The only country that I could find that has "THE" as the official name of the country is "The Gambia". I believe there may be one other but all the rest are just the way we say the name of that country like The Netherland, The Bahama, The USA, etc.
Why give us DRC? Is it to stop complaints that DRC shouldn't count as a country beginning with D? Then to keep it consistent, you should give us DRC as an answer on this quiz: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/22850/largest-countries-by-letter, on this quiz: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/28954/southernmost-countries-a-z and on this quiz: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/28954/border-countries-a-z
It may just be me but I hate it when some answers are filled in for us. Let us guess it or not but at least we've had the opportunity to give it a shot. And for those who would complain, they're going to complain anyway, so don't coddle them. Besides, the Countries of the World Quiz gives us the accepted common names used on JetPunk for every country so no one can claim to be surprised. Anyone unable to get the answer for D just hasn't been paying attention!
53 seconds time left over, no idea if there was any added or not. I don't think you should have time to go over all countries and continents in your head, the idea is to *know* which ones are big, not to try all possible countries. With too much time it reduces all country quizzes to the same thing: list countries and hope you hit the right answers.
Same here, sillie. Got them all with 53 seconds to spare, and to me it means that if you do know the populous countries, you'll have more than plenty of time within the current 4:00 minutes time frame.
I think pretty much every system of categorization I have ever seen in English, whether it be encyclopedia entries or artists in a record store, omits "The" when alphabetizing.
What's Libya's deal? Egypt next door has 100 million people. Algeria next door has 40 million people. Even relatively tiny Tunisia has like ten million. Not even seven million in Libya? What gives?
Didn't guess South Africa because lots of countries start with S, and this one didn't cross my mind in time. Where as Vietnam was easy to find (and so were India and China), so trying countries in this region (such as Laos) came naturally
oh my god i got all of them except for N... i tried nepal, new zealand, netherlands, nicaragua and then literally at the last second i thought "OH MY GOD NIGERIA"
These A-Z country quizzes have a rather nice property - three guaranteed answers in Oman, Qatar and Yemen. They're even really close together geographically! Here, I typed them before reflecting on the topic at all.
Also guessed Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Kuwait. Not realising Kenya is the answer.
5/23
(i got bored. i couldve gotten more but i didnt want to)
Also Pakistan at 238??? Since when?
Even crazier than Nigeria.