To chime in here, the Korean term for Korea, Hangug (한국), includes gug (국) meaning soup land (compare Migug, Chunggug, Taegug, etc.). Han explciitly refers to the Han people, at least as far as my research is concerned, yet not even Naver knows of it meaning "Kingdom". (I know we have koreans around here; I'd appreciate corrections and links to further my learning.)
Also, there is the phenomenon of island dwarfism in animals (think Ostrich vs Dodo), which we know affects primates. I wonder whether this also affected anatomically modern humans, and if it's rude to ask.
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