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NATO Countries Quiz

There are 32 members in the NATO military alliance. How many can you name?
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Last updated: March 7, 2024
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First submittedFebruary 20, 2012
Times taken199,372
Average score93.8%
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Joined
Country
2009
Albania
1949
Belgium
2004
Bulgaria
1949
Canada
2009
Croatia
1999
Czech Republic
1949
Denmark
2004
Estonia
2023
Finland
1949
France
1955
Germany
Joined
Country
1952
Greece
1999
Hungary
1949
Iceland
1949
Italy
2004
Latvia
2004
Lithuania
1949
Luxembourg
2017
Montenegro
1949
Netherlands
2020
North Macedonia
1949
Norway
Joined
Country
1999
Poland
1949
Portugal
2004
Romania
2004
Slovakia
2004
Slovenia
1982
Spain
2024
Sweden
1952
Turkey
1949
United Kingdom
1949
United States
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Level ∞
Oct 18, 2023
I got sick of waiting for Sweden's application to be approved so I updated the quiz to add Finland.
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Level 49
Jan 25, 2022
AKA American imperialism.
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Level 82
Mar 28, 2022
Riiiiight... and what's happening in Ukraine right now is just a "special military operation" to de-Nazify the country. I wish that I could respond to you more appropriately, on behalf of the many people I know personally who are suffering very directly from such ignorance right now, but even expressing this wish I feel like is an invitation to get my comment censored in what has become a very Putinesque atmosphere in the comments section here.
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Level 76
Jan 10, 2024
Bringing up Ukraine in response to that comment is so ironic, given that it has been the object of aggressive Western imperialist efforts for decades.
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Level 63
Mar 8, 2024
Yes, countries in NATO were forced into the alliance while Ukraine is peacefully joining Russia after dialogue and negotiations...
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Level 76
Mar 8, 2024
@cosenza: No, but the West has been consistently promoting civil unrest in post-Soviet states through colour revolutions etc., including in Ukraine, backed a coup d'etat in 2014, and later encouraged the Ukrainian government not to respect the Minsk agreements and instead follow a path of continued war in Donbass (which, mind you, has been ongoing since 2014) and of anti-Russian discrimination within its population, with overt nationalist undertones (and yes, even neo-Nazi elements, because how else would you describe the Azov Batallion or Stepan Bandera admirers?). The Russian government are no saints, but provoking them into a proxy war has in fact been desirable for Western governments, allowing them to prop up the protection racket known as NATO and, perhaps more importantly, convincing Europeans to accept as necessary the severance of economic ties with Russia to the benefit of the US economy, despite their own economic stability and prospects being severely compromised.
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Level 83
Mar 11, 2024
Western imperialism bad, Russian imperialism good(?)
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Level 77
Mar 8, 2024
Your comments get censored on here so much because you can be a huge jerk. 99% of the comments on this site are civil. The rest of us want to keep it that way. You give good insight from time to time, but you can also be incredibly snarky, condescending, and quite frankly a bit of a bully. Save that for Reddit.
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Level 83
Apr 8, 2022
That's why it's the US forcing Ukraine into NATO then. Oh, wait.
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Level 65
Apr 23, 2022
NATO is just leaving the door open, a referendum is a condition to enter. The only one responsible of why more countries want to join is Putin.
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Level 56
Mar 7, 2024
Whatever lil bro
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Level 27
Feb 25, 2022
Russia
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Level 58
Mar 11, 2022
I've got all but one - I forgot my own home country, Germany...
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Level 82
Mar 28, 2022
If there's any silver lining at all to the senseless tragedy and atrocity of what's currently happening in Ukraine right now it may be the strengthening and growth of NATO, the vital need for which has always been clear to those paying attention but never moreso than now going back to collapse of the Soviet Union. If there are two, then it might be Putin being invited by the Russian people to Red Square to do his best Muammar Qaddafi impersonation.
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Level 82
Apr 8, 2022
Agreed, those in the West calling for it's dissolution are either patsies for Russian propaganda or, like antivaxxers, completely ignorant to how hard and dangerous life was prior to its existence.
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Level 76
Dec 19, 2023
Under NATO membership, my country, Greece, has seen, among other things: the imprisonment, torture, exile, or even execution of thousands of political opponents during the Cold War, a CIA-backed military junta for seven years, a wave of Greek refugees from the Istanbul pogrom of 1955, which was backed by the Turkish branch of NATO's Operation Gladio, full-blown NATO aggression in our immediate vicinity in the Yugoslav wars, and, of course, incessant implicit or explicit threats of invasion by fellow NATO member Turkey, which have also been used by our governments to justify a constant stream of huge purchases of NATO-built military equipment, despite serious and increasing economic hardships for ordinary Greeks. Your point again?
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Level 70
Apr 8, 2022
Soon there'll be Finland and Sweden
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Level 65
Apr 8, 2022
Ironically, Dmitry Peskov (Putin's spokesman) said yesterday, that the purpose of so called 'special military operation' in Ukraine was to prevent the WWIII. Well, things are going quite the opposite...
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Level 28
Apr 8, 2022
Who else was focusing on europe and completely forgot about north america? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Level 56
Apr 8, 2022
Ugh, thanks for making me look up what "chagrin" means...
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Level 55
Apr 8, 2022
I did the exact same thing haha..
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Level 63
Apr 8, 2022
I haven't studied the history of NATO much, but I am curious as to why Ireland never joined. Anyone have an idea why?
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Level 59
Apr 8, 2022
In short, they're Switzerland but less famous.
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Level 84
Jun 29, 2022
Same reason they kept themselves out of World War II. They don't want to be forced into a war, and they're too remote to need NATO's protection.
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Level 60
Sep 23, 2022
Not sure about the too remote bit - who but the Russian navy have recently been operating in Irish waters and conducting live fire exercises off the Irish coast.
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Level 54
Jun 13, 2023
Originally it was just because we didn’t want to be associated with the UK, but then people started believing that “neutrality” was one of our core concepts and it has stayed that way since.
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Level 85
Mar 8, 2024
Ireland and the UK in the same military alliance? It will take a few centuries, reparations, and a sincere apology before Ireland even considers it.
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Level 48
Apr 9, 2022
30/30 with 1.00 left
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Level 59
May 12, 2022
finland joined NATO today
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Level 82
May 14, 2022
Congrats to Finland. This is very obviously the right move and good for them and for the world. Distrust anyone who says otherwise.

