Countries of the World Quiz

If Vatican City, Kosovo and Taiwan are accepted as countries for the purpose of this quiz (and other 'countries' quizzes), Palestine should be accepted and added as a country by this website. Don't see why not or how it could be 'controversial'...

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Indeed, this photo is of a typical road sign as you drive into territory controlled by Palestine.

Yet, if that was the reason, then why are Somaliland, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Northern Cyprus, Artsakh and Transnistria not included? They all hold sovereignty over their own countries. So no, the answer the quizmaster gave holds no validity whatsoever.

None of these "countries" really hold sovereign control over their land. The entirety of the land claimed is in valid dispute between different entities. No real control has been established. @Jerry, that photo was very interesting because the reason Israelis aren't allowed into that area is because *Israel* says so, not Palestine. If Palestine was a sovereign state, it would be Palestine putting up the warning signs and there would also be reference to Palestinian law. In no way does the sign prove Palestine's sovereignty.

Not true. These boundary demarcations are not because "Israel says so", but because Israel and Palestine agreed to these boundaries in the Oslo Accords. However, "control of borders" is a nonsense criterion to decide if a country is a country. Many small nations cannot hope to defend themselves if a big neighbour wanders in, but that doesn't stop them being a country. Liechtenstein's border with Switzerland is completely unfenced and undefended, so are you saying Liechtenstein isn't a country? Costa Rica has no army (by choice) so cannot defend its border - does that make Costa Rica not a country? A large chunk of Georgia is already occupied by Russia, and it wouldn't be able to resist if Russia invaded the rest. Etc etc etc.

A country becomes a country if (a) it says it is, and (b) enough other countries agree that it is. End of story.

I don't know the exact details of why those signs are there. If they are there by agreement that still doesn't prove Palestine's sovereignty. But your definition of a country is definitely wrong (and circular). By your argument if I phoned 500 friends and we all agreed to declare our houses independent countries and recognise each other as countries, then all our houses would be countries.

My definition of a country is not about control of borders, but control of land inside of borders. A country becomes a country if (a) it has a government, and (b) that government holds control over some area of land beyond reasonable dispute.

If Switzerland wanted Liechtenstein to stop being a country they could invade it and it would no longer be sovereign. But now, Liechtenstein is controlled by one government. That isn't the case in Palestine, because it doesn't have one undisputed government.

Come on, please don't be silly! I said a country is a country if enough other countries agree that it is a country, not if you and 500 friends agree amongst yourselves that you constitute a country! As for "control of land inside borders", if you want to go that route, then Israel and Palestine have agreed that Palestine controls Area A of the West Bank, and Israel has withdrawn completely from Gaza. Israel has not made a territorial claim over either the West Bank (East Jerusalem excepted) or Gaza, which leaves the Palestinians as the only entity who have done so.

I'm not being silly. I'm illustrating a valid objection to your definition - which is that you can't include a word in its own definition. To go to the other extreme, imagine if one country took over the entire world. Then there would be no other countries to recognise it - does that make a world state logically impossible? I'm doing a bit of research now about exactly who controls what. What I'm trying to look at is whether there are some small parts of the area Palestine claims (I already know it isn't all of it) that are genuinely a stronghold of the PNA. If so then there may be a sovereign state there, although it is debatable how much control is needed - ISIS was never a sovereign country despite controlling some areas at times. I should also point out that I don't think most of the area that Palestine claims is the sovereign territory of Israel. I think that no sovereign state controls the area.

Not really convinced that Palestine has sovereignty yet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_Areas_in_the_Oslo_II_Accord#/media/File%3AOslo_Areas_and_barrier_projection_2005.png shows the places in the West Bank that are part of Area A (which means that according to the Oslo Accords Palestine gets to control them). They're spread all over the place. All of them together clearly don't constitute a sovereign and stable country. It's not that a country can't have exclaves, but it does have to control a well-defined geographical area that remains the same for a non-negligible amount of time. And they've changed a lot since the Accords, according to Wikipedia. Going to look at Gaza now.

And the Gaza strip isn't even governed by the Palestinian National Authority. It's governed by Hamas. Hamas has some level of control over Gaza, but Israel does control its borders and its water and air space. To say that Israel has "withdrawn completely" from Gaza is therefore not true. It's what Israel claims but does it reflect reality? Only partially. If you want to claim that Gaza is a sovereign state and make a stronger argument I might end up agreeing. But claiming that the loosely-defined "Palestine" is a sovereign state because lots of other "sovereign states" say so is not something I can agree with.

