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{{Subcat guideline|naming convention|Country-specific topics|WP:NCCST}}
{{Naming conventions}}

Articles which deal with an aspect of a country or region generally take the form "Foo of Country (noun)", such as [[Culture of India]] though some articles may be named "Country (adjective) foo"  such as [[Indian literature]] and [[Indian Armed Forces]], where the article is dealing with the language or people from the country rather than the country itself.

== Guideline ==
In general, country-specific articles should be named using the form: "(item) of (country)".
*This will usually hold true in other geography-specific topics, such as for cities, continents, provinces, states, etc. 

* "In", "from", or another preposition may be substituted for "of" as appropriate.

For country-specific categories, see [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)]]

=== Examples ===
* [[History of Portugal]]  (vs "Portuguese history")
* [[:Category:Wars involving Great Britain]]  (vs "Great British Wars")

==National varieties of English==
{{see|Wikipedia:Article titles#National varieties of English}}

When using the "(item) (preposition) (country)" form, "(item)" should be in the national variety of English used in "(country)".

Compare:
* [[Driver's licences in Canada|''Driver's'' licences in Canada]] with [[Driving licence in the United Kingdom|''Driving'' licence in the United Kingdom]]
* [[:Category:Footballers in the United Kingdom|Category:''Footballers'' in the United Kingdom]] with [[:Category:Soccer players in the United States|Category:''Soccer players'' in the United States]]

==Ethnicity and language ==
It is important to be able to differentiate when a topic ''is'' actually country-specific. Often what may look like a country adjective is really describing a set of people or a language. Notice that "''Polish''" may mean "From or related to [[Poland]]" ''or'' "referring to the Polish people or language." For example [[Polish language]], [[Polish people]], even [[Polish literature]] (since these articles most often deal with the literature of the set of people, not the country necessarily). By contrast, [[Culture of Poland]], [[Politics of Poland]] and [[Economy of Poland]] are all describing the country itself.

==See also==
*[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages)]]

[[Category:Wikipedia naming conventions|Country-specific topics]]

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