But... they did not yet join NATO. They voted to apply for NATO membership. Their application has to be received and approved before they become NATO members, it's not automatic, and Erdogan (who is himself a corrupt and self-dealing would-be despot very much like Putin or Trump) might block it, if he doesn't think it will benefit him personally.

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Level 54
May 18, 2022
Looks like additions are needed soon!
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Level 25
Jun 10, 2022
Wow I forgot only 1 and it was Poland my favourite country🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

We will need to add Sweden and finland soon

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Level 66
Aug 6, 2022
Anyone familiar with why Luxembourg takes up the fight?

I guess it's nice to know there are fewer countries unsigned and freeloading than aren't. Though there is certainly an unequal contribution by members.

As I understand it, Serbia is Russia-friendly, which explains their absence.

Austria is neutral(?). Both it, and Ireland are 'partners' (..so are RUS/UKR/BEL..)

The weak links are, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Germany, France (in that order)? Why is it always France...

The strongest links are US, UK, ? Maybe Canada, Netherlands, Poland, Baltics. You'd have to discriminate between will of populace, government, and capability.

Moldova has a border dispute in Transnistria, which prevents membership regardless of will, afaik.

I know there's some UN-backed NATO peace-keeping operation or something of the sort in Kosovo re Serbia conflict. I don't know anything about Bosnia- apparently it's in negotiations to become a member.