When the argument gets this forensic about just Palestine, while several other countries in this quiz have a weaker claim to be here, you know there's an elephant in the room!

Well it was useful to me. I genuinely didn't know about some of this stuff before. Which countries have less claim to be here? I can only think of three examples of countries you might think of here: Kosovo, Taiwan and the Vatican City. I'm fairly sure Taiwan has more claim to be here if you're going by actual control, and I think Kosovo does too. The Vatican's sovereignty does depend a lot on recognition. It could never survive if Italy decided to invade it.

I don't have time to write paragraphs

Can someone make a "countries of the oceana with an empty map" please?

hahaha eSwatini is already acceptable, nice upkeep.

Yes, the average is 103, so very good

Just beat it, with 2:50 remaining. Africa is definitely the hardest part.

half of them sound the same.

XD

Is 160 bad for 14 years ?

No, it's not

wow that's crazy, my best is 4 minutes 6 seconds

I had 4:23 left for second try

Well actually there live more people than on Nauru

I'm Number 1 in my school :D

Nice. Finished with 5:35 to spare

lol

Lmao all the comments are Palestine vs. Israel wars.

Almost 10 MILLION times taken! OMG. :D Who wants to be the 100th? :D

I'm 13 and got 172/196 so I'm pleased with myself :-)

I got a 193. Most vexing was missing Brunei, because I flew over Brunei only 4 days ago.

AAAAAAARRRRGH!!!!!!!! 185/196!! soooo close!!

Seems that Macedonia will become "Republic of Northern Macedonia" (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/macedonia-agrees-to-new-name-after-27-year-dispute-with-greece) Will the quiz(zes) be affected?

Do we call North Korea the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or China the People's Republic of China? I would say no. There could be a type-in, but the normal Macedonia would still count.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-macedonia-dispute-name/greece-says-agreed-to-recognize-macedonia-as-republic-of-north-macedonia-idUSKBN1J829E So, when will Macedonia be changed to North Macedonia? ;)

Time for an update. Swaziland is now Eswatini.

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We are almost there, people!!! :) :D #roadto1million

196/196. Fun quiz!

it is a great quiz.............................got 196/196

Finally, over 10 MILLION times taken this quiz :O :)

Finally 14th try 4:30 remaining 195 took 2 and a half minutes to remember grenada.. YAAAASSS

187, forgot lebanon, kosovo, brunei, marshalls, tonga, tuvalu, barbados, st lucia. and I can NEVER spell kyrgyzstan!

If Palestine isn't on the list then why is Kosovo?

Palestine isn't recognised by as many countries as Kosovo is

Kosovo 113, Palestine 136

Kosovo is recognized by the UN and specifically the **USA** (this is a US site), whereas Palestine is not. If you really do feel like it needs to be changed then create a quiz titled "Countries of the World Including Palestine" lol. However, you would be giving away an answer. I suggest that we all let this go. We all know Palestine is a territory, and if you want it to be recognized as a country, call the UN.

If anyone ever says they got all 196 countries and you don't believe them, just go on to their profile and see if they have the 196 badge. ;)

I no espeak english but now 122/196

Same. It's harder too remember the countries when you have a clock ticking in your face.

Naw dude, the hardest challenge is remembering Marshall and Solomon islands, no matter how hard you try to remember them, you won't. Whereas if you do, you'll miss some other island lol.

Think you know the countries like the back of your hand? Try seeing if you can list them in reverse alphabetical order with my new quiz, Countries of the World Z-A: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/284204/countries-of-the-world-z-a

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My favourite quiz, usually have around 8 minutes left on the clock. ..and then I see this video of Jimmy Kimmel called "Can you name a country?" (and point to it on the map). ANY country! They couldn't do it. Some didn't even know where their own country was. Yes, maybe they picked the most clueless people, but really, there seems to be an awful lot of them. What's up with the american educational system? What do you learn in school?

Have you ever noticed that your point total is always slipping backwards? You are always losing points. Two steps up one step back. Why is that?

I think sometimes when quizzes are edited, your points for that quiz are reset - if you go into the "Your Stats" section on your profile there'll be a list on there of quizzes that either you haven't taken or have been reset since you last took them, so that's a good way of getting your points up ^_^

Click on blog at the top of the page, and then click on fastest jetpunk times. The current record is 2:48, or 12:12 remaining.

