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All First-Level Subdivisions of South America on a Map

There are 243 first-level administrative divisions in South America. How many can you name?
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First submittedMarch 9, 2019
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Argentina
City
Buenos Aires
Province
Buenos Aires
Catamarca
Chaco
Chubut
Córdoba
Corrientes
Entre Ríos
Formosa
Jujuy
La Pampa
La Rioja
Mendoza
Misiones
Neuquén
Río Negro
Salta
San Juan
San Luis
Santa Cruz
Santa Fe
Santiago del Estero
Tierra del Fuego
Tucumán
 
 
Bolivia
Department
Beni
Chuquisaca
Cochabamba
La Paz
Oruro
Pando
Potosí
Santa Cruz
Tarija
 
 
Brazil
District
Federal District
State
Acre
Alagoas
Amapá
Amazonas
Bahia
Ceará
Espírito Santo
Goiás
Maranhão
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso do Sul
Minas Gerais
Pará
Paraíba
Paraná
Pernambuco
Piauí
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Grande do Norte
Rio Grande do Sul
Rondônia
Roraima
Santa Catarina
São Paulo
Sergipe
Tocantins
 
 
Chile
Region
Antofagasta
Araucanía
Arica and Parinacota
Atacama
Aysén
Biobío
Coquimbo
Los Lagos
Los Ríos
Magallanes
Maule
Ñuble
O'Higgins
Santiago
Tarapacá
Valparaíso
 
 
Colombia
Department
Amazonas
Antioquia
Arauca
Atlántico
Bolívar
Boyacá
Caldas
Caquetá
Casanare
Cauca
Cesar
Chocó
Córdoba
Cundinamarca
Guainía
Guaviare
Huila
La Guajira
Magdalena
Meta
Nariño
Norte de Santander
Putumayo
Quindío
Risaralda
San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
Santander
Sucre
Tolima
Valle del Cauca
Vaupés
Vichada
District
Capital District
 
 
Ecuador
Province
Azuay
Bolívar
Cañar
Carchi
Chimborazo
Cotopaxi
El Oro
Esmeraldas
Galápagos
Guayas
Imbabura
Loja
Los Ríos
Manabí
Morona-Santiago
Napo
Orellana
Pastaza
Pichincha
Santa Elena
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
Sucumbíos
Tungurahua
Zamora-Chinchipe
France
Region
French Guiana
 
 
Guyana
Region
Barima-Waini
Cuyuni-Mazaruni
Demerara-Mahaica
East Berbice-Corentyne
Essequibo Islands-West Demerara
Mahaica-Berbice
Pomeroon-Supenaam
Potaro-Siparuni
Upper Demerara-Berbice
Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo
 
 
Paraguay
Departament
Alto Paraguay
Alto Paraná
Amambay
Boquerón
Caaguazú
Caazapá
Canindeyú
Central
Concepción
Cordillera
Guairá
Itapúa
Misiones
Ñeembucú
Paraguarí
Presidente Hayes
San Pedro
District
Distrito Capital
 
 
Peru
City
Callao
Departament
Amazonas
Ancash
Apurímac
Arequipa
Ayacucho
Cajamarca
Cusco
Huancavelica
Huánuco
Ica
Junín
La Libertad
Lambayeque
Lima
Loreto
Madre de Dios
Moquegua
Pasco
Piura
Puno
San Martín
Tacna
Tumbes
Ucayali
Province
Lima
 
 
Suriname
District
Brokopondo
Commewijne
Coronie
Marowijne
Nickerie
Para
Paramaribo
Saramacca
Sipaliwini
Wanica
 
 
United Kingdom
Territory
Falkland Islands
 
 
Uruguay
Departament
Artigas
Canelones
Cerro Largo
Colonia
Durazno
Flores
Florida
Lavalleja
Maldonado
Montevideo
Paysandú
Río Negro
Rivera
Rocha
Salto
San José
Soriano
Tacuarembó
Treinta y Tres
 
