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All Countries by Northernmost Point on Land

Try to guess all countries in the world in order of their northernmost point on land. When you guess each country it will be illuminated on the empty map.
Dependent territories are not considered (eg Greenland)
Data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_northernmost_point (as of 3.3.21)
Quiz by scambigol
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Last updated: March 3, 2021
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First submittedJuly 1, 2016
Times taken85,608
Average score27.0%
Rating4.89
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Lat
Country
83°06'N
Canada
81°51'N
Russia
80°49'N
Norway
71°23'N
United States
70°05'N
Finland
69°04'N
Sweden
67°08'N
Iceland
60°51'N
United Kingdom
59°48'N
Estonia
58°05'N
Latvia
57°45'N
Denmark
56°27'N
Lithuania
56°08'N
Belarus
55°43'N
Kazakhstan
55°26'N
Ireland
55°03'N
Germany
54°50'N
Poland
53°34'N
China
53°32'N
Netherlands
52º22'N
Ukraine
52º09'N
Mongolia
51°30'N
Belgium
51°05'N
France
51°02'N
Czech Republic
50°11'N
Luxembourg
49°36'N
Slovakia
49°01'N
Austria
48°35'N
Hungary
48°28'N
Moldova
48°15'N
Romania
47°48'N
Switzerland
47°14'N
Liechtenstein
47°05'N
Italy
46°52'N
Slovenia
46°33'N
Croatia
46°11'N
Serbia
45°36'N
Uzbekistan
45°31'N
Japan
45°16'N
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
44°13'N
Bulgaria
43°59'N
San Marino
43º47'N
Spain
43°45'N
Monaco
43°35'N
Georgia
43°32'N
Montenegro
43°16'N
Kyrgyzstan
43°14'N
Kosovo
43°00'N
North Korea
42°50'N
Turkmenistan
42°39'N
Andorra
42°30'N
Albania
42°21'N
North Macedonia
42°07'N
Portugal
42°06'N
Turkey
41°54'N
Vatican City
41°53'N
Azerbaijan
41°43'N
Greece
41°17'N
Armenia
41°02'N
Tajikistan
39°47'N
Iran
38°36'N
South Korea
38°22'N
Afghanistan
37°31'N
Tunisia
37°23'N
Iraq
37°19'N
Syria
37°06'N
Pakistan
Lat
Country
37°05'N
Algeria
36°05'N
Malta
35°55'N
Morocco
35°42'N
Cyprus
35°30'N
India
34°43'N
Lebanon
33°22'N
Jordan
33°17'N
Israel
33°10'N
Libya
32°43'N
Mexico
32°14'N
Saudi Arabia
31°36'N
Egypt
30°26'N
Nepal
30°06'N
Kuwait
28°32'N
Myanmar
28°20'N
Bhutan
27°19'N
Mauritania
27°16'N
Bahamas
26°38'N
Bangladesh
26°30'N
Oman
26°23'N
Taiwan
26°17'N
Bahrain
26°09'N
Qatar
26°05'N
United Arab
Emirates
25°00'N
Mali
23°31'N
Niger
23°26'N
Chad
23°22'N
Vietnam
23°16'N
Cuba
22°29'N
Laos
22°12'N
Sudan
21°07'N
Philippines
20°27'N
Thailand
20°04'N
Haiti
19°55'N
Dominican Republic
18°59'N
Yemen
18°31'N
Jamaica
18°29'N
Belize
18°00'N
Eritrea
17°49'N
Guatemala
17°44'N
Antigua and Barbuda
17°26'N
Saint Kitts and Nevis
17°25′N
Honduras
17°12'N
Cape Verde
16°41'N
Senegal
15°50'N
Colombia
15º40'N
Venezuela
15°38'N
Dominica
15°05'N
Burkina Faso
15°01'N
Nicaragua
14°53'N
Ethiopia
