Its can be tough being a citizen of the republic of Georgia, due to the prevalence of English internationally and the prominence of the United States of America within the Anglosphere its very difficult for them to standout from the state that's famous for peaches. "I'm from Georgianonotthestatethecountry" is not an uncommon verbal tic for Georgians travelling abroad. It can also be a bit of a pain the other way, in 2008 the Russian Federation started a five day war with its neighbour Georgia, an infamous thread by an alarmed citizen of the US state of Georgia wondering where the Russian tanks were went viral.
Fortunately for speakers of Esperanto this isn't an issue. In Esperanto the nation of Georgia is Kartvelio and the citizens of it are Kartvelo(j). While the state within the United States is called Georgio. This clears up a confusion but it creates another. The name's of countries of the world in Esperanto were based on their names in English. So, Francio is France and Germanio is Germany etc. This makes Georgia (Kartvelio) an exception, and quite a rare one. It is based on the Georgian name Sakartvelo, this is very rare in Esperanto, I can't think of another case were the local name differs greatly from the English and is used in Esperanto.
I've tried looking up the reason for this, and aside from learning a lot about the etymology of the usage of Georgian for Sakartvelo I haven't much in way of answer. I do have a theory though, which despite lacking confirmation does make sense. Esperanto was developed in the 1860s, during that period Georgia was colonised by the Russian Empire, that and its location in the west of the Caucuses made it one of the few parts of the world where the British Empire and the USA had little influence and few connections, relatively speaking. So, I believe that Zamenhof and the early Esperantists didn't know what English speakers called Georgians, but as fellow subjects of the Tsar did know a bit about the Georgian people and what they called themselves so used that.
