Good quiz, but I had absolutely no idea about the sizes. Without knowing the size of at least one country it's pure pot luck, beyond the assumption the first is 'pretty small' and the second is 'slightly small'.
Maybe it's because I haven't had my coffee yet, but what is the difference between a country "entirely on islands" and a country "without land borders"?
Indonesia has land borders, but only on islands; Japan has no land borders at all. Indonesia is more populous than Japan, so wins the "islands" category, but it doesn't qualify for the "no land borders" category.
That threw me too and I missed Japan because of it but Indonesia borders Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Brunei, and Timor Leste but is entirely on islands while Japan doesn’t have any land borders.
Read the clue "whose name starts with H" and then for some reason I read the next clue as connected to that one and couldn't figure out why Honduras wasn't working. Wasted a lot of time trying different spellings thinking someone had made an error. Silly brain.
I thought the same thing and looked to verify. I found what looked to be a river between Makkah and Aseer Province in the Southwest region of the country. There is another on the border between Makkah and Al Bahah Provinces. Maybe they are too shallow/narrow to be considered rivers?
To be considered a river it needs to be flowing most of the time, if not year-round. There are some wadis in Saudi Arabia but they only flow occasionally after rains.
Fun quiz. Kinda forgot Japan existed for a brief moment and was frustrated Philippines wasn't working. Which is awkward, since I literally have a degree in Japanese language and history.
I thought it was Bangladesh too. I googled it and it says 30 feet, which is about 9 meters. But Wikipedia has a list of countries by average elevation and it says Bangladesh is 85 meters. So I guess different sources measure it differently.
Has Mexico been thrown out of Central America? If you mean “América Central” or “Centroamérica,” neither of which include Mexico, it seems that should be specified, since this is an English language quiz. But in the US (at least when I was in school), we were taught that Central America includes Mexico and the seven countries between Mexico and Colombia; and that Central America is part of North America. Perhaps the teaching has changed?
Mexico is considered to be part of Latin America which is basically most of the Western Hemisphere south of the US. Central America includes the countries on the continent of the North American landmass south of Mexico.
The subdivisions of the Americas have been traditionally arbitrary and less consensual than one may think, depending on where/when you attended your geography lessons. In countries that follow(ed) the British pedagogy in defining continents, North and South America are defined as two separate continents, with North and Central America, as well as all the islands of the Caribbean associated with North America. In other countries, such as in Latin Europe, the whole of America is considered as a continent, "América" or "Américas" then subdivided into regions: North, Central and South America. While Mexico integrates the North American continental model in the schooling system of the USA, it definitely figures as part of the Central American region in Portugal and Spain for example (though some sports writers in the last FIFA World Cup wrongly referred to the Mexicans as "sul-americanos" and the members of Team USA as "norte-americanos", oblivious to Canada's presence in the competition).
Got 16. Came short with Haiti, Costa Rica (that was a hard one, l immediately thought of the Swiss as having no regular army), Iran (where l thought Peru was the 4-letter one) and of course, landlocked Ethiopia (there l went for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan).
Its known to as ' The Republic of China ' or ' Chinese Taipei ' too
I really liked the quiz.
Thanks a lot
You scored 12/20 = 60%
This beats or equals 51.5% of test takers
The average score is 12
Your high score is 12
PS cool quiz, just give us more time to think about the answers!