Most Populous Countries A-Z

Guess the most populous country whose name starts with each letter of the alphabet.
Using standard JetPunk names
Population as of 2 November 2022. More info here.
Quiz by MattPunk
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Last updated: November 2, 2022
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First submittedJune 26, 2012
Times taken251,334
Average score78.3%
Rating4.98
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Population
Country
A
45.6 mil
Argentina
B
216 mil
Brazil
C
1434 mil
China
D
100 mil
(D.R. Congo)
E
124 mil
Ethiopia
F
67.5 mil
France
G
83.3 mil
Germany
H
11.6 mil
Haiti
I
1420 mil
India
J
124 mil
Japan
K
54.4 mil
Kenya
L
7.56 mil
Laos
M
128 mil
Mexico
N
220 mil
Nigeria
O
4.60 mil
Oman
P
238 mil
Pakistan
Q
2.70 mil
Qatar
R
145 mil
Russia
S
60.0 mil
South Africa
T
85.5 mil
Turkey
U
342 mil
United States
V
98.4 mil
Vietnam
W
None
X
None
Y
34.0 mil
Yemen
Z
20.2 mil
Zambia
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Level 81
Nov 3, 2013
1:56 left.
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Level 58
Nov 5, 2013
The only country that I could find that has "THE" as the official name of the country is "The Gambia". I believe there may be one other but all the rest are just the way we say the name of that country like The Netherland, The Bahama, The USA, etc.
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Level 82
Nov 11, 2013
Okay. And what about The People's Republic of China?
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Level 56
Mar 23, 2015
Well, when the actual name of the country is 中华人民共和国, doesn't it seem a little silly to wonder about the "The" at the beginning?
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Level 82
Apr 27, 2015
I'm not wondering about the The, I'm wondering about the People's.
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Level 71
May 24, 2016
I have a great idea........... let us call it China!
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Level 46
Dec 12, 2017
Why is this comment string on this comment...?? What does "the" being in country names have to do with "1:56 remaining???"
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Level 54
Sep 23, 2018
the bahamas
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Level 67
Nov 16, 2019
Yeah articles are usually ignored.
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Level 64
Jan 16, 2020
Most countries have "the" in their official names.
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Level 82
Jul 6, 2020
stu.. actually they don't. We just add it in.
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Level 29
Jul 30, 2020
What has porcelain got to do with anything. You mean (Chinese Characters)
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Level 48
Nov 27, 2021
The Bahamas and The Gambia are the only countries that REQUIRE the indefinite article (otherwise known as "The") The rest, well, we add it in,
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Level 68
Dec 22, 2013
Missed Haiti Kenya Laos and Turkey
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Level 51
Dec 28, 2013
Good one
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Level 44
Mar 2, 2014
... I missed France....
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Level 79
Apr 23, 2014
WOW...got 21 and missed France & Argentina. Never even thought about DRC.
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Level 26
May 15, 2014
missed nigeria, agreed, more time needed.
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Level 37
Jul 30, 2014
I'm floored that Yemen has 24,000,000 people.
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Level 22
Sep 30, 2016
Same, didn't think it would have roughly the same as Australia.
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Level 62
Dec 21, 2022
Really explains why they're always having famines, when Australia has 31 million hectares of arable land and Yemen has just over one million
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Level 27
Dec 24, 2014
Egypt has at least 10 million more people than ethiopia
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Level 71
Nov 25, 2016
Ethiopia has at least 16 million (16,000,000) more than Egypt.
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Level 62
Jun 24, 2015
y u no aksept Kanada?!
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Level 68
Sep 17, 2016
wot lankwich u speeck?
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Level 70
Sep 18, 2019
