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Countries with Glaciers

Can you name the countries in the world that have glaciers?
Countries with glaciers in external territories are filled in
Quiz by PauloMX
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First submittedDecember 14, 2015
Times taken72,377
Average score81.6%
Rating4.97
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Africa
D. R. Congo
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
Asia
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bhutan
China
Georgia
India
Indonesia
Iran
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
Pakistan
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkey
Uzbekistan
Europe
Albania
Austria
Bulgaria
France
Germany
Iceland
Italy
Montenegro
Norway
Romania
Russia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
North America
Canada
Denmark
(Greenland)
Mexico
United States
Oceania
Australia
(Heard Islands /
McDonald Islands)
New Zealand
South America
Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
United Kingdom
(South Georgia)
Venezuela
cpgatbyu
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Level 85
Dec 22, 2015
Albania has glaciers in the Prokletije range.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Dec 23, 2015
Added all the missing countries. This is one of those cases where the Wikipedia source was incomplete.
plattitude
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Level 92
Dec 23, 2015
Curiosity, did you take the time to update Wikipedia?
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Aug 6, 2018
It would have taken all day, so no. I do make corrections from time to time however.
tschutzer
+1
Level 91
Dec 28, 2015
Did something change with Burma's status, such that Myanmar is not even an acceptable alternative anymore?
georgekotz
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Level 76
Dec 23, 2015
Armenia has glaciers too:

