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Flags of the Middle East

Name the Middle Eastern country that uses each selected flag.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Quiz by Underneath
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Last updated: April 11, 2020
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First submittedSeptember 24, 2017
Times taken42,552
Average score87.5%
Rating4.80
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+9
Level 55
Sep 24, 2017
Great quiz! This is definitely a quiz that should be featured!
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Level 70
Sep 24, 2017
It is now. Congrats!
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Level 77
Sep 24, 2017
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Level 21
Sep 25, 2017
Thanks!
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Level 90
Sep 25, 2017
There's too much time on the clock. You don't really need to know which flag belongs to which country, you just need to know all the countries in the middle east and type quickly.
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Level 21
Sep 25, 2017
See what the Quizmaster thinks. Should this quiz have less time?
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Level ∞
Sep 25, 2017
Doesn't matter. It's all in the name of fun.
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Level 45
Dec 31, 2017
^agreed, especially since there are barely 10 flags
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Level 82
Dec 1, 2017
That feeling when you pick out a flag for your country, then show up at the UN only to see that there are six other countries there wearing the same thing.
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Level 56
Dec 1, 2017
What? No! Their red is slightly darker than our red!
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Level 48
Dec 1, 2017
Where's Afghanistan?
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Level 71
Dec 1, 2017
It's in Central Asia.
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Level 51
Dec 1, 2017
And so it begins. How long until Cyprus comes up? What about Egypt, or Turkey? What, really, is the Middle East? I imagine the inclusion of some countries (and the exclusion of others) will irritate quite a few people. And maybe even the lack of Palestine will get some people up in arms. Such is the way of the world.
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Level 71
Dec 2, 2017
What about Burma?
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Level 65
Dec 3, 2017
You mean Myanmar?
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Level 55
Dec 1, 2017
Isn't Egypt technically in Africa? Or does owning the Sinai make it in the Middle East as well?
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Level 82
Dec 1, 2017
So what if it's in Africa? The Middle East isn't a continent.
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Level 76
Dec 2, 2017
I've never thought of Turkey or Cyprus as Middle Eastern, but what about Libya?
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Level 82
Dec 2, 2017
Libya is farther away from the traditional core of the Middle East than either of those two.
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Level 82
Dec 2, 2017
Though placing Turkey in the "Middle" East does raise an interesting question about where the Near East is.
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Level 31
Apr 3, 2018
France.
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Level 82
Aug 28, 2020
I know there's about a 40% chance that you're joking, but, historically, Anatolia was called Asia Minor as well as the Near East. Japan, Korea, and China were the Far East. And then eventually "Middle East" was coined to refer to the area around Iran and Afghanistan.... though over time the concept most had of this socially constructed region would shift slowly westward until becoming anchored somewhere in the north of the Arabian peninsula.
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Level 78
Aug 28, 2020
Wikipedia tells me that Middle East replaced the word Near East in usage at some point. In German it's still called Near East, so no problems there with including Turkey.
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Level 82
Aug 28, 2020
camus: yes, after, like I said, the concept of where the Middle East was shifted from central Asia to the Arabian peninsula, and then Turkey and Egypt started getting roped in to it. The term Near East eventually faded from popular usage.
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Level 39
Sep 8, 2019
At this point Turkey is neither Europe, Asia, Middle East, Balkans or Caucasus. I wouldn't be surprised if someone argues it is Martian
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Level 82
Aug 28, 2020
Turkey is a European, Asian, and (sometimes) Middle Eastern country all at the same time.
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Level 72
Aug 28, 2020
Until you open the box, Turkey is both Asian and European
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Level 20
Nov 25, 2019
Where is Palestine ???
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Level 89
Aug 28, 2020
In the Middle East.
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Level 58
Aug 28, 2020
It's not a real country
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Level 67
Aug 28, 2020
It's part of Israel.
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Level 75
Aug 30, 2020
no.
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Level 89
Jul 2, 2021
It is Israel.
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Level 78
Aug 28, 2020
It’s really weird, I got all of them, with the flags of the middle east there’s a few where if you asked me to describe them I probably wouldn’t be able to but when I see them something just clicks and I know what they are. It’s kinda the same with the pan African ones
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Level 67
Aug 28, 2020
Knowing with absolute certainty the first nine flags helped. Then it was a question of testing each remaining country with each remaining flag.
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Level 16
Sep 25, 2020
only missed oman LOL great quiz 😃
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Level 28
Jan 11, 2021
Palestine?
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Level 65
Apr 21, 2021
According to JetPunk, Palestine is not a country.
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Level 89
Jul 2, 2021
I think most wars in the Middle East are started when someone fires on the wrong flag.
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Level 25
Sep 26, 2021
You missed Palestine and have a fake flag there
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Level 30
Jan 12, 2022
Thats what I was thinking when I did this quiz. Where's Palestine 🇵🇸? It's so weird that Jetpunk would make that mistake.
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Level 18
Dec 12, 2021
Bahrain and Qatar are like Austria and Latvia.
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Level 27
Mar 5, 2022
where the hell is PALESTINE
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Level 48
Nov 24, 2022
The middle east probably.
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Level 20
Mar 5, 2022
Ez
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Level 53
Apr 9, 2022
Right. The "Middle East" is a term used to describe (I quote from the Wikipedia article) the Levant, Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq, like this quiz includes.

The so-called "Greater Middle East" is what some commenters are talking about, which includes the Middle East mentioned here, along with North Africa, Mauritania, Djibouti, Somalia, the Caucasus countries, and the -stan countries.

So this quiz is correct, there are 16 to 18 countries in the Middle East, and 34 to 41 countries in the Greater Middle East.

To all the commenters saying Israel should not be here, I would say that while even if Palestine was included, Israel should be too, as Palestine does not claim all of Israel, rather the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

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Level 32
Sep 1, 2022
100% in 19 seconds first try. Honestly this quiz should be 30 seconds or something
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Level 43
Dec 12, 2022
Why isn't Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia counted?

I don't know how to find the flag test for them, as not in the "stans" test or the middle east. Guess i'll learn them when do all of Asia.