AFAIK Cyprus is heavily Russian populated or associated.

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Level 54
Jun 13, 2023
I believe that Cyprus hasn’t joined because Turkey is occupying the northern portion of the island.
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Level 50
Aug 29, 2022
I cant wait for Sweden and Finland to be here
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Level 39
Oct 14, 2022
How is iceland even here if it doesn’t even have a military
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Level 79
Mar 8, 2024
It's strategically vital to monitor the exit of Russian warships into the Atlantic
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Level 30
Nov 7, 2022
I'm a little concerned if only 97% got the usa. I know most of the NATO is in Europe but still
+4
Level 51
Nov 29, 2022
You need to add Finland
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Level 39
Apr 4, 2023
finland wasnt a NATO member until today april 4th 2023
+2
Level 47
Jan 29, 2023
1 point for bulling russia
+7
Level 55
Apr 3, 2023
Needs updating from tomorrow
+12
Level 39
Apr 4, 2023
please update the quiz finland just joined today
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Level 63
Apr 4, 2023
Time for an update. Finland joined NATO today.
+5
Level 52
Apr 4, 2023
Just about to comment on this too!
+13
Level 39
Apr 4, 2023
Finland
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Level 75
Apr 4, 2023
St Vincent and the Grenadines
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Level 48
Apr 5, 2023
Democratic Republic of the Congo
+2
Level 71
Apr 7, 2023
Federated States of Micronesia
+3
Level 68
Apr 9, 2023
Democratic People's Republic of the United Kingdom of Wakanda and Northern Cyprus
+1
Level 62
Mar 8, 2024
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Level 50
Mar 13, 2024
The Republic of Kazakhstan
+2
Level 71
Apr 5, 2023
please add Turkmenistan after yesterday's events
+11
Level 56
Apr 6, 2023
Finland is in NATO now!
+9
Level 72
Apr 9, 2023
FINLAND NOW!
+6
Level 35
Apr 18, 2023
add finland
+5
Level 93
Apr 20, 2023
Finland finally!
+4
Level 34
Apr 26, 2023
Finland is in NATO now
+3
Level 39
Apr 29, 2023
Should be updated with Finland
+4
Level ∞
Apr 29, 2023
Waiting for the Sweden update.
+4
Level 56
Apr 29, 2023
the new nato snapshot gonna be wild
+1
Level 44
May 11, 2023
Where's Finland?
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Level 39
Jun 12, 2023
add finland. They've been in NATO for over a month now.
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Level ∞
Jun 12, 2023
No. We are waiting for Sweden to join so we don't have to reset the stats twice.
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Level 48
Jul 24, 2023
Then just make it so the stats dont reset for this quiz
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Level 72
Oct 31, 2023
Not how it works
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Level 63
Sep 18, 2023
Sweden's not going to be able to join, Hungary won't allow it unless they stop talking trash about Hungary's "democracy", and as Sweden is actually a democracy, they can't tell opposing politicians what to do and say. Therefore, 'tis unlikely Sweden will be a NATO member anytime soon.
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Level 76
Mar 8, 2024
Do you consider six months later to be "anytime soon"?
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Level 57
Mar 8, 2024
Lolllll this aged well
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Level 62
Mar 8, 2024
XD ahahahaha uhhh Nickelz you might want to improve your time-traveling abilities
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Level 16
Oct 8, 2023
Finland is now in nato, also Sweden will join sometime soon, hungary wasnt the only country stopping them from joining it was also Turkey. Turkey is allowing Sweden to join NATO in return for them to join the EU.
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Level 16
Oct 8, 2023
Also Georgia and Bosnia and Herzegovina want to join
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Level 39
Oct 15, 2023
As a Turk , ı am proud to be in NATO. Turkish youth feel be European. If we can get rid of the refugees(Syrians,Afghans,Pakistanis,Arabs) ın our country , we want to enter the EU.
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Level 67
Oct 18, 2023
Okay
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Level 63
Oct 19, 2023
Idk what getting rid of refugees has to do with being or becoming an EU member. You should get rid of your president instead or breaches of human rights if you want a chance. Don't see that happening any time soon.
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Level 39
Oct 15, 2023
good quiz i like it
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Level 67
Oct 18, 2023
Just missed Turkey
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Level 95
Oct 19, 2023
Re-Done this day again, 2:50 left
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Level 28
Oct 19, 2023
norway is in nato??
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Level ∞
Oct 19, 2023
Yes. Also, Wikipedia exists.
+2
Level 61
Nov 15, 2023
sheesh chill out. I thought jetpunk was a learning site
+1
Level 73
Oct 19, 2023
Dangblasted popes, getting all the defense benefits but contributing nothin'
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Level 77
Dec 12, 2023
That's most of NATO. All members of NATO are supposed to allot 2% of their GDP to defense spending. Currently only the USA, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the UK meet that goal. The remaining 24 do not. Even with an aggressive Russia on their doorstep. It's one reason why certain politicians don't believe NATO is a particularly useful organization.
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Level 63
Mar 7, 2024
So basically the ones most under threat by Russia
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Level 82
Oct 20, 2023
I love finding out recent news events from Jetpunk quizzes. Welcome to NATO, Finland!
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Level 68
Oct 24, 2023
Not that recent, actually happened back in April. Sweden is looking likely to be added soon, given that Turkey finally blinked and has agreed to put Sweden's membership up to a vote there. That just leaves Hungary blocking Sweden's path.

