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Five Biggest Countries by Latitude

Can you name the 5 largest countries on each latitude?
Size refers to the entire country, not just the portion on that latitude
The longitude version is here
Quiz by Quizzer6794
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Last updated: October 17, 2019
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First submittedOctober 4, 2015
Times taken79,539
Average score74.1%
Rating4.98
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1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
75°N
Russia
Canada
 
60°N
Russia
Canada
United States
Sweden
Norway
45°N
Russia
Canada
China
United States
Kazakhstan
30°N
China
United States
India
Algeria
Saudi Arabia
15°N
India
Mexico
Sudan
Chad
Niger
Brazil
D.R. Congo
Indonesia
Colombia
Somalia
15°S
Brazil
Australia
Peru
Angola
Bolivia
30°S
Brazil
Australia
Argentina
South Africa
Chile
45°S
Argentina
Chile
New Zealand
 
60°S
 
75°S
 
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Level 76
Oct 4, 2015
Nice idea, well thought!
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Level 65
Oct 4, 2015
Thanks! I'll post the 'longitude' version tomorrow.
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Level 65
Jan 27, 2016
OK, there's a link in the description.
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Level 67
Sep 8, 2020
You'll post it tomorrow. *Responds 3 months later*
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Level 65
Sep 8, 2020
In typical Quizzer fashion ;)
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Level 71
Jan 24, 2016
i got 27 from 27 but it says i didn't get points?
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Level 65
Jan 24, 2016
Wow, you were faster than me to see that this is being featured! :)
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Level 76
Jan 25, 2016
Very nice! I had forgotten about it!
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Level 65
Jan 25, 2016
Thanks, me too :P
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Level 77
Jan 25, 2016
One second left :D
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Level 55
Mar 2, 2016
I got 74% percent but only 1 point? Nice quiz though :)
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Level 71
Mar 2, 2016
Not enough latitude given on this quiz
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Level 65
Mar 2, 2016
Why not? Does every 15 degrees not seem portionable?
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Level 71
Mar 2, 2016
Wake up! ........ That was a joke (look up latitude in the dictionary)
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Level 46
Mar 2, 2016
Nice time limit to make it challenging but doable.
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Level 60
Mar 2, 2016
You should specify that you are not including overseas territories.
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Level 49
Jan 13, 2023
It still most likely wouldn't make a difference, as close to no european countries on their own made this quiz.
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Level 60
Jul 24, 2023
See Jerry below - Greenland
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Level 68
Mar 2, 2016
I totally thought the long blanks had answers and was trying to figure out the one country that is furthest south. I didn't realize it was just that there were no answers for those spaces.
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Level 76
Mar 2, 2016
Looks like another quiz that'll need an "excludes Greenland" in the instructions, since Greenland (or Denmark) are missing from the 75°N answers. You know, someone living in Nuuk is gonna do a heap of geography quizzes soon with "excludes United States" in the instructions.
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Level 77
Nov 13, 2019
Quite right and still not corrected. Greenland definitely sits on 75 degrees north and therefore it or Denmark should appear in third place.
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Level 47
Mar 2, 2016
How is Norway there when it's area is smaller than the area of Finland? Or do you count the dependent territories as well? Like Svalbard for Norway. Norway should not be there in that case either because then Denmark with Greenland is larger. Whether you count the dependencies or not Norway should not be there
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Level 65
Mar 2, 2016
Area of Norway: 148,718 square miles

Area of Finland: 130,666 square miles

This doesn't include Svalbard

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Level 47
Mar 3, 2016
That includes Svalbard. The area of mainland Norway is about 323,800 square kilometers and the area of Svalbard is about 61,000 square kilometers. Add those up and you get about 385,000 square kilometers which is the same as 149,000 square miles.

The area of Finland is about 338,000 kilometers which is larger than the area of mainland Norway. If you count Svalbard for Norway then you should count the other overseas dependencies for other countries too like Greenland for Denmark. In that case Denmark would be larger than Norway.

Here are the official statistics for the area of Norway

http://www.ssb.no/en/natur-og-miljo/statistikker/arealdekke

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Level 67
May 25, 2016
Svalbard is intrinsically part of Norway in how it is governed. It is not similar to Greenland.
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Level 59
Sep 3, 2019
I was about to make the same remark, but apparently Kaljavaasi already made it a long ago... According to the According to wikipedia Finland is concidered to be bigger. But the numbers do not include neither Svalbard nor Åland islands(Finland),
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Level 31
May 25, 2016
Got angola and bolivia but missed the obvious New Zealand, South Africa and Mexico. Nevermind
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Level 33
May 25, 2016
How did I miss CANADA?!?!?!
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Level 68
Apr 28, 2017
Hey do you think you could do one with like how long an unbroken line on that latitude stretches through that country, not like the whole area of the country? it's kind of hard to explain
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Level 65
Apr 28, 2017
Wow, that's a great idea! Might be hard but I love it :)
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Level 32
Oct 18, 2018
I thought Mongolia would have surely been here
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Level 37
Jan 10, 2019
really nice quiz. In fact, I like all your quizzes. (No wonder you are one of the best quizmasters)
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Level 76
Jun 3, 2020
great quiz thanks
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Level 66
Aug 5, 2020
Great quiz!
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Level 66
Nov 30, 2020
first try, 27/27 and 0:35 left :)
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Level 28
Feb 17, 2021
0:31

Scoring

You scored 13/27 = 48%

This beats or equals 12.4% of test takers

The average score is 20

Your high score is 13

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Level 75
Feb 22, 2021
Enjoyed that. The equator was the hardest one for me, unexpectedly.
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Level 57
Apr 20, 2021
Yeah same here
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Level 59
Jun 9, 2021
You scored 26/27 = 96%

This beats or equals 94.9% of test takers

oh no why 0,1%?

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Level 63
Sep 22, 2023
You have this quiz by lattitude by longittude now we only need it by altittude