As of today the US Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan is closed due to the ongoing violence in the country. To avoid resetting this quiz too many times I'll hold off on updating the quiz for a bit to see if it reopens soon, but if not it will be added in the coming weeks
How do you divide ambassadors accredited for other countries, which is probably the case for all but 4 or 5 countries without diplomatic relations? The Bridgetown embassy has also the Eastern Caribbean title, but there's also Madagascar&Comoros (https://mg.usembassy.gov/), PNG, Solomon&Vanuatu (https://pg.usembassy.gov/) etc.
The division criterium I used is based on the source. Where it states "US ambassador of ... is also accredited to ...", I have interpreted this as there being no embassy for this country specifically. This is the case for the Comoros, Solomons, and Vanuatu. In the case of e.g. Dominica, it states "The US embassy to Dominica is located in Barbados.", which I interpreted as there being a more defined embassy within the Eastern Caribbean embassy.
This division is of course slightly subjective, but by using the terminology used in the source as a divider I tried to get it as objective as possible.
I am surprised to see that Taiwan is on here. I would have thought that the US would have an embassy there considering the situation with China and Taiwan's position in many industries.
Taiwan has a functioning government and full sovereign control over its territory (or at least over the territory that surrounds its capital) even while some countries, for reasons of politics, do not recognize its sovereignty. It's as much a country as, say, Israel or Kosovo.
Palestine enjoys some international recognition, again for political reasons, even while not actually being a functioning sovereign country. It's in the same category as Western Sahara.
Taiwan is considered a country because it's a country, whilst Palestine isn't considered a country because it's not a country. I hope that clears it up for you!
There are a lot of other smaller, poorer, less notable countries than Nepal that also have embassies. For example, Burundi isn't on this list. Neither are East Timor, Djibouti, Togo... I could go on and on. What's so surprising about Nepal having a US embassy?
The embassy in Barbados is called "The US Embassy in Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean, and the OECS". The ambassador to Barbados is essentially the ambassador to all small Caribbean island nations, while the other (larger) Caribbean island nations have their own embassy. As to why they chose Barbados instead of one of the five others, I don't know
This division is of course slightly subjective, but by using the terminology used in the source as a divider I tried to get it as objective as possible.
Palestine enjoys some international recognition, again for political reasons, even while not actually being a functioning sovereign country. It's in the same category as Western Sahara.