Recently Independent Countries Quiz

Same. A facepalm just isn't enough.

A headdesk? - Missed it as well.

:wallbang: Also missed it.

@divantilya but you just spelt kyrgyzstan right

I feel stupid too.

Tricky trying to figure out countries that gained independence from themselves.

strangely enough I got namibia simply because I was guessing countries near south africa, but I still didn't get russia!

But it's true, basically Russia seceded from USSR.

To tom88: Russia is nowhere near South Africa so your your method would fail there easily. Don't feel bad.

Sillie, i believe Tom meant to say that despite he got Namibia as he tried to guess it by writing every country around South Africa (as that is the given clue to get it), he couldn't get Russia, the most self evident answer to the USSR former countries. He didn't think, by any mean, that he would have guessed up Russia by writing down the South Africa's neighbors.

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people don't really think of russia because that's what the soviet union pretty much is right now

You should

LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD? IT WAS MY FIRST GUESS

I felt stupid for missing Russia as well, but I feel a little better reading through all these comments. Glad I wasn't the only one.

Me too. I got all the other former USSR countries but Russia.

same

Same. Guessed all the other USSR countries tho :'(

completely forgot the baltic states

those are confusing since lithuania existed with polish-lithuania empire

They all existed before WW II , how they see it, they were only occupied by Soviet Union after that.

+1

Missed Yemen!! 30/31 - so close

So did I. And 80-85% of everybody who took this quiz.

I didn't forget about Russia! :D

What two countries became Yemen?

North Yemen and South Yemen, I think. I couldn't think of Yemen or Palau, even though I almost guessed Palau because I was guessing Pacific island countries for the UN trust one.

Only missed Yemen. This happened in my life time (I was in 5th grade I guess) but I had no idea.

I mean... it's not doing a very good job of being unified right now, so easy to miss.

Why does only 60% of people get Russia??

I would guess it is because people tend to think about the old USSR as Russia and see the other former Soviet states as splitting from Russia rather than gaining independence together with it.

can you take FYR Macedonia for macedonia?

Are you by any chance from Greece? (:

Or FYRoM.

Please don't. Republic of Macedonia should work except that then you'd have to go and re-do all quizzes with countries as answers to accept the full official names... and that would be very dumb and unnecessary. If you then also accepted "FYROM".. you'd have to go and change every quiz with countries as answers to accept names that other people gave those countries out of spite. Or if you just wanted to make a special exception in this one case that would be okay as long as you also accepted "Former Ottoman Republic of Greece" and "FORoG" as a type-in for "Greece."

I hope the whole "North Macedonia" thing has now laid this stupid argument to rest.

Serbia? Wasn't it Serbian nationals that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand? So was Serbia an independent nation, then lost their independence to Austria-Hungary during WWI, only to regain it later?

yes serbia was independent after yugoslavia was disbanded, they just call it serbian because he was from the area where yugoslavia existed

Sort of. Serbia was an independent state in 1914 (freed itself from Turkey in the 19th C), and the assassination was carried out in the cause of Bosnia - then under Austrian rule - joining with Serbia. This was a popular cause among Bosnian Serbs, less so among the Croatian and Muslim populations. World War I intervenes and, as part of Wilson's do-gooding, a new country of Yugoslavia ("South Slavs) was formed around Serbia, which dominated it in the way England dominates the UK. Fast Forward to the 1990s and Yugoslavia messily breaks up, leaving just Serbia and Montenegro calling themselves "Yugoslavia", then "Serbia and Montenegro" then finally just Serbia when Montenegro breaks away.

I'm from Serbia and i feel proud when you guys talk about us :) . Serbia lost their independence to Austria-Hungary for only a month while Serbian soldiers were in Albania and Macedonia. After ww1 Yugoslavia mas made, and Serbia gains it's independence at 2006.

Me too. I know that feel bro.

I may be wrong here, but why in the world is turkmenistan underneath the former yugoslavia nations

I figured one of the 2 answers I was missing was a Pacific nation. I just didn't bother going through them all. Oh well.

What about Vietnam? Isn't it a merger of South Vietnam and North Vietnam? (or was it all one country before it was split in two?)

Their reunification was in 1976. The caveat for this quiz says after 1990.

I followed the trend and missed Yemen and Palau...I had no idea of either of these.

Only 60% of people get Russia, the ones that people get least are palau, yemen and namibia ansd more people guess east timor, eritrea, uzbekistan etc.

This site follows the American version of the list of countries. Hence the ambiguous choice to accept Taiwan and Kosovo (both states of limited recognition) and the Vatican (UN observer), but not Palestine, which technically has exactly the same status as the Vatican.

