Countries of the World for Experts - without any order

How many countries can you name? As you answer, no map will be filled in.
Use the common, English name. Has to be a sovereign nation, so Scotland and England don't count, etc..
Further difficulty: The answers neither are sorted by alphabet nor by continent.
Quiz by MarcoReus
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Last updated: August 4, 2020
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First submittedSeptember 11, 2016
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Answer
Tajikistan
Gambia
Gabon
Cape Verde
Tonga
Solomon Islands
Samoa
São Tomé and Príncipe
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahrain
United Kingdom
Malawi
Mauritania
Mexico
India
Maldives
Benin
Burkina Faso
Federated States of Micronesia
Senegal
Tuvalu
Kyrgyzstan
Sierra Leone
Swaziland
San Marino
Eritrea
Cameroon
Barbados
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Mozambique
Saint Lucia
Brunei
Bhutan
Seychelles
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Lebanon
Namibia
Moldova
Liberia
East Timor
Monaco
Kuwait
Rwanda
Malta
El Salvador
Kosovo
Uganda
Montenegro
Answer
Azerbaijan
Central African Republic
Liechtenstein
Cote d'Ivoire
Italy
Fiji
Cyprus
Singapore
Armenia
North Macedonia
Iran
Andorra
Germany
Qatar
Botswana
Angola
Guyana
Nicaragua
Turkmenistan
Comoros
Ecuador
Ghana
Bulgaria
Slovenia
Belize
Argentina
Norway
Georgia
Equatorial Guinea
Myanmar
Zambia
South Sudan
Vatican City
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Luxembourg
Dominican Republic
Serbia
Tunisia
Belarus
Costa Rica
United States
Taiwan
Bangladesh
Guinea
Honduras
Zimbabwe
Guatemala
Uzbekistan
Cambodia
Answer
Bahamas
Vanuatu
Malaysia
Sri Lanka
Brazil
Jordan
Nepal
Saudi Arabia
Tanzania
Albania
Grenada
Nauru
Russia
Chad
Laos
Mali
Suriname
Somalia
Djibouti
Oman
Marshall Islands
Kiribati
Croatia
Kenya
Dominica
Papua New Guinea
United Arab Emirates
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Haiti
Latvia
Yemen
Estonia
Jamaica
Lithuania
Slovakia
Czech Republic
Romania
Libya
Nigeria
Peru
Hungary
Venezuela
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Switzerland
Syria
Algeria
Israel
Mauritius
Paraguay
Answer
Panama
Philippines
Sudan
Palau
Bolivia
Vietnam
Lesotho
Afghanistan
Morocco
Spain
Niger
Kazakhstan
Greece
Ukraine
Thailand
Canada
Indonesia
Netherlands
Colombia
Austria
Uruguay
Pakistan
Mongolia
Belgium
Ireland
Madagascar
Iraq
Poland
Ethiopia
Turkey
New Zealand
Denmark
Finland
North Korea
France
South Korea
Cuba
Egypt
Sweden
Portugal
South Africa
Chile
Iceland
Japan
Burundi
Australia
Republic of the Congo
China
Guinea-Bissau
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Level 95
Sep 11, 2016
It's hard to remember them all with no order to help - but this is enjoyable. I did it with 1:30 minutes remaining, so perhaps you could set it at 12 minutes? Or 10 minutes if you want to make it tougher.
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Level 40
Sep 11, 2016
Glad you like it! Okay, think I'll go with 12 minutes first.
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Level 56
Oct 2, 2016
Great quiz but longer time would be preferable since its tougher than the one with the map (it has 15 minutes)
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Level 40
Oct 2, 2016
Thank you. Well, I think 12 minutes is fine due to the title "for experts" ;-) It's a challenge!
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Level 59
Nov 27, 2016
I had 12 left to get before time ran out.
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Level 71
Jan 28, 2017
11 left when the bell rang. Good quiz, only my typing let me down.
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Level 61
Mar 16, 2017
Missed 6 of them. 4 of them I thought I had already typed in.
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Level 74
Jun 6, 2017
Czechia for Czech Republic.
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Level 67
Mar 28, 2022
I agree, FSM for Micronesia, DR for Dominican Republic as well.
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Level 71
Jul 27, 2022
DPRK, ROK, KSA, ROC, PRC, etc…
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Level 59
May 12, 2023
NZ, PNG
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Level 53
Aug 12, 2017
It did not accept alot of answers that are accepted on the normal countries of the world quiz like saint kitts instead of st kitts, kazakistan instead of kazakhstan, kyrgistan instead of kyrgyzstan, etc. and this kind of messed up my though process as I had to focus on spelling and forgot the list of countries i was going to type next, so could you fix that
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Level 40
Oct 1, 2018
Sorry for the late reply.

