40+ Nationalities Recite The Last 5 Presidents or Heads Of Their Country
By CONNECTPALS
How different do you think the names of the people from one country to another? In this blog, we’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 we’re able to compare the differences of names based on our nationality but we’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 it’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 people’s names in each country! In this challenge, I’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.
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 people’s names as much as possible.
1. (present)
2. (past)
3. (past)
4. (past)
5. (past)
(Use roman alphabets only)
With 40+ nationalities participating in this challenge, here is how each one recite the names of their country’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 🇦🇴
- Native Language: Portuguese
The Last 5 Presidents of Angola
1. João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço (present)
2. José Eduardo dos Santos
3. António Agostinho Neto
Note from Euclides: We only had three presidents so far.
- Argentina 🇦🇷
- Native Language: Spanish
The Last 5 Presidents of Argentina
1. Mauricio Macri (present)
2. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
3. Néstor Kirchner
4. Eduardo Duhalde (temporary president)
5. Adolfo Rodríguez Sea (temporary president)
- Australia 🇦🇺
- Native Language: English
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of Australia
1. Scott Morrison (present)
2. Malcolm Turnbull
3. Tony Abbott
4. Julia Gillard
5. Kevin Rudd
- Brazil 🇧🇷
- Native Language: Portuguese
The Last 5 Presidents of Brazil
1. Jair Bolsonaro (present)
2. Michel Temer
3. Dilma Rousseff
4. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
5. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- Burundi
- Native Language: Kirundi
The Last 5 Presidents of Burundi
1. Pierre Nkurunziza (present)
2. Domitien Ndayizeye
3. Pierre Buyoya
4. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
5. Michel Micombero
- Chile 🇨🇱
- Native Language: Spanish
The Last 5 Presidents of Chile
1. Sebastian Piñera (present)
2. Michelle Bachelet
3. Ricardo Lagos
4. Eduardo Freí Ruiz-tangle
5. Patricio Alwyn
- China 🇨🇳
- Native Language: Chinese
The Last 5 Presidents of China
- Xí Jìn Píng (present)
- Hú Jǐn Tāo
- Jiāng Zé Mín
- Dèng Xiǎo Píng
- Máo Zé Dōng
- Colombia 🇨🇴
- Native Language: Spanish
The Last 5 Presidents of Colombia
1. Ernesto Sampler
2. Andres Pastrana
3. Alvarado Uribe
4. Juan manuel Santos
5. Ivan Duque (present)
- Czech Republic 🇨🇿
- Native Language: Czech
The Last 5 Presidents of Czech Rep
1. Miloš Zeman (present)
2. Václav Klaus
3. Václav Havel
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 🇩🇰
- Native Language: Danish
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of Denmark
1. Mette Frederiksen (present)
2. Lars Løkke Rasmussen
3. Helle Thorning Schmidt
4. Anders Fogh Rasmussen
5. Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
- Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
- Native Language: Spanish
The Last 5 Presidents of Dominican Rep
1. Danilo Medina (present)
2. Leonel Fernández
3. Hipólito Mejía
4. Juaquin Balaguer
5. Jorge Blanco
- England 🏴
- Native Language:English
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of UK
1. Boris Johnson (present)
2. Theresa May
3. David Cameron
4. Gordon Brown
5. Tony Blair
- France 🇫🇷
- Native Language: French
The Last 5 Presidents of France
1. Emmanuel Macron (present)
2. François Hollande
3. Nicolas Sarkozy
4. Jacques Chirac
5. François Mitterrand
- Germany 🇩🇪
- Native Language: German
The Last 5 Chancellors of Germany
1) Angela Merkel (present)
2) Gerhard Schröder
3) Helmut Kohl
4) Helmut Schmidt
5) Willy Brandt
- Greece 🇬🇷
- Native Language: Greek
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of Greece
1. Kyriakos Mitsotakis (present)
2. Alexis Tsipras
3. Antonios Samaras
4. Loukas Papadimos
5. Georgios Papandreou
Note from Chris: I’m gonna introduce the prime ministers because in Greece prime ministers are the real bosses and presidents are like a honorary title.
