]
 * Republic of North Uruhu ~ South Africa
 * Xamar ~ Somalia (R&A)

Middle Eastern Powers

 * Fezzan ~ Libya ? [C Ch. 4]
 * Kemal ~ Turkey [ADCP Ch. 16-17]
 * Bekaa ~ Lebanon
 * Bilad al Sham (possibly aka Alawi) ~ Syria ?
 * Zion ~ Israel
 * Filistia ~ Palestine
 * Misrani Islamic Republic ~ Egypt
 * Yezidistan ~ Kurdistan
 * Sumer ~ Iraq
 * Al Jahara ~ Kuwait
 * Yithrab ~ Saudia Arabia
 * Doha ~ Qatar? [Doha is the capital of Qatar]
 * Farsia ~ Iran
 * Pashtia ~ Afghanistan
 * Chobolo ~ Kabul
 * Kashmir ~ Pakistan

Uranian Powers ~ Asian Powers

 * The Volgan Republic ~ Russia? An alternate history successor state to the Soviet Union, including Russia and the Ukraine?
 * Ancylus Sea ~ Baltic Sea? [ML Ch. 10]
 * Volkosk Mountains ~ Ural Mountains
 * Bharat ~ India
 * Sind ~ NW India / SE Pakistan?
 * Anula ~ Sri Lanka [C Ch. 14]
 * Zhong Guo ~ China.
 * The Zhong capital is Choukoutien ~ Peking [R&A Ch. 4].
 * Hangkuk ~ North Korea
 * Yamato ~ Japan
 * Motonari ~ Hiroshima? [C Ch. 7]
 * Cochin (possibly aka Annam) ~ Vietnam
 * Nicobar ~ Malaysia
 * Magsaysay ~ The Philippines
 * Sukarno ~ Indonesia
 * New Wellington ~ New Zealand

Earth Countries that did not receive Terra Nova colonies, per ADCP Ch. 15:

 * Cuba (despite this, Cienfuegos seems to be a cognate)
 * North Korea (despite this, the Hangkuk seem to be a cognate)
 * Australia

United Earth ~ United Nations (of Earth)

 * Atlantis ~ ___________

International Organizations

 * World League ~ United Nations
 * Cosmopolitan Criminal Court ~ International Criminal Court [ADCP Ch. 20]

Book Abbreviations:

 * ADCP -- A Desert Called Peace
 * C -- Carnifex
 * LE -- The Lotus Eaters
 * R&A -- The Rods and the Axe
 * ML -- Molon Labe (aka Come and Take Them)
 * DoBDoW -- Days of Burning, Days of Wrath