banana republic

Etymology
in his short story Money Maze, set in the fictional "Anchuria", which was based on his 1896–97 stay in Honduras.

Noun

 * 1)  A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة الْمَوْزِ
 * Armenian: ադամաթզենու հանրապետություն
 * Azerbaijani: banan respublikası
 * Basque: banana errepublika
 * Breton: republik ar bananez
 * Bulgarian: бананова република
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: banánová republika
 * Danish: bananrepublik, bananstat
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: bananrespubliko
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბანანის რესპუბლიკა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: bananalýðveldi
 * Indonesian: republik pisang
 * Italian: repubblica delle banane
 * Japanese: バナナ共和国
 * Korean: 바나나 공화국
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کۆمارا مووزان
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latvian: banānu republika
 * Lithuanian: bananinė respublika
 * Macedonian: банана република, банана-држава
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Malay: republik pisang
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bananrepublikk
 * Nynorsk: bananrepublikk
 * Persian: جمهوری موزی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: república das bananas
 * Romanian: republică bananieră
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бана́на репу̀блика, бана́на-др̀жава
 * Roman: banána repùblika, banána-dr̀žava
 * Slovak: banánová republika
 * Slovene: bananska republika, banana republika
 * Spanish: república bananera
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar: банан республикасы
 * Thai: สาธารณรัฐกล้วย
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: бананова республіка
 * Urdu: جمہوریہ کیلا
 * Vietnamese: cộng hoà chuối
 * Welsh: gweriniaeth fanana
 * West Frisian: bananerepublyk

Etymology
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