Azerbaijan was in European USSR prior to it's break up in 1991. It has not moved and therefore is in Europe along with the Baltic states, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia (and Russia of course).
If the only reason you think Azerbaijan is in Europe is because it was part of the USSR before, then you will be misled due to outdated information. The current boundary has changed since then and is now along the Northern border of Azerbaijan, which means the country is in Asia. Here's another image to help clarify [LINK]. Azerbaijan is the dark blue intercontinental state, but clearly shown to be in Asia. Here's another article [LINK]. If you still don't trust Wikipedia, here's the CIA website for you. [LINK].
If you want to convince me or anyone else that Azerbaijan is in Europe, you have to do a better job than "It was in the USSR before".
Ct: "Azerbaijan is dark blue but clearly shown to be in Asia".... maybe you should take a look at the map key dude. Dark blue means "transcontinental state"
The way we learned it in school here in Europe, the eastern European border is purely geographical. It's formed by the Bosporus in Istanbul, The Caucasus, the Ural mountain range and the Ural river.
So geographically speaking parts of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Kazakhstan are as European as Iceland. He isn't as wrong as you guys all make him out to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Europe
Azerbaijan is classed as UEFA (European Football Governing Body) so perhaps that confused you.....same with Israel, Kazakhstan (and I think a few others)....they had a dispute with the AFC so UEFA let them in....
Yeah Azerbaijan and all the other countries in that area are considered in Europe when it suits, like for the Eurovision, but geographically it is in Asia.
I'll concede the point of them being the same landmass, but the acknowledged and conventional 'border' dividing it into 2 continents is a convenient way to divide up the countries. Arguing about it is asinine, especially since jetpunk as a whole consistently groups countries by the convention CtG526 referenced above.
The border might be conventional, that doesn't mean it is "acknowledged." Acknowledged by who? You can look at different maps and see different countries included in Europe depending on the map. It's not quite as fuzzy as "the Middle East," but it's not as definite as you claim, plats. I mean check this out, which clearly indicates it's a complete f'ing mess and even then, if you go by the "most common" most recently used convention, take a look, the border passes right through Azerbaijan making it both European and Asian. Georgia's in the same boat.
Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey.... and the special case of Cyprus where nobody really knows.... I think that's it, isn't it? Would be a short quiz.
Actually I guess there's France, too, technically. And Spain sort of. Many others if you include overseas territories.
I apologize for not making my meaning clearer--I did not mean to state that the actual situation of countries and cultural discrepancies of continental definitions was not complex, but merely that the convention used in this context, although arguably arbitrary, is not ambiguous. 'Acknowledged' in my comment simply meant acknowledged by the convention of JetPunk.
Egypt is also transcontinental. Panama could be, depending on where you draw the border. So could Indonesia if you consider New Guinea to be part of the Australian continent.
No, is in Asia. Also Kazakhstan, Cyprus is in Asia. Russia, Turkey (Edirne, Istanbul in Europe) and Greece (Rodos in Asia) is in both continents. Capitol of Panama is in South America, but country is in both Americas. Egypt is in two continents.
I kinda feel that this entire argument stems from the fact that by any sensible definition Asia and Europe are not distinct continents, but parts of a single super-continent. If we must divide them, then I would say the balance of sources place it in Asia. And if we consider the Caucasus to be the Europe-Asia divide (as overwhelmingly is the case), then Azerbaijan, lies distinctly to the south of the spine of that mountain range, meaning it is in Asia. But again, it's all fairly arbitrary anyway - only ancient and outdated custom divides Europe from Asia, they are not in any physical sense separate continents.
Azerbaijan is indeed in Asia.
Great quiz. Missed Venezuela!! Don't know how! And the Bosnia one.. Only because I never put the last part when I do the World quiz, it always just accepts Bosnia.
Nah, read the instructions: we're in a brave new world where countries can place their capital (letters) where-ever they want, and Swaziland is now eSwatini.
There were actually times when for a second I thought v's were z's .. I put Cote Divoire in... and I put Latvia.. stuff like that... :P ... Not sure why.. they don't really look similar..
