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Biggest First-Level Subdivisions by Area

With the help of a map, can you name all country first-level subdivisions with an area of at least 250 thousand square kilometres?
Source: Wikipedia
Numbers shown are areas in square kilometers
Quiz by Vicky
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Last updated: December 1, 2020
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First submittedAugust 31, 2020
Times taken18,176
Average score36.5%
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Algeria
337 k
Tamanrasset
254 k
Adrar
 
 
Argentina
308 k
Buenos Aires
 
 
Australia
2643 k
Western Australia
1852 k
Queensland
1420 k
Northern Territory
1044 k
South Australia
810 k
New South Wales
 
 
Bolivia
371 k
Santa Cruz
 
 
Brazil
1559 k
Amazonas
1246 k
Pará
903 k
Mato Grosso
587 k
Minas Gerais
565 k
Bahia
357 k
Mato Grosso do Sul
340 k
Goiás
330 k
Maranhão
282 k
Rio Grande do Sul
278 k
Tocantins
252 k
Piauí
 
 
Canada
2093 k
Nunavut
1542 k
Quebec
1346 k
Northwest Territories
1076 k
Ontario
945 k
British Columbia
662 k
Alberta
651 k
Saskatchewan
648 k
Manitoba
482 k
Yukon
405 k
Newfoundland and Labrador
China
1660 k
Xinjiang Uyghur
1228 k
Tibet
1183 k
Inner Mongolia
721 k
Qinghai
485 k
Sichuan
454 k
Gansu
454 k
Heilongjiang
394 k
Yunnan
 
 
Denmark
2166 k
Greenland
 
 
Egypt
440 k
New Valley
 
 
Ethiopia
285 k
Oromia
279 k
Somali
 
 
India
342 k
Rajasthan
308 k
Madhya Pradesh
308 k
Maharashtra
 
 
Indonesia
319 k
Papua
Kazakhstan
428 k
Karaganda
301 k
Aktobe
283 k
East Kazakhstan
 
 
Libya
434 k
Kufra
356 k
Murzuq
 
 
Mali
323 k
Taoudénit
 
 
Mauritania
253 k
Tiris Zemmour
 
 
Niger
668 k
Agadez
 
 
Pakistan
347 k
Balochistan
 
 
Peru
369 k
Loreto
 
 
Russia
3103 k
Sakha
2340 k
Krasnoyarsk
789 k
Khabarovsk
768 k
Irkutsk
750 k
Yamalo-Nenets
738 k
Chukotka
587 k
Arkhangelsk
523 k
Khanty–Mansi
472 k
Kamchatka
461 k
Magadan
432 k
Zabaykalsky
416 k
Komi
364 k
Amur
351 k
Buryatia
317 k
Tomsk
Saudi Arabia
673 k
Eastern
404 k
Riyadh
 
 
South Africa
373 k
Northern Cape
 
 
Sudan
349 k
Northern
296 k
North Darfur
 
 
United States
1478 k
Alaska
677 k
Texas
403 k
California
377 k
Montana
314 k
New Mexico
294 k
Arizona
284 k
Nevada
268 k
Colorado
253 k
Wyoming
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Level 62
Aug 31, 2020
Why doesn't northwest work for Northwest territories and north for northern territory?
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Level 66
Aug 31, 2020
They were on World Subdivisions, but those weren’t automatic.
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Level 70
Aug 31, 2020
It's always "Northwest Territories", accepting just the first half doesn't sit right for some reason.
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Level 74
Aug 31, 2020
Might I suggest adding NWT as a typein though?
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Level 70
Jan 12, 2021
That would be nice, it was the shorthand we were taught in school along with PEI.
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
Or NW Territories?
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Level 60
Oct 26, 2022
Not on this quiz, but NFL would also be a nice type-in to add universally for Newfoundland.
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Level 75
Aug 31, 2020
Please accept Tamanrasset as a type-in.
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Level 60
Aug 31, 2020
Well nothing sort of surprising I know from our sub division expert IAB kun, but still your quizzes and maps always surprises me with utter shock and amusement
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Level 88
Aug 31, 2020
Great quiz!
+3
Level 70
Aug 31, 2020
Excellent! Your fabulous subdivision quizzes never fail to amaze me.
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Level 51
Oct 2, 2020
yeah, something with the stroke
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Level 51
Oct 2, 2020
and nenets's border
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Level 44
Oct 24, 2020
Alaska with the 666k miles squared. Nice.
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Level 57
Oct 25, 2020
Great quiz, nominated! I only missed some of the Saharan and Kazakhstan ones :)
+3
Level 88
Dec 1, 2020
Minnesota, Idaho, Oklahoma, Washington Utah, North Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska Kansas and South Dakota are all larger than Michigan.

https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/2010/geo/state-area.html

Presumably, Michigan's adjacent Great Lakes area was included, adding over 40% to its land area.

