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Countries of Europe After World War II

Name all the countries of Europe that existed in 1946, after the end of the Second World War.
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Last updated: December 26, 2019
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First submittedSeptember 26, 2016
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Average score93.8%
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Answer
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
East Germany
Finland
France
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Liechtenstein
Answer
Luxembourg
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Soviet Union
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Vatican City
West Germany
Yugoslavia
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Level 70
Oct 30, 2016
Lowest is Albania at 98%, impressed.
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Level 72
Nov 3, 2016
should allow more options for Czechoslovakia, since it´s difficult to spell. Thanks
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Level 57
Jan 30, 2017
No, it's easy if you know the 2 current countries into which it was split.
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Level 49
Nov 10, 2016
Did the whole thing without looking up from the keyboard. I feel so speshul.
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Level 58
Nov 21, 2016
It would be nice if BRD was accepted for West Germany as DDR is accepted for East Germany :)
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Level 70
Jan 30, 2017
Indeed.
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Level 46
Jan 31, 2017
yesyesyes
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Level 66
Nov 26, 2019
But neither the BRD nor the DDR (usually FRG and GDR in English) existed in 1946.
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Level 68
Mar 27, 2022
Well neither did west and east Germany exist.
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Level 78
Nov 28, 2016
Some more tests with the borders at different points of history would be interesting.
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Level 70
Jan 29, 2017
Amazing! Tried to make a similar quiz for post World War One Europe once, (the map I was using failed though.)
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Level 82
Jan 29, 2017
I agree with the quiz being this way and it seems obvious because there were two Germanys at this point in history and it's staring you right in the face on the map and the convention in English is and always has been to call them East Germany and West Germany.... but if Germany is not accepted for West Germany on this quiz then why would it be on certain other quizzes. I recall one of mine in particular that was featured and had the type-ins changed to accept only Gemany without the West.
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Level 55
Jan 29, 2017
Strange...
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Level 86
Jan 29, 2017
Kal, you are not making sense. The map of 1946 Germany on this quiz is incorrect, and even though it is staring us right in the face it is still not true. If you check the facts, you learn that in 1946 there was still officially only one Germany.
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Level 82
Feb 1, 2017
Okay you're right. I was wrong. East Germany didn't really exist as a country until 1949.
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Level 62
Jan 29, 2017
People are definitely correct about Germany, the two states were both founded in 1949. At least accept FRG (Federal Republic of Germany) and GDR (German Democratic Republic) for the incredibly inaccurate East and West Germany. At that time Germans were still considering East Germany to be those bits they lost in 1945, which have bave part of Poland and Russia for so long now that it is easy to forget how people felt about them back then.
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Level 82
Jan 29, 2017
How is it "incredibly inaccurate?" You have some alternative compass that you are using? Would you say North and South Korea is also "incredibly inaccurate?" That's not what Koreans call the countries. But that couldn't possibly be more irrelevant to an English-language quiz site where the answers are in English and the convention has always been to refer to the countries as such.
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Level 68
Mar 27, 2022
It's inaccurate because West and East Germany didn't exist.
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Level 86
Jan 29, 2017
Assuming this quiz is fixed e.g. by changing the year to 1949, it would seem reasonable to accept both the official country names (Federal Republic of Germany, or FRG in short, and German Democratic Republic, or GDR), as well as the widely-used West Germany and East Germany for the purposes of this and other quizzes. Maybe even the German abbreviations BRD and DDR could be considered. However, for 1946 those names are irrelevant.
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Level 82
Feb 1, 2017
Having read up on it, yes, this^
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Level 72
Mar 10, 2024
Should it not be BD and DDR, since ‘Bundesrepublik Deutschland’ is two words and ‘Deutsche Demokratiche Republik’ is three?
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Level 71
Jan 29, 2017
Really Germany from 1945 till 1948 was divided up into 5 major Occupied Zones. British / American / Soviet / French with Berlin under Allied Military Administration. Also Poland annexed an area adjoining the Soviet sector. There was no clear cut division West / East.
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Level 67
Jan 29, 2017
And Saarland as a French protectorate that even competed in 1952 Olympics. In 1946 there was only one Germany, beeing occupied by four different states.
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Level 75
Jan 29, 2017
Just wondering - why is it spelled "slov" in Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, but it is spelled "slav" in Yugoslavia? Is there a difference in meaning between "slov" and "slav"?
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Level 41
Jan 29, 2017
Oh nice question! :D

Well, in my language, Serbian (and probably most other Slavic languages) we don't say "Slavs", we say "Sloveni", so that's why it is spelled with an "O" in most of the countries.

