Country Acronyms

USA and GB should be familiar to everyone, but what do the rest of these acronyms stand for?

Yellow = countries that no longer exist.

Green = partially recognized countries.

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Last updated: August 21, 2012

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Acronym	Geographical area	Answer
ARE	Africa	Arab Republic of Egypt
BiH	Europe	Bosna i Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
CAR	Africa	Central African Republic
CH	Europe	Confederazione Helvetica (Switzerland)
DPRK	Asia	Democratic People's Republic of Korea
DRC	Africa	Democratic Republic of the Congo
FYROM	Europe	Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia
GB	Europe	Great Britain
IRI	Middle East	Islamic Republic of Iran
KSA	Middle East	Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
LPDR	Asia	Lao People's Democratic Republic
PNG	Asia	Papua New Guinea
PRC	Asia	People's Republic of China
ROK	Asia	Republic of Korea
RSA	Africa	Republic of South Africa
UAE	Middle East	United Arab Emirates
UK	Europe	United Kingdom
USA	North America	United States of America
FRG	Europe	Federal Republic of Germany
GDR	Europe	German Democratic Republic
PDRY	Middle East	People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
SFRY	Europe	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
USSR	Europe/Asia	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
YAR	Middle East	Yemen Arab Republic
ROC	Asia	Republic of China (Taiwan)
SADR	Africa	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Level 82

Mar 30, 2013

Very cool quiz! :D Though... I'm disappointed it makes redundant some answers from an international acronyms quiz I was putting together myself, no worries. I'll just come up with different questions on my own quiz.

Level 82

Mar 30, 2013

and sometimes I get annoyed that all the quizzes on this site seem to accept certain acronyms like USA, UK, and UAE but never certain others like ROK, DPRK, and KSA. I've lived in South Korea and Saudi Arabia so I'm used to referring to them by these acronyms even if others aren't...

Level 66

Mar 17, 2017

Great Quiz! I was severely disappointed at myself when i typed DRC for the answer for DRC.

Level 61

Nov 14, 2017

Awesome quiz! Beat me to the idea. I do have to ask aren't Great Britain and United Kingdom the same thing? Correct me if I am wrong =)

Level 28

Aug 11, 2018

Well, Great Britain is the island of mainland England, Scotland and Wales, not including Northern Ireland, some Scottish islands and some Channel Islands. So, not really. In a way, I think KGB should be accepted as a nation in the past: Kingdom of Great Britain (the UK before Ireland joined). And, therefore, GB shouldn't be on there.

Edit: Maybe I just want KGB as an answer because I live in Britain. But I think GB is not an answer.

Level 37

Nov 2, 2018

I thought that Papua New Guinea was in Oceania, not Asia.

Level 57

Nov 2, 2018

Nice observation - fixed.