Countries of Africa by Borders in 30 Seconds

When you guess a country, the country and the ones bordering it will appear
Based on a series by scambigol
You also have to mention the countries without borders
Quiz by Gamer1162
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Last updated: February 17, 2019
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First submittedMay 5, 2016
Times taken282,003
Average score75.9%
Rating4.45
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Country
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African
Republic
Chad
Comoros
D. R. Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial
Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Country
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Country
Nigeria
Rep. of the
Congo
Rwanda
Sao Tome
and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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Level 70
Nov 25, 2016
51/54, missed Mauritius, Seychelles and the Gambia
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Level 60
Dec 7, 2016
second try with 4 seconds left!!
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Level 81
Dec 22, 2016
I think I did it typing in 17 countries. I haven't worked out if it can be done with less... Anyone?
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Level 68
Oct 18, 2021
I finished with 15
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Level 55
Feb 7, 2017
the word 'borders' doesn't begin with a capital letter :(
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Level 55
Mar 26, 2017
:)
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Level 61
Feb 9, 2017
Typing Equatorial Guinea fills in Mali for some reason
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Level 61
Feb 9, 2017
Also, typing in Guinea fills in Guinea Bissau even when I have already gotten Guinea from another country, like Mali
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Level 60
Feb 10, 2017
Mali borders Guinea, but not Guinea-Bissau. Typing in Guinea will give you Guinea-Bissau because Guinea borders Guinea-Bissau, if it didn't then it wouldn't be accepted. Also, fixed the Equatorial Guinea error.
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Level 61
Mar 6, 2017
Ah, I didn't realize you were supposed to be able to type countries that are already filled in
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Level 41
Mar 14, 2017
Missed Malawi and the islands!
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Level 48
Mar 15, 2017
Missed mostly the islands. Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde, Comoros, Seychelles and Mauritius.
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Level 36
Mar 26, 2017
Shouldn't you remove the island countries from this quiz??
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Level 60
Mar 26, 2017
They're countries in Africa and similar quizzes require the island countries to be entered too. I did it first try, it's not impossible.
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Level 77
Mar 26, 2017
"Countries of Africa by Borders in 30 Seconds" quiz is like life . . . can get 80% correct in 1/3 of allotted time . . . but the devil is in the details (and the correct spelling of "comoros")!
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Level 25
Apr 8, 2017
53/54 first try.. just missed mauritius
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Level 68
Jul 25, 2017
3 seconds left, phew! Really fun.
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Level 73
Aug 28, 2017
Had to take it several times, but finally made it. I had a hard time getting all the islands done at the end, since the names are so long and I fat-fingered them a couple times, so I found it easier to do them first then blitz through the continent.
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Level 66
Mar 28, 2020
Haha have heard (and used) fat finger(syndrome) many times, but never seen it as a verb!
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Level 71
Sep 5, 2017
IDITID
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Level 70
Sep 9, 2017
Islands makes it almost impossible...
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Level 26
Aug 28, 2022
nah it’s still ez
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Level 37
Nov 2, 2017
89%and still trying! - One of these centuries!
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Level 61
Nov 15, 2017
Got it on my third try with 2 seconds left. Intense.
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Level 37
Sep 9, 2020
6 Seconds Remaining Lol
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Level 26
Aug 28, 2022
me too
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Level 62
Dec 25, 2017
I'm not so good at these timed sprint quizzes. I always wind up at 3 points. Maybe I would do better on these with a real keyboard instead of using my phone.
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Level 46
Jan 25, 2018
missed only one (equatorial guinea) arghghgh
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Level 52
Nov 27, 2018
Type Gabon. Sooooo much shorter!
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Level 46
Feb 12, 2018
1 sec left!!!! this took me about 39480284902810253573498 tries
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Level 27
Feb 20, 2018
This gives you the mainland Libya Guinea Senegal Togo Cameroon DRC Malawi South Africa Ethiopia. Then you have madagascar capeverde seychelles mauritius comoros.
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Level 27
Feb 20, 2018
Oops morrocco
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Level 27
Feb 20, 2018
Sao tome and prinicipe!!!!!!!!!!!
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Level 34
Apr 13, 2018
It's just a typing test
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Level 52
Nov 27, 2018
There is some strategy in there, too. Figuring out the easiest to type that gets you the most other countries. That's half the fun!
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Level 31
Jun 28, 2018
Got 47 really good quiz :)
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Level 37
Feb 12, 2019
16 countries:

Senegal, Algeria, Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Togo, Cameroon, Congo, Mozambique, South africa, Madagascar, Sao tome, Comoros, Seychelles, Mauritius, Cape verde.

Long names but the amount of borders cancels it out I think.

please post if you did better!