As mentioned before, I am not aware of the Type-Ins of the standard quiz on Countries of the World. But I think, it accepts too many different typings anyway, which fosters the learning of incorrect spellings.

My point is here that people who challenge an "expert quiz" should not only know the countries but also the correct english spelling. For my part, I am also not a native speaker (as you may have noticed) and just learned it by repeating the quizzes.

Anyway, thank you for your suggestions. I added most of them to the list, except for "Kazakistan", which I've never heard of and which according to Google is turkish language.

I hope you can enjoy it though :)

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Level 90
Oct 19, 2021
Thank you for holding people to standards, and helping them to learn.
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Level 56
May 19, 2022
Just because we like to make the time go by faster doesn't mean we don't know the countries
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Level 47
Mar 1, 2018
It's tough when you run out of countries lol.

I keep forgetting 1, usually Moldova or East Timor.

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Level 47
Mar 9, 2018
Finally got 196!
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Level 46
Mar 24, 2018
can u accept png for papua new guinea
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Level 40
Oct 1, 2018
Will now accept.
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Level 90
Apr 23, 2018
It would be nice of this quiz accepted the same type-ins as the Countries of the World quiz. And it needs to be featured and eligible for points.
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Level 40
Aug 15, 2018
I don't know about the exact spellings accepted in the normal quiz, so I cannot do it by myself unfortunately. But you are right, it would be nice!
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Level 56
Sep 28, 2018
Great quiz concept! It was a fun challenge without a map or having them listed in alphabetical order! Will have to second the type-in comments above though... in particular I typed Lichtenstein a handful of different ways (including the way I think it is correctly spelled!) and saw your revealed answer has an extra 'e' inserted in it. Mistake or lack of knowledge on my part?
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Level 40
Oct 1, 2018
Glad you liked it :)

Actually, it is spelled Liechtenstein. But I added Lichtenstein now anyway.

As mentioned above, I don't think that too many different accepted type-ins are helpful to learn the countries in a proper way.

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Level 38
Oct 11, 2018
Got them all with 1:54 left. I spent 4 minutes wondering what the last one was until I remembered Vatican City. Great quiz.
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Level 20
Oct 22, 2018
Could you make it so that Vatican be accepted instead of having to spell out Vatican City?

Same for Saint-Kitts instead of the long form?

This is common practice on most quizzes on here.

Great quiz though!

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Level 40
Jul 3, 2019
St Kitts was always accepted, which is common on here. But I'll add it.
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Level 58
Dec 5, 2018
Got it with 1:26 remaining. More difficult than it seems, amost forgot United Arab Emirates somehow!

Can you accept Vatican for Vatican City and eSwatini for Swaziland?

