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Four Letter Geography #1

Can you guess these geographic answers that are only four letters long?
Quiz by Geoguy
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Last updated: October 12, 2017
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First submittedJune 2, 2014
Times taken66,495
Average score70.8%
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One of the Great Lakes
Erie
South American country
Peru
Island country of Oceania
Fiji
Irish name for Ireland
Éire
Country whose capital is Bamako
Mali
Longest river in the world, possibly
Nile
U.S. state with the most Mormons
Utah
Communist country of Indochina
Laos
Switzerland's capital
Bern
Island on which Jakarta is located
Java
Japan's highest mountain
Fuji
Small U.S. territory located between
Japan and Papua New Guinea
Guam
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Asia's second largest desert
Gobi
Togo's capital
Lomé
Castro's country
Cuba
Most active volcano in Europe
Etna
Island to which Napoleon was exiled
Elba
Country where Saddam Hussein ruled
Iraq
Samoa's capital
Apia
Norway's capital
Oslo
Italy's capital
Rome
Island on which Honolulu is located
Oahu
U.S. state whose capital is Des Moines
Iowa
Country of 1,624 residents in
free association with New Zealand
Niue
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Level 66
Apr 2, 2015
Great quiz! Only missed Oahu :(
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Level 29
Nov 26, 2015
I just guessed Oahu
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Level 58
Oct 31, 2016
2:13 left... First time...
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Level 51
Dec 22, 2016
2.51 left. Had to think about Pacific territory of NZ for a moment...and I'm a Kiwi!
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Level 74
Jan 31, 2018
It took me five tries to spell it - too many vowels!
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Level 59
Oct 12, 2018
I'm a Kiwi too and completely blanked on it! Only one I missed!
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Level 72
Apr 24, 2020
Hey, your prime minister's family lived there at one point, and she visits frequently.
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Level 77
Oct 10, 2017
I don't think you should be calling it a country, without specifying "non-independent". It's not in the countries of the world quiz after all.
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Level 74
Jan 29, 2018
In the 205 version, but not the 196!
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Level 68
Sep 29, 2021
However, it's not a Jetpunk recognised country. It should be in quotation marks to make it a bit more obvious.
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Level 64
Oct 10, 2017
Italy's capita – missing l
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Level ∞
Oct 10, 2017
Fixed
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Level 61
Oct 10, 2017
niue is not a country, check your own country quiz
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Level ∞
Oct 10, 2017
It's a country. It's not an independent country.
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Level 76
Oct 11, 2017
Flying from NZ to Niue you leave Auckland through the international terminal, not the domestic, go through customs at both ends, and New Zealanders (who supposedly are the reason for Niue "not being independent") get a 30-day entry stamp, "employment prohibited". Nobody in New Zealand - who of all people should know - considers Niue not to be independent.
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Level 80
Jan 29, 2018
In reply to Jerry I'm from NZ and I don't think Niue is independent. It's got limited internal self-rule but is part of NZ, just like the Cooks and Tokelau. Limited internal self-rule is not the same as independence. I also don't think you can call it a country.
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Level 52
Jan 29, 2018
Nice quiz. I think it would be better to call Niue someway else than just country. I was just going trough countries of the world 196.
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Level 66
Jan 29, 2018
Exactly, the same here... been going through all the [independent] countries in the 5 thousand mile radius around NZ
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Level 89
Oct 23, 2019
This is almost as fun as the argument that gets shot down every time people from England and Scotland cry they're a country.

But in reverse.

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Level 63
Apr 23, 2020
As a law grad with a certificate in international & comparative law, it's definitely safe to call it a country. The definition of the word doesn't rely on other jetpunk quizzes =P
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Level 79
Apr 23, 2020
Just like England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
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Level 66
Apr 23, 2020
Independence debate aside, it still causes confusion and I agree that it's inclusion, as worded and not disclaimed in instructions, is a bit problematic. The 196 quiz isn't called "Independent Countries of the World"; it's called "Countries of the World". And the point isn't whether the term "country" as applied to Niue, is accurate or inaccurate in a vaccum - the point is whether it causes confusion and/or is otherwise problematic in its use on a Jetpunk quiz for Jetpunk users (thus its inconsistency with other Jetpunk quizzes or terminology is absolutely the issue, not what it is "safe" to call it generally).
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Level 68
Apr 26, 2020
Niue is a country, like England is.
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Level 76
Oct 11, 2017
Lomé has an acute above the e.
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Level ∞
Oct 12, 2017
Added
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Level 72
Oct 11, 2017
Good quiz
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Level 65
Jan 29, 2018
If Niue is a "country" here, then why not elsewhere on Jetpunk?
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Level 68
Jan 29, 2018
Because it isn't an independent country
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Level 66
Apr 23, 2020
Yet the "Countries of the World Quiz" isn't called "Independent Countries of the World Quiz", nor does anything in the instructions to that quiz use the word "independent" or any synonym thereof. Given that it is by far the most popular quiz on this site and a building block for a Jetpunk user's understanding of Jetpunk, it is completely logical that Jetpunk users would expect the use of the word "country" to mean one of the 196 (even if that use is too narrow and doesn't comport with its use in most every other walk of life). I concede that it is accurate to call it "country", but maintain that it is confusing and problematic to do so in this context on Jetpunk without disclaimer/instruction.
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Level 72
Jul 14, 2022
Learn what "in free association" means? I don't know what more of a disclaimer you could ask for if you already know that.

