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Countries Ending in "IA"

Try to name all the countries whose name ends in the letters IA.
Not counting the "Czech Republic" or "Bosnia and Herzegovina"
One country is alphabetized by short name rather than formal name.
Quiz by mightythor
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Last updated: November 11, 2023
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First submittedSeptember 4, 2014
Times taken147,720
Average score63.2%
Rating4.99
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BIA
Colombia
The Gambia
Namibia
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Zambia
CIA
Saint Lucia
 
DIA
Cambodia
India
 
GIA
Georgia
KIA
Slovakia
 
LIA
Australia
Mongolia
Somalia
NIA
Albania
Armenia
Estonia
Lithuania
Mauritania
North Macedonia
Romania
Slovenia
Tanzania
PIA
Ethiopia
 
RIA
Algeria
Austria
Bulgaria
Liberia
Nigeria
Syria
SIA
Indonesia
Malaysia
F.S. Micronesia
Russia
Tunisia
 
TIA
Croatia
VIA
Bolivia
Latvia
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Level 66
Nov 14, 2022
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Level 69
Jan 22, 2018
A natural quiz that was long overdue! Timed out on me with six countries left so the timing is bang on! True competition against the clock.
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Level 73
Jan 22, 2018
Great quiz -- surprisingly hard to remember them all in one go! Took me three times to remember them all, missed different ones each time.
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Level 65
Jul 2, 2019
Yes it is weird that it is hard, even if you can list all the countries. Because you look at it from a different angle.

(Like most people cant say the alphabet as fast backwards as they can the normal way. Not the same thing, but similar)

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Level 80
Nov 9, 2022
I actually can do the alphabet backwards as fast as I can do it forwards. One of my more useless skills, but if I ever get pulled over, I’m in great shape.
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Level 29
Jan 22, 2018
I literally like how I got all the small nations like Saint Lucia but missed bigger ones like Russia and India. Great Job Me
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Level 65
Feb 11, 2020
Yup, only ones I missed was Russia and Mongolia and Algeria, and the had typed India just in time..

interesting how Slovakia has the top spot for most guessed. Guess it is because people read about Czechia in the description? (But since when did people start reading those..?)

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Level 35
Jan 23, 2018
what about canadia?
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Level 43
Jan 24, 2018
Fun fact in Polish so many countries finish with IA or JA that it would be impossible to name them all in 5 minutes for example:

France - Francja

England - Anglia

Netherland - Holandia

Ireland - Irlandia

Spain - Hiszpania

Sweden - Szwecja

Switzerland - Szwajcaria

Norway - Norwegia

Finland - Finlandia

Kenya - Kenia

Libya - Libia

Brazil - Brazylia

Now all of them names come to my mind when i solve this quiz which makes it hard to find the right countires :D

