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A country with republic and/or democratic in its official name is usually neither.
Most republics afaik have "Republic" in their name. I don't think that's the problem.
they don't tend to actually use that name, no one says "the republic of finland"
Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal republic of Germany)
Which is basically never used, everyone just says germany.
That depends, in Germany, the federal republic part is fairly regularly used in news when talking about international affairs, basically using it so they don't have to say Germany as often.
Maybe in English it is not used as often. In Germany it is used as just Bundesrepublik in News etc to don't repeat oneself too much or in historic context to differentiate from the German Democratic Republic (where the naming is again ironic, but it's the Democratic party)
It is used in Germany though lol
I thought us Americans had egos, but I'm not going to tell people they're referencing their own countries by the wrong name.
Yes they do.
Source: Am Irish.
That's true, though in that case it's to disambiguate from northern ireland or the whole island.
Same deal as the Kingdom of Denmark, you only ever say that to emphasize that you mean greenland as well.