If you don't know it, then it seems entirely reasonable to get a question wrong because you don't know what (part of) it means. A learning opportunity, some might say.

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Level 66
Jan 29, 2018
Isn't the Stromboli the most active European volcano? I mean, it was clear which one was asked for due to the number of letters, but I'd recommend changing the clue to something uncontroversial like “tallest active volcano in Europe”.
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Level 43
Jan 29, 2018
Irish name for Ireland = home :)
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Level 65
Apr 11, 2019
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, they simply said "ours".
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Level 54
Apr 23, 2020
You win the internets.
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Level 47
Jan 30, 2018
I got Fiji because I misspelled Fuji
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Level 34
Jul 14, 2022
Unbelievable!
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Level 61
Jan 30, 2018
Missed out on Iowa but got the rest.
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Level 66
Jan 31, 2018
I accidentally got Togo's capital while guessing Samoa's. I guess it was in my head somewhere.
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Level 75
Nov 9, 2018
Actually, CA has the most Mormons and Idaho has the highest percentage, just Utah is where they settled
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Level ∞
Mar 7, 2020
What? No. This is easily verifiable information. Utah has by the far the highest Mormon population both in absolute numbers and per-capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_statistics_(United_States)

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Level 47
Apr 19, 2022
not to be that guy, but wiki isn't the best source. Also Hines is right
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Level 66
Jun 2, 2022
The quizmaster is right on this one 100%.

Fun Fact - Samoa is 60% Mormon.

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Level 56
Feb 24, 2020
I wonder how many people accidentally get Eire from misspelling Erie
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Level 75
Apr 18, 2020
Or vice versa?
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Level 66
Apr 18, 2020
Ah you slipped in between ;) I had written my comment about an hour or so ago, but was also watching tv, (and was going offsite to check to make sure I really was right about the pronunciations (never heared lake Erie being pronounced) so it took a while to post (happens often with me, I start writing a comment, go to another site to make sure what I am saying is correct and sometimes get distracted along the way. Like you look up the background of one ancient god and suddenly you are reading mythology sites for hours an even forget you were in the middle of writing a comment haha)
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Level 66
Apr 18, 2020
Or the other way around.. In both cases I don't think it will be many. (typo's can obviously always happen, but misspelling is not too likely, people that know Eire would not spell Erie and I doubt that those who know Erie would spell it as Eire. The two are pronounced completely different.)
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Level 54
Apr 23, 2020
Two things (that I know of) help with quizzes like this: (1) Being an amateur radio operator, since, WAY before the internet, we as kids all over the world were geography experts because of our hobby and (B) being in the military, from whatever country, helps with the travel costs to visit some of these places. :D
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Level 54
Apr 23, 2020
(Standing by to see if anyone caught the Caddyshack reference in my post.)
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Level 84
Nov 30, 2020
I thought Niue is not a country....
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Level 29
Oct 26, 2021
Same
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Level 56
Mar 21, 2022
Niue now had 1,626
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Level 34
Jul 14, 2022
Fuji isn't the correct name of the mount. It's Fujiyama.
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Level 59
Jul 14, 2022
Except it's not. The Japanese don't call it Fujiyama (they call it Fuji-san, employing the honorific).
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Level 58
Jul 14, 2022
The "san" in Fuji-san is not the honorific. It is one pronunciation of the character 山 meaning "mountain".
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Level 58
Jul 14, 2022
It's a mountain, not a mount. It's not supposed to hold anything.

And although "Fujiyama" is also used as a name for this specific mountain, Fuji is a correct name (and the most widely used one).

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Level 32
Aug 8, 2022
'Niue' is not a country according to the jetpunk list of countries. please check this in the future, thanks love
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Level 84
Jan 22, 2023
It's not a sovereign nation. It's a country in free association, like it says in the description. There are a number of countries that aren't sovereign nations. England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, for instance. Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten are the four countries that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Greenland and Denmark are the two countries that make up the Danish Realm or Kingdom of Denmark. New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Niue are the three countries that make up the Realm of New Zealand.
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Level 67
Jan 29, 2023
great quiz
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Level 49
May 19, 2023
am i the only one who thinks st helena should be accepted
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Level 68
Feb 16, 2024
23/24, only missed Niue.