Probably Kannada?
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Level 59
Oct 21, 2022
That's German lol
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Level 56
Jul 6, 2015
I got them all...except for 'U'. After hundreds of quizzes, I'm sure I've never missed one that 95% got right. Oh the humanity.
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Level 37
Nov 1, 2015
haha when I saw the population it blew Uzbekistan, Uruguay and Ukraine out of the water and then was stumped, then felt like an idiot USA USA haha
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Level 76
Jul 6, 2015
When did China's flag get a great big C in the middle of it?
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Level 22
Sep 30, 2016
To make it even more obvious.
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Level 29
Jul 30, 2020
Well what does that stand for in England
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Level 21
Jul 6, 2015
Got all except for T. I tried Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Thailand
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Level 82
Jul 6, 2015
You thought East Timor might have more people than Thailand?
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Level 68
Sep 17, 2016
Good point!
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Level 66
Jul 6, 2015
Only missed Laos. I tried Libya, Liberia, Lesotho (even if it's small), Latvia and Lithuania.
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Level 65
Jul 7, 2015
Fun Quiz!
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Level 59
Dec 19, 2015
Am a complete idiot, got 18 after 3 tries, goodnight!
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Level 67
May 26, 2016
19/24 Not too bad.
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Level 70
Jun 5, 2016
Missed only Laos and Haiti. I thought for sure Hungary would be the H winner.
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Level 41
Jul 22, 2016
Managed it with plenty of time to spare which was suprising thought it would have been trickier
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Level 60
Nov 26, 2016
Why give us DRC? Is it to stop complaints that DRC shouldn't count as a country beginning with D? Then to keep it consistent, you should give us DRC as an answer on this quiz: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/22850/largest-countries-by-letter, on this quiz: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/28954/southernmost-countries-a-z and on this quiz: http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/28954/border-countries-a-z
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Level ∞
Nov 26, 2016
Yeah, we'll probably change those quizzes too when we get around to it.
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Level 77
Nov 30, 2016
It may just be me but I hate it when some answers are filled in for us. Let us guess it or not but at least we've had the opportunity to give it a shot. And for those who would complain, they're going to complain anyway, so don't coddle them. Besides, the Countries of the World Quiz gives us the accepted common names used on JetPunk for every country so no one can claim to be surprised. Anyone unable to get the answer for D just hasn't been paying attention!
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Level 82
Mar 16, 2018
I can see Eric's point but I think it's better to leave it filled in.
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Level 77
Nov 27, 2016
53 seconds time left over, no idea if there was any added or not. I don't think you should have time to go over all countries and continents in your head, the idea is to *know* which ones are big, not to try all possible countries. With too much time it reduces all country quizzes to the same thing: list countries and hope you hit the right answers.
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Level 67
Nov 30, 2016
Same here, sillie. Got them all with 53 seconds to spare, and to me it means that if you do know the populous countries, you'll have more than plenty of time within the current 4:00 minutes time frame.
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Level 38
Dec 1, 2016
2:44 left
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Level 21
Dec 2, 2016
2:51 LEFT!
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Level 58
Dec 22, 2016
Laos beat Libya ?
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Level 31
May 28, 2017
Didn't get Vietnam because I spelt it 'Veitnam'