- Hungary 🇭🇺
- Native Language: Hungarian
The Last 5 Presidents of Hungary
1. Orbán Viktor (present)
2. Bajnai Gordon
3. Gyurcsány Ferenc
4. Medgyessy Péter
5. Horn Gyula
- India 🇮🇳
- Native Language: Hindi
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of India
1. Narendra Modi (present)
2. Manmohan Singh
3. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
4. Inder Kumar Gujral
5. H. D. Deve Gowda
- Indonesia 🇮🇩
- Native Language: Indonesian
The Last 5 Presidents of Indonesia
1. Joko Widodo (present)
2. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
3. Megawati Soekarnoputri
4. Abdurrahman Wahid
5. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
- Iran
- Native Language: Farsi
The Last 5 Presidents of Iran
1. Hasan Rouhani (present)
2. Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad
3. Seyed Mohammad Khatami
4. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
5. Seyed Ali Khameneie
- Israel 🇮🇱
- Native Language: Hebrew
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of Israel
1. Benjamin Netanyahu (present)
2. Ehud Olmert
3. Ariel Sharon
4. Ehud Barak
5. Yitzhak Rabin
- Italy 🇮🇹
- Native Language: Italian
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of Italy
1. Conte Giuseppe (present)
2. Gentiloni Paolo
3. Renzi Matteo
4. Letta Enrico
5. Monti Mario
- Japan 🇯🇵
- Native Language: Japanese
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of Japan
1. Abe Shinzo (present)
2. Noda Yoshihiko
3. Kan Naoto
4. Hatoyama Yukio
5. Aso Taro
- Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
- Native Language: Kazakh
The Last 5 Presidents of Kazakhstan
1. Qasym Zhomart-Tokaev (present)
2. Nursultan Nazarbaev
Note from Akniyet: Kazakhstan only had 2 Presidents since its Independence in 1991.
- Mexico 🇲🇽
- Native Language: Spanish
The Last 5 Presidents of Mexico
1. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (present)
2. Enrique Peña Nieto
3. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
4. Vicente Fox Quezada
5. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León
- Paraguay 🇵🇾
- Native Language: Guarani / Spanish
The Last 5 Presidents of Paraguay
1. Mario Abdo Benitez (present)
2. Horacio Cartes
3. Federico Franco
4. Fernando Lugo
5. Nicanor Duarte Frutos
- Peru 🇵🇪
- Native Language: Spanish / Quechua
The Last 5 Presidents of Peru
1. Martin Alberto Vizcarra (present)
2. Pedro Pablo kuczynski
3. Ollanta Moises Humala
4. Alan Gabriel Garcia
5. Alejandro Toledo
- Philippines 🇵🇭
- Native Language: Filipino
The Last 5 Presidents of the Philippines
1. Rodrigo Duterte (present)
2. Benigno Aquino III
3. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
4. Joseph Estrada
5. Fidel V Ramos
- Poland 🇵🇱
- Native Language: Polish
The Last 5 Presidents of Poland
1. Andrzej Duda (present)
2. Bronisław Komorowski
3. Lech Kaczyński
4. Aleksander Kwaśniewski
5. Lech Wałęsa
- Russia 🇷🇺
- Native Language: Russian
The Last 5 Presidents of Russia
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 🇿🇦
- Native Language: Afrikaans
The Last 5 Presidents of South Africa
1. Cyril Ramaphosa (present)
2. Jacob Zuma
3. Kgalema Motlanthe
4. Thabo Mbeki
5. Nelson Mandela
- South Korea 🇰🇷
- Native Language: Korean
The Last 5 Presidents of South Korea
1. Moon Jae-in (present)
2. Park Geun-hye
3. Lee Myung-bak
4. Roh Moo-hyun
5. Kim Dae-jung
- Taiwan 🇹🇼
- Native Language: Chinese
The Last 5 Presidents of Taiwan
1. Tsaì YingWún (present)
2. Mǎ Yīngjiǔ
3. Chén Shuǐbiǎn
4. Lǐ Dēnghuī
5. Jiǎng JingGuó
- Tanzania 🇹🇿
- Native Language: Swahili
The Last 5 Presidents of Tanzania
1. John Pombe Magufuli (present)
2. Jakay Mrisho kikwete
3. Benjamin William Mkapa
4. Ali Hassan Mwinyi
5. Julius Kambarage Nyerere
- Thailand 🇹🇭
- Native Language: Thai
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of Thailand
1. Prayut Chan-o-cha (present)
2. Yingluck Shinawatra
3. Abhisit Vejjajiva
4. Chavarat Charnvirakul
5. Somchai Wongsawat
- Turkey 🇹🇷
- Native Language: Turkish
The Last 5 Prime Ministers of Turkey
1. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (present)
2. Binali Yıldırım
3. Ahmet Davutoğlu
4. Bülent Ecevit
5. Necmettin Erbakan
- United States 🇺🇸
- Native Language: English
The Last 5 Presidents of the USA
1. Donald Trump (present)
2. Barack Obama
3. George W. Bush
4. Bill Clinton
5. George H. W. Bush
- Vietnam
- Native Language: Vietnamese
The Last 5 Presidents of Vietnam
1. Nguyễn Phú Trọng (present)
2. Trần Đại Quang
3. Trương Tấn Sang
4. Nguyễn Minh Triết
5. Trần Đức Lương
So there you have it!
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Contributed by Dan
