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Regions of Countries #2

For each selected region, name the country in which it is located.
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"Region" is not used in a technical sense
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Last updated: July 27, 2015
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First submittedMarch 28, 2013
Times taken102,470
Average score81.0%
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Region
Country
Texas
United States
Inner Mongolia
China
Flanders
Belgium
British Columbia
Canada
New South Wales
Australia
Jalisco
Mexico
Sardinia
Italy
Region
Country
Normandy
France
Upper Silesia
Poland
Transylvania
Romania
Catalonia
Spain
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Saxony
Germany
Crete
Greece
Region
Country
Kantō
Japan
Uttar Pradesh
India
Western Cape
South Africa
Siberia
Russia
Dalmatia
Croatia
County Cork
Ireland
Mato Grosso
Brazil
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Level 82
Apr 1, 2013
Fun quiz. Piedmont is also a region in Virginia, which itself is a state in the United States.
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Level ∞
Apr 1, 2013
Noted. Changed it to Sardinia.
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Level 66
Mar 16, 2017
It's also a town in California in a pretty amazing tv show!
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Level 60
Mar 13, 2018
True but if we're talking USA, Piedmont is the name for a region of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. The Piedmont Triad of NC is probably the best known "Piedmont" in the US, since there's a major airport with that name.
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Level 57
Jan 26, 2020
There are thousands of regions, cities, towns, etc. in the US named after European regions, cities, towns, etc. If we go by that logic anything that exists not just in Europe but also in North America couldn't be used in these kind of quizzes. It should be obvious that the well known region in Italy is meant and not some random region in Virginia only because some Italian settlers named it after their home.
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Level 82
Apr 27, 2020
pretty sure the Piedmont region of Virginia is not named for the Italian region, but rather because it is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Level 78
Mar 4, 2021
In that case, wouldn't it be called something like Foothills, VA? Unless those who named it were Italian, of course, in which case, erm, they might name it after/for something back home. Possibly. I don't know. Just a suggestion. Do you know?
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Level 67
Jul 29, 2023
I think that it's conjecture.
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Level 82
Jun 27, 2021
Well a ton of the people who were early settlers/explorers/colonists/cartographers/surveyors in North America did not speak English, but even amongst those who did, naming something in French, Italian, Spanish, Latin or Greek (or indigenous American languages) was a pretty common convention. Anyway I'm not guessing here. The three historical regions of Virginia are Tidewater (coastal plain to the east), Piedmont (foothills between the other two regions), and Blue Ridge & Appalachia (the mountains to the west). Though sometimes the regions are further subdivided. All were named for geographic features of the state, not as an homage to regions of other countries.
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Level 82
Jun 27, 2021
Also the dictionary apparently defines piedmont as an English word meaning foothills. Wikipedia identifies the origin of the US region as being derived from Latin.
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Level 50
Jun 14, 2013
Great quiz. Had to guess some but in the end I got them all.

Thanks

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Level 77
Jun 14, 2013
Dalmatia, Croatia...that's fun to say...
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Level 48
Jun 15, 2013
Got a fair few answers by saying them in an accent they read like :P
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Level 20
Nov 14, 2013
Nice Quiz. A little way too easy. 100% in the finish time of 3:00 minutes.
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Level 72
Mar 8, 2016
That sentence makes my head hurt. "a little way too easy"
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Level 84
Mar 3, 2017
Ohhh, don't be so much barely hard on them. It's an honest mistake that a select few of any of us could might make.
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Level 68
Mar 7, 2017
Completely true possibly.
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Level 51
Mar 7, 2018
This comment chain of replies makes me completely kind of laugh out loud quietly.
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Level 44
Feb 27, 2022
yeah iḿ literally kinda extremely laughing crazily slightly right now at these comments in my soft viciously uncomfortable nice bed
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Level 73
Mar 7, 2018
3:30, a little way ahead of you. :p
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Level 75
Mar 7, 2018
Give him/her a break. I'm guessing English is not the first language and some of us do well to do these quizzes with English as our first language. Such as me myself probably maybe.
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Level 57
Jan 3, 2014
Mato Grosso is a political state in Brazil, but is not considered as a region.

It should be better Pantanal, Amazônia, Sertão, Campos Sulinos...

these are regions limited by its own similar characteristics, and not merely a political division.

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Level 58
Jan 12, 2014
From the heading: "Region" is not used in a technical sense
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Level 88
Mar 7, 2019
Neither are most of the other answers.
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Level 40
Feb 13, 2021
Um...What about of the Mato Grosso do Sul? I think the creator of his quiz thought of the two Mato Grosso: Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul

And I don't disagree with what you said. It's true, Mato Grosso is a state in Brazil, not a region and I say that because I'm also Brazilian