14°32'N
Marshall Islands
14°30'N
Cambodia
14°26'N
El Salvador
14°07'N
Saint Lucia
13°50'N
Nigeria
13°49'N
Gambia
13°22'N
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
13°20'N
Barbados
13°05'N
Cameroon
12°43'N
Djibouti
12°41'N
Guinea
12°41'N
Guinea-Bissau
12°31'N
Grenada
12°25'N
Benin
Lat
Country
12°14'N
South Sudan
11°59'N
Somalia
11º21'N
Trinidad and Tobago
11º13'N
Costa Rica
11°10'N
Ghana
11°08'N
Togo
11°01'N
Central African
Republic
10°44'N
Ivory Coast
10°05'N
F. S. Micronesia
09°59'N
Sierra Leone
09°38'N
Panama
09°30'N
Sri Lanka
08°33'N
Liberia
08°24'N
Guyana
08°10'N
Palau
07°15'N
Malaysia
07°07'N
Maldives
06°04'N
Indonesia
06°01'N
Suriname
05°35'N
Kenya
05°22'N
D. R. Congo
05°15'N
Brazil
05°04'N
Brunei
04°14'N
Uganda
03°47'N
Equatorial Guinea
03°43'N
Rep. of the Congo
03°23'N
Kiribati
02°19'N
Gabon
01°42'N
São Tomé and
Príncipe
01°41'N
Ecuador
01°28'N
Singapore
00°01'S
Peru
00°30'S
Nauru
00°52'S
Papua New Guinea
00°59'S
Tanzania
01°03'S
Rwanda
02°18'S
Burundi
03°43'S
Seychelles
04°24'S
Angola
05°13'S
Solomon Islands
05°39'S
Tuvalu
08°19'S
East Timor
08°14'S
Zambia
09°16'S
Australia
09°22'S
Malawi
09°40'S
Bolivia
10°25'S
Mauritius
10°27'S
Mozambique
11°22'S
Comoros
11°57'S
Madagascar
12°30'S
Fiji
13°07'S
Vanuatu
13°25'S
Samoa
15°36'S
Tonga
15°37'S
Zimbabwe
16°56'S
Namibia
17°19'S
Chile
17°46'S
Botswana
19°17'S
Paraguay
21°48'S
Argentina
22°20'S
South Africa
25°44'S
Eswatini
28°34'S
Lesotho
29°13'S
New Zealand
30°05'S
Uruguay
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Level 86
Oct 28, 2020
Amazing quizzz! but I don't think mauritius is the right rank?
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Level 57
Feb 22, 2023
the agalega islands that are governed by mauritius are more north than madagascar
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Level 70
Nov 8, 2020
great quiz! wondering if swaziland can be changed to eswatini. also wondering if another shade of green is possible, preferably darker, as this one is quite a strain on the eyes :)
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Level 69
Dec 9, 2020
Second on changing Swaziland to Eswatini please. :-)
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Level 76
Dec 9, 2020
I changed it already, yesterday!
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Level 58
Dec 8, 2020
I love how impossible this quiz is!
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Level 62
Jan 4, 2021
I have no idea on how hard something like this would be to implement, but i think it would help a lot if there was a horizontal line on the "level" you are at right now. Then again i don't know if that makes the quiz too easy.
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Level 60
Jan 13, 2021
Scoring

