Learn English – What do you call the country out of which someone has emigrated

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Emigrant = someone who is leaving their country.

??? = the country from which the emigrant is departing.

I want to say Émigré country but I don't know if that makes sense.

Maybe country of emigration? But that's too wordy.

Is there one word?

Best Answer

Native country
the country someone is born in or native to

Born Carmela Drelano, in Spain, it was very many years since she had lived in her native country.

Native land

When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair

Native soil
The country or geographical region where one was born or which one considers to be one's true homeland

Nawaz Sharif, two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan, had planned a triumphant return to his native soil nearly seven years after choosing exile.

If the OP wishes a similar one word expression still connected to native, then I suggest
birthplace

  • He knows what spot this is: the birthplace of their country.
  • At the age of 27, Arriaga emigrated from his birthplace, the port of Callao, Peru, to Canada. source
  • Pulitzer emigrated from his birthplace in Hungary to New York in 1864 when he was 17.
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