Even if Palestine was an accepted country in Jetpunk, it wouldn't make the list since it didn't gain independence in 1990 onward.

So did I

The korean war isnt mentioned on here. i would get that fixed if i were u and play my quizzes today!! For free!!

Not "renamed". Czechia is only the new formally accepted short name, while the Czech Republic still remains a correct full name.

Could you accept Czechia for Czech Republic? It's their new English name.

It is not. It's still an informal name.

Czechia works now.

Maybe Kosovo it's in the independent countries of the right board because Kosovo was independent after that Yugoslavia was "breaking" (2008) so Kosovo was independent in an other period that all others countries former Yugoslavia. (very sorry for my English ;) )

(= in French) Peut-être que le Kosovo devrait être dans les pays du tableau de droite car le Kosovo a été indépendant après que la Yougoslavie soit disloquée (2008) donc le Kosovo a été indépendant à une autre période que tous les autres pays de l'ex-Yougoslavie.

Kosovo is not a country. It's still not recognized by more than 60 countries in the world including Russia, China, India, Indonesia etc.

Only 60% got Russia? and 90% got Czech Republic?

Well, I mean, Czechoslovakia.

What about the Marshall islands and Micronesia? Both did not formally become fully independent until 1990 by my quick Wikipedia inquiry.

These quizzes always seem difficult to me because most of these 'recently independent countries are older than me

And I remember when Alaska and Hawaii weren't states, which means I have a much longer time to forget than you do. :)

Easier than I had feared...except for Palau, really had to do some digging into the atlas to get that one.

You got it from looking into an Atlas? What special kind of Atlas is that?

kosovo?

I'm surprised 10% got Palau. As far as I was concerned, Oceania didn't exist in this quiz.

Kosovo separated from Serbia, not from Yugoslavia.

Kosovo was a part of the territory of Yugoslavia, even though it didn't directly declare it's independence at the same time as other, but neither did Montenegro.

I only got Palau because I learned how Ngerulmud was founded, and I only got Yemen because of the "Countries of the World" song from Animaniacs, where it mentions "both Yemens"

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yeah you sound a bit sore. This was a pretty easy quiz for a geography nerd. If you only managed 27th percentile that probably means you missed 5 on your first try. But the 24 in the 2 left columns are all give-aways given the hints.. and the 6 in the right column aren't exactly impossible.

Yeah...you're wrong. As kal said, the hints make this a very easy quiz. Most people know what states comprised the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. Secondly, not everyone takes a test repeatedly to "pose that they know more than they actually do." Some people take the tests repeatedly to (gasp!) *actually learn things and commit them to memory.* Don't project your ego problems onto everyone else.

Read the description again

Not to split hairs, but I do not believe Palau was a UN Trust - it was a "free association" with the United States though an independent republic since 1981. Completely independent in 1994, yes, so to be technically correct it ought to say independent from the US, not the UN.

it took awhile but i finally got russia

Damm it Yemen!

Where's Nambia?

Nowhere, because there's no such country.

Only in Trump‘s mind

Look at me getting the 2nd least guessed one without google

You mean you usually google the answers for these quizes?

I got every one besides Palau and Yemen.

Hahaha only missed from former USSR : Russia ... #facepalm !

What about India and Vietnam?

Germany as it exists today is a legal continuation of 'West Germany' - East Germany just got absorbed into it.

Yes, when I think about it, West Germany was also the ‘Federal Republic of Germany’ with the same flag so it’s obvious it’s just grown a bit since they knocked the wall down

I am genuinely surprised at how few get Russia. I mean, I understand the confusion, but I would have thought once you had just one Soviet country left to guess, you'd eventually puzzle it out. Palau's exceptionally low guess rate, on the other hand, makes sense.

September 17, 1991: The Marshall Islands was part of the Trust Territory of Pacific Islands (administered by the United States) and gained independence as a former colony. On this date, Micronesia, previously known as the Caroline Islands, also became independent from the United States. The source can be found here: https://www.thoughtco.com/new-countries-of-the-world-1433444

Wow, I didn't know Palau independided recently

Yea it is independone

See my comment from January 3, 2018

I'm sad. I actually missed Russia. Russia, Palau, and Yemen. I can't believe it.

You missed Russia twice, that is impressive.

What about Switzerland they only became a sovereign nation in 2004 when they joined the UN

It's when they became independent, not when they became a member of the UN. If it was by UN membership, Kosovo wouldn't count since they aren't a UN member, not even an observer like the Vatican or Palestine.

I was 100% sure the merge one was Germany but I guess it doesn't count.