Can you name all the countries of the world?

Yeah, I used to play this constantly on Sporcle years ago and it feels incredible when you finally get all of them several times in a row. I had the most problems with Oceania and the Caribbean.

I recommend doing it region by region (or continent by continent) first, then playing the big quiz where all the countries are included. Otherwise, it can get too frustrating.

I can.

I got 137 out of 170.

I was embarrassed how many in Africa (particularly toward the center of the continent) I could not not name; I was not surprised at all at how many micronations I missed in Oceania (my head just drew a blank for all those island nations). I was also not surprised I missed several from the former USSR.

I spent way too long time trying to spell United Arab Emerites Emerits Emorites Emerits

I got through almost all of the Americas, Australia, and Europe, most of Asia, and a chunk of Northeast Africa before running out of time, and still only got 52%.

You can just write UAE for the Emirates. Same as USA for the States.

This becomes a typing test - and I spent some time trying to enter Puerto Rico, which seems to be missing

I'm the worst typist so I only got 184 and timed out on the Pacific Island countries.

I have failed as a need. Why even live in Mom's basement?

"I have failed as a need."

I think you failed at typing, spelling and proof reading.

r6 You can play a clickable quiz if you don't like typing.

Also, Puerto Rico is not an independent country, it's an unincorporated territory of the United States.

R2 I was thinking the same thing, but I don't some of the countries he mentions even exist anymore.

[quote]Puerto Rico, which seems to be missing

I guess it sunk into the ocean.

r10 It's a poorly researched cartoon meant to amuse, not so much to educate. For example, Greenland was never a country in the first place; San Juan is not a country, it's the capital of Puerto Rico which also is not a country, Guam is a US territory, Scotland and England are not countries... the list goes on and on.

R8, I was distraught at my failure such that I missed the typo. HAVE SOME COMPASSION, you fat whore!

I was able to name 164.

r14 That's a great result. Which six did you miss?

R15 it was a couple more than six but the more obscure countries like Grenada, Nauru, Guyana etc. I think having the time limit stressed me out.

Who the hell could do that?

OP's map you can just type in USA instead of United States same for UK, UAE. NZ for New Zealand and DR for Dominican Republic also work for some reason but you have to type out the word North and South for each of the Koreas. Makes very little sense.

Where did all these little countries in African and Europe come from? Some of them are missing, like Yugoslavia and Siam.

R2 That's probably my favorite Animaniacs song.

r19 Damn, you [italic]old[/italic] old, aren't you?

Persia, Ottoman Empire, Siam, Indo-China....

OP: " I've never heard of most of these countries".

Tell us you're an American, without telling us you're an American.

^ Tell us you're an passive-aggressive Brit without A/C... 😂

Not a Brit but a European! R24 ; )

r25 OP is so limited, he can't conceive of anyone but gringos and the occasional Brit posting on DL, thereby proving your original point.

I can't believe how many VERY OBVIOUS ones I drew a blank on

I managed to forget Greece but recalled ones like Djibouti and Palau

^ Professor Idiot has reached a conclusion therefore we are all dumber for having read it 😏

^ for r26

I got 102 out of 196.

The quiz asks [italic]How many countries can you name?[/italic] But it should really be How many countries can you REMEMBER.

I knew of way more countries than I could recall during the taking of this test.

What about naming all the capital cities ?

I used to play map games quite a bit, so got 184/196. My brain just seems incapable of remembering all these countries in the Pacific - they accounted for six of the twelve I missed.

Rangoon Burma always fucked me up in the 3rd grade and it still does 🥴

How many of you remembered my beautiful homeland?!

That was hard!

^ That's what she said

Ha Darfur Orphan, I actually thought of you when entering South Sudan

I got tripped up on French Guiana - it showed it as a place on the map of South America but because it is a department of France, the quiz shows it as French and I spent a good minute entering all the possible spellings until I realized they wanted France

The map in OP's quiz is not easy to manipulate either, at least on a Mac

Forgot Kosovo too

Me too, R37.

I got 142. Other posters are right and about the Polynesian islands being tricky; you don't know which ones are a countries in their own right even if you know their names.

I have gotten 185 - I have no idea of most of the island/archipelago countries in the Pacific, the program wouldn't accept French Guyana and I had forgotten about the tiny Monaco, San Marino, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg.

R37 a thousand blessings to you! Not many people think of 'entering' me.

[quote][R19] Damn, you old old, aren't you?