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Level 68
Jan 25, 2018
Bulgaria, you escaped me.
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Level 65
Jul 2, 2019
I allways have to remember which of the three of roman--,bulgar--,hungar-- does not end in ia. (in my language it is: ië, ije, ije.
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Level 20
Apr 3, 2020
lol
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Level 55
Jan 26, 2018
their is no Macedonia its FYROM
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Level 32
Jan 26, 2018
Former Yugoslav Republic of MacedonIA, also the official term used by Macedonia itself is just Republic of MacedonIA, and FYROM is only used in contexts where Greece would get mad otherwise.
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Level 82
Jan 27, 2018
This statement is correct if you invert it.
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Level 60
Jul 27, 2023
MORYF sti ainodecaM on si rieht
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Level 54
Apr 25, 2022
That still ends with ia same as macedonia and north macedonia
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Level 82
Jan 27, 2018
Wasn't there already another recently featured quiz just like this? I sort of remember making a comment that the quiz would have been a lot longer if it was written in Arabic or Latin.
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Level 85
Jun 29, 2019
I get why Bosnia isn't included, but it should have a written exception just like the Czech Republic/Czechia.
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Level ∞
Jun 29, 2019
Okay
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Level 66
Aug 19, 2020
Is it time to acknowledge Czechia? For what it is worth, Europeans have been using it on Reddit.
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Level 65
Aug 18, 2020
Good grief.
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Level 26
Jun 1, 2021
yare yare
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Level 58
Jun 29, 2019
im really surprised the average score is so low on this one, i had time to go through all the countries and still finished with a minute remaining. Maybe because i ignored the prompts of the letter before the ia given already which i felt didn't really help all to much. Anyway really good quiz :)
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Level 65
Jul 2, 2019
yea if you do it that way it is faster, when you actually focus on endings with -ia (regardless if you look at the screen or not) it get a lots harder
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Level 46
Apr 20, 2020
What about Eritria?
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Level 66
Apr 22, 2020
Eritrea?
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Level 60
Jun 20, 2020
What about quesadilla?
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Level 60
Jul 27, 2023
*quesadillia
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Level 88
Jul 18, 2020
Namibia?
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Level 75
Aug 18, 2020
tiny thing, but the description mentions one country alphabetised by short name rather than long name, where i see two: The Gambia and F.S. Micronesia
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Level 65
Aug 18, 2020
Good grief.
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Level 26
Jun 1, 2021
yare yare
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Level 60
Jul 27, 2023
Gambia is the full name on JetPunk.
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Level 60
Aug 18, 2020
this wont end well for me
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Level 65
Aug 18, 2020
If you aren't accepting short names (Czechia), then you also shouldn't accept Slovakia, which is officially the Slovak Republic,
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Level 66
Sep 26, 2020
Czech Republic is the official Jetpunk name, and Czechia is just an accepted typein.
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Level 54
Apr 25, 2022
dont be difficult unless u actually think tht it should be that way czech republic is the real name of czechia, but slovakia is officially named slovakia every country has a real real name tht they shouldnt be talked as like that for slovakia
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Level 75
Aug 18, 2020
Just curious - do you get emailed when your quizzes go on the front page a second time?
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Level 66
Aug 19, 2020
I did not.
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Level 75
Aug 19, 2020
Okay thanks
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Level 71
Aug 18, 2020
That was fun
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Level 60
Aug 18, 2020
I forgot Australia!
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Level 55
Oct 20, 2020
Nice quiz! Can I use the thing that says "Take another quiz from MightyThor"? I'll get credit
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Level 66
Oct 25, 2020
Sure.

If you do anything to improve it, let me know.

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Level 82
Dec 29, 2020
why did I think Russia was spelled Russa *facepalm*
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Level 28
Sep 27, 2021
at least it wasnt rusha
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Level 61
Mar 17, 2021
Gambia?

(Not Gambia, The, it's The Gambia. Still ends in -ia.)

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Level 64
Mar 25, 2021
Isn't Czechia the official name now?
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Level 36
Aug 16, 2022
no, its the czech republic
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Level 64
Feb 26, 2024
The official short form name
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Level 45
Mar 25, 2021
How do you make the take another quiz from thor thing???
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Level 66
Mar 25, 2021
It's CSS and HTML.
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Level 57
Mar 27, 2021
Honorable Mentions:

Kenya

Libya

North Korea

South Korea

Equatorial Guinea

Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Czechia

Bosnia

Abkhazia

South Ossetia

Transnistria

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Level 60
Jul 27, 2023
+ Persia
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Level 29
Sep 12, 2021
bosnıa and herzegovıa?
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Level 78
Dec 2, 2021
Herzegovina
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Level 57
Sep 24, 2021
Great quiz. I was more rubbish at it than I thought.
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Level 57
Oct 11, 2021
i cant be the only one who missed australia @@@@@@

@@@@@

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Level 52
Jan 9, 2022
Bosnia?
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Level 80
Jan 27, 2022
The actual name for the country is Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Just Bosnia is the colloquial name for convenience sake.