Not soverign -- part of Morocco

Played this for the first time in months, was stuck on Belize for a bit and thats all.

Mark the date for this historical moment! At about 12:16 a.m. on 7/23/18 I finally scored a 196/196! I had 3:24 to spare!

Think you know the countries like the back of your hand? Try seeing if you can list them in reverse alphabetical order with my new quiz, Countries of the World Z-A: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/284204/countries-of-the-world-z-a

Can someone help me, I have already done this quiz about 10 times and I am at level 38... I looked at the top right of my Jetpunk Screen and it said 38, but when I looked at the quiz it showed me in between levels 2 and 3... Also, I've got the badge "196" like a year ago and it says I've just earned it... Please help me.

Never mind, I just finished again with 8:46 left, worked, 11 Years Old. By the way SquiggleDabs, I equitably doubt that you finished with 6:51 3rd time. I'm not doubting your skill with your countries, because I finished when I was 8, but it took my 8th time to get even 6 minutes left. I do not believe a kid your age could type that many in such a short amount of time on your 3rd try.

That is actually just very impressive

Hey guys, if anyone is interested in testing their speed for the countries of each continent, try my 15 Second Sprint Series. Here's the link: https://www.jetpunk.com/series/133714/15-second-sprint-series Hope you enjoy!

I named 175/196 countries!

I put in 63 as the answer to the question 8*8=? which is pretty damn close as well!

got a new record of 154/196 and felt pretty proud of myself...... then came down to the comment section.... never mind lol. I shalle resume my life of underachievement and relative failure xD

Improved to 8:08 left

Yeah...I just beat it with 7:28 left. Who wants to touch me?

8:03 remaining now.

No, he would be disappointed you were such a show-off

A concern that is shared by many of us, indeed...

Ikr so many countries, 54 I think.

Just improved to 8:17 left!

9:46 left

Are there plans to update the name for Swaziland to the new name of Eswatini. (http://www.africanews.com/2018/05/19/swaziland-name-change-to-eswatini-is-now-official/) The name change was official as of April of 2018. It should probably be handled the same way Myanmar/Burma is as far as this and other quizzes are concerned.

I should really be focusing on my job right now

FSM or FSOM for Federated States of Micronesia?

Or you can just type Micronesia. I know that FSOM would be slightly faster, but QM doesn't want to have abbreviations for every little thing. And although I enjoy abbreviations, I support QM's decision to make it that way, because otherwise it would just be an abbreviations quiz. And there is already one of those if you would like to try it :)

Umm.... USA, UK, UAE, PNG, CAR, DRC, and more. FSM used to be one, they must have changed it

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great quiz but how do you make the quizzes which light up a certain state then you type in the answer as I can not seem to find a tutorial anywhere.

Hey Vxster, You can find two tutorials in the JetPunk blog (it's in the top bar if you need help finding it), one is for making the maps, and the other one is for putting the maps into the quiz. You can go the blog yourself or just copy-paste the links. Hope that helps! Here's one: https://www.jetpunk.com/blog/how-to-make-svg-maps Here's the other: otherhttps://www.jetpunk.com/blog/adding-an-svg-map-to-your-quiz

how do you make the quizzes where you light up a certain state then you type in the name of that state?

Finally I've done it, it took so much time but I finally achieved my biggest goal - 4 minutes. 11:01 remaining, I'm incredibly happy but I'm pretty sure I can get slightly lower than that if I'll stop forgetting about Bahrain and East Timor.

How could you have missed Burindi? It doesn't exist

do you mean burundi?

New personal best - 8:32 remaining!

New personal best - 8:37 remaining!

New personal best - 9:21 remaining!

me too! once I got 195 countries and the i had to give up because of srebia:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

100% - 9:33 remaining I need to learn typ faster to get 10min remaining

Quizmaster can you please add the Canary Islands on the map

Canary Islands are not a sovereign nation. Just like the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Azores, Reunion. etc.

try czechia

2 minuets left finished! and i'm only nine

No hablo inglés. 119 a la primera. Pura cultura general.

9:02 left. Not bad, I know I can at least get it to 9:30 left so I'll try improve on it

I hope you make it! Once you have them all memorized, it's all about typing speed and being able to fluidly type the next country without a pause in between. I'm trying to set the world record, but I think it's going to take a couple months or more of practice to get my time below 3:00.

Swaziland isn't changed to Eswatini yet...