Look at the map of Canada and this is like calculating more than 3 Hudson Bays into their area.

If the 200-nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone of the Pacific Ocean off California was included in its area, it would be a larger percentage, but the exact same idea. Hawaii would jump nearly 30-fold including those adjacent waters.

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Level 55
Dec 1, 2020
Fixed, also removed Oregon.
+5
Level 69
Dec 22, 2020
Never really thought about it til now, but what map projection does JetPunk use? I've been using this website for about 8 months now, but never noticed that, like the Mercator, places like Greenland and Alaska look big, but, unlike the Mercator, Africa is sufficiently large
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Level 74
Dec 29, 2020
Great quiz!!! Nominated!!!
+1
Level 51
Jan 6, 2021
Love this quiz so much!!!! I nominated it!
+2
Level 71
Jan 16, 2021
I think the Algerian province is Tamanrasset.
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Level 55
Jan 16, 2021
49/85
+7
Level 68
Jan 30, 2021
May I suggest adding "Yakutia" as a type-in for Sakha? The name is even included in the official name of the republic, according to Wikipedia.
+3
Level 66
Feb 8, 2021
It was the first name I typed in
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Level 44
Apr 16, 2021
agreed
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Level 53
Feb 8, 2021
...I misspelled Xinjiang
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Level 66
Feb 8, 2021
This was hard. Tried Amazonia and Amazona but not Amazonas. I also tried Guinea and New Guinea but not Papua.
+1
Level 62
Feb 8, 2021
This quiz is a beast - good work. Got 39 - somehow those Brazilian ones are familiar now that I see them, but I couldn't recall 'em.
+1
Level 72
Feb 9, 2021
Maybe some type-ins for Maharashtra? I tried Maharashthra and Maharasthra with no luck. I can never remeber that spelling.
+1
Level 55
Jul 22, 2022
Just type in MH
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Level 45
Feb 9, 2021
Northwestern territories should be a type-in for Northwest territories
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Level 76
Feb 10, 2021
Can you accept just "Nenets"? I knew that name but I didn't remember the other part.
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Level 75
Feb 11, 2021
You should be Rio Grande a type in for Rio Grande do Sul, or add other ones. I tried Rio Grande de sol, Rio Grande de Sul, Rio Grande do Sol, but missed Rio Grande do Sul.
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Level 67
Apr 9, 2022
Isn't it Tamanrasset?
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Level 52
Jun 30, 2022
i got 51/85, im proud of myself
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Level 55
Jul 22, 2022
Please accept Yamalia and Nenets for Yamalo-Nenets
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Level 59
Oct 4, 2022
please accept Nenets type-in
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Level 69
Jan 1, 2023
Why? Nenets and Yamalo-Nenets are two completely different provinces, the former being the thin gray area just west of Yamalo-Nenets. Yamalia could work as an alternate, but definitely not Nenets.
+2
Level 69
Oct 6, 2022
Papua, Indonesia was recently split apart and would no longer meet this threshold.
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Level 60
Oct 11, 2023
It looks like the map includes the split.
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Level 60
Oct 16, 2022
Ulytau Region was recently split off from Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan, which I believe would lower its area off this list.
+4
Level 45
Oct 26, 2022
bruh I thought wyoming didn't exist
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Level 66
Jan 16, 2023
Please accept Tombouctou or Timbuktu for Taoudénit and Qaraghandy or Karagandy for Karaganda.
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Level 71
Sep 8, 2023
Please add NWT as a type-in for the Northwest Territories
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Level 71
Dec 3, 2023
Please update this quiz.

Karaganda has been split into Ulytau Region and Karaganda.

East Kazakhstan has been split into East Kazakhstan and Abai Region.

Allow Tombouctou Region for Taoudenit, bc thats what it says on Google Maps and Earth.