diff --git a/plugin-designs/regions-dashboard/regions-list.vue b/plugin-designs/regions-dashboard/regions-list.vue
index de7b5844b..e5479734d 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/regions-dashboard/regions-list.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/regions-dashboard/regions-list.vue
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ import { applyPeopleGroupList } from '@map/lists/peopleGroupList.js'
 import { SHADOW_BOX_SIZING_RESET } from './src/shadowReset.js'
 import { splitLastWord } from './src/useLastWordHighlight.js'
 import { useRegionsI18n } from '@map/i18n/useRegionsI18n.js'
+import { countryName } from '@map/utils/countryName.js'
+import { useOptionalT } from '@map/composables/useOptionalT.js'
 // ar renders right-to-left. RTL_LOCALES is the shared set and :dir on our own root is the
 // house pattern (doxa-simple-map.vue:18, :246, :1346) — an EMBEDDED element must not reach for
 // document.documentElement.dir, which belongs to the host page.
@@ -129,6 +131,12 @@ const isRTL = computed(() => RTL_LOCALES.has(i18nLocale.value))
 // invisible inside the composite, where the tab strip names the view, and plainly missing on
 // /doxa-maps/regions-dashboard/regions-list/index.html, which is a page in its own right.
 const { t, tf } = useRegionsI18n()
+// ★ A SECOND TRANSLATOR, DELIBERATELY. useRegionsI18n's t() resolves DX-life's English sentences as
+// keys inside the `regions` namespace only, which is what this page is cloned from. A dotted key in
+// another area — messages.countryPosterTooMany — misses there and would render the literal string
+// "messages.countryPosterTooMany" on the wall. tKey is vue-i18n's own lookup, for keys that live
+// outside this page's namespace.
+const tKey = useOptionalT('')
 const headTitle = computed(() => splitLastWord(t('Regions')))
 
 // ★ REGISTER BEBAS NEUE AT DOCUMENT LEVEL, not in the shadow root: @font-face is document-scoped
@@ -311,10 +319,27 @@ const POSTER_BY_ISO3 = new Map((posterData.countries || []).map(c => [String(c.i
 // Every country in the region gets a card, in PosterWall's own shape. A country with no
 // generated poster is NOT dropped — it is passed with a reason, which is what the wall's
 // `unsupported` slot is for, so the grid never silently loses a country.
+// ★ EACH CARD NAMED IN THE READER'S LANGUAGE. item.label is the card's accessible name, the print
+// HUD's title, and the title on the printed list, deck and packet — and country-posters.json carries
+// it in English only, so every card was English in every locale. Same fix as the country-posters
+// wall, and the same two caveats travel with it:
+//   · ENGLISH KEEPS THE DATA'S OWN NAMES. Intl's English differs from them for 32 of these 175
+//     countries, and countryName.js records that swap as a product decision rather than a refactor.
+//   · THE SHEET GENERATOR STILL GETS THE ORIGINAL RECORD. The poster itself is English by recorded
+//     decision, so only the card's label is localised — postersFor's result feeds the wall, while
+//     countrySheet resolves its own country entry from the same json by iso3.
+// The i18n locale REF is read, not a snapshot, so a runtime language switch renames the cards.
+function localisedPoster(rec) {
+  const locale = i18nLocale.value || 'en'
+  if (/^en\b/i.test(locale)) return rec
+  const name = countryName(rec.iso3, locale)
+  return name && name !== rec.iso3 ? { ...rec, label: name } : rec
+}
+
 function postersFor(region) {
   return (region.countries || []).map((c) => {
     const rec = POSTER_BY_ISO3.get(String(c.code || '').toUpperCase())
-    if (rec) return rec
+    if (rec) return localisedPoster(rec)
     return {
       id: `country-${String(c.code || '').toLowerCase()}`,
       iso3: c.code,
@@ -325,10 +350,14 @@ function postersFor(region) {
   })
 }
 
-// Their own not-yet reason travels WITH the record, so the number the wall prints can never
-// drift from the data — country-poster-wall.vue:63 does exactly this. India is the only
-// country in the dataset that carries one (855 people groups, no sheet); China is fine at 3x4.
-const posterUnsupported = (c) => c.unsupportedReason || null
+// ★ THE REASON IS TRANSLATED, THE PRESENCE OF ONE IS STILL THE DATA'S. The record carries its own
+// English note ("India has 855 people groups — too many…"), and returning it put one untranslated
+// sentence on the wall in every locale. The record still DECIDES whether a country is unsupported;
+// only the wording comes from the catalogue now. messages.countryPosterTooMany exists in all
+// eleven, and needs no number in it: the card already shows the count directly above.
+// India is the only country in the dataset carrying one (855 people groups, no sheet); China is
+// fine at 3x4. My own not-yet reason, for a country with no record at all, is already through t().
+const posterUnsupported = (c) => (c.unsupportedReason ? tKey('messages.countryPosterTooMany') : null)
 
 // One region's wall is already inside a region section, so it needs no second level of
 // collapsing and no grouping: everything in it is that one region.