1. We add “jan4” (人) at the end of each country to show the people of that country. e.g., “zung1 gwok3 jan4” (中國人) Chinese.

2. “gwok3” literally means “country” (國家). Hence “faat3 gwok3” is France (法國) and “jing1 gwok3” is The United Kingdom (英國). However, the Cantonese names of some other countries in the table above are apparently the phonetic equivalents of the English sounds, for example: “gaa1 naa4 daai6” for Canada (加拿大), “baa1 gei1 si1 taan2” for Pakistan (巴基斯坦) and “ji3 daai6 lei6” for Italy (意大利).