Middle East Map Quiz

It was easy for me to identify all the countries as I've stayed in most of the middle eastern countries

The Palestinian Territories are certainly not a country in the sense of an independent sovereign nation; that's just a fact. If you go by limited self-governance, then you must include Abkhazia at least.

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great quiz one of the easiest

Done with 2:51 remaining I'm the best

Kal's not wrong, he's just stating the facts. The USSR allowed the semi autonomous republics to declare independence if they wanted. What the British did was send a guy (who had never ever been to India, nor studied about it)to randomly decide the lines of division in the country, dividing ethnicities and families along religious lines and damaging the economies on both sides(which would later spur a massacre and mass movement of people on three separate occasions).The actual affected people were never given any say. Those are the facts. What you make of them is up to you, it's just that some conclusions are more apt than others.

sooooo easy

27/27 3:01 left and I got a test tomorrow

Great quiz !! And also I never ever confuse in stans , That is why I scored full !!

All the people making definitive comments about the Middle East and saying things like: Pakistan is South Asia, not the Middle East; or Kazakhstan is Central Asia... has it occurred to you that these are vague, somewhat arbitrary and loosely defined cultural groupings with no definitive definition? It my experience people will argue for whatever definition they happened to first hear. Indeed any consideration of these groupings ("Middle East", "Central Asia", "South Asia") as absolute risks erecting nonexistent barriers in people's mind. Iran clearly has a great deal of cultural, historical, economic and political characteristics in common with the core Middle Eastern countries, with the Indian subcontinent and with Central Asia - to try and categorise it or any other nation as one or the other misses the point entirely. Instead picture a Venn diagram and these groupings are the overlapping circles. And stop arguing about subjective, arbitrary things.

"Who like to..." - We use "who" not "that", when speaking of human beings.

I'm surprised how easy that was. Bummer the reason is because of all the conflict

awesome quiz! [and i level up lol] 27/27!

I can place all the countries in the middle east on a map. Still don't know know to pronounce Kyrgyzstan ( only thing harder to pronounce is the names of northern welsh towns )

I say that maybe we should let the people who live there decide what their country is called. For now though, whateveryouwanttocallit is a disputed territory

25/27. I remember hearing somewhere that the central Asian nations read in alphabetical order as you go clockwise starting with Kazakhstan, then Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and, finally, Uzbekistan.

This works if you ignore Afghanistan, which breaks the pattern. But it's not a former Soviet Republic, so I think most people have no trouble leaving it out and focusing on the countries you named.

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Thanks, this really helps

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WOW great way to sum that up fellow Jetpunker.

100% a muslim/Arab did not do it they would never mention Israel FYI palestine is still not a country.

Half of these countries aren't in the Middle East.

why do so many countries end with Stan? there is Pakistan Afghanistan Kazakhstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan

Great explanation. Thank You.

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Finished with 3:13 left

Well, gee, forgive me for missing most of those "-stan" countries. They're somewhere in the middle of Asia, they conjure up images of vast desert wastelands, and people don't go there.

Great game, just wish you could pick which countries you study.