I doubt Hungary will hold out for long given with Turkey starting to change its support, I imagine the rest of NATO is pretty tired of Orbans actions at this point and can start turning screws to make Hungary agree.

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Level 28
Nov 7, 2023
bruh I missed Hungary
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Level 23
Nov 8, 2023
Im really surpised that i got all 31 countries. Last one was Iceland. I am feeling safe that Iceland with no military is on our side! (I am from Finland. Really hapoy that it joined in NATO) This seems pretty old quiz because here is comments from 2012. Good that this quiz is still updating :)
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Level 28
Nov 13, 2023
why doesn't Ukraine join NATO so they will have lots of allies on their side to join the Russian-Ukraine war?
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Level 62
Nov 13, 2023
The conflict will become a global one, the first since World War 2. You really want that?
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Level 72
Nov 15, 2023
It would mean starting WWIII. If possible, we would prefer to hold on to the hope of ending the war without ending the world.
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Level 77
Dec 12, 2023
Even at the resolution of this conflict when the treaties all shake out, part of the treaty will likely be Ukraine does NOT get admitted into NATO. I think it will still be a few decades until that happens if ever. The fact that there is disputed territory in Ukraine makes it a very dangerous addition.
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Level 69
Feb 26, 2024
Welp, looks like the quiz needs to be updated again now that Sweden has officially joined NATO now.
+2
Level ∞
Feb 26, 2024
Not quite, but it's coming very soon.
+1
Level 51
Mar 2, 2024
Sweden needs to be added to this quiz as they have officially joined NATO.
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Level ∞
Mar 2, 2024
Doesn't anyone read the comments? We will add Sweden when they join officially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

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Level 84
Mar 7, 2024
They've joined officially.
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Level 76
Mar 8, 2024
And the quiz has been updated accordingly!
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Level 75
Mar 8, 2024
"Doesn't anyone read the comments?"

Oh, sweet, innocent Quizmaster!

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Level 65
Mar 6, 2024
Waiting for the flag-raising ceremony, Sweden is on the horizon!
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Level 39
Mar 7, 2024
I guess Sweden can officially be on this list now.
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Level 67
Mar 11, 2024
34 seconds remaining
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Level 31
Mar 13, 2024
Honestly great quiz, personally came back when Sweden's application went through and had to redo it. Missed one or two ones that I could've gotten but still did a good percent