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Came across this photo today:

 

DILI, Timor Leste (Feb. 25, 2014) Timor Leste Defense Force soldiers during a training exercise with sailors from the guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd. U.S Navy photo by Jay C. Pugh

Timor Leste? Where is that? I think I've run across it before, but I'm not sure, so I Google it and I get this:

East Timor or Timor-Leste, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Australasia.

What!?! Timor Leste is in Australia!?! That can't be right, so I follow the link and discover that not only did I miss a couple of letters, but other people have gotten these terms, and several others, confused as well.

• Australasia is a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French Australasie) in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes^[1] (1756). 
• Australia is the smallest continent on our planet.
• Austrasia was a country in Western Europe from 511 to about 751 AD.
• Austria is a country in Central Europe.
  
• Austroasian refers to a family of languages from continental Southeast Asia.

So how did we get this mess? Wikipedia explains:

The origin of the name Austrasia is Germanic, meaning "eastern land". The latinisation is confusing as German "Ost" is "east", but Latin "auster"/ "australis" is "south". The same can be seen with the name Austria.