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Level 62
Feb 19, 2019
Hello CraftyBanana,

I don't know if the mainland can be done with fewer than 10 countries, but it can be done with fewer characters:

You have Congo, which will give both the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and all their bordering countries. But just the Democratic Republic of the Congo is enough to get the job done; the Republic of the Congo is not needed as a separate entity. In that case, replace Congo with DRC, saving two characters. And replace Mozambique with Malawi, saving another four characters, for a total saving of six characters.

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Level 28
Feb 27, 2021
You can also replace liberia->guinea for 1 less character.
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Level 66
May 5, 2019
Niger, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, South Africa, Angola, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, Algeria, then the islands.
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Level 54
May 27, 2019
Why do you have countries without border here. The other quizzes that have Island Nations have the Islands shared by multiple Nation such as Haiti and dominican republic, Indonesia, Malaysia... Please remove the countries without border or raise the timer to 40 or 45 secs
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Level 52
Jun 12, 2019
I agree, but Gamer1162 is accurate in his comment that the border quizzes of other continents also, for some silly reason, include borderless countries. I get an error message when I try to access the North America borders quiz, though - wondering if it includes the Caribbean islands. I do think that based on this "everybody does it" rationale, there probably needs to be a borders quiz for Oceania... no? :-)
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Level 65
Oct 26, 2019
The most efficient set I can find is:

South Africa

Malawi

DRC

Ethiopia

Libya

Togo

Guinea

Senegal

Morocco/Algeria

for the mainland. If I counted right, that's 57 letters, or about 2 a second with no mistakes.

Adding the islands means another 52, doubling the difficulty. Not to say that you must remove them from the quiz, or that you must extend the time, but be aware this quiz is twice as had with them in as with them out.

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Level 83
Jan 16, 2021
You missed Cameroon in your list, which would make it 65 characters. I think that's the lowest anybody has found so far.
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Level 28
Feb 27, 2021
You can replace Libya->Sudan, and then Ethiopia->Somalia which saves you 1 character and is also easier to type. I think this is the optimal configuration.
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Level 48
Oct 23, 2023
Nice! I was stuck at 10 plus the 6 islands, but one of the countries was Burkina Faso....lots of extra letters and a space!
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Level 37
Nov 1, 2019
Great quiz. Thank you!
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Level 28
Jan 12, 2020
0:09 left

Took me about 10 tries and moment to look at map for plan

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Level 17
Feb 5, 2020
bruh
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Level 43
May 11, 2020
Did it with one second left.WOW
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Level 43
May 11, 2020
South Africa, Zambia, DRC, Ethiopia, Sudan, Algeria, Senegal, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and the isles and you're done.
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Level 36
Jun 15, 2020
52/54!
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Level 28
Jun 29, 2020
I took this test 26 times to get 54/54! wow You need some serious fast-typing skills to complete it within the given time. xD
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Level 30
Aug 17, 2020
Got 40/54 on first try... I'm just 10
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Level 37
Oct 7, 2020
Only 2649 have completed this Quiz, quite Fascinating. Got all anyway
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Level 69
Jan 1, 2021
man, i got all of them except comoros
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Level 64
Feb 9, 2021
53/54 could have done it but failed to type Mauritius fast enough
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Level 65
Feb 23, 2021
Just so you know, there is a correction for you birthstones quiz that is in Spanish.
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Level 28
Feb 27, 2021
Minimal Spanning set (?):

Senegal

Guinea

Algeria

Sudan

Togo

Cameroon

Somalia

DRC

Malawi

SouthAfrica

Only 65 characters.

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Level 44
Mar 1, 2021
My list:

Algeria, Egypt, Guinea, Gambia, Togo, Cameroon, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, São Tomé, Comoros, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Madagascar, Mauritius.

I don't need any comments saying: "My way was better", I did it with 5 seconds left, that's good for me.

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Level 25
Mar 1, 2021
How are you supposed to do this in 30 seconds with having to say big names like equatorial guinea and mauritius
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Level 65
Mar 31, 2021
First off:

You can say mauritis and it works. It takes like 1/2 a second to type.

Second off:

You can do 'gabon' or 'cameroon' and it works just as well. This is countries by borders anyhow.

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Level 71
Apr 3, 2021
This is quite easy, I typed wrong letters and still had 7 seconds left
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Level 64
May 17, 2021
woooo got them all with a second remaining
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Level 54
Jun 15, 2021
Got em all with 3 seconds left!
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Level 40
Jun 17, 2021
I can't believe I got all of them...especially with six seconds left...

Jetpunk has sharpened my ability to name countries.

