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Five Biggest Countries by Continent

Can you figure out the five largest countries by land area per continent?
Countries can be included in multiple continents
Excludes overseas territories
Quiz by Quizzer6794
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Last updated: November 1, 2018
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First submittedApril 28, 2015
Times taken166,289
Average score82.8%
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Africa
Algeria
D.R. Congo
Sudan
Libya
Chad
 
Asia
Russia
China
India
Kazakhstan
Saudi Arabia
Europe
Russia
Ukraine
France
Spain
Sweden
 
North America
Canada
United States
Mexico
Nicaragua
Honduras
Oceania
Australia
Papua New Guinea
New Zealand
Solomon Islands
Fiji
 
South America
Brazil
Argentina
Peru
Colombia
Bolivia
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Level 92
Jun 17, 2015
I was about to call shenanigans on Mongolia not being in the list, but it turns out it's only 3/4 the size of Saudi. I blame the Mercator projection.
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Level 74
Jun 23, 2015
Yeah, I was surprised Mongolia didn't make the list too.
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Level 31
Aug 2, 2015
me too
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Level 62
Dec 29, 2016
me three
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Level 17
Jul 1, 2017
me four
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Level 89
Oct 18, 2017
me five
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2017
me like food.
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Level 31
Jan 3, 2020
Me 6 i like food too :O
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Level 76
Feb 22, 2020
Me 7 I like food 3
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Level 69
May 6, 2020
Me 8 and Me like food 4.
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Level 58
Sep 5, 2020
me 9 and me like food 5
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Level 44
Sep 29, 2021
me 10 I like mango
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Level 43
Dec 1, 2021
me 11 and i dont like mango
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Level 52
Jan 13, 2022
Tamashii you have ruined my life
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Level 59
Jan 13, 2022
me 12 and me life ruined too
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Level 20
Dec 7, 2022
me 13
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Level 50
Apr 18, 2023
Me 14 and I like Mango 2
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Level 28
Dec 23, 2023
Me 15 and I don't like mango
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Level 28
Jan 5, 2024
Me 16, food is almost as good as money. Big brain move is you can actually eat money though. It actually tastes really good
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Level 25
Mar 14, 2024
me 18 and watermelon is better
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Level 47
Feb 12, 2024
me 17 mango is delicious u guys are freaks
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Level 6
Aug 10, 2020
Have an site that our name is"The true size of. . ." this site makes you see the true size of the country's.
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Level 44
Oct 16, 2021
Mongolia has got 1,5mln square meters
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Level 43
Jul 15, 2015
I wish there was more time!
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Level 65
Jul 31, 2015
Thanks for your comment, the time limit will be increased to 4:00 :)
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Level 56
Jul 15, 2015
This is kind of nitpicking but in land area the USA is larger than Canada, while in total area (land + water) it's not. It only changes the order, the answers remain the same. The quiz is good either way!
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Level 36
Aug 3, 2015
The size of the USA nearly always includes it's waters, even though it shouldn't. Therefore, unless the source for the size does not include this, the waters of Canada should be counted.
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Level 75
Jul 31, 2015
Greenland ranks 2nd if you count it as European or 3rd if you count it as North American. If think "Greenland ain't a country, it's a part of Denmark", then the 2nd largest European country is Denmark!
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Level 65
Jul 31, 2015
*not including overseas territories
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Level 33
Jul 31, 2015
I have a hard time believing that Spain is bigger than Finland….
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Level 76
Jan 20, 2019
Here, check it out. Spain is 195,365 square miles (505,992 square km), while Finland is 130,666 square miles (338,424 square km.) That works out to Finland having only about 2/3rds of the area of Spain. You can probably blame Gerardus Mercator for your confusion.
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Level 26
Jan 27, 2023
but it is true
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Level 57
Aug 4, 2015
You should note that the list does not include overseas territories.
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Level 63
Aug 24, 2015
Russia no longer shows up under Europe so all the other answers after that position have moved up one place. This leaves many errors like Brazil being listed under Oceania.
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Level 65
Aug 24, 2015
Strange glitch. On my user-preview, everything's fine. I'll fix it anyway, thanks for noticing. :)
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Level ∞
Aug 24, 2015
Sorry this was a bug introduced by me this afternoon and now fixed.
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Level 28
Feb 7, 2016
got 16/29.im not focused today
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Level 65
Feb 7, 2016
Try again to earn full five points! :)
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Level 56
Feb 23, 2016
I only missed 5, but only got 1 point. Harsh!!
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Level 33
Mar 16, 2016
I MISSED LIBYA
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Level 60
Oct 10, 2016
Spelling: multiple in the caveats
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Level 22
Nov 25, 2016
cuba in north america
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Level 62
Feb 11, 2021
and bhutan in asia