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Level 41
Jan 29, 2017
And Yugoslavia got it's name like this: Yug + Slav. Yug(jug, југ) means "south" in Serbian.
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Level 77
Jan 29, 2017
Guys, thanks for the comments. There will be some solution for this problem.
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Level 76
Jan 30, 2017
This quiz is a great concept though! It was fun to take.
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Level 57
Jan 31, 2017
Be careful with changing dates to solve German problem. Trieste was a truly independent state "under direct responsibility of U.N. Security Council" from 1947 to 1954. However Saar was only a French protectorate, despite having an international football team.
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Level 51
Oct 22, 2020
Saarland also had its own citizenship, own flag, and (very briefly) its own currency. It would not be wrong to count it as a country (IMHO). Then again, I think it is not wrong to not count it as a country :-) Don't know what the official criteria are for being a country.
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Level 37
Mar 15, 2018
Nitpickers aside, this was an excellent quiz! I guess that by time I began school, Germany had been divided, so I had no issue with the East/West thing; though we did learn them as the German Federal Republic (West) and the German Democratic Republic (East).
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Level 70
Aug 22, 2019
Don’t forget Austria had the same situation as germany until 1955
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Level 57
Jan 29, 2017
Great quiz, i only missed out Bulgaria
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Level 61
Jan 29, 2017
As somebody else has said I knew these with minimal effort as it was how I leaned them at school. Guess I'm old too!
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Level 44
Jan 29, 2017
Wow, I didn't realize so many countries were independent back then
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Level 43
Jan 29, 2017
Most that weren't independent are in Africa
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Level 57
Jan 31, 2017
Yep, American colonialism failed again.
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Level 58
Jan 30, 2017
Cool quiz, got 'em all with 2:13 remaining. Kek!
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Level 55
Oct 30, 2017
Please accept PR Poland, PSR Albania etc.
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Level 31
Mar 19, 2018
100% 2:55 left 7 years old, Down syndrome
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Level 43
Mar 19, 2019
I'm not sure if you realize this but using and actual condition that so many people struggle with to act dumb as a joke, is really disrespectful.
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Level 66
Jan 14, 2023
I mean… people with Downs Syndrome have become actors, musicians, and athletes. I can totally believe the comment.

If he's faking it, that's quite disrespectful, but it's also pretty disrespectful to assume it can't happen.

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Level 80
Aug 23, 2018
Will this ever be fixed? It was a featured quiz, after all.
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Level 48
Jan 26, 2019
The ones I learned in school, easy!
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Level 62
Mar 17, 2019
Your hints are not correct. Neither East Germany nor West Germany existed in 1946; they were founded only three years later. In 1946, there were only the four zones. You should change that.
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Level 48
Aug 22, 2019
why no Turkey?
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Level 70
Aug 22, 2019
Turkey is in asia
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Level 79
Jun 14, 2020
No, Turkey is in both Asia and Europe. This is a matter of fact. Denying this is a political decision to re-write the facts.
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Level 70
Aug 22, 2019
Did anyone point out the fact that Austria was occupied by uk USA ussr and France after ww2 until 1955 when it became a country once more
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Level 70
Aug 22, 2019
Could someone please respond because nobody has ever responded to me and I’m wondering if ur all just bots
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Level 77
Aug 23, 2019
It was occupied , but formally it was an independent country. This is an example of open historical question.
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Level 70
Oct 30, 2019
Reiterating numerous comments above. Please change the date for this map to 1949 or later, or change East and West Germany to just Germany. This is completely inaccurate history.
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Level 46
Dec 8, 2019
federal republic of Germany isn't accepted but West Germany, the informal name, is?
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Level 64
Mar 17, 2020
Did something happen to Malta or am I just dumb
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Level 77
Mar 17, 2020
Malta was not independent until 1964.
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Level 40
Apr 27, 2020
Great quiz, but I have one nitpicks to point out:

- West Germany and East Germany were formed in 1949, beforehand they were only occupied zones by the USSR, UK, France, and the USA.

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Level 60
Jun 14, 2020
I don't know why but I can't play this quiz. Everytime I open this quiz, it crashes and then after a few seconds it recovers only to crash again when I scroll.

I tried this on 2 different phones in two different browsers.

