Countries that Start with the Letter "M"

Myanmar is still the official name of Burma, for now, at least... kept thinking I was misspelling it. Just because I prefer the name "Ceylon" to "Sri Lanka" doesn't mean I can leave S.L. out of the S countries... seems arbitrary.

The name is Burma to the people. The military junta changed the name to Myanmar. Personally, I'd just as soon use Burma.

Totally agree with you. Myanmar should be on this list. Never the less I got 100% :)

Buat afaik Cylon is still the name for the island, and Sri Lanka is the name of the state, right?

No, Sri Lanka is the name of the country, and Ceylon was the former name.

It appears that you missed a couple: Micronesia & Myanmar

Burma might be a better option than Myanmar. I use Burma instead of Myanmar because it's shorter and easier to pronounce. But the "Federated States of Micronesia" is just an official name. Micronesia should simply be used since most people don't say that "Federated States of" when speaking about the country. If you use the official name for Micronesia, why don't you use the official name for each and every country? For example: Instead of China, you should use "The People's Rpublic of China"("the" isn't that important when writing the name like that). That raises another question for me, why don't you put "the" in front of "Federated States of Micronesia", it would be the actual official name then? If I would take the "Countries starting with F" quiz, I would never, and I mean never, think of trying "Federated States of Micronesia"(without "the" for some reason).

Then I'm sure you'll switch to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Principality of Andorra, the Kingdom of Bahrain et. al.

You mean on YOUR quizzes, cause I´ve done many of them that don´t use that ideology.

You use Federated States of Micronesia? OK, it's a fair choice. But Burma changed the name to Myanmar, sorry you don't like it, but Quizmaster you're not more important that a country. Why don't you call every country by the name you want? Let's use Zaire, Rodhesia, Persia, Ceylon and Sia, even let's reunite Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and USSR, because JetPunk likes that way. Sorry, but that's really arbitrary.

@darkseraphim21 They had elections in 2010, and a democratic government since last year, and they still want to be called by its legit name. The United Nations uses 'Myanmar', as do the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Russia, Germany, Norway, China, India, Australia and Japan.

Stop complaining!

Agree with Zwizdan007...

I'm guessing with Micronesia and Macedonia, it's like saying the USA should be under A and Saudi Arabia should be under K respectively, if you get what I mean.

Saudi Arabia I agree with, but it is United States of America is it not? That would put them under U.

Allow me to clarify some things, this quiz uses the short names for countries. The Federated States of Micronesia don't have a short name. They're only known by their long name. Macedonia on the other hand is officially called the Republic of Macedonia (It hasn't been called Fornmer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in nearly 20 years). The Republic of Macedonia's short name is Macedonia. Fun fact: Canada is one of the few countries that has no prefix (i.e. "Republic of...") which is the result of its unique relationship with Great Britain.

And Japan. But nobody mention Taiwan- Republic of China? Taiwan? Republic of Taiwan?

When i took the quiz having to name all the countries of the world, Myanmar and Micronesia both showed up just as that...Myanmar and Micronesia. Therefore, I do not see how JetPunk uses Burma and F S of M

Mulva?

What?

USA should actually be under T. The official name is THE United States of America.

Its official name is without the 'the', same goes for (the) Netherlands. People just say the Netherlands and the United Sates of America, but that doesn't make it offcial. Even if 'the' was part of the offcial name they would still put it under the U of United. Just look at Gambia, official name 'The gambia', but still they place it under the G. The Gambia is by the way the only country with a offcial article at the beginning of its name. So never look at the article when it comes to putting countries in alphabetical order.

You forgot 'Merica.

OMG so many whiners on this website.

I know right

missed montenegro!