How did you get the box for Oceana underneath antoher box?

my best time is 6:26

Hey Quiz Master! The correct short name of the Republic of The Gambia is The Gambia, the natives make sure to say this "The". You should fix it :) (They say that just Gambia sounds too much like Zambia, therefore it should be called The Gambia instead making it the only country with an article in the oficial short name) Also, Swazilands name has recently changed to eSwatini, and now we are supose to call it eSwatini, so it should display eSwatini at least. And keep up on November 4. because there will be held a referendum about the independence of the New Caledonia. There could be a brand new country for the quiz!!!

It's because of the way the system works, automatic simplified responses can be limited to the first word. The author can change that or remove it, but if he doesn't, that's what happens. Try creating a quizz and you'll see.

Who here beat this quiz with 9:00 or more on the clock? My best is 9:04.

Got all 6:00 left.

Now completed in 4:00!!

the new name of swaziland is eswatini since april

On my first try i got 150 using all my time. Not bad

Please make a Top Gear quiz. Yes, i'm British.

Not trying to boast like every single kid on here but i do this as a type of daily warmup and after about a week, today i got 177 out of 196. I hope I improve!!! 👌🏻👌🏻😄✌️😏😘😁 Im a🐔 for missing out Ghana, Ivory Coast and Singapore.

Got 195 just missed 🇧🇭 Bahrain got it with a second left but didnt type it in.😡🤬😤😣😵💩

After trying this like a zillion times i finally made it in sub 5 minutes. 10:02 on the clock :)

Stand by for a possible new country, with the upcoming independence referendum in New Caledonia on 4 November. However, current opinion polls suggest that New Caledonians will vote to remain a part of France.

The result of the 4 November 2018 referendum: 44% for independence, 56% against.

Finally beat my record! 9:43 remaining

You scored 180/196 = 92%. This beats or equals 85.2% of test takers The average score is 104 Your high score is 196

Finally!

Best 5:18 left

6:40 time left my best time so far. That's 1 country every 2.5 seconds.

Hello Quizmaster and other JetPunkers. I am not commenting to correct an error, but instead to understand something on this site. How do you put a quiz you have made into the tag that it fits in? For example, I created a Geography General Knowledge Quiz, but it is not in the Geography General Knowledge tag. I do not know how to put it there. If this is a thing that users can do, it should be made more obvious how. If it is only something Quizmaster can do, I would like to suggest that it be made possible for users.

Got them all finally. With 9:16 left. Whew. I would say that is pretty good considering... I'm 13

Good job. I'm 12, and I did it with 8:57 left, so I suppose I'm almost on equal ground with you.

OMG, I am definitely done now. 10:03 remaining. Dont exactly know how, but I got through like 100 of them before I made a typo. Unbeknownst to many of you, it really speeds things up when you don't make typos. Lol😂

Lol, also just read some of the other comments. Definitely did not realize that I beat some other guy out by 1 second. XD -shoutout to #Photop

Thank you #NitroType and #Typing.com, for such good structured lessons on typing. Just got 11:37. Please do not tell me I have to improve on this... Please? Oh lol, just noticed someone got 11:11(Maybe. I cannot tell if it is a joke or not), but I beat them out anyways. Still, if it is true, Shoutout to #RPHXX

ahhh i missed the hardest country to get https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/250835739539931136/516645597877501962/unknown.png

Swaziland has been renamed Eswatini - can this be changed

I'm 12 and I finished with 9:33 left

can you add like two more minutes to the quiz

Beat my high score, I'm 15 and got 6:57 let's go!!!

9:39 remaining, my best score. Still working on it.

6:53 pretty bad but working

quizmaster you are wrong as in wrong buddy

there is a country you missed which was one of the key players in world war 3

Just a friendly comment quizmaster, but why do you use Wikipedia always when there are reliable websites like Britannica? (not saying you should not use Wikipedia). Thanks

Jeryy928 I appreciate your quizzes a lot

I learned loads of new countries

Prepare for the 197th country (possibly). The island of Bougainville (currently PNG) is going to hold an independence referendum in June!

all of them with 4:01 min left being french,I'm pretty proud right now x)

happy new year!

Got monaco with one second left! 🙃😀

No! I forgot Monaco and Singapore... it's always the small ones that get me

7:19 left ;D

8:10 omg i'm the best

7:06 left

188/196 I know them all, I just didn't know how Bahrain, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa, Philippines, Ukraine and Solomon were typed in English, since I'm from Nicaragua adm I forgot Malta and San Marino