Country Logic Puzzle by Scambigol #9

Each cell contains a country: they all have different inital letters. The arrows indicate alphabetical order for the corresponding row/column. You shouldn't type an answer if you are not 100% sure it goes there, no guessing!!

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A. Each row contains:
1) 1 country from each continent

B. Each column contains:
1) 1 island country that has land borders with another island country
2) 1 country starting with a vowel

C. Other special rules:
1) each country begins with a different letter
2) arrows outside rows/columns indicate that their answers are in alphabetical order
3) the second row doesn't contain any countries that begin with a vowel
4) no country with land on the equator appears in this quiz
5) all countries from Asia are on the same diagonal
6) a multi-word country is always adjacent (horizontally or vertically) to a multi-word island country
7) there's a land border between the country in the top left corner and the one in the bottom right corner
8) there is at least one 5 letter country from each continent

D. Notes for this quiz:
1) Y is considered a vowel

Hints for getting started:
1) consider hint C7 and the arrows, then consider hint C5
2) list all island countries that have land borders with other island countries, consider their initials and their continents
Please don't cheat by guess and check!
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Angola
East Timor
Guyana
Haiti
Kosovo
Nauru
Bolivia
Marshall Islands
Qatar
Rwanda
Spain
Trinidad and Tobago
Chile
Jamaica
Libya
Oman
Papua New Guinea
United Kingdom
Dominican Republic
Federated States of Micronesia
Ireland
Venezuela
Yemen
Zambia
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Level 65
Oct 1, 2017
Awesome job :)
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Level 76
Oct 1, 2017
thank you!
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Level 73
Dec 29, 2017
Waw! Thanks
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Level 65
Nov 27, 2018
it took me days...
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Level 72
Jan 11, 2019
wonderful!
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Level 72
Apr 30, 2019
Now, after the rename "North Macedonia", it doesn't work anymore. Maybe you can specify it in the notes
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Level 76
May 1, 2019
I went throught and I think it still works. At what point do you think it's necessary to 'exclude' North Macedonia? Thanks
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Level 72
May 9, 2019
And what about substituting

Kosovo with Kiribati

Nauru with Malta

Marshall islands with North Macedonia

Spain with Samoa

?

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Level 76
May 10, 2019
well spotted thanks! I changed hint 6 so 'always adjacent to a multi-word ISLAND country'
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Level 70
Dec 25, 2021
Uff, this was difficult! Great job, though, it must have taken you ages to come up with it! But I had the same problem as superpik - I felt like North Macedonia would fit the clues as well. Also clue 6 was a bit confusing, I wasn't sure if it's meant just for the non-island countries or also the other way around - as in does a multi-word island country have to border another multi-word country?
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Level 76
Dec 27, 2021
I don't think you can have North Macedonia, you need Nauru as 5 letter country from Oceania. At what point do you think two choices can be made?

Any multi-word country (island countries included) must border a multi-word island country, that's the idea. Thanks for your comment!