40+ Nationalities Recite The Last 5 Presidents or Heads Of Their Country

40+ Nationalities Recite The Last 5 Presidents or Heads Of Their Country

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How different do you think the names of the people from one country to another? In this blog, weโ€™ll find out! I asked more than 40 nationalities to recite the full names of the last five leaders of their country, may they be Presidents or Prime Ministers. Not only that weโ€™re able to compare the differences of names based on our nationality but weโ€™re also able to share the list of leaders who served our country.

Hi there! I am Daniel from the Philippine islands (located in Asia). In my country, Filipino names sound very hispanic. Why? Well itโ€™s due to the massive Spanish influence during the colonial period that lasted more than 300 years. Just a fun fact.

Anyway, here the challenge:

CHALLENGE OF THE DAY

We might be surprised of how different the peopleโ€™s names in each country! In this challenge, Iโ€™d like to know the full names of the last five presidents or prime ministers or whatever you call the head of your country -both past and present.

๐ŸŽ™First, record an audio by introducing yourself first (name, country, and language) and then recite the full names of the last five Presidents / PMs / Head of your country. Please start from the present one down to the previous ones. If he or she has been elected more than once, just mention him/her once. You need to complete 5 different peopleโ€™s names as much as possible.

๐Ÿ“œSecond, share the list of the full names of those 5 different people.ย 
1. (present)
2. (past)
3. (past)
4. (past)
5. (past)
(Use roman alphabets only)

US Last Five Presidents at Mt Rushmore

With 40+ nationalities participating in this challenge, here is how each one recite the names of their countryโ€™s last five leaders. So get your earphones ready!

And let us know in the comment section below if they did a good job!

  • Angola ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ด
  • Native Language: Portuguese

1. Joรฃo Manuel Gonรงalves Lourenรงo (present)
2. Josรฉ Eduardo dos Santos
3. Antรณnio Agostinho Neto

Note from Euclides: We only had three presidents so far.

  • Argentina ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Native Language: Spanish

1. Mauricio Macri (present)
2. Cristina Fernรกndez de Kirchner
3. Nรฉstor Kirchner
4. Eduardo Duhalde (temporary president)
5. Adolfo Rodrรญguez Sea (temporary president)

  • Australia ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ
  • Native Language: English

1. Scott Morrison (present)
2. Malcolm Turnbull
3. Tony Abbott
4. Julia Gillard
5. Kevin Rudd

  • Brazil ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Native Language: Portuguese

1. Jair Bolsonaro (present)
2. Michel Temer
3. Dilma Rousseff
4. Luiz Inรกcio Lula da Silva
5. Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  • Burundi ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฎ
  • Native Language: Kirundi

1. Pierre Nkurunziza (present)
2. Domitien Ndayizeye
3. Pierre Buyoya
4. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
5. Michel Micombero

  • Chile ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  • Native Language: Spanish

1. Sebastian Piรฑera (present)
2. Michelle Bacheletย 
3. Ricardo Lagosย 
4. Eduardo Freรญ Ruiz-tangle
5. Patricio Alwyn

  • China ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ
  • Native Language: Chinese
  1. Xรญ Jรฌn Pรญng (present)
  2. Hรบ Jวn Tฤo
  3. Jiฤng Zรฉ Mรญn
  4. Dรจng XiวŽo Pรญng
  5. Mรกo Zรฉ Dลng
  • Colombia ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด
  • Native Language: Spanish

1. Ernesto Sampler
2. Andres Pastrana
3. Alvarado Uribe
4. Juan manuel Santos
5. Ivan Duque (present)

  • Czech Republic ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  • Native Language: Czech

1. Miloลก Zeman (present)
2. Vรกclav Klausย 
3. Vรกclav Havelย 

Note from Jan: We had only three presidents so far, because we were Czechoslovakia until 1993, then we split to Czech republic and Slovakia.

  • Denmark ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ
  • Native Language: Danish

1. Mette Frederiksen (present)
2. Lars Lรธkke Rasmussen
3. Helle Thorning Schmidt
4. Anders Fogh Rasmussen
5. Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

  • Dominican Republic ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด
  • Native Language: Spanish

1. Danilo Medina (present)
2. Leonel Fernรกndez
3. Hipรณlito Mejรญa
4. Juaquin Balaguer
5. Jorge Blanco

  • England ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
  • Native Language:English

1. Boris Johnson (present)
2. Theresa May
3. David Cameron
4. Gordon Brown
5. Tony Blair

  • France ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Native Language: French

1. Emmanuel Macron (present)
2. Franรงois Hollande
3. Nicolas Sarkozy
4. Jacques Chirac
5. Franรงois Mitterrand

  • Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช
  • Native Language: German

1) Angela Merkel (present)
2) Gerhard Schrรถder
3) Helmut Kohl
4) Helmut Schmidt
5) Willy Brandt

  • Greece ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Native Language: Greek

1. Kyriakos Mitsotakis (present)
2. Alexis Tsipras
3. Antonios Samaras
4. Loukas Papadimos
5. Georgios Papandreou

Note from Chris: Iโ€™m gonna introduce the prime ministers because in Greece prime ministers are the real bosses and presidents are like a honorary title.ย 