I did this too. I guess "z" is (almost) as uncommon a letter as "v", so I just saw them as interchangeable in my mind for a while there! And they're both pointy, angular letters.
I've been away from this site for so long that I almost didn't perfect my own quiz ;-;
I'm sure I couldn't even get any on my colors ones, though. I just looked up most of those. xD
If you're doing it multiple times, of course you're going to finish it with time to spare. Some people are doing it for the first time and we aren't all as wonderful as you are.
My god you people are so insecure. I'm not bragging! I couldn't care less about impressing anonymous-jetpunk-user-1 or anonymous-jetpunk-user-2; I'm leaving feedback for the quiz author. And yes my times on quizzes I take multiple times usually improve when I take them again but in this case it was 2 years later. Plenty of time in that interval to forget the answers.
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I nearly missed Bosnia, despite the fact that I am Herzegovinian. We spell it Hercegovina and no one ever uses the full name in English. Felt like an idiot when I remembered.
The norwegian way of writing Uzbekistan and Kygyzstan is "Usbekistan, and Kirigisistan" annoying that thats whats gonna make me not complete this quiz xD
There's pretty much a standard for geography quizzes on this site about which abbreviated versions are accepted. Just like you can leave off the "and Nevis" for "St. Kitts and Nevis," for example. If they changed it for this quiz specifically, it would probably cause more people to screw up than would be worth the trouble.
I'm so used to just typing "Bosnia" that I forgot the full name is actually "Bosnia and Herzegovina." I ended up opening a new tab with Countries of the World and doing all of Europe so I could look through ti and see which Z country I had missed.
My brain went basically numb for the first part of the quiz. I tried typing in countries that had a 'z' in their name AND countries with a 'v' in their name. I was at first confused why countries like Maldives and Slovakia weren't being taken and then realized my mistake half-way through.
To those of you who think Azerbaijan is in Europe, Turkey is closer to Europe than Azerbaijan and 95% of it is in Asia. Only once you cross the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul will you be in Europe. get rekt
Here we go again! Now, instead of Cyprus, we're arguing about Azerbaijan. Wouldn't it be easier for everyone if the cartographers
were to just re-map the world and put "Europe" where it rightfully belongs, in Asia? (or make Asia part of Europe; I don't care which,
as it puts an end to these interminable arguments).
Weird how there are three people that cant distinguish v's from z's is that a regional thing? For one person it is odd, but for three, what are the odds... that doesnt seem like a coincidence (it is not like they sound alike. Or that it is 3 in a million)
I think trimming two minutes off the quiz would work; I spent almost a minute thinking "Former UK colony in central america...what is it...I know it's the other B answer for the Americas" and still ended with 3:31 left
I didn't like the name change, and I was hoping it wouldn't stick. Keep in mind that Eswatini is one of the least free democratic countries on Earth. In fact, it is one of the few remaining absolute monarchies. So I really don't care if the king changes the name. But if people use the new name (and it seems like they are) then it gains legitimacy. This is the same reason I switched from Burma to Myanmar a couple years back.
By the way, official UN names are often really silly. Witness "Islamic Republic of Iran", "Plurinational State of Bolivia", or "Viet Nam". It makes dealing with UN data a pain in the butt sometimes.
I could NOT think of venezuela.. like it had vanished from existence, I must ve gone through all of the americas like 8-12 times... could not find what was missing :/
If the only reason you think Azerbaijan is in Europe is because it was part of the USSR before, then you will be misled due to outdated information. The current boundary has changed since then and is now along the Northern border of Azerbaijan, which means the country is in Asia. Here's another image to help clarify [LINK]. Azerbaijan is the dark blue intercontinental state, but clearly shown to be in Asia. Here's another article [LINK]. If you still don't trust Wikipedia, here's the CIA website for you. [LINK].
If you want to convince me or anyone else that Azerbaijan is in Europe, you have to do a better job than "It was in the USSR before".
Actually I guess there's France, too, technically. And Spain sort of. Many others if you include overseas territories.
Considering there are 196 countries though, this actually isn't a lot. There's a reason I didn't make a "Countries with M" quiz. :P