http://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Aragats

Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Aug 6, 2018
Added that one, thanks. It looks like I may have to remove that country in a few years, unfortunately.
MayaB
+5
Level 73
Jan 10, 2016
Damn, I learned from here that there are glaciers in my own country! I got it because of the alphabetical order of the lists, but still...
KoljiVriVoda
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Level 77
Jan 13, 2016
Nisam znao da ima glečera na Balkanu!
MayaB
+1
Level 73
Feb 29, 2016
Aз също. ;)
KoljiVriVoda
+2
Level 77
Jan 13, 2016
Original idea :)
NKpride
+2
Level 59
Feb 29, 2016
Bit more time?
Algernon
+3
Level 72
Aug 8, 2018
Yeah could do with a bit more time. There are a lot of possible answers
evacooper
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Level 51
Feb 29, 2016
shows how much i know about glaciers, i thought they were a thing in the north pole.
DeusCaritasEst
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Level 55
Feb 29, 2016
Same. I managed to guess a good many of them, but only while thinking, "I'm not sure I know what a glacier is..."
dirkster42
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Level 87
Feb 29, 2016
Wonder how large this list will be in 2050, 2100....
SkyjumperTalon
+1
Level 58
Mar 1, 2016
Can you accept turkiye for turkey? Thanks turkey in turkish
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Mar 1, 2016
Glacier is one of the most absurdly pronounced words on the BBC.
mrnafe
+1
Level 82
Aug 7, 2018
Glacier? How is it pronounced?
Freestatebear
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Level 85
Aug 1, 2020
There are several pronunciations, depending on how posh the speaker is (or pretends to be) - the one that sounds the most odd to American ears is "GLASS-ee-ur."
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 89
Aug 1, 2020
Somebody really fumbling pretending to be posh would say GLASS-ee-ay.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Aug 17, 2020
Yeah it's like "glassier" (as in more glassy) but with a comically over-emphasized first syllable. As freestatebear said.
EcceHomo
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Level 78
May 24, 2021
"Comically over-emphasised" because it's different to how you pronounce it? Some linguist you are. What a ludicrous comment.
kitsims
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Level 82
Feb 16, 2023
This just in: pronouncing things with a UK accent does not make that pronunciation ‘absurd’.
camus
+2
Level 78
Aug 17, 2020
And how do you pronounce it?
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Aug 17, 2020
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, there are two variant pronunciation for glacier: /ɡlasɪə/ (gl-ass-ier) and /ɡleɪsɪə/ (glay-sier).
Xenobiologista
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Level 59
Aug 18, 2020
I say it like glay-sher.
AlexThirkell
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Level 75
Aug 19, 2020
Basically, either pronounce it with the first syllable to rhyme with 'mass', or with the first syllable to rhyme with 'place'. Some prefer the renegade 'glaysher' version...!
Marc92
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Level 50
Mar 10, 2016
Romania has glaciers. You can google Pestera Scarisoara and even wiki will tell you so :)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 6, 2018
Added Romania
Kontio100
+13
Level 52
Jul 4, 2016
It seems that Finland is the northernmost country without glaciers.
PjotrL
+5
Level 74
Aug 1, 2020
Ironically the highest point in the country is on a slope of a mountain with its peak in Norway!
Sergiu1998
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Level 70
Nov 11, 2016
there are glaciers in romania
JWC1202
+6
Level 74
Aug 7, 2018
No glaciers in Finland. Huh. Glacial striations aplenty, but no glaciers. Wow, I would not have guessed.
sillie
+1
Level 77
Aug 7, 2018
We don't have enough high ground that is cold the whole year around for glaciers to form. 1361 meters is quite low and that's just one place.
Tramp
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Level 76
Oct 9, 2018
Still really surprising to be honest.
jm
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Level 84
Oct 9, 2018
Finland is so low Norway tried to donate a mountain just to be nice. https://nordic.businessinsider.com/finland-100-norway-mountain--/
DaffyDucktheWizard
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Level 62
Aug 8, 2018
Sorry, I know so little about geology and what not- how do so many warm, equatorial countries have glaciers?
torny81
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Level 72
Aug 11, 2018
which equatorial country in the list are you talking about?
Malbaby
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Level 71
Aug 17, 2018
I would guess 'Daffy' is referring to Indonesia, Kenya, Ecuador, Colombia and very close Tanzania and Peru and Uganda.
wiifly
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Level 59
Aug 19, 2020
Uganda is on the equator
McKenzieFam
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Level 63
Feb 18, 2023
Mountains daffy, mountains.
Djilas
+11
Level 82
Aug 17, 2018
The high altitude drastically changes climate
bienhoa50
+1
Level 32
Oct 9, 2018
I'm very surprised to learn Indonesia has glaciers.
Tramp
+9
Level 76
Oct 9, 2018
Indonesia has some huge mountains in West Papua. I'm actually surprised that PNG doesn't have any.
wiifly
+1
Level 59
Aug 19, 2020
Yeah the only reason I guessed it is the New Guinea island.
iamtheiconoclast
+2
Level 62
Oct 9, 2018
Yay Montenegro!
90minutes
+1
Level 55
Oct 9, 2018
Andorra ?
HinesBrothers
+1
Level 75
Oct 9, 2018
Please give a little bit more time
bienhoa50
+1
Level 32
Oct 9, 2018
After researching about it, I think the Papua/New Guinea (Puncak Jaya) glacier is almost completely gone now.
Sifhraven
+8
Level 67
Jul 7, 2019
The research took so long it melted?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jul 30, 2020
I'm still seeing what appear to be glaciers on Google Maps.
unknown2000
+2
Level 48
Oct 9, 2018
46/47 but I forgot Iceland existed!!
Elan
+3
Level 65
Oct 9, 2018
This quiz needs more time.
mahble
+1
Level 77
Oct 9, 2018
I missed Myanmar... augh!
ElSharif
+1
Level 33
Oct 13, 2018
I agree. Some answers are not so obvious.
shazs317
+2
Level 59
Oct 9, 2018
We need more time. Like a lot more time
MrSchickadance
+1
Level 64
Oct 9, 2018
100%!!! YES!
coxbury
+2
Level 56
Oct 10, 2018
andorra?
Aleksandro
+1
Level 48
Oct 10, 2018
42/47 first try, not bad
jetpunkCZ
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Level 41
Oct 17, 2018
There are two ice caves in Slovakia (Dobsinska and Demanovska), same amount as in Romania, yet Slovakia is not on the list and Romania is. If it was up to me, I wouldn't count ice caves as glaciers. But it's up to Quizmaster to decide. ;-)
GeoDude
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Level 48
Feb 2, 2019
Needs another minute or two...
Sifhraven
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Level 67
Dec 14, 2019
It definitely needs more time, on tablet I can only type in 35 countries and then time is up... So even while knowing the answers I wont ne able to finish this quiz. (I might not have thought of Indoesia, but if that is the only one left..)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jul 30, 2020
Added two more minutes, thanks!
skukka
+1
Level 59
May 9, 2020
Nice quiz!
Werifesteria
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Level 65
Jul 30, 2020
https://www.rwenzorimountains.com/climbing-mount-emin/

In fact the only named glacier in the Rwenzori Mountains on Google Maps, the Emin Glacier, is in the DR Congo

Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jul 31, 2020
Added that one
TheLastFish
+2
Level 70
Aug 1, 2020
I wonder which have been the last countries which lost their glacier(s) in the past?!
Findlay
+2
Level 82
Aug 3, 2020
The Humboldt Glacier in Venezuela, the country's last, is almost gone. It'll probably be the first country to drop of this list, sadly.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Aug 17, 2020
I remember taking this quiz and it being substantially shorter. Glaciers popping up all over the place now...
CambodianQuizzer
+1
Level 63
Aug 17, 2020
Can you add Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein?
Werifesteria
+1
Level 65
Aug 19, 2020
There are no glaciers in Liechtenstein but you're right, there are some in Uzbekistan in Ugam-Chatkal National Park and southeast of Samarkand:

