Take it up with your ancestors (or the English, if you have no English ancestors yourself). They started calling the Dutch "Dutch" when people in what is today The Netherlands and Germany were both called deutsch/dutch, and the English didn't care to adjust when the distinction started to matter/people from the Netherlands stopped calling themselves deutsch/dutch.

But Germans are not much better, it's absurd that Italian city names that aren't at all hard to pronounce for Germans have different names in German, e.g. Torino, Milano, Roma (Turin, Mailand, Rom), and we also call Japan "Japan", even though Japanese is one of the few languages that uses a word for Germany that is derived from "Deutschland" and "Nippon" isn't hard to pronounce for Germans, either.

Also, the saxons never lived in the area of the German federal state of Saxony.

Americans are slowly learning about the rest of the world.

Better late than never.

Wait till you find out that Germans have different words for all the other things we have words for, too!

Seriously though, the names of countries are just words. There's no reason to expect them to be the same in different languages.

Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

Until you then find out that the Netherlands is actually called "Nederland" in the Netherlands. And the reason they'd called "Dutch" in America is due to an archaic mix-up between the two nationalities.

While it is quite common that countries have different names in other languages, germany is special because it really has a lot of very different names. Alemagne in french, germany in englisch, deutschland in german, tyskland in danish, Niemcy in poland and so on.

There is actually a wikipedia article about it, that also explains the origin of the different names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany

You have it backwards.

German in German is “Deutsch” or “Duits” in Dutch.

Dutch in Dutch is “Nederlands” or “Niederländisch” in German.

“Deutch” comes from an old high german word “diutisc” which meant “of the people”

“Dutch” comes from “Diest” meaning “people’s language”

When the Romans invaded England, they important the Latin “Germania” to refer to Germany and gradually started to use “Dutch” for the common people of the “lower countries” (Belgium and Netherlands)

Technically, Japan is not called Japan in Japan. Its Nippon.

Fun fact:

You might know China as 中国

But Chinatown is not China 中国 + Town 城

I never heard of any Chinese diaspora use 中国城

It's always 唐人街 Tang-People Street, Tang referring to China's most powerful dynasty, or 華埠 Hua-City, Hua also refers to Chinese people, it's actually a character in the official name of both PRC 中华人民共和国 (in simplified) and ROC 中華民國 (in traditional)

Overseas Chinese is typically not referred as 中国人 but as 華人 (Hua People)

Chinese Americans are not really referred to as "Americans" but the emphasis is put on the Citizenship, rather than being an "American"

Like in 美籍華人 which Google Translate says is "Chinese American", but really transliterates to "Hua (meaning ethnic Chinese) Person with American Citizenship"

To emphasis on the "American-ness" I'd have to use 華裔美國人 which transliterates to "American of Hua (aka: Chinese) Ethnicity", which I think would sound really weird and I think I'd get weird looks if I use the term 美國人 (American), so I probably would never call myself an "American" in front of Chinese-speaking people, but use 美籍華人 instead.

(Sort of like code-switching. I call myself American in front of other Americans to fit in, but call myself 華人 (ethnic Chinese person) to other ethnic Chinese so I could also fit in.)

Just wait til' you hear about what they call Japan in Japan.

i really wonder where you are from

Likewise, Germans feel betrayed when they find out that you don’t call your country Deppendorf

In Spanish Germany is Alemania. Just to add more confusion to this topic.

There's many such examples, just off the top of my head: Hungary, Finland, Greece, Georgia, Egypt and Japan.

Wait until you learn about Japan

I'm a Newfoundlander. My sister felt betrayed when she found out that what we call turnips, most people call rutabegas

and Japan is is not Japan in Japan.

This might also be mind-blowing for you: The USA and America are not called "the USA" and "America" in most other countries and languages either. Different languages often have completely different sounding country names.

What's Germany? You mean Německo?

As someone from Czech Republic, I am not surprised. There are sometimes huge differences between country names in czech and English. And the closer the country is, the bigger the difference.

For the German speaking countries eng - ger - cze:

• Germany - Deutschland - Německo
• Austria - Österreich - Rakousko
• Switzerland - Sweiz - Švýcarsko

Other examples (eng - cze):

• Czech - Česko
• Slovakia - Slovensko
• Slovenia - Slovinsko
• Greece - Řecko
• Georgia - Gruzie
• Spain - Španělsko
• Greenland - Grónsko
• Hungary - Maďarsko
• Croatia - Chorvatsko

to fix it:

🇳🇱Netherland, where Netherlanders live is Netherlands

🇩🇪Dutchland, where Dutchlanders live is Dutch

Wait till you find out what Japan is actually called.

Ah, but Canada is Canada. More or less consistent around the world. One of the few countries that is.

And the country of Georgia isn't called Georgia either!

And lets not even get into named country's in Sub-Saharan Africa.