English 'Germany' comes from Latin Germania, probably a Celtic exonym meaning 'neighbours' — the Germans never called themselves this, and every European language has a different name for the country based on which tribe they met first.
A country in Central Europe, the most populous member state of the European Union.
English 'Germany' derives from Latin 'Germania', the Roman name for the lands east of the Rhine and north of the Danube. The Latin name was popularized by Julius Caesar ('De Bello Gallico', 50s BCE) and later by Tacitus ('Germania', 98 CE). The origin of 'Germania' is debated. It may derive from a Celtic word meaning 'neighbour' (compare Old Irish 'gair' meaning 'neighbour') or 'noisy' (compare Welsh 'gawr' meaning 'shout'). Crucially, 'Germania' is an exonym — the Germans never called themselves this. German 'Deutschland' means
Germany has more different names across European languages than almost any other country. The English/Latin 'Germany' comes from a Celtic exonym; French 'Allemagne' from the Alemanni tribe; Finnish 'Saksa' from the Saxons; Polish 'Niemcy' from a Slavic root meaning 'mute ones' (people who don't speak our language). Each name preserves which Germanic tribe that language community encountered first.