  • Hungary ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ
  • Native Language: Hungarian

1. Orbรกn Viktor (present)
2. Bajnai Gordon
3. Gyurcsรกny Ferenc
4. Medgyessy Pรฉter
5. Horn Gyula

  • India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ
  • Native Language: Hindi

1. Narendra Modi (present)
2. Manmohan Singh
3. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
4. Inder Kumar Gujral
5. H. D. Deve Gowda

  • Indonesia ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ
  • Native Language: Indonesian

1. Joko Widodo (present)
2. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
3. Megawati Soekarnoputri
4. Abdurrahman Wahid
5. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

  • Iran ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Native Language: Farsi

1. Hasan Rouhani (present)
2. Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad
3. Seyed Mohammad Khatami
4. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
5. Seyed Ali Khameneie

  • Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  • Native Language: Hebrew

1. Benjamin Netanyahu (present)
2. Ehud Olmert
3. Ariel Sharon
4. Ehud Barak
5. Yitzhak Rabin

  • Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
  • Native Language: Italian

1. Conte Giuseppe (present)
2. Gentiloni Paolo
3. Renzi Matteo
4. Letta Enrico
5. Monti Mario

  • Japan ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต
  • Native Language: Japanese

1. Abe Shinzo (present)
2. Noda Yoshihiko
3. Kan Naoto
4. Hatoyama Yukio
5. Aso Taro

  • Kazakhstan ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  • Native Language: Kazakh

1. Qasym Zhomart-Tokaev (present)
2. Nursultan Nazarbaev

Note from Akniyet: Kazakhstan only had 2 Presidents since its Independence in 1991.

  • Mexico ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ
  • Native Language: Spanish

1. Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador (present)
2. Enrique Peรฑa Nieto
3. Felipe Calderรณn Hinojosa
4. Vicente Fox Quezada
5. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leรณn

  • Paraguay ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡พ
  • Native Language: Guarani / Spanish

1. Mario Abdo Benitez (present)
2. Horacio Cartes
3. Federico Franco
4. Fernando Lugo
5. Nicanor Duarte Frutos

  • Peru ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ช
  • Native Language: Spanish / Quechua

1. Martin Alberto Vizcarra (present)
2. Pedro Pablo kuczynski
3. Ollanta Moises Humala
4. Alan Gabriel Garcia
5. Alejandro Toledo

  • Philippines ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ
  • Native Language: Filipino

1. Rodrigo Duterte (present)
2. Benigno Aquino III
3. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
4. Joseph Estrada
5. Fidel V Ramos

  • Poland ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  • Native Language: Polish

1. Andrzej Duda (present)
2. Bronisล‚aw Komorowski
3. Lech Kaczyล„skiย 
4. Aleksander Kwaล›niewski
5. Lech Waล‚ฤ™saย 

  • Russia ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ
  • Native Language: Russian

1. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (present)
2. Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev
3. Boris Nikolaevich Eltsin

Note from Dimitry: Russia only had 3 Russian Presidents so far.

  • South Africa ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
  • Native Language: Afrikaans

1. Cyril Ramaphosa (present)
2. Jacob Zuma
3. Kgalema Motlanthe
4. Thabo Mbeki
5. Nelson Mandela

  • South Korea ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Native Language: Korean

1. Moon Jae-in (present)
2. Park Geun-hye
3. Lee Myung-bak
4. Roh Moo-hyun
5. Kim Dae-jung

  • Taiwan ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ
  • Native Language: Chinese

1. Tsaรฌ YingWรบn (present)
2. MวŽ Yฤซngjiว”
3. Chรฉn ShuวbiวŽnย 
4. Lว Dฤ“nghuฤซย 
5. JiวŽng JingGuรณย 

  • Tanzania ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  • Native Language: Swahili

1. John Pombe Magufuli (present)
2. Jakay Mrisho kikwete
3. Benjamin William Mkapa
4. Ali Hassan Mwinyi
5. Julius Kambarage Nyerere

  • Thailand ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ญ
  • Native Language: Thai

1. Prayut Chan-o-cha (present)
2. Yingluck Shinawatra
3. Abhisit Vejjajiva
4. Chavarat Charnvirakul
5. Somchai Wongsawat

  • Turkey ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Native Language: Turkish

1. Recep Tayyip ErdoฤŸan (present)
2. Binali Yฤฑldฤฑrฤฑm
3. Ahmet DavutoฤŸlu
4. Bรผlent Ecevit
5. Necmettin Erbakan

  • United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • Native Language: English

1. Donald Trump (present)
2. Barack Obama
3. George W. Bush
4. Bill Clinton
5. George H. W. Bush

  • Vietnamย ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ณ
  • Native Language: Vietnamese

1. Nguyแป…n Phรบ Trแปng (present)
2. Trแบงn ฤแบกi Quang
3. Trฦฐฦกng Tแบฅn Sang
4. Nguyแป…n Minh Triแบฟt
5. Trแบงn ฤแปฉc Lฦฐฦกng

So there you have it!

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Contributed by Dan