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Fertile Crescent Countries

Name the modern-day countries who have territory located in the Fertile Crescent.
% = approximate percent of country within the Fertile Crescent
According to this map
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: September 17, 2017
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First submittedAugust 16, 2017
Times taken19,955
Average score90.0%
Rating4.35
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Country
100
Cyprus
15
Egypt
5
Iran
80
Iraq
50
Israel
%
Country
5
Jordan
30
Kuwait
100
Lebanon
90
Syria
10
Turkey
Tramp
+187
Level 76
Sep 17, 2017
Cyprus is the absolute bane of my existence on this site
mahble
+11
Level 77
Sep 18, 2017
Mine is Jordan. I always forget it.
JWC1202
+2
Level 74
Nov 22, 2017
I missed it on this one, too. But my bane is Trinidad!
Tramp
+19
Level 76
Jan 23, 2018
Took the quiz again seeing as though it was featured, and... I forgot Cyprus again...
Jared0309
+4
Level 76
Jan 23, 2018
I relate to that on a personal level. LIke, on some US state thing I forgot florida even though it's where I'm from.
Tramp
+6
Level 76
Apr 3, 2020
I FINALLY GOT IT! WITH 1 SECOND LEFT!!
Tapatio
+4
Level 17
Jan 27, 2018
My bane of existence country is poor Kuwait. I can not even get used to learning how to spell it!
togoaway
+3
Level 36
Jun 9, 2020
I can spell it just fine but it's so small that I often forget about it on these quizzes!
RLJ
+3
Level 74
Jan 28, 2018
My bane of existence is East Timor. Does someone have a same problem?
widget
+6
Level 93
Apr 4, 2018
My bane is Bahrain.

Just because I like poetry

mez
+2
Level 71
May 19, 2018
mine was Belgium. Now i type it in every time! Even if it is a Pacific related, US related, South America etc related quiz - Belgium gets put in just so that I remember it for the relevant ones!
Geographystar
+2
Level 67
Jul 20, 2019
Mine are all those capitals in the pacific, Like Palau's capital looks like someone made it up on the spot.
ALA02
+2
Level 62
Dec 5, 2019
Can never get Antigua and Barbuda
Edy4gaona
+2
Level 28
Apr 7, 2020
My bane is always Kyrgyzstan because I seem to never spell it right.
fjakob
+5
Level 61
May 15, 2020
you just did
DjsqueDur
+1
Level 66
May 26, 2021
Just write "Kirgiigrfuidfhbizbegnsndcibgpirestan" and it will work
ItzIngenious
+2
Level 60
Jul 10, 2021
Congrats on getting 128 likes. I’ve never seen that many.
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 80
Apr 9, 2022
Mine is definitely Mongolia. I always forget that it’s a real place
purpleannie
+1
Level 23
May 24, 2022
My bane is Barbados, I just cannot remember it sometimes
F1Cody
+3
Level 63
Nov 16, 2022
My bane has to be Maldives. I always visualize the map by going country to country by region, and always forget Maldives for some reason.
rabble
+1
Level 66
May 16, 2023
Bangladesh. All I know is there's a big population, small area, and the only notable thing I've heard is they were once East Pakistan and there's some beef between Pakistan/India/Bangadesh/China. Probably in part due to religion, and nuclear weapons. Dhaka is also unremarkable. I guess it can be lumped in with with Dakar or Doha.
kiwirage
+8
Level 63
Sep 18, 2017
I was listening to the audio-book recently of "Guns, Germs, and Steel", by Jared Diamond, and the phrase "Fertile Crescent" was said every few minutes. It drove me nuts because the narrator pronounced it to rhyme with 'turtle', whereas we kiwis say 'fu(r)-tile', with the last syllable rhyming with 'pile' or 'mile'.
bitterblue
+5
Level 58
Jan 8, 2018
interesting, here in New England i think we use both
TommyChong
+8
Level 45
Jan 23, 2018
Being from Connecticut, I've definitely heard it like 'turtle' more often than not.
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 89
Aug 12, 2018
Connecticut is New York.
vorak
+1
Level 70
Mar 22, 2021
but no
Tramp
+3
Level 76
Jan 23, 2018
I'm guessing he was American. Lots of Americans pronounce words ending in -ile the way you're describing (e.g. "missile")
anna0kear
+1
Level 36
Jan 25, 2018
In Canada, sometimes that's the case...but being where I'm from, fertile definitely has at hard "ile" at the end.
ItzIngenious
+1
Level 60
Jul 10, 2021
I say missle also, not missile.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Jan 23, 2018
I'm American and say it the way that annoys you. Your way used to annoy me until I started watching so much British TV (I'm addicted to Midsomer Murders) and now the British pronunciations sound pretty normal to me - except for aluminium. I'll never get used to that one since it's not only pronounced differently but also spelled differently from our aluminum with accent on second syllable.
ChipOtley
+2
Level 74
Jan 23, 2018
Tchah! You'll be spelling sulphur with an 'f' before too long
ALA02
+1
Level 62
Dec 5, 2019
It’s almost like most other elements end in ium
wiifly
+1
Level 59
Sep 3, 2020
I had a super annoying friend who kept pretending he didn't know what a ph sound was and would say a pahone or the alpahabet. and sometimes he would spell it fone and alfabet on purpose.
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 80
Apr 9, 2022
My 9th grade history teacher made us read that book as summer work. To this day it is still my least favorite book
TenThousand
+3
Level 76
Sep 18, 2017
This big chunk of desert must be way below the average level of fertile-ness. Where did this ironic name come from?
woshiwaiguoren
+3
Level 70
Sep 18, 2017
Long story short, the climate has dramatically changed since then. At one time it really was an exceptionally wet region with great rivers that birthed civilization, but rain has steadily decreased over time. Similarly the jungles of Southeast Asia once extended into northern China, and the Sahara was once wet and populated significantly by humans. Though geography changes quite slowly, weather can have quite significant (and natural) changes over just the timescale of thousands of years.
priamos
+3
Level 62
Jan 23, 2018
Plus in some of these countries incorrect use of irrigation added significantly to desertification. The river basins of Iraq are a case in point.
Malbaby
+9
Level 71
Sep 18, 2017
I think that Cyprus got coloured in on the map by mistake, isn't really part of the once fertile river basins.
kalbahamut
+10
Level 82
Sep 18, 2017
Cyprus?????? wtf is that about?
Maladroit
+3
Level 51
Jan 23, 2018
I'm going to take liberties with what the 'w' stands for and say about 105 kilometres west of Syria.
GrandmasterJetpunk
+2
Level 33
Oct 2, 2017
Did you somehow forget about Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan?
TinklePork
+1
Level 62
Dec 18, 2017
Those are further north than the fertile crescent; they're sandwiched between the Black and Caspian seas. If you open up the map from the quiz description, you can see that the fertile crescent doesn't that far up.
FFFantasia
+1
Level 48
Dec 22, 2017
Interesting quiz, 100% first try, 0:35 left
UncleCharlesYall
+2
Level 75
Jan 23, 2018
Fascinating
Timothy2b
+6
Level 58
Jan 23, 2018
I never would have guessed Cyprus. Also most maps of the fertile crescent I looked up online after the quiz didn't have Cyprus on them.
TinklePork
+3
Level 62
Jan 23, 2018
I didn't realize the fertile crescent extended to European countries either.
ChipOtley
+4
Level 74
Jan 23, 2018
:-)
anna0kear
+1
Level 36
Jan 25, 2018
Excuse me...Asian?
Hlfbecks
+2
Level 87
Jan 23, 2018
Never heard this term before, guessed some large countries and worked it out from there.
Dijko
+1
Level 45
Jan 23, 2018
I always miss Iran
widget
+1
Level 93
Apr 4, 2018
Iran so far away?