Also guessed Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Kuwait. Not realising Kenya is the answer.

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Level 16
Aug 11, 2017
100% with 2:36 remaining on my first try! :D
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Level 42
Jan 11, 2018
Tried Vanuatu, Vatican, and Vietnam... I'm stupid
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Level 25
Mar 16, 2018
Germany!! Amazing quiz.
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Level 11
Jun 1, 2018
3.14 left first try.
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Level 32
Jan 31, 2019
don't know why time ran out before I thought of France, but not before I thought of Fiji
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Level 33
Apr 12, 2019
This is so wrong! The United States is in the T section, never U. You clearly skipped some English lessons...And ruined my score because of that.
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Level ∞
Jul 16, 2019
Oh yeah, well you skipped some lessons on not being a jerk.
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Level 67
Sep 18, 2019
The Jerk Store called, and they're running outta you!
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Level 70
Sep 18, 2019
Is this sarcasm?
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Level 67
Sep 18, 2019
I think pretty much every system of categorization I have ever seen in English, whether it be encyclopedia entries or artists in a record store, omits "The" when alphabetizing.
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Level 40
Jul 22, 2019
Oh god. (oof) I just made this quiz in a diff way. Idk if i’m allowed to post it now xD
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Level 40
Jul 22, 2019
I still did decently BAD. But I only missed like 4 it’s okay. Edit: exactly double than four :P
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Level 49
Sep 18, 2019
Almost didn't get Kenya.
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Level 67
Sep 18, 2019
What's Libya's deal? Egypt next door has 100 million people. Algeria next door has 40 million people. Even relatively tiny Tunisia has like ten million. Not even seven million in Libya? What gives?
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Level 43
Oct 11, 2019
0:33 left. It took me a minute to think of Mexico.
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Level 44
Feb 19, 2020
It always surprises me how small Zimbabwe’s population is
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Level 42
Apr 21, 2020
What surprised me most was that Laos has more people than Libya.
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Level 82
Jul 6, 2020
I was surprised that more people guessed Laos than South Africa.
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Level 24
Jul 24, 2020
Didn't guess South Africa because lots of countries start with S, and this one didn't cross my mind in time. Where as Vietnam was easy to find (and so were India and China), so trying countries in this region (such as Laos) came naturally
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Level 53
Jul 29, 2020
I think that DRC should be an answer. Quizmaster, what is your reasoning to why it is not?
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Level 63
Dec 8, 2022
It sometimes is known as Congo, so I guess Quizmaster wanted to avoid argument over that
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Level 35
Jul 29, 2020
oh my god i got all of them except for N... i tried nepal, new zealand, netherlands, nicaragua and then literally at the last second i thought "OH MY GOD NIGERIA"
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Level 18
Aug 12, 2020
nice quiz
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Level 47
Aug 26, 2020
All but 'S'
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Level 37
Oct 7, 2020
Who the hell expected that Haiti has more population than Hungary??
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Level 36
Dec 4, 2020
I began with Qatar ,Oman and Yemen because they are the onlly countries that start with "O","Q" and "Y"
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Level 71
Feb 10, 2021
Russia ... *face palm*
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Level 75
Feb 10, 2021
Only got stuck on South Africa - I thought Spain had roughly the same population as UK/France.
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Level 67
May 8, 2021
Spain has around the same population as Argentina, lower than the UK, France, and Italy.
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Level 24
Feb 11, 2021
LOL I forgot the United States..
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Level 28
Feb 15, 2021
2:40

5/23

(i got bored. i couldve gotten more but i didnt want to)

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Level 69
Feb 18, 2021
These A-Z country quizzes have a rather nice property - three guaranteed answers in Oman, Qatar and Yemen. They're even really close together geographically! Here, I typed them before reflecting on the topic at all.
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Level 66
Mar 24, 2021
All I missed was Turkey
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Level 52
Jan 8, 2022
HOW DID I MISS RUSSIA?!?!?!?!?
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Level 36
Mar 29, 2022
I only missed Laos. I had thought & typed the other counties that start with the letter "L" but I just couldn't find the answer
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Level 22
Jun 7, 2022
You say there isn’t a country beginning with W? What about Wales?
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Level 63
Dec 8, 2022
Wales is not one of the 196 countries recognized on this website. In fact, it's not really a country at all.
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Level 49
Aug 31, 2022
Almost forgot the U.S.
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Level 64
Oct 17, 2022
Bangladesh now beats Brazil in population
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Level ∞
Nov 2, 2022
Not even close. Perhaps you are thinking of Pakistan, which recently passed Brazil.
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Level 17
Dec 5, 2022
I forgot germany
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Level 58
Dec 8, 2022
fun
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Level 34
Dec 18, 2022
I wrote everything accept Germany bruh Im soo dumb
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Level 46
Jan 6, 2023
Could not get Vietnam.. also tried every country starting with U before the USA even ran across my mind
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Level 42
Jan 24, 2023
I got everything but Kenya Japan, South Africa, and Turkey. i feel so dumb
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Level 68
Feb 15, 2023
Is the US really already at 342? I thought it's more about 335...

Also Pakistan at 238??? Since when?

Even crazier than Nigeria.

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Level 60
Feb 19, 2023
23/23 wonderful
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Level 60
Oct 3, 2023
The answer for "A" will likely change soon. Algeria and Angola are within 100000 currently.
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Level 45
Oct 15, 2023
Got South Africa with only couple seconds to spare.
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Level 54
Feb 23, 2024
India is more populous than china now
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Level 54
Feb 23, 2024
India is more populous than china now