Countries that Start with the Letter "I"

Ivory Coast?

For some reason, we call it by it's french name, Cote d'Ivoire. Which is actually the name I learned in school, so Jetpunk is following the rules established by the Man.

good point

I believe the reason we call it Cote d'Ivoire is because that's the country's official name and they prefer to use it over the English version. Of course, we call plenty of other countries by their English rather than native names (Germany and China, for example) so I'm not sure what makes the Ivory Coast special in that regard.

@Synchronicity This is because the countries you mentioned don't actively discourage the use of the English name in the same manner in which Cote d'Ivoire does.

on most quizzes on this site they go with Ivory Coast, though.

lets all just admit it's purely arbitrary.

Wow, everyone is not getting Italy, and Isreal.....hmmm.......

I have 6. I forgot India and Indonesia .

I usually just put them in pairs to remember; India and Indonesia, Ireland and Iceland, Iran and Iraq, Italy and Israel. makes it easier. :)

100% with 0:57b left.I'm 9 years old and like to study alot!!!!

Good for you!

You are really cute

@latesleeper I don't agree, sorry, Ivory Coast is the correct english name. Then you should call the Netherlands "Nederland", Germany "Deutschland" and Japan "Nippon"....when you are using the english names, then please do so for all the countries.

Cote d'Ivoire is how the country is referred to in the list of UN members in the English-language section of the UN's website. That list uses the English-language versions for Germany and the Netherlands. Cote d'Ivoire is hardly the first country to be more referred to by its foreign-language title in English. We rarely hear of The Saviour (El Salvador), Saint Thomas (Sao Tome) or Saint Marinus (San Marino) in their English forms, either.

Anyone notice how people almost always get two answers based on their similarity? Same percentage for Iceland and Ireland, and Iran and Iraq.

I wonder why I forgot Israel and Italy.

further to comments above, if we're using the anglicised versions of every other country in the world, then Ivory Coast should be included.

Cwej makes a good point.

1:32 left. Too easy!

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missed italy and ireland...wow

I think you should change this Cote d'ivory to Ivory coast. Name Ivory coast is used in many quiz in this site (example in soccer quiz's). Its irritating that only one country of 196 should be named by its local language.

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got em all w/ 1:19 :D

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