Most countries around the world actually have a kanji name. This lists a few.
Modern usage katakana is almost always used instead. But since I have created other totally useless pages, I thought adding one more won’t hurt too much…
Here are a few countries that have kanji chosen to fit the pronunciation. These are normally written in Katakana, but occasionally, you may find them written:
亜米利加 アメリカ – amerika – America
阿弗利加 アフリカ – afurika - Africa
亜細亜 アジア – ajia – Asia
加奈陀 カナダ – kanada – Canada
印度 インド – indo – India
倫敦 ロンドン – rondon – London
墨西哥 メキシコ – mekishiko – Mexico
巴里 パリ – pari – Paris
羅馬 ローマ – ro-ma – Rome
露西亜 ロシア –roshia – Russia
比律賓 Firipin – the Philippines (added by user)
仏蘭西 Furansu – France
緬甸 [ビルマ] – Burma (Submitted by culturica)
越南（ベトナム） – Vietnam (Submitted by まったん)
伊太利亜（イタリア） – Italy (Submitted by まったん)
英吉利（イギリス）- England (Submitted by まったん)
西班牙（スペイン） – Spain (Submitted by まったん)
独逸（ドイツ） – Germany (Submitted by まったん)
欧州 – おうしゅう – Europe (Submitted by culturica)
波蘭 – ポーランド – Poland (Submitted by culturica)
和蘭 – オランダ – The Netherlands (Submitted by culturica)
豪州 ごうしゅう – Australia (Submitted by tokai devotee)
Here are a few locations in kanji that are used today instead of katakana
大西洋 – たいせいよう – taiseiyou – Atlantic Ocean
太平洋 – たいへいよう – taiheiyou – Pacific Ocean
米国 – べいこく – beikoku – United States
英国 – えいこく – eikoku – United Kingdom
中東 – ちゅうとう – chuutou – Middle East