You scored 152/196 = 78%

This beats or equals 77.9% of test takers

close one

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Level 84
Jan 13, 2021
Time should be an hour.
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Level 75
Jan 25, 2021
Just turn the timer off and enjoy!
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Level 65
Feb 1, 2021
1st try: 62/196 = 32%

2nd try: 6/196 = 3%, got stuck on Iceland

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Level 38
Feb 10, 2021
Great quiz but about 20 of the countries are pretty out of order.
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Level 83
Feb 18, 2021
Which ones would that be?
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Level 76
Mar 1, 2021
Here are a few that might have been confusing

Venezuela: Isla Aves (near Dominica) is owned by Venezuela

Mauritius: There are some far north islands owned by Mauritius (don't remember the name). They're not part of the Mauritius circle, so that might have been confusing

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Level 95
Mar 1, 2021
Cool quiz! Very challenging.

Will there be one for the southernmost southern points as well?

I could see doing quizzes for east to west and west to east from the Prime Meridian as well.

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Level 82
Mar 1, 2021
Tuvalu does not show up
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Level 84
Mar 1, 2021
62...made it only as far as Afghanistan before time ran out.
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Level 87
Mar 1, 2021
Very hard! Also hard to get used to things like Mexico starting further north than Nepal.
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Level 88
Mar 1, 2021
This is a great quiz. This isn't something i normally say, but i think it needs a longer time limit...
+1
Level 76
Mar 2, 2021
Wow, tough but fun!
+1
Level 95
Mar 2, 2021
There are actually a lot of discrepancies between the order on this quiz and the on the wikipedia list linked as the source.
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Level ∞
Mar 2, 2021
This quiz was featured via the nominations process. I'll leave it up to @scambigol to correct any errors that may appear.
+1
Level ∞
Mar 3, 2021
Looks like there has been an update. Thanks @scambigol!
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Level 60
Mar 2, 2021
Awesome quiz. Congratulations on your feature 🎉🎉 btw, there's something wrong with the ordering of Panama, Liberia and Sri Lanka (。•̀ᴗ-)✧
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Level 59
Mar 2, 2021
It's actually way harder than expected even for geography nerds. At first it's easy because answers are obvious and easy to work out but further to the centre you get the broader range. Took me over 2 minutes to work out Mexico because I got fixated on Bahamas being first after a while in North America lol.
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Level 77
Mar 19, 2021
I forgot that Colombia and Venezuela project further north than Panama so i kept trying those two after panama and was getting ticked that they weren't being accepted.
+1
Level 80
Mar 2, 2021
Great quiz. Glad it's now featured. 184 and ran out of time. Always get confused in the middle :)
+2
Level 77
Mar 2, 2021
Super fun and interesting quiz. Don't understand how so many people finish it. The equator area has three continents and random islands to jump between!
+2
Level 70
Mar 2, 2021
Would be nice if the spaces in the list were colour coded by continent.
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Level 24
Mar 3, 2021
don't denmark control greenland tho
+1
Level 69
Mar 3, 2021
This was so tough I rage quit and that's very rare
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Level 70
Mar 4, 2021
Great and difficult quiz! I do like it!
+1
Level 95
Mar 7, 2021
One of the best quizzes ever. A few close calls and then got it comfortably, 6:13 left. TY!
+5
Level 82
Mar 9, 2021
How is Kyrgyzstan the most guessed???
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Level 57
Mar 12, 2021
My new favourite quiz
+4
Level 71
Mar 14, 2021
What's going on that Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, and Croatia are the most guessed and yet most people can't get Canada, Russia, and the United States?
+2
Level 75
Apr 21, 2021
It's got to be a mistake. Now Belarus is on top.
+2
Level 57
Mar 15, 2021
Colombia is wrong, it says the northernmost point is at 15°, but it's after Gambia which is 13°.
+2
Level 58
Apr 16, 2021
Europe makes this especially difficult
+2
Level 77
Apr 21, 2021
Wow, I must have done "Countries of the World" a hundred times, but I still could barely manage the first quarter on this one. I'll definitely do this again until I solve it completely.

Thanks a lot for a great quiz!

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Level 54
Apr 21, 2021
I will be back for you, quiz. Wow, you know it's tough when JetPunkers all say similar thoughts
+1
Level 69
Apr 21, 2021
Scambiol from downtown again! Excellent quiz. Tough though.
+2
Level 64
Apr 21, 2021
awesome quiz. Copy/paste is your friend for this one
+1
Level 71
Apr 21, 2021
Got stuck on Andorra for about five minutes...
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Level 43
Apr 21, 2021
Andorra and Vatican City got me stumped
+1
Level 48
Apr 21, 2021
Great idea! I'm doing one similar, but I have no idea of how to paint the map in green with the guessed countries. I'd be grateful if someone told me.
+1
Level 68
Apr 21, 2021
mauritania is on the wrong rank
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Level 68
Apr 21, 2021
colombia too
+1
Level 68
Apr 21, 2021
and sri lanka...
+1
Level 68
Apr 21, 2021
indonesia
+1
Level 68
Apr 21, 2021
kiribati
+1
Level 68
Apr 21, 2021
ecuador
+1
Level 68
Apr 21, 2021
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Level 53
Feb 8, 2022
nah theyre not
+2
Level 60
Apr 21, 2021
Should be 5 minutes longer.
+1
Level 74
Apr 21, 2021
I took this untimed and it took me more than 45 minutes to fill in every country. All those islands and microstates make it quite challenging!
+2
Level 68
Apr 21, 2021
Anyone else start from the bottom and go up?
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Level 74
Apr 22, 2021
Outstanding quiz! Frustrating and addictive at the same time. Now I am interested in learning why some countries are ranked lower than others while their latitude shown in the first column is further North. See Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Colombia, Sri Lanka, etc. I was expecting a steady decrease in the latitudes.
+2
Level 70
Apr 22, 2021
The toughest part is probably between when you start doing the Caribeans and until you're done with the Gulf of Guinea.
+2
Level 66
Apr 22, 2021
I managed to figure out most of Europe and some Asia but ran out of time after that. Rare quiz where getting only 29% will get you 3 points.
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Level 29
Apr 23, 2021
denmark isn't first?
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Level 53
Feb 8, 2022
canada is still ahead
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Level 70
Apr 23, 2021
got all the way down to Antigua
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Level 39
Apr 23, 2021
idk if im missing something but the wiki article lists mauritania as before the bahamas
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Level 65
Apr 23, 2021
Great ! It is much too hard for me and my kid but we loved it. Next time, we're gonna go further.

Thanks again.

