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home country (plural home countries)

1. The country in which a person was born and usually raised, regardless of the present country of residence and citizenship.

• foreign country
• home ground
• homeland
• old country

country where a person was born and raised

• Arabic: وَطَن (ar) m (waṭan), مَوْطِن (ar) m (mawṭin), مَنْشَأ f (manšaʔ)

• Bulgarian: роди́на (bg) f (rodína)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 祖國 / 祖国 (zh) (zǔguó), (literary) 故鄉 / 故乡 (zh) (gùxiāng), 家鄉 / 家乡 (zh) (jiāxiāng), 原籍國 / 原籍国

• Danish: hjemland (da) n

• Dutch: thuisland (nl) n

• Estonian: kodumaa (et)

• Faroese: heimland n

• Finnish: kotimaa (fi)

• French: patrie (fr) f

• German: Heimatland (de) n, Heimat (de) f, Vaterland (de) n

• Greek: πατρίδα (el) f (patrída)

• Hindi: वतन (hi) (vatan)

• Hungarian: hon (hu), haza (hu)

• Italian: patria (it) f

• Japanese: 母国 (ja) (ぼこく, bokoku), 本国 (ja) (ほんごく, hongoku), ハイマート (haimāto), 祖国 (ja) (そこく, sokoku)

• Korean: 본국(本国) (ko) (bon'guk)

• Manchu: ᠮᠠᡶᠠ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ (mafa gurun)

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: hjemland n, heimland n
  Nynorsk: heimland n

• Persian: وطن (fa) (vatan)

• Portuguese: pátria (pt) f

• Russian: ро́дина (ru) f (ródina), родна́я страна́ f (rodnája straná), оте́чество (ru) n (otéčestvo), отчи́зна (ru) f (otčízna)

• Slovak: domovina f

• Spanish: patria (es) f

• Swedish: hemland (sv) n

• Turkmen: diýar

• Urdu: وطن (ur) (vatan)

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