Codename "de" (was Re: Country names in national languages)

> I remembered that long ago we were trying to have a list of the
> name of the countries in the official/national languages. I even
> had a table with this names, but I lost it unfortunately.
I wonder why 'Germany' has so many different names:

de: Deutschland (/dOjtSland/; I know how to pronounce it,
                 just not sure how to represent the diphtong)
jp: Doitsu      (from the german pronunciation)
dk: Tyskland    (|y| being a high front rounded vowel, like german |ü|)
en: Germany
pt: Alemanha    (Spanish, French and Italian have similar forms)

What else?

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