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Easternmost Countries

Can you name the 20 countries with the easternmost point on LAND?
Easternmost point defined as the point with the highest longitude
Not including overseas territories and departments
Quiz by relessness
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Last updated: April 21, 2020
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First submittedJune 2, 2014
Times taken47,704
Average score85.0%
Rating4.76
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Longitude
Country
180
Fiji
180
Russia
179.9
Tuvalu
179.8
United States
178.9
New Zealand
176.8
Kiribati
172.2
Marshall Islands
Longitude
Country
170.2
Vanuatu
170.2
Solomon Islands
168.0
Australia
167.0
Nauru
163.0
F. S. Micronesia
159.4
Papua New Guinea
154.0
Japan
Longitude
Country
141.1
Indonesia
134.8
China
134.7
Palau
131.9
South Korea
130.7
North Korea
127.5
East Timor
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Level 85
Jun 2, 2014
France has a department near the Solomon Islands -- New Caledonia which would place France on your list.
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Level 47
Jun 3, 2014
New Caledonia isn't a department of France, just a territory
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Level 65
Oct 30, 2019
What about Samoa
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Level 76
Apr 21, 2020
Samoa is pretty much the farthest west place you can possibly go
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Level 82
May 15, 2020
American Samoa is not the reason why the United States appears on this quiz. Part of the Aleutian Islands (Alaska) is west of the International Date Line. The island chain contains both the westernmost and easternmost point in the country.
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Level 34
May 19, 2020
kalbahamut They aren’t talking about the US territory American Samoa. They are talking about the country Samoa.
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Level 60
Oct 16, 2023
My bet is that kalbahamut was responding to a now-deleted comment.
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Level 57
Aug 15, 2021
The IDT determines what day the islands are in, it does not move the 180° longitude line. If it did, Fiji and Russia would not be so far east that 180° intersects them, ARandomQuizzer
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Level 57
Dec 27, 2020
It doesn't count territories and departaments, it's on the description
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Level 57
Aug 28, 2014
Other quizzes require Federated States of Micronesia - please accept it for the long-winded amongst us.
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Level 59
Apr 29, 2019
Other quizzes, as in about 1 in every 20
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Level 45
May 15, 2020
Ive not come across a quiz like that, by thats like typing the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia and then forcing everyone else to do so.
+8
Level 73
Feb 26, 2022
amongst!?! ⛔⛔⛔⛔⛔⛔⛔⛔⛔⛔
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Level 72
Feb 26, 2022
You would've predicted the future if you commented that 8 years ago
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Level 66
Dec 27, 2022
And? What's the point of predicting the present?
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Level 66
Feb 15, 2015
Missed USA.
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Level 34
May 19, 2020
Some of the islands of Alaska cross over the anti meridian and into the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Level 39
Feb 18, 2015
How do you do a quiz with more than 15 questions? Thanks.
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Level 47
Feb 19, 2015
When making the quiz, on step two - where you add the answers - you should see a box below 'step 6 submit'. Under rows, just put in any number you like and make sure the option insert before or after is selected, and that you've selected a cell in the 'hint' or 'answers' table. Hope this helps!
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Level 66
Apr 21, 2020
Ahem... I missed Australia... the only one! I really thinking hard and couldnt imagine what I had missed... ugh haha

New guinea was actualy my first guess and kiribati my second, and they are both very low (usa and east timor too, but I can think of explanation for those two, no surprise there)

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Level 86
Apr 21, 2020
Glad to see East Timor make the list.
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Level 60
Oct 16, 2023
Yeah, it's nice when countries live up to their names... *looks at Equatorial Guinea*
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Level 95
Apr 22, 2020
Kiribati should be included, it has land both east and west of the 180th meridian.
+8
Level 68
Apr 22, 2020
It is included
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Level 57
May 17, 2020
Almosto forgot EAST Timor, remembered it like 5 seconds to the end haha
+2
Level 52
May 18, 2020
As East Timor one of the 20 most eastern countries is, is indonesia that too (with West-Guinea).
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Level 43
May 18, 2020
I'd like to give an F in the chat for Tonga and Samoa that don't appear for some reason
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Level 77
Sep 29, 2020
For some reason? How about because they are east of the 180 degree longitude. They would be featured in the "Westernmost Countries" quiz.
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Level 15
May 18, 2020
oh
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Level 66
May 19, 2020
If the land of Alaska cuts through the 180-meridian then why doesn't USA get longitude=180?
+1
Level 60
May 21, 2020
Because this quiz is easternmost points by LAND
+4
Level 93
Jul 22, 2020
more specifically, it is because an island is on the eastern side of the line and in alaska which although overseas is not an overseas territory, and there is no land in Alaska on the 180 line exactly.
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Level 63
Aug 4, 2020
how China?
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Level 18
Apr 20, 2021
Fuyuan County, Heilongjiang
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Level 93
Mar 27, 2021
How is East Timor here but Indonesia is not?
+5
Level 45
May 8, 2021
Indonesia is in this quiz???
+1
Level 53
Feb 1, 2022
it should be in order

russia/usa

kiribati

in that straight order.

an alaskan island is split between both sides and so as russia, kiribati also literally changes the date line, so that's right after cus its far to the right.

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Level 65
Feb 26, 2022
Samoa is west of the IDL!!!
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Level 44
Feb 26, 2022
didnt remember the koreas until literally the last second
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Level 56
Feb 28, 2022
:D i got all of them first try :D
+1
Level 63
Mar 1, 2022
Are you honestly telling me that all of these countries are further east than the Philippines?
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Level 60
Oct 16, 2023
By their easternmost point, yes.
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Level 46
Jan 15, 2023
samoa is mising
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Level 43
Jun 23, 2023
I wrote FIJI 9 damn times and it never worked
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Level 75
Oct 16, 2023
You have to write it 10 times, that's the new rule I'm afraid.
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Level 42
Oct 14, 2023
I expected more people to get Timor-Leste.
+1
Level 67
Oct 15, 2023
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