obviously

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Level 44
Jan 15, 2017
In the "Countries of the World Quiz," Russia is in Europe. I think that all quizzes on countries should be based on the countries quiz.
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Level 65
Jan 16, 2017
Most of Russia is in Europe.
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Level 71
Mar 7, 2017
Russia is not proportionately populated between the smaller western portion (almost 25%) of the country that is considered part of Europe, and the larger eastern portion (more than 75%) that is part of Asia. European Russia contains about 77% of the country's population (110,000,000 people out of about 144,000,000)
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Level 26
Jan 27, 2023
I think he means the population because people live in european russia more
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Level 25
Jan 20, 2017
Stop nit-picking. I, for one, enjoyed this quiz.
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Level 37
Apr 21, 2017
I like so so much your quizzes! Some of them are easy, but some of them can be challenging. Please, do not stop creating these :-)
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Level 65
Apr 21, 2017
Wow, thanks!! And we have some good ones in stock :)
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Level 43
May 5, 2017
Wouldn't Kiribati qualify if you counted both land + water?
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Level 40
Jul 24, 2017
In last second got bolivia and 100%. I was all the time guessing venezuela and chile, but forgot about bolivia.
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Level 36
Oct 17, 2017
isn't it strange that papua new guinea is counted as oceania when it's attached to indonesia which is in asia!
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Level 82
Oct 17, 2017
Egypt is attached to Israel. Turkey is attached to Bulgaria. Panama is attached to Colombia. So, no, not really.
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Level 39
Oct 17, 2017
yeah but all of papua new guinea is in oceania, and all of egypt except a tiny part is in africa, and literally the smallest little bit of turkey is in europe
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Level 82
Oct 17, 2017
ben you are missing the point. One country can touch another country and be on the same land mass and each of those countries can still be considered to be in different continents. Continental boundaries are somewhat arbitrarily chosen and not always unanimously agreed upon. In the same way that the Sinai (Egypt) is often considered part of Asia, New Guinea (divided between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) is often considered part of Oceania. But Egypt is typically represented as being wholly African and Indonesia as being Asian. New Guinea isn't a special case.
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Level 62
Feb 11, 2021
jeez... he's just commenting on how borders can sometimes be weird... calm down
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Level 82
Mar 17, 2021
I'm calm, dork. Calm down.
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Level 53
Nov 15, 2022
Well Egypt is split by the Suez Canal, Turkey is split by a river, and Panama is split by a canal. Papua New Guinea and Indonesia aren't split by any physical features tho. So yeah, it is pretty strange
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Level 26
Jan 27, 2023
well, they are on the island of new guinea and some people say that that part of indonesia is part of oceania (but it is true) not pnp is part of asia.
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Level 72
Oct 17, 2017
Perhaps Indonesia should be considered transcontinental. Some sources do.
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Level 82
Oct 17, 2017
yes and it often is. As are (sometimes) Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Panama, and Egypt. And France. And probably some other countries with islands near the borders.
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Level 82
Mar 17, 2021
The modern boundary between Africa and Asia is often placed at the Suez Canal.
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Level 44
Sep 29, 2021
Borders of Europe and Asia in Turkey is just the city of istanbul.

