Country Codes of Europe

Beat the clock to guess the two-letter country code for each selected country in Europe.
Answer must correspond to highlighted box
According to ISO 3166-1. Kosovo doesn't have a code
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Last updated: February 17, 2019
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First submittedApril 17, 2017
Times taken11,493
Average score36.4%
Rating3.28
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Country
Code
Albania
AL
Andorra
AD
Austria
AT
Belarus
BY
Belgium
BE
Bosnia and Herzegovina
BA
Bulgaria
BG
Croatia
HR
Czech Republic
CZ
Denmark
DK
Estonia
EE
Finland
FI
France
FR
Germany
DE
Greece
GR
Hungary
HU
Iceland
IS
Ireland
IE
Italy
IT
Latvia
LV
Liechtenstein
LI
Lithuania
LT
Luxembourg
LU
Malta
MT
Moldova
MD
Monaco
MC
Montenegro
ME
Netherlands
NL
North Macedonia
MK
Norway
NO
Poland
PL
Portugal
PT
Romania
RO
Russia
RU
San Marino
SM
Serbia
RS
Slovakia
SK
Slovenia
SI
Spain
ES
Sweden
SE
Switzerland
CH
Ukraine
UA
United Kingdom
GB
Vatican City
VA
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Level 93
Apr 17, 2017
What about dependencies (i.e., Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, etc.)? They have country codes too.
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Level 63
May 2, 2023
But they aren't countries.
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Level 75
Apr 17, 2017
good idea! Not near enough time.
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Level 54
Apr 18, 2017
Great quiz. Need more time please.
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Level ∞
Apr 18, 2017
I was able to do it in 53 seconds in my third attempt. I think its possible for anyone to do with a little practice.
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Level 82
Apr 18, 2017
54s on second attempt. It takes some practice but quite doable.
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Level 66
Apr 18, 2017
practice? it is supposed to be a knowledge test (with some guesses), not a memory game (imho)
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Level 65
Mar 7, 2024
You can't test your knowledge if you have the time to test multiple abbreviations. You won't actually memorize all the codes and only learn the weird ones. Those "some guesses" shouldn't be a thing. Memorization is knowledge. Don't call putting the first letter of a country and then trying each subsequent letter of the country's name "knowledge." I miss when quizzes were about learning new things and not just a way for people to get satisfaction with their own "knowledge."
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Level 74
Apr 18, 2017
Well, you can allways stop the clock. I did that, very soothing.
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Level 86
Apr 23, 2017
That's right : one minute = one star for the quiz ;).
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Level 65
Mar 7, 2024
2 stars now?
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Level 66
Jul 24, 2019
@giosop, it is described as beat the clock... so no not a knowledge quiz in this case. (well partially obviously)
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Level 65
Apr 18, 2017
27 is 5 points. And once this is featured the average will go down. So nothing to worry about; just one every two seconds!
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Level 84
Apr 18, 2017
What is the point of this 1 minute time limit?
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Level 71
Apr 18, 2017
Congratulations to all the speed typists that have brainwashed the Quizmaster into making interesting quizzes with ridiculous time limits. Spoilt the quiz for those of us that enjoy using our brains and learning something rather than doing a quiz 20 times to beat the clock.
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Level 82
Oct 7, 2017
Are you for real?
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Level 58
Oct 9, 2017
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Level 51
Oct 9, 2017
If you dislike these 'speed typing' quizzes, here's an amazing way to deal with them! JUST DON'T TAKE THEM. Better yet, make your own time-adjusted version, on the off chance there aren't twelve already. Why do you and others like you get worked up about this kind of thing?
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Level 66
Jul 24, 2019
why do you get so worked up if people share their preference for a non speed one?
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Level 82
Feb 28, 2019
AND you can take any quiz without a timer anyway.
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Level 65
Mar 7, 2024
You're not learning something if you don't need to learn it, I doubt you remember all of these codes by now because you just guessed for most of them.
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Level 84
Sep 3, 2017
Wow, so sports questions that reach back beyond 1950 are deemed too tangential, if not completely irrelevant, because the frequency that they are correctly guessed is soooo low.....but the massive rash of low %'s for even obvious countries on this list isn't evidence that 1:00 minute is ridiculous? 6% for "SK" and Slovakia? 4% for "UA" and Ukraine? And that's okay? But heaven forbid a sports question reference Bob Feller or Josh Gibson or Connie Mack.
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Level 66
Jul 24, 2019
more chance in guessing the country codes even if you have no clue, than those names. the chance you guess a random name that is actually correct is close to zero ( unless the name that need to be guessed is something like john smith,,, thén there is a chance..)
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Level 46
Oct 7, 2017
another 30 seconds would be more realistic
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Level 61
Oct 7, 2017
Normally I'm put off by quizzes when I can only get nine answers on my first go, but I took it twice untimed and ended up getting 36/44 which beat 99% of takers so that was satisfying.
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Level 71
Oct 7, 2017
Gopd quiz but not enough time, could you increase it by an additional 20 or 30 seconds?
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Level 61
Oct 7, 2017
Absolutely not long enough
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Level 56
Oct 7, 2017
I understand that with too much time people could simply guess the codes based on the names for most of the answers but seriously, 1 minute?
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Level 52
Oct 7, 2017
Ridiculous time limit. Most people just cannot type that fast.
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Level 40
Oct 7, 2017
The average score is currently 10/44. This if anything is proof that this quiz needs more time than just one minute.

I thought that I'd accidentally given up on the quiz twice before I saw that it was only one minute. It needs at least 30 more seconds.

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Level 82
Oct 7, 2017
Why are some countries in Europe allowed to be represented by their own language (DE for Germany instead of GE, ES for Spain instead of SP), but others are not (Greece not Hellas, Finland not Suomi, Hungary, etc.)? Why are these latter countries forced to adopt their English-language names and corollary abbreviations?
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Level 82
Feb 28, 2019
One would have to look into the history of these codes, it's quite possible the country itself wanted to use a more internationally recognizable code.
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Level 55
Oct 7, 2017
Making use of the new "this comment contains a suggestion", could I mention that this quiz doesn't have a long enough time limit? Cheers.
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Level 71
Oct 7, 2017
Too little time! Congrats to people who mashed their keyboard in under a minute, but i want to have fun, not stress.
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Level 72
Oct 9, 2017
Too little time. As each field requires selection, the time requirement is too narrow. I get that "with practice" someone could get it done. I don't see that as the point of the tests, but to test existing knowledge.
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Level ∞
Oct 9, 2017
The comments have worn me down. Increased the time to 2 minutes.
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Level 33
Oct 9, 2017
It's not on here, bc it's not Int'ly recognized, but Kosovo's is XK, for some reason. KO, KV, KS are (I believe some of them) available...
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Level 55
Oct 9, 2017
Add more time please.
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Level 85
Sep 3, 2018
Started the quiz without reading the instructions and thought I was doing country calling codes. OK! Letters will be a bit easier!
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Level 84
Jul 18, 2019
Ha, same here :)
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Level 66
Jul 24, 2019
23 on the first try not bad. Didnt get around to reading the last 4 though so I didnt even get uk or switzerland, which was the first one I thought of when seeing this quiz (or when seeing austria, cant remember, was in the same second)
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Level 66
Jul 24, 2019
2nd time I got all but croatia and serbia. And it wasnt because of time. I just couldnt think of it, must ve had about 15 seconds for them left. Tried like 20 things each.

So definitely not impossible

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Level 63
May 2, 2023
Easy!