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Level 27
Feb 12, 2022
FYI: If this quiz was in Portguese, it would also include: Itália (Italy), Moldávia (Moldova), Polônia (Poland), Tailândia (Thailand), Grécia (Greece), Finlândia (Finland), Islândia (Iceland), Líbia (Libya), Eritreia (Eritrea), Hungria (Húngary), Bielorrússia (Belarus), Ucrânia (Ukraine), and Suécia (Sweden).

But it would not include Cambodia (Camboja)

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Level 47
Mar 28, 2022
Czechia should be added
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Level 56
Apr 6, 2022
Is, "One country is alphabetized by short name rather than formal name," Türkiye?
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Level 54
Apr 25, 2022
czechia should count
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Level 36
Aug 16, 2022
i think they dont count czechia because its not its official name
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Level 64
Feb 26, 2024
Slovakia isn't the official name either, it's just not included because so many people call it by the full name instead of the shortened name
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Level 54
Apr 25, 2022
missed armenia syria and australia
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Level 66
Jun 22, 2022
I missed so many, mainly eastern Europe and there are so many! Would probably have got on a roll if I'd thought of one of those first
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Level 39
Aug 27, 2022
Where’s czechia
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Level 81
Nov 9, 2022
Next to Slovakia
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Level 54
Sep 16, 2022
what about united states of americeria?
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Level 66
Nov 9, 2022
i got caught out by france
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Level 65
Nov 9, 2022
Idk why I do so poorly on these ___ - endings.

The words just blur together as I run through them, and overlook things like Russia or St Lucia.

I guess my brain doesn't organize things phonetically or by suffixes.

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Level 60
Jul 27, 2023
I also end up getting answers that are there phonetically but not actually correct like Persia, Moldovia, Kenia, and Eritria. Sometimes I also end up making up countries (Maldia).
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Level 48
Nov 9, 2022
What about Eritria?
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Level 81
Nov 9, 2022
Eritrea
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Level 76
Jun 22, 2023
The clue is in the name. 😉
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Level 79
Nov 9, 2022
Here is a sister quiz I made after seeing this one:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/106934/countries-ending-in-a-but-not-ia

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Level 66
Nov 11, 2022
But my sister's name ends in "ia".
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Level 60
Jul 27, 2023
Mighty Thoria?
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Level 63
Nov 9, 2022
I almost forgot Russia- XD
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Level 40
Nov 9, 2022
Malia isn't there
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Level 84
Nov 11, 2022
"We're very big in Bulgaria, and wassisname, the other garia."

"Hungaria."

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Level 31
Nov 11, 2022
A part of me wants to say bosnia
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Level 21
Nov 23, 2022
I'm from India and missed india
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Level 47
Mar 23, 2023
Eretria???? Where is it?
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Level 60
Jul 27, 2023
Above Ethiopia.
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Level 60
Jul 4, 2023
35/38 no bad
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Level 26
Jul 27, 2023
Czechia is now the name of Czech republic you should add it lol
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Level 67
Sep 24, 2023
What's funny is that a lot of these crossed my mind but I didn't even realize they ended in ia
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Level 48
Oct 2, 2023
"Unfortunately, your son, Slovakia, has been listed as KIA."
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Level 63
Dec 19, 2023
No Nokia? Lol great quiz
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Level 68
Feb 14, 2024
35/38!
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Level 22
Feb 14, 2024
Where's Libya?
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Level 33
Feb 26, 2024
Libya (IA?)
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Level 68
Feb 26, 2024
The country is now officially called "Czechia" in English, not the "Czech Republic" anymore.
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Level 64
Feb 26, 2024
Correction, it is still officially "Czech Republic" in English, it's just that the short form name "Czechia" is used
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Level 22
Feb 26, 2024
Seemed easy, but in the end was harder than l thought... Got 28 (somehow l missed India, but got Indonesia, ha, ha).
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Level 54
Feb 28, 2024
Is there a reason you didn't include Czechia? That is the official name, after all.