 
Venezuela
Dependency
Federal Dependencies
District
Capital District
State
Amazonas
Anzoátegui
Apure
Aragua
Barinas
Bolívar
Carabobo
Cojedes
Delta Amacuro
Falcón
Guárico
Lara
Mérida
Miranda
Monagas
Nueva Esparta
Portuguesa
Sucre
Táchira
Trujillo
Vargas
Yaracuy
Zulia
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Level 65
Oct 28, 2019
I like these kinds of quizzes a lot not just to test myself and learn new information, but also to see what other people know.
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Level 19
Nov 30, 2019
Now Asia
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Level 69
May 7, 2020
Great quiz, very challenging! Got 39
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Level 76
May 12, 2020
When you type Magallanes, the Maule region of Chile is also turned green.
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Level 55
May 16, 2020
Fixed.
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Level 76
May 16, 2020
If you’re wondering how to get 100%, here’s the trick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:First-level_administrative_country_subdivisions

Just find each country and it flies by in no time (alright maybe some time)...

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Level 82
May 16, 2020
Do People Cheat?

Probably, but they're really only cheating themselves.

- Dan Hostetler, the JetPunk Quizmaster

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Level 85
Jun 26, 2020
Cheating on a quiz is one of the sadder things I can think of. What drives a person like that?
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Level 89
Jul 29, 2020
Points, probably.
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Level 79
Jul 29, 2020
saddest*
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Level 82
Dec 22, 2020
Either sadder or saddest makes perfect grammatical sense.
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Level 84
Jul 1, 2021
sadful
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Level 66
Jul 1, 2021
People learn by cheating I guess!
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Level 65
Feb 5, 2023
In part they cheat because th3 above share how to, lol, but I wish they wouldn't. I have 171 and it's only 81.5%, and I don't think 18%+ have a 172+. Doesn't matter, if the typists want to pick up points for their data entry skills I can still use it as a learning tool.
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Level 79
Jul 29, 2020
Did you 'ascend' to Level 59 by cheating, @PiggyMan156?
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Level 66
Jul 29, 2020
It would be easier to cheat by splitting your screen, showing the answers on one window by clicking give up immediately and then typing those answers in on the second window
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Level 56
Jul 24, 2020
Ugh i get anxiety when i look at Uruguay and Paraguay
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Level 79
Jul 27, 2020
Does Rapa Nui (Isla de Pascua, Easter Island) belong in this quiz too? Think it might if Galapagos Islands and Falklands Islands are being included. It wasn't included in the Oceania quiz from this series. Also, what continent is South Georgia considered to be part of?
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Level 55
Jul 27, 2020
Easter Island is part of Valparaíso Region, South Georgia is not permanently inhabited.
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Level 79
Jul 29, 2020
Agreed on Valparaiso, what I meant was it isn't part of the map.
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Level 55
Jul 29, 2020
It is too small for it to appear on the map.
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Level 77
Jul 16, 2021
blizzrd33, isn't Easter island reckoned to be in Oceania? South Georgia is part of Antarctica. Not sure where Tristan da Cunha should go, though. And I believe that the Netherlands Antilles and Trinidad (though not Tobago) should be included as they are surely part of S America.
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Level 68
Jul 29, 2020
Could you accept Aisen?
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Level 64
Jul 29, 2020
"Departament" is halfway between the English and Spanish spellings.
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Level 57
Jul 29, 2020
Hi, when you type in Misiones, it considers the Argentinian one but not the Paraguayan one.
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Level 55
Jul 29, 2020
It works fine for me.
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Level 75
Jul 31, 2020
The issue is when you type Missiones. For some reason it works for Argentina, but not Paraguay.
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Level 67
Jul 30, 2020
Aren't Nueva Esparta and Federal Dependencies caribbean islands, and then part of North America?
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Level 75
Jul 31, 2020
Maybe its just me, but the type-ins on this quiz seem very unforgiving compared to other continents/individual country subdivision quizzes.
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Level 75
Aug 2, 2020
Should be yellow box, district by district. We'll see how many of you get "Para" and "Pará" then!
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Level 71
Aug 3, 2020
"Vargas'" name was changed to "La Guaira"
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Level 65
Aug 9, 2020
Educated guessing got me as far as I could go. But O'Higgins? Never in a lifetime of guessing.
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Level 92
Aug 13, 2020
Named after one of Chile's founding fathers, Bernardo O'Higgins.
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Level 65
Sep 27, 2020
Thanks, Copa Libertadores de América!
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Level 56
Sep 30, 2020
Spent about 4 days to learn these, got 134/242, not bad, but i could have done better.
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Level 53
Aug 1, 2021
I've been here studying them for over two weeks and I'm still at 210
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Level 60
Oct 20, 2020
Okay, so Cauca controls Caldas for some reason, it is both called Cauca and lights up when you type Cauca, rather than being Caldas. I couldn't understand how I missed something in Colombia.
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Level 35
Oct 26, 2020
Caldas is filling on map for " Cauca "
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Level 50
Dec 18, 2020
Great quizz! Just one thing, it's Alagoas instead of Alagoa
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Level 85
Jan 19, 2021
Odd that the Falklands is on here, considering Argentina has never owned them. Seems like a waste for them to create a state for them.
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Level 79
Jan 28, 2021
The Falklands are considered to be part of South America (albeit not part of the mainland)
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Level 81
Apr 11, 2021
These are tough! Shouldn't San Andres be in the North America quiz, since these seem to be grouped geographically instead of politically?
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Level 68
Jul 5, 2021
The Ñuble region in Chile appears as one of the answers (which is correct) but it doesn't show up on the map, where it is still shown as part of the Biobío region.
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Level 55
Jul 5, 2021
Changes pending.
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Level 80
Jul 25, 2021
Finally got all of them! Great quiz, thank you for making it!