When I was in school, they taught us that there were 10 countries in Africa: Liberia, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, and Guinea. Then there was French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, and I forget the rest; but they were colonies, not separate countries.

Damn you ARE old R19. Most African countries became independent in the late 50s/early 60s

I had the same issue R39 but it seems that since it is a department of France that was the answer they wanted.

French Guyana is not an independent country, it is fully part of the French state. It's like trying to write in Alaska, I don't know why you would even try in a quiz that covers countries. And FG has far less autonomy than Alaska, so it's actually worse.

[quote]NZ for New Zealand and DR for Dominican Republic also work for some reason but you have to type out the word North and South for each of the Koreas. Makes very little sense.

r18 That's because those aren't the initials they're known for internationally. Use DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) for North Korea and ROK (Republic of Korea) for South Korea and it works. You see those initials all the time in sports competitions, for example.

Given time, I can name them all, with the possible exception of a few of the dinkier Melanesians and some of the dinkier countries in Africa, such as the Congos, which go through name changes once a year. Then I took one look at that fucking clock counting down and that was it; I couldn't remember my name.

Congo-Kinshasa changed its name from Zaire in 1997, so not exactly a yearly change, though I do keep confusing it with Congo-Brazzaville.

The last name change in Africa was Swaziland becoming Eswatini in 2018, and before that Cape Verde becoming Cabo Verde in 2013.

FYROM became North Macedonia in 2019, so Europe owns the latest name change. And that's not counting the fact that the Czech Republic now wants be called Czechia and the Netherlands wants everyone to stop using Holland.

Oh, and I forgot Turkey wanting to be called Türkiye by everyone since last month, because elections are next year and this nationalistic crap is what they're wasting their time on instead of dealing with their currency meltdown.

*glances uncertainly at whole map of U.K.* ...🥅💭😶what is that, England?....

Which ones are missing for you, OP? Czechoslovakia? Ceylon? USSR?

I filled in most of the map green but still missed a lot in Africa. Also missed a lot in the Caribbean, Oceania, and all of the micro states like Vatican City. I was using the map as a visual and trying to beat the clock, and just forgot about all these tiny little specks on the map. Got stuck trying to spell some of the Soviet Stans too.

"Miss Johnson! Miss Johnson!! You forgot to write the homework on the board!!"!

[quote] Swaziland becoming Eswatini , a move that was celebrated by the introduction of the National Cocktail, the Eswatini, which is made with vodka, vermouth and a splash of Van Der Hum.

Typing Turkey is acceptable. Typing just Congo gets you both Congos.

Thanks for the info, R46. I'll add that to my list of stupid things that I will refuse to do.

r53 Yes, it's fucking stupid. I get it when the exonym is derogatory or outdated due to colonialist ties, but what's wrong with Turkey? Apparently, they claim its association with turkey the bird in English is demeaning to the entire country, which I don't buy.

Ivory Coast demanding to be called Côte d'Ivoire (since 1985) is another puzzling one since it's literally the same thing but in French.

And then there's Burkina Faso. I can never remember if it went from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, or the other way.

Vis-a-vis yearly country name changes, one example:

"A constitutional referendum the year before Mobutu's coup of 1965 resulted in the country's official name being changed to the "Democratic Republic of the Congo." In 1971 Mobutu changed the name again, this time to "Republic of Zaire".

Okay, but Zaire hasn't existed since 1997. Why are you reaching all the way back to the sixties when Congo-Kinshasa hasn't changed its name once in the past quarter of a century? Did you follow global events really closely that decade and then just never tuned in again, or what?

I got them all

I can now. I had to learn Vanaatu and Palau.

Why would I want to?

I got all 196 on my second try.

Here's another one, albeit more difficult.

I got 183. I ran out of time in the Caribbean. In my rush I made many typing mistakes which slowed me down. I'm pretty proud of myself.

I actually take that quiz once a month to see how many I can remember. I got all of them this month!

Hell, no. I became lost after so many changed names. I thought Ceylon had a nice ring to it. Gone. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were cool names. Gone.

I must add that Russia is better than U.S.S.R. That always creeped me out.

To the folks reacting because they can't keep up with all the rapid fire changes that have happened since 1960, you might want to consider that you're old as fuck curmudgeons and your deliberate ignorance of the world in the 21st century is not as endearing as you think.

The changes in Africa alone in the 60s and 70s were dizzying.

Many of the newly independent nations in the 60s and 70s were not considered first-world, especially in Africa and the South Pacific.