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Level 73
Jun 14, 2020
This map rather seems like a map of 1955 Europe (or Europe between 1955 and 1989) - both Austria and the two Germanies did not exist at the time (Austria unified and formed in 1955, Germanies in 1949). This is not about 'technicality' but the in an actual sense, no German or Austrian nation existed - the allies actually dissolved them all as occupation zones (unlike Japan or Italy).

Also, plz accept BRD for West Germany if you are going to keep the map as it is.

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Level 65
Jun 14, 2020
Definite agreement with everyone who says this is a 1955 map, not a 1946 map. There were no 'West Germany' and 'East Germany' until 1949 although there was a non-sovereign occupied Austria. Also, there are other borders that weren't settled until the Treaty of Paris 1947, and the border in the Trieste area wasn't made definite until 1954.
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Level 49
Jun 14, 2020
This still isn't fixed? Huh.
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Level 54
Jun 14, 2020
Nice quiz!
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Level 85
Jun 14, 2020
Germany and Austria didn't exist in 1946.
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Level 26
Jan 26, 2023
WWII ended in 1945 and Germany already existed after Prussia dissolved. Austria was Austria-Hungary (Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia ect.) before WWI and Germany was already Germany before WWI.
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Level 70
Mar 10, 2024
Learn some history please
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Level 24
Jun 22, 2020
GDR existed since 1949
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Level 63
Aug 22, 2020
Saarland, Trieste?
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Level 55
Aug 22, 2020
Nice quiz! West Germany and Austria were unified after 1948.
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Level 49
Nov 16, 2020
The germanys and austria didnt exist in 1946, they were formed as independent countries in 1949. in 1946 they still were part of the usa, uk france and ussr.
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Level 28
Feb 15, 2021
1:55

14/32

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Level 37
Mar 4, 2021
Needs to be 2 minutes at most! This is far too easy to complete in 4 minutes, wait I forgot about Americans.
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Level 46
May 11, 2021
haha americans dumb amirite
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Level 37
Mar 4, 2021
Good attempt, but read up on your geographical history and change it (Germany, minor independent nations etc.)
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Level 46
May 11, 2021
nothing wrong with germany
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Level 67
May 25, 2021
Only forgot Bulgaria
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Level 57
Aug 9, 2021
Great quiz!
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Level 64
Oct 3, 2021
Shouldn't Germany be parts of UK, USSR, and France? (And greyed out USA?) East and west Germany were not created until 1949, years after 1946.
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Level 62
Oct 29, 2021
Weird Czechoslovakia wasn't recognised. Can you be more fair with spelling on this? Very good quiz all the same.
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Level 56
Jan 8, 2022
12% of people didn't guess Czechoslovakia. Also known as: 12% of people couldn't spell Czechoslovakia. At least it's not Kyrgyzstan or Tegucigalpa.
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Level 37
Jan 29, 2022
No Malta?
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Level 65
Feb 1, 2022
Not independent. British colony until 1964.
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Level 33
Mar 19, 2022
Found all with 2:07 remaining.

Nice quiz, I suggest to reduce a little bit of time

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Level 68
Mar 27, 2022
How did this quiz get featured with so many historical errors?
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Level 35
Jun 8, 2022
I like it!
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Level 37
Jun 28, 2022
2:30
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Level 36
Aug 16, 2022
very strange to look at a map of europe from this time. so few countries compared to now
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Level 48
Sep 21, 2022
ČSFR should be also valid
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Level 46
Nov 28, 2022
Austria was not a country until 1955. Please fix
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Level 56
Dec 20, 2022
Saarland?
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Level 51
Jan 23, 2023
Could Czechia be accepted for Czechoslovakia? Great quiz!
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Level 68
Feb 24, 2023
West Germany and East Germany were formed in 1949.
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Level 68
Mar 6, 2023
The Federal Republic of Germany never called itself "West Germany"
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Level 59
Mar 6, 2023
interesting and unique quiz!
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Level 28
May 4, 2023
too ez
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Level 67
May 8, 2023
1:02
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Level 56
Jul 7, 2023
Germany should still be one, or none at all and just have the zones of occupation, since both East and West Germany were only formed in 1949. Also, the Saar Protectorate sould be included.
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Level 56
Dec 7, 2023
Germany and Austria should be occupied by USA, UK, France, and USSR, they only became independent in 1949
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Level 20
Mar 10, 2024
I did it with 2:12 left (1:48 seconds )
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Level 20
Mar 10, 2024
Got 32/32
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Level 58
Mar 28, 2024
The Free Territory of Trieste missed out on this quiz by one year - it existed from 1947-1954
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Level 77
Mar 28, 2024
It was not a country.