;)

DwigtSchrute
+1
Level 53
Jan 24, 2018
Wow, and still noone has commented "Where is Palestine and why is not listed?" . That's weird.
arimoon
+1
Level 15
May 22, 2018
What about Palestine? This is ridiculous.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Aug 23, 2018
Are you commenting on your own question? This is rhetorical.
Zefyrinus
+2
Level 71
Sep 23, 2018
What?? Cyprus is European, not fertile crescent. I swear the Quizmaster just put it in to spite people.
HinesBrothers
+3
Level 75
May 29, 2019
Cyprus's continent is irrelevant for the purposes of this quiz.
elcampeador
+1
Level 78
Dec 9, 2021
I didn't know it was in the fertile crescent, either.. but look it up instead of claiming the quiz is wrong
GeoDude
+1
Level 48
Mar 27, 2019
What about Jamaica
togoaway
+1
Level 36
Jun 9, 2020
Missed Kuwait :-(
pinkysbrain
+1
Level 83
Sep 5, 2020
How is Cyprus on here .I through the fertile crescent was the area that included the Tigris and Euphrates rivers .
EvanAviator
+1
Level 59
Feb 10, 2022
Wouldn't be a crescent then
TheRealGrantma
+1
Level 56
Nov 8, 2020
Surely Palestine is here?
Angbo
+1
Level 65
Apr 27, 2021
why you sort by alphabet?
Milo74
+2
Level 71
Jan 8, 2023
HOW INTERESTING TO FIND OUT THAT CYPRUS IS PART OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT!!! I NEVER KNEW THAT AN ***ISLAND*** WAS PART OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT.

Nevertheless, I guessed it the first time anyway, because I know that occasionally Jetpunk creators can be weird!

rabble
+1
Level 66
May 16, 2023
What causes Qatar/Bahrain to be excluded? It looks like they are almost entirely desert/sand, so maybe that is why. I'd think that the coastline would still be attractive. But maybe no more so than the sandy parts of Iran or KSA.

I would've assumed that there'd be plenty of movement in the Persian Gulf between the coastal establishments. It's about 130 miles wide, vs 50-100 to get to Cyprus. Maybe currents are not conducive. Or there's just no reason to travel the region.

GoblinOfCooz
+3
Level 75
May 22, 2023
needs an update or at least de-featuring. the linked source map from wiki seems to no longer exist, and all the ones replacing it on the wiki page notably do NOT include Cyprus (which is probably why the image no longer exists).
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