The only time people from those countries are seen are at the Olympic opening ceremonies, and they get scant coverage for the remainder of the Olympiad, unless one of them does something unexpectedly good or finishes last in an event they barely complete.

Tonga's Pita Taufatofua knew his opportunity bearing the flag of Tonga at three Olympics, even a Winter Olympics.

Fiji's twice gold-medal-winning Rugby team.

I'm so sorry, Singapore. I know you well enough to know you'll never forgive me.

140. Missed tons of the Oceanic island. Give myself a pass on those.

But a couple of Asian -stans and way too many nations in central Africa is unforgivable. Three lashings for me.

R63 Ceylon’s name change to Sri Lanka happened in 1972.

Fifty years ago.

[quote]Scotland and England are not countries

Yes, they are.

I keep putting in standard country names like Cathay and Muscovy, and they tell me they don't exist!

Another thread to celebrate some Americans’ absolute pride in knowing nothing about the rest of the world.

LOL R72. But "United Kingdom" greened all five. Nice system. No sarcasm.

Erratum ^ Four! I am drunk.

R75 Northern Ireland is not a country.

I got around 164. Was going for full marks continent by continent if I couldn't get everything in the world, but S America was the only continental clean sweep I got. I missed Malta for Europe, I think I thought I had already entered it and then my mind went blank, ah well.

Good quiz.

I got all 196, with about five minutes to spare. Why? Because I spend hours at a time on Sporcle (like R1). If you like trivia, puzzles, word games, etc. you really should try Sporcle.com. It's free, and even more addictive than Datalounge.

Countries of the World Quiz I scored 128 out of 196 for 3 / 5 points 🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴

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I kinda cheated a little though...👀

172! Oceania and all of those little Caribbean islands got me stumped.

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are considered constituent countries of the United Kingdom. Sometimes they compete in sporting events and beauty pageants as individual countries by precedent, but they are not fully independent from each other.

Scotland voted to declare its independence a couple of years ago, but the proposal was rejected by the majority of Scottish voters.

The status of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man is confusing. They are not considered part of the United Kingdom, but they are not independent of it either.

This map is also wrong. It labeled Greenland 'Denmark,' for example.

Most Americans can't name all the states. I did okay most of the map was green. I'm not rich enough to know about or go to Vanatau.

Greenland has been a part of Denmark since the early 1800s, R83. That's not a mistake.

r85 Shit, you're right. It still threw me off because it automatically filled in Greenland when I typed Denmark and when I typed Greenland nothing came up. I'm so used to just seeing that as its own sovereign island nation.

That said, the amount of obvious ones that I forgot while remember obscure ones such as East Timor (I forgot Bulgaria) is just hilarious.

*remembering

R86, did you ever play Risk as a kid? A lot of people still think of the world with those countries...

I kept staring and staring at Cuba and couldn't remember what the fuck it was for the life of me.

168/186

I am geography Expert.

Good luck finding Vanatau R84!

[quote][R10] It's a poorly researched cartoon meant to amuse, not so much to educate. For example, Greenland was never a country in the first place; San Juan is not a country, it's the capital of Puerto Rico which also is not a country, Guam is a US territory, Scotland and England are not countries... the list goes on and on.

Kiss our black animated asses, R12.

r72 and r82 No they are not, Jesus Christ. They are four constituent NATIONS comprising the UK, but they are not countries.

They are countries joined in union.

They are nations joined in a union, not countries joined in a federation/confederation. Scotland is a nation, attempting to become an independent country. Literally that plight in itself reveals their current status.

The word country has a very specific meaning and is reserved for an independent sovereign (nation) state.

[quote]The word country has a very specific meaning and is reserved for an independent sovereign (nation) state.

Nope. A country can be sovereign or non-sovereign.

I can't even name all the countries on my own continent

I can name and locate about sixty percent. I can't win this quiz game, though. I just don't type fast enough, even when I use shortcuts like US and UK. It's not fair. Poor eyesight makes map reading and labeling hard. Struggling to focus on small things is time consuming. It can't be helped.

R99 MARY!

Taiwan is not a country!

[quote]The word country has a very specific meaning

So does cunt, R94. Stop being one.

I took the quiz again today. I missed Moldova and Mozambique.

Well, there’s Nambia for starters. Do the shithole countries count?

Franistan

I got 196/196. I'm an American. My time would have been faster had I remembered St. Kitts-Nevis faster. What helped was seeing which countries I was missing from the map.