Many people think that istanbul is Turkey's capital but actually ankara is Turkey's capital

Istanbul is the only city that is in 2 Continents

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Level 43
Jan 13, 2022
Nope, there are a few cities that straddle 2 continents as well, like Atyrau in Kazakhstan, El Qantara in Egypt and sometimes Magnitogorsk in Russia. It's just that Istanbul is the most popular city that is associated with being on 2 continents.
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Level 39
Oct 17, 2017
why'd I get 29/29 not 30/30? does russia only count as one?
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Level 75
Jan 13, 2021
How many times did you have to type Russia?
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Level 36
Oct 17, 2017
Where's Antarctica?
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Level 82
Oct 18, 2017
There are no countries in Antarctica
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Level 68
Oct 20, 2017
USA is larger than Canada by land area
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Level 42
Sep 13, 2020
but why not count lakes? they have land underneath them.
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Level 26
Jan 27, 2023
wdym? Canada > USA
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Level 30
Oct 23, 2017
Forgot Chad. 28/29
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Level 33
Feb 15, 2018
im 6 and i do these
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Level 38
Aug 30, 2019
Did you cheat and look at the answers?
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Level 66
Apr 20, 2018
Russia, the country so nice, it's on this quiz twice... probably because of all that ice.
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Level 44
Sep 29, 2021
Nice rhyming
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Level 26
Jan 27, 2023
also it is near the north pole, now i'm gonna drink water from my cold ice bowl.

Don't think it is exactly in the north pole, it is a country close to it though.

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Level 80
Aug 14, 2018
Really enjoyed that. Could you please accept "Solomon," though? Most include it as a type-in now.
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Level 20
Mar 20, 2019
INDONESIA???!!!
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Level 82
Jul 13, 2019
Lots of big countries in Asia
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Level 44
Sep 29, 2021
Indonesia is not in the top 5 in asia but its the top 15 in the world
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Level 38
Aug 30, 2019
All right with 1:39 left. By the Angola and Namibia are quite big.
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Level 37
Sep 28, 2019
Honduras is larger than Cuba?
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Level 89
Nov 16, 2019
By about 3,000 sq km
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Level 18
Nov 20, 2019
I cant believe Sweden is bigger than germany this has to be a mistake
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Level 43
Jan 13, 2022
Yeah, and don't repeat that mistake of yours next time.
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Level 62
Feb 22, 2020
the indonesia part of oceania is bigger than the solomon islands and fiji
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Level 60
Mar 31, 2020
nearest miss: Niger
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Level 62
Apr 2, 2020
100%!
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Level 45
Jul 14, 2020
i'm suprised saudi arabia is bigger than mongolia and iran a map makes them look massive
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Level 52
Oct 1, 2020
Full marks
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Level 75
Jan 13, 2021
I thought the Scandinavian countries biggest-to-smallest went: Norway - Finland - Sweden :-S
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Level 44
Mar 18, 2021
No one is talking about how Indonesia is larger than saudi arabia.
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Level 56
Jul 8, 2021
surely indonesia is far larger than either the Solomon islands or fiji, unless you're counting water area too
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Level 56
Aug 12, 2021
Indonesia is considered to be an Asian country.
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Level 44
Sep 29, 2021
Yes

The border starts on the pacific and cuts new guinea (not to be confused with papua new guinea or guinea) or papua straight

Then border also borders the river and go straight down to the Indian ocean

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Level 51
Nov 19, 2021
Somehow I forgot china
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Level 67
Jan 17, 2022
Haha I feel that
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Level 45
Jul 24, 2022
Really? That sounds impossible
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Level 55
May 10, 2022
almost forgot sweden lol
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Level 47
Oct 19, 2022
Same
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Level 19
Oct 24, 2022
Why do I always forgot about Bolivia
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Level 52
Nov 18, 2022
wouldnt indonesia be big too?
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Level 20
Feb 3, 2023
You scored 29/29 = 100%

32.5% of test takers also scored 100%

The average score is 24

Your high score is 29

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Level 60
Apr 29, 2023
20/20