Doing the individual countries quizzes for this first is definitely the play though, lol

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Level 22
Nov 28, 2021
Looks like the Guyana regions are all mixed up
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Level 77
Feb 24, 2022
Yeah only Potaro and Barima are in the correct places
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Level 71
Dec 9, 2021
Napo and Tungarahua are switched
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Level 82
May 18, 2022
I know some countries quite well - got all of Argentina and Brazil, most of Chile and Colombia, about half of Bolivia and Uruguay, but did rather poorly elsewhere, mainly only getting the ones that shared a name with a city or significant geographical feature that I could guess at.
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Level 63
Aug 15, 2022
Two down, four to go.
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Level 65
Sep 8, 2022
You guys are savages. I get to the 150 mark and it's just top 76%.
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Level 65
Oct 6, 2022
158, 79.1%.
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Level 68
Dec 3, 2022
Some problems I've found in your quiz:

Guyana:

Essequibo Islands-West Demerara is named as Demerara-Mahaica

East Berbice-Corentyne is named as Mahaica-Berbice

Mahaica-Berbice is named as Essequibo Islands-West Demerara

Demerara-Mahaica is named as East Berbice-Corentyne

Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo is named as Upper Demerara-Berbice

Upper Demerara-Berbice is named as Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo

Pomeroon-Supenaam is named as Cuyuni-Mazaruni

Cuyuni-Mazaruni is named as Pomeroon-Supenaam

Ecuador:

Napo is named as Tungurahua

Tungurahuais named as Napo

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Level 65
Feb 5, 2023
This must have taken some serious time and effort to put together. Thanks. It's valuable.
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Level 16
Feb 11, 2023
A lot of the regions in Guyana are labeled with swapped names
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Level 32
Jun 12, 2023
To summarise what many have mentioned:

- In Venezuela, Vargas should be La Guaira (since 2019)

- In Ecuador, Napo and Tungurahua have switched places

- Most of the regions of Guyana have been mixed up

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Level 48
Nov 13, 2023
Many of the governorates in Guyana are mixed up.
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Level 64
Dec 12, 2023
Finally got them all!
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Level 22
Mar 10, 2024
In Ecuador, Napo is swapped with Tungurahua.
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Level 16
Mar 12, 2024
North America, Antarctica, and South America completed yay!!!

02/26/24 - 03/12/24

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Level 63
Mar 25, 2024
The Guyanese ones are all mismatched.