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Level 22
Mar 8, 2014
Try my quiz cities by country
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Level 67
Jun 15, 2014
100% This was much easier than the first one.
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Level 70
Aug 10, 2014
I tried "pokemon world" for kanto but it didn't work
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Level 22
Nov 24, 2014
I had to re-log in (made up verbal clause) to say this, so you'd better appreciate it. LOL :D
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Level 79
Aug 27, 2015
Too easy again. 2.24 to spare.
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Level 77
Sep 11, 2015
Missed one. Beats or equals 54.2% of the quiztakers. Augh.
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Level 77
Sep 11, 2015
Redid it. Got full points. Only this time it wasn't regions of countries, it was anagrams of countries. WEIRD!
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Level 75
Nov 5, 2015
I missed one - Upper Silesia - and only got 3 of 5 points. Tough competition.
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Level 53
Nov 4, 2015
Transylvania is a county in North Carolina, a state in the United states. i know that is pretty stickler-ish, but its true
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Level 66
Feb 26, 2016
While correct, the Romanian area is far, far more widely known to the point where it's practically irrelevant, particularly after when "Texas" is the first item.
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Level 82
Mar 16, 2017
yeah... though I made a similar point above, it wasn't meant to mean that the quiz should be changed. There are a thousand or more place names in the Americas that were named for other places in Europe or elsewhere.
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Level 60
Mar 7, 2018
It's always odd to look at a map of America and be able to say "oh, this must be where people from my home county emigrated to" since all the names are the same.
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Level 60
Mar 13, 2018
True, and then you've got the American Indian names for stuff interspersed throughout all of it, and those are the most entertaining.
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Level 43
Apr 1, 2016
Got Poland with 0:02 left :D
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Level 83
Aug 1, 2016
Yorkshire!!! Happy Yorkshire Day :D
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Level 33
Mar 15, 2017
I missed 4 only. Good quiz
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Level 56
Mar 7, 2018
Why did it specify County Cork? Surely Cork alone would have been enough? None of the other clues had this e.g. County Yorkshire, Texas State
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Level 67
Mar 7, 2018
Cork - on its own - is a city in County Cork. Most Irish counties are referred to in this way, because many of them are named after towns or cities within them. The same thing also happens in the UK: you might live in County Durham, but not necessarily in the city of Durham. So, you need to actively use the "County" part of the name so as to specify.
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Level 62
Mar 7, 2018
Not to split a hair, but Flanders is actually split between Belgium and France. The biggest city in North France, Lille, is commonly known as "The Capital Of Flanders".
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Level 65
Jun 13, 2019
That is called french-flanders if I am not mistaken.
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Level 30
Apr 4, 2020
I am from Flanders and I can tell you, this is absolutely not true. Belgium has three regions: Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels-capital. Lille is in France and has nothing to do with Belgium.
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Level 52
Aug 27, 2021
this is not correct, Sam298 is right. I live in Flanders, it's a part of Belgium (northern region). Lille is France and part of hauts de france. Lille isnt part of Flanders (as we know it) since ages
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Level 68
Aug 1, 2023
Lille actually is in the historic region Flanders, even though the French part of that region doesn't administratively exist anymore. However, that's just some interesting trivia. I think it's pretty clear that the quiz is referring to the better-known Belgian region.
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Level 66
Mar 7, 2018
Tried all the former Yugoslav countries except for Croatia (of course). Question was easier 30 years ago.
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Level 31
Mar 7, 2018
kanto is also a region in pokemon
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Level 68
Aug 1, 2023
Can you point out "Pokemon" on a world map?
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Level 64
Mar 7, 2018
Hundo! Yes sir! 100%
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Level 30
Mar 8, 2018
Yay! Easy five points
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Level 39
Mar 9, 2018
Using Siberia for Russia feels quite weird... for all the others (I believe) those are administrative regions, but Siberia is just geographical and doesn't have any significance otherwise
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Level 38
Mar 12, 2018
Correct. Parts of Siberia are in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, or even China. Could have used Jakoetsk (or Yakutsk) or Kamchatka.
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Level 38
Mar 12, 2018
all of them with 2:13 remaining - lost loads of time with Kanto, which I had to guess :)
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Level 50
May 28, 2018
So pleased to see Yorkshire on a quiz!
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Level 45
Oct 19, 2018
guessed most of the world to find kanto.
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Level 88
Mar 7, 2019
More people have heard of Mato Grasso than Upper Silesia, the least guessed?
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Level 65
Jun 13, 2019
You can easily see it is a word in a romance language so there are only a few options, as for silesia... you cant really derive anything from it.
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Level 75
Mar 7, 2019
Very easy, never had press the backspace button
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Level 66
Mar 10, 2019
good quiz got in first try
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Level 32
Dec 24, 2019
Texas was super easy.
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Level 39
Feb 5, 2020
Can't believe I actually got full marks on my first try, especially since Jalisco and Matto Grosso were just lucky guesses. "What language does that sound like?" followed by "what country speaks that language and hasn't already been an answer?" seemed to be a winning strategy!
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Level 39
Oct 24, 2020
my family is from dalmatia, did not expect that to be on here
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Level 78
Jan 27, 2021
Well spotted.
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Level 57
Mar 8, 2021
Mato Grosso? "Well, it's not Brazil" I thought to myself and tried every other country in South America.

):

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Level 38
Apr 20, 2021
Siberia, administratively, isn't a region of Russia, unlike many other examples of this quiz. I believe Yakutia or Kamchatka might be much more in line with other regions on this quiz. Also might be just a little bit harder, as almost everyone got Siberia on this quiz as of now.
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Level ∞
Jul 9, 2021
"Region" is not used in a technical sense
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Level 57
Aug 27, 2021
Upper Silesia (Oberschlesien)

Poland????

Ukraine????

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Level 58
Aug 27, 2021
Yes.

No.

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Level 69
Aug 27, 2021
Making this one from Mato Grosso do Sul. Yes, there's a state called South Mato Grosso.
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Level 60
Aug 30, 2021
got all but 2, literally guessed on all of them
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Level 28
Sep 27, 2021
me screaming because south/southern wasnt working for texas then realizing what they meant:
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Level 83
Apr 26, 2022
Stupid Flanders
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Level 48
Jul 29, 2023
Fun Quiz! The ones I didn't know, i could mostly guess through the language, or what I thought the language was, except for one. My apologies to the people of Poland.
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Level 58
Jul 31, 2023
..nice one, but its very easy...
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Level 48
Nov 24, 2023
omg I can believe I just 47 lvls that is so maazing they are gonna be proud than k