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Level 45
Aug 28, 2021
Did it with 2 seconds left!
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Level 65
Sep 3, 2021
DID IT WITH 2 SECONDS LEFT LETS GOOO
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Level 68
Oct 18, 2021
I can't wait for the one with Oceania.
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Level 51
Oct 18, 2021
I found a very simple solution. first all islands then , South Africa, Malawi, DRC, Sudan, Somalia, Algeria, Burkina faso, Guinea, gambia, and cameroon
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Level 72
Nov 1, 2021
Another test of typing speed rather than knowledge. If I ever decide to take a secretarial job, I’ll come back to this.
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Level 70
Dec 15, 2021
oh my god 1 second left it was close
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Level 60
Dec 15, 2021
gg 54/54
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Level 79
Dec 15, 2021
Hmmm
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Level 88
Dec 15, 2021
Got them all except for Gambia
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Level 56
Dec 15, 2021
not a good quiz with the time allotment and number of non border countries.
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Level 26
Aug 28, 2022
it’s not a bad quiz, it’s just a little hard for some people
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Level 46
Dec 16, 2021
24 seconds pretty easy good quiz
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Level 67
Dec 18, 2021
50
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Level 46
Jan 16, 2022
got them all on my first try
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Level 49
Jan 24, 2022
boy, i sure do love when countries by border quizes include countries that dont have any borders!
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Level 60
Mar 24, 2022
its har to get 100% but if you want a try, start with algeria, sudan, burkina faso and senegal...
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Level 26
Aug 28, 2022
replace Senegal with Gambia maybe
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Level 95
Mar 31, 2022
I'm happy to just get 5 points. My nerves, the timer, and the spelling of Mauritius are just too much.
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Level 40
Aug 3, 2022
Did this in 0:25 with a phone. The formula is this:

Algeria, Kenya, Congo, Sudan, South Africa are the first ones you do.

Then you do Gabon, Guinea, Senegal, Benin, Malawi.

And then the island countries. I'm a really quick texter so this was how I did it lol, but for anyone who wants basic advice, Algeria and Sudan basically cover the Saharan part of Africa. Congo uses both Congos, so that's most of central Africa, and South Africa takes came of, erm, southern Africa.

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Level 26
Aug 28, 2022
Done in 0:24, here’s how I did it:

Gambia, Mauritania, Libya, DRC, Gabon, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Benin, then the 6 islands.

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Level 35
Sep 14, 2022
Got them all 6 seconds remaining, forgot the names of four of the five island nations for half a second coz under pressure lol but got em all

My best on the whole world map is 40 seconds (or 50 seconds left), but that doesnt include the island nations that dont border anything. The best i could do on this is probably 20 seconds (or 10 seconds remaining).

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Level 37
Oct 19, 2022
Done with 10 seconds remaining :D
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Level 66
Nov 4, 2022
Finished with a single second left.
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Level 21
Nov 21, 2022
same
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Level 45
Dec 5, 2022
after 1 try i finished with 4 seconds left, i guess i was speedrunning too much lol
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Level 46
Jan 31, 2023
The way with the fewest Names is: Start with the 6 Islands then Algeria, Somalia, DRC, South Africa, Zambia or Malawi, Cameroon, Togo, Senegal, Sudan, Liberia
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Level 33
Jun 3, 2023
got all of them with 2 seconds left
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Level 43
Jun 23, 2023
Give us a minute at least this literally is so difficult to do with the islands
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Level 50
Jul 9, 2023
Ive found that doing all the island countries, then doing Chad, Ethiopia, Algeria, Egypt, Senegal, guinea, Burkina Faso, Mozambique,and South Africa, finally Gabon gave me 3 seconds left. Ive found it to be the fastest strategy so far
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Level 65
Aug 30, 2023
DRC
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Level 56
Aug 6, 2023
Very fun! I got it doing all the islands first, then South Africa, DRC, Zambia, Ethiopia, Libya, Algeria, Cameroon, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea = 71 letters, 5 seconds left. Oglogmanski's method is 73 letters. My Zambia versus his Mozambique gets Malawi for 4 less strokes, his Chad+Gabon beats my DRC+Cameroon by 2 strokes. But you do have to be a pretty fast typist. I tried xMor1tz method, 65 strokes took me 26 seconds. He improves with Togo+Liberia (11), rather than Burkina Faso+Guinea (17)
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Level 54
Oct 21, 2023
Fumbled Seychelles after typing out Equatorial Guinea for some reason and still finished with 1 second left.
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Level 33
Nov 23, 2023
The combo I think is the fastest is:

South Africa, DRC, Malawi, Somalia, Sudan, Algeria, Cameroon, Togo, Guinea, Gambia, Cape Verde, Sao Tome, Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles and Mauritius, so just 16 types!

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Level 43
Mar 15, 2024
Got them all with 5 seconds but forgot about Gambia!!