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Level 76
Apr 26, 2021
Oh my god I can't even get past europe
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Level 64
Apr 27, 2021
Scoring

You scored 65/196 = 33%

This beats or equals 73.2% of test takers

The average score is 49

Your high score is 65

Surprise

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Level 77
May 21, 2021
After many, many tries I finally got this. Got stuck on the fourth column forever. I can finally move on with my life
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Level 90
May 27, 2021
I'm not sure if I should be embarrassed or proud, but after 54 tries, I finally got them all in 20 minutes. Barbados, Cambodia, and the Pacific islands always gave me problems.
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Level 68
Jun 22, 2021
That was such a good challenge - would be cool if there was a small red point indicating the northernmost point of the country
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Level 47
Jun 23, 2021
SO many tries and I finally did it!!!
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Level 76
Jun 29, 2021
small nations like san marino don't fill in on the map when you get them, there's still a little white gap left in italy
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Level 58
Sep 25, 2021
pls fix Mauritania!
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Level 90
Oct 22, 2021
Brutal. Finally got over half with my sixth try.
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Level 90
Jan 21, 2022
Finally did it on my 23rd try. Please never update this quiz.
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Level 63
Nov 16, 2021
Bosnia is listed at 45°16'N, ahead (further north) of Uzbekistan at 45°36'N. Is there some reason for this that I don’t understand?
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Level 63
Nov 16, 2021
This problem also seems to apply to Bosnia showing up before Japan and Kosovo before Kyrgyzstan.
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Level 63
Nov 16, 2021
As well as Ireland and Kazakhstan
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Level 28
Dec 4, 2021
Could you accept Kyrgystan?
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Level 45
Feb 10, 2022
this was torture to complete
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Level 55
Mar 11, 2022
I both really like this quiz and want to soak it in gasoline and toss it in a bonfire at the same time. It gets very frustrating when I forget the Philippines for ten minutes and can't figure out what I'm missing, but it is still fun, interesting, and informative.
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Level 89
Apr 24, 2022
Love the quiz (and your other ones), but several of these are out of order, which makes it considerably more difficult. I’m not arguing about what you’ve identified as the northernmost points like some others are, but accepting your latitudes as correct, at least 11 of them are out of order —

Kazakhstan (55°43’N) should be before Ireland (55°26’N), not after it.

Bosnia (45°16’N) should be after Uzbekistan and Japan (45°36’N and 45°31’N, respectively), not before them.

Colombia at 15°50’N shouldn’t be between Gambia (13°49’N) and St Vincent (13°22’N).

Sri Lanka (09°30’N) shouldn’t be between Liberia (08°33’N) and Guyana (08°24’N)

Similarly, Kosovo, Tunisia, Mauritania, Indonesia, Kiribati, Singapore, and Papua New Guinea are out of order based on the latitudes you’ve listed.

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Level 65
Apr 26, 2022
got 195 my 9th try (almost cried) and finally got 196 on my 13th try with 3:57 to go... awesome quiz! you should make an easternmost version with the revealing map!
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Level 65
Apr 26, 2022
got 195 my 9th try (almost cried) and finally got 196 on my 13th try with 3:57 to go... awesome quiz! you should make an easternmost version with the revealing map!
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Level 63
Jul 26, 2022
I got 196 in 9 attempts. Great quiz!
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Level 79
Aug 3, 2022
If you want to do it "the right way", this is hands down one of the hardest quizzes on the website. However, there is an alternative way which makes it less difficult, if not easy (and it does not involve cheating in wany way). I won't disclose it here but here's a hint: look at the answer percentages. Something seems off about them... Great quiz both for knowledge practice and outside-the-box thinking!
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Level 74
Aug 21, 2022
Great quiz! But maybe increase the time limit?
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Level 58
Nov 22, 2022
Furthest south I got was Honduras
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Level 59
Dec 16, 2022
Great quiz, but your answers disagree with the listing in a few places - Colombia, Suriname, Kiribati, Singapore, Rwanda.
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Level 61
Dec 31, 2022
195/196. I was typing Uruguay when the time ran out..................
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Level 44
Mar 12, 2023
My best is 94. Terribly difficult but fun
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Level 53
Mar 16, 2023
I got 124/196, so challenging!
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Level 70
Mar 24, 2023
This is a great quiz, although I wish it had more time
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Level 68
May 3, 2023
According to your coordinates, some of the countries are sorted in the wrong order, for example Singapore and Ecuador
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Level 74
May 24, 2023
Great quiz, could use more time, very hard to get past the caribbean islands
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Level 43
May 30, 2023
why is colombia 15°50'N but below gambia nigeria saint lucia el salvador and venezuela
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Level 46
Sep 15, 2023
This is great! I'm on my 17th try and can only get upto 137. Still gets confused with the Balkan area. I'll go in order upto Guatemala, and then I'll go to the last one New Zealand and type upwards until Mauritius. The I'll kind of guess the rest with the coordinates.
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Level 71
Dec 18, 2023
The placements of Colombia and Mauritania do not match the order of the coordinates. Please fix this problem.
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Level 68
Jan 10, 2024
As has been mentioned already, quite a few countries are in the wrong order based on the latitudes stated. Please fix
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Level ∞
Jan 29, 2024
This has been fixed now, thank you.