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Level 38
Dec 28, 2018
damn I guess only experts attempt this the average score is hella high.
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Level 69
Sep 14, 2019
Great quiz! You need to add North Macedonia as an acceptable answer now, though.
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Level 40
Jan 14, 2020
Thanks for your comment. I implemented it after your comment, but forgot to answer. :)
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Level 85
Nov 21, 2019
did it with 6:07 left
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Level 40
Jan 14, 2020
Well done!
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Level 49
Jan 2, 2020
Lmao I forgot all the easy ones. France, Portugal, Italy, Spain
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Level 32
Jan 14, 2020
Doesn't accept New Guinea. I'm not bothering with the quiz if you don't accept the common names for countries.
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Level 53
Mar 1, 2021
Papua New Guinea makes up half of the island of New Guinea, sharing it with Indonesia. That's like accepting 'Hispaniola' for Haiti.
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Level 32
Jan 22, 2020
Something wrong with this quiz. Wouldn't accept Equitorial Guinea or Bangledesh. I gave up after that.
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Level 40
Jan 22, 2020
You need to spell it correctly. :)
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Level 75
Oct 22, 2020
Concentrate on your football Marco! Dortmund need a kick in the bum! Good quiz tho.
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Level 71
Dec 8, 2020
Sweet quiz. my lazy spelling habits on the stan countries was exposed!
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Level 60
Feb 4, 2021
Tried to make myself a challenge and name countries in no order, every guess i made should not border or be in the same region to the prior country. At the end, i was missing Barbados and Saudi Arabia.
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Level 60
Feb 4, 2021
So i always went like Hoduras --> Moldova --> Laos --> Kenya --> paraguay--> estonia --> armenia --> Haiti --> Tuvalu --> Yemen --> Gambia etc
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Level 39
Mar 15, 2021
Should accept “Dr” for Dominican Republic and “Cabo Verde” for Cape Verde.
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Level 71
Jul 8, 2021
"NZ" for New Zealand, "PRC" for China, "ROC" for Taiwan, "ROK" for South Korea and "DPRK" for North Korea are missing aswell
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Level 56
Jul 12, 2021
"KSA" for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Level 69
Mar 20, 2021
great quiz! got all except italy and tanzania
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Level 40
Apr 10, 2021
So close :)
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Level 71
Jul 8, 2021
8:10 left
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Level 53
Sep 30, 2021
i got all except romania LOL
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Level 61
Oct 18, 2021
yo yall so bad i finished with 13 minutes left
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Level 59
Mar 19, 2023
I got 14 minutes left smh
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Level 62
Oct 27, 2021
I got all except for two... Spain and Switzerland! Not joking. This American can remember Maldives, Tuvalu, Burundi, etc and yet I can't remember two obvious European countries! :-)
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Level 72
Mar 7, 2022
It's rather arbitrary to not accept various abbreviations like DR and NZ but to accept UK... also I would seriously include Cabo Verde and Timor L'este as type-ins, especially considering Cote d'Ivoire.

Fight against the stupidity of translating half of the name into English but not the other half. Resist d'Ivoire Coast (Cote Ivory?). Thank you for coming to my TED talk about stupid name changes being stupid.

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Level 56
Apr 25, 2022
can you accept timorleste, nz, dr, and drc?
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Level 56
May 19, 2022
And rok and dprk
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Level 75
May 18, 2022
I only forgot three : Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. My mental map of the world failed me because I kept thinking I was missing some Pacific / Caribbean island nations, not the Caucasus :(
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Level 60
May 18, 2022
2:40 remaining! I got to 195 with 3:30 to go but I had to quickly whizz around and figure out who I missed... it was Panama
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Level 68
May 18, 2022
3:37 remaining! Great quiz, only for those who really master the world! lol
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Level 68
May 20, 2022
Well, I had one to go, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out which one I had missed. It was India.
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Level 57
Jul 27, 2022
5:24 left, guess speedrunning the normal one in ~5 mins helps ^^'
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Level 36
Jul 27, 2022
Why didn't you accept FSM & DR?
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Level 54
Jul 27, 2022
Great quiz.

But needs more type-ins. I saw in your other comments that you said that you wanted people to spell them correctly, but I mean the type ins like DR, FSM, ROK, DPRK, NZ etc;

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Level 20
Jul 30, 2022
Why is this quiz not eligible for points?
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Level 54
Jan 18, 2023
Forgot about Cuba and Jamaica and could not for the life of me figure out which ones I forgot... Oh well :)
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Level 59
Mar 19, 2023
You know it's for experts when Kyrgyzstan is guessed 80%....and that's the lowest.
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Level 66
Jul 27, 2023
I missed two countries: India and Malaysia.
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Level 59
Aug 2, 2023
Add the acronyms you can use in the normal countries of the world quiz-drc for democratic republic of the Congo, nz for New Zealand, dprk for North Korea, dr for Dominican Republic.
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Level 83
Aug 2, 2023
It's good and challenging, but type ins need help. If you know the type in, you know the country.
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Level 62
Aug 5, 2023
somehow the only one i forgot was turkey
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Level 53
Aug 10, 2023
Got all except for Barbados and Pakistan