World countries test

Test your knowledge of the location of the world's countries. I scored 75 on my first try, and 76 on my second -- but your score will depend on the 20 random countries it throws at you. (via kottke)


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Damn, you are pretty good. I'm ebarassed to say, I scored a 43 and then a 61.

The Rodenator | Mon, 12/04/2006 - 11:45am

Nagari Brunei Darussalem IS NOT A REAL PLACE.

Ingen Angiven | Mon, 12/04/2006 - 11:51am

44 then 60.

I had some trouble with the control the first time.

Ingen Angiven | Mon, 12/04/2006 - 11:53am

Ok, 68. One more at this rate I can break 70.

Also, South America, Central America and Africa are hard. For me.

Ingen Angiven | Mon, 12/04/2006 - 11:55am

The more Latin America, the better I do. Thank you, years of otherwise useless Hispanic culture classes!

Lorelei | Mon, 12/04/2006 - 3:39pm

I just broke 80, but it took a number of tries. "Hellenic Republic"? I thought it was just called "Greece."

Jesse | Mon, 12/04/2006 - 7:41pm

28, then 40. i guess that makes me ethnocentric. or american.

Tammy | Mon, 12/04/2006 - 9:23pm

i've peaked at 43. embarrassed to say there are countries i've never even heard of.

pipsqueak | Tue, 12/05/2006 - 10:01am

Don't be embarrassed. Some of those countries were pretty tiny and fairly new. I peaked at 69, which was sweet. Thanks to Borat, I got all the "stans" fairly quickly.

Los Angeles Anthony | Tue, 12/05/2006 - 10:05am

83, after about a hundred tries I got 83. I'm retiring.

Here are the African countries I can locate: South Africa, Libya, Tunisia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Swaziland, Lesotho, Togo, Benin, Morocco.

South America/Central America: Panama, Chile, Argentina, Brazil.

There's so many countries in South America and Africa that I just don't have a clue where they're located. It makes me feel stupid.

Also, I can never find Hungary even though I'm pretty sure I know BASICALLY where it is. Should be next to Austria, and yet, I never get it right.

Cyprus I'm all over though.

Ingen Angiven | Tue, 12/05/2006 - 11:08am

I got 78 after a bunch of tries, although I was a little peeved that they threw luxembourg in there. Has anyone used the zooming function? How did cm get 75 right away? Geographical genius?

The Rodenator | Tue, 12/05/2006 - 12:12pm

Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to get to Luxembourg either.

Ingen Angiven | Tue, 12/05/2006 - 2:01pm

ok, i got 57. i'm retiring. is anyone else wondering what happened to plain old portugal or italy or sri lanka? everything is, like, the people's socialist demoocratic republic region. what happened to plain old countries? (thanks for the kind words, los angeles anthony. i couldn't have gone back and gotten my 57 without you.)

pipsqueak | Tue, 12/05/2006 - 2:51pm

90--and I'm calling it a victory!

Snarf | Tue, 12/05/2006 - 4:41pm

Apparently I have spent far too much time memorizing pointless movie trivia. I got a 53.

Alina | Thu, 12/07/2006 - 11:31am

I'm a freshman in high school- I got 87 on my second try.

Catherine | Wed, 12/20/2006 - 4:32pm

83 followed by an 88 - I found the small countries surrounded by big countries the ardest to click on I got Rwanda wrong on my first go even though I know exactly where it is and Suriname wrong on my second although im less sure of that one - somewhere in northern south america I think.

Cris | Tue, 12/04/2007 - 11:14am

i scored 6 sadli i new almos none of them but hey im only 4 yarss odl

michael | Mon, 05/26/2008 - 6:10pm

84, then 92. If you want to learn where countries are, play the games at www.ilike2learn.com. They have the fastest learning curve of anything I've seen.

Jack | Sat, 09/20/2008 - 8:36pm

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