42.195818, 71.151192

NV1
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Level 51
Aug 17, 2020
Intresting that Bolivia has a glacier but Brazil doesn't!
TheAlternateNY
+2
Level 63
Aug 18, 2020
Andes I think.
JonOfKent
+5
Level 56
Nov 25, 2020
Yes I thought that too. Presumably that makes Brazil the largest country with no glaciers. That's a really useless bit of interesting information.
JohnnyYeet
+3
Level 57
Aug 19, 2020
There are glaciers in Mexico but not in Finland? Wow! That's pretty cool IMHO
quizzicalguy
+7
Level 65
Aug 23, 2020
Altitude is more of a predictor of glacier-having than latitude. A country with hot low-lying areas that has some tall mountains is more likely to have glaciers than a country with colder low-lying areas that has no tall mountains. The sky is always cold, bro.
liljedahl
+1
Level 57
Aug 20, 2020
47/48, missed Germany :(
Werifesteria
+1
Level 65
Dec 26, 2020
Uzbekistan needs to be included!
redsplat
+3
Level 74
Jan 28, 2021
I got Montenegro but forgot Iceland. Siiiigh. How does Finland not have glaciers? Mind blown.
Hampus
+2
Level 57
Mar 18, 2021
I forgot Iceland too... Can't believe it.

Finland is surprisingly flat.

KingLW
+1
Level 61
Mar 13, 2021
I got Japan with 7 seconds left, 48/48
MoloTxD
+4
Level 38
Apr 20, 2021
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19475705.2015.1023852

This article suggests existence of glaciers within Uzbekistan (and not just 1 or 2 of them, but hundreds of them) in northeastern Tashkent viloyat. Thus I suggest adding Uzbekistan to this quiz. We'll have to remove countries from this quiz pretty soon, let us add some while we still can do so.

Werifesteria
+1
Level 65
Jun 28, 2021
why no uzbekistan yet
willnass72
+2
Level 58
Jun 4, 2022
i've literally hiked on a glacier in Iceland and it was the last one i got -_-
LennyTheGiant
+2
Level 53
Nov 17, 2022
46/48. I missed Uganda and Switzerland (misspelled Switzerland D:)
Murphster45
+6
Level 88
Feb 16, 2023
Which country(s) got deleted?
Djilas
+7
Level 82
Feb 16, 2023
Judging by the previous comment one got added
TurkeyCookTime
+2
Level 76
Feb 16, 2023
Based on comments a few up, it seems like Uzbekistan was added.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Feb 16, 2023
Yes
AlexThirkell
+5
Level 75
Feb 16, 2023
So we can reply to replies of replies now?!

(edit: but not, it seems, replies of replies of replies though :p )

Dimby
+8
Level 77
Feb 16, 2023
Woah! And we can minimize discussion threads! This site is going to replace Reddit for sure.
FreeStater
+2
Level 66
Feb 17, 2023
Just waiting for a proper forum to be added…
Algarve
+1
Level 68
Feb 18, 2023
Same here, Qy!
McKenzieFam
+2
Level 63
Feb 18, 2023
+1
Djaljfaoifsnao
+1
Level 24
Feb 24, 2023
North Macedonia
reverendmeat
+2
Level 80
May 29, 2023
Today I learned I have no idea what is a glacier.
Thorvald
+1
Level 69
May 30, 2023
There is also a glacier in Poland (Lodowczyk Mięguszowiecki) and in Slovakia (Great Cold Valley Glacier)
rabble
+2
Level 66
May 30, 2023
From Nat Geo: "Glaciers are massive bodies of slowly moving ice. Glaciers form on land, and they are made up of fallen snow that gets compressed into ice over many centuries. They move slowly downward from the pull of gravity.

Most of the world’s glaciers exist in the polar regions, in areas like Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, and Antarctica. Glaciers also can be found closer to the Equator in some mountain regions. The Andes Mountain range in South America contains some of the world’s largest tropical glaciers. About 2 percent of all the water on Earth is frozen in glaciers.

Glaciers can range in age from a couple hundred to thousands of years old. Most glaciers today are remnants of the massive ice sheets that covered Earth during the Ice Age. The Ice Age ended more than 10,000 years ago. During Earth’s history, there have been colder periods—when glaciers formed—and warmer periods—when glaciers melted."

Violet150
+1
Level 43
Jun 15, 2023
iran has glaciers?????
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