"Iraq has been called the Republic of Fear for many years," he said.

They prefer to continue calling their island the Republic of China.

From then on, the country was officially called the Republic of Colombia.

Their business fortune once made people call this country the Republic of Hyundai.

Greece wants the new nation to call itself the Republic of Skopje.

Having been called the Republic of Macedonia for 50 years, it seemed reasonable to continue with that name.

Today it is called the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In those days it had been called the Republic of the Central Andes.

Until the 1920s, this period was called the "Aristocratic Republic", since most of the presidents that ruled the country were from the social elite.

The area of the proposed state was not called "the Republic of Macedonia" until 1945.