Countries Containing O - Three Minute Sprint

Yes, good points: you have touched on the varying degrees of nationhood, so at what point should they appear as countries in a world countries quiz? Dan wrote his country quiz on this website with 196 countries as you know, Sporcle has 197 (Dan's lot plus Palestine), our ones have the 205 that you are becoming familiar with, and citypopulation.de has no less than 243 (which no doubt will make your hair stand on end). And that's not even considering England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland, Åland, Transnistria, and several others till finally you come to our sentimental favourite, the Principality of Hutt River. To answer your main point, just because Dan decides to include or exclude countries from his list does not create reality. We disagree with his view, but that doesn't make him wrong, or us either. It simply means that there are different ways of looking at it. Now, you know the instructions here, so you know what you have to do here for full points. Have fun!

Timor-Leste's constitution is in three languages (English, Portuguese and Tetum), and in the English version you will find that the name of this country in English is "Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste". In addition, from Wikipedia: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) official short form in English and all other languages is Timor-Leste (codes: TLS & TL), which has been adopted by the United Nations, the European Union, and the national standards organisations of France (AFNOR), the United States (ANSI), United Kingdom (BSI), Germany (DIN), and Sweden (SIS), all diplomatic missions to the country by protocol and the CIA World Factbook.