India
22.8000°N 83.0000°E · Q668
4 English words in this atlas trace back to India. It sits in India.
The dye is named for the country it was shipped from.
Greek indikon meant Indian, and the name followed the dye west through Latin and Spanish. Denim owes its colour to it.
The ink is named for a trade route, not its origin.
The ink was developed in China, but English speakers met it through trade with India and named it accordingly.
India paper came from China and Japan; India was only the shipping route.
European printers met these thin East Asian papers through the East India Company, so the name followed the route rather than the source. Oxford University Press made its own version famous from the 1870s, which is why thin Bibles are still described as printed on India paper.
It was born in a coal seam that caught fire underground and baked the rock around it.
Akiho Miyashiro and Tetsuo Iiyama described indialite in 1954 from the Bokaro coal seam southwest of Hazaribagh, in what was then Bihar. The mineral forms only at high temperature, and the heat here came from the burning seam itself rather than from any igneous body. It has since been found in a volcanic setting at the Bellerberg in the German Eifel.