That quiz requires less than answering all 196 countries though because, for example, "USA" gets 85/1,121 answers and so forth. So this one definitely kicks that one. I don't know how many duplicates work on this quiz, but obviously it's not a lot.
There are several ways to split up Iceland... this one apparently decided to use the municipalities, but there are regions and constituencies, which are fewer in number but do not directly correspond to government identities.
Actually, the first-level subdivisions in England are the counties. England doesn't get administered at all as a single entity - it's covered first by the UK, then by the counties. (Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales all have their own parliaments, so I'd agree that those three countries are indeed fist-level subdivisions.)
Head-borough-something. Can't think of a cognate for the last bit.
Edit: Turns out, after doing some digging, the closest related english word is swath(e).
I would not have come up with that last one without some research, English isn't my first language so it wasn't one of the first things I thought about. (my initial thought was more; things meaning to separate. Many words having to do with splitting and cutting ultimately come from the same root. Though usually they have an sk sound at the beginning (though in English not always)
Also thought of dividing in two, zweiteilen/zweiteilung (German), tweedeling (Dutch), the first part sounding close. But obviously the wrong route :)
Amazing quiz! I imagine this took a while to make. I'd love some more consistency in which languages are accepted though, and stuff like north vs northern etc. Maybe try to accept both the local names and english names where applicable? It seems like only the English names are accepted in some places and only the local one in others. And it's a bit frustrating when some places require you to type "north something" and others "northern something" (same with all the other points of compass). Might be good to also accept e.g. Belgrade and Beograd for City of Belgrade. Thanks again for the quiz!
This already was a quiz I regularly came back to the last few months. Was a bit surprised when I went back to it today and saw a different map. A lot of new answers and some municipalities are very tiny, but you still managed to make a very clear map, well done.
There were some weird type-ins there. In particularly for Denmark, parts of Jutland just "syd" and "nor" were enough. And for Finland in Finnish as well, cut off at weird places.
In Macedonia (and I guess Latvia) and e.g. also Slovenia these are simply municipalities, not much different than in other countries, but small countries don't really need an intermediate division between national and local level. Or to be precise, there usually is, but only for specific purposes (statistics, courts etc), not with the whole government apparatus.
I wasn't given Faroe Islands because it accepted after Faro - which, of course, is in Portugal. And because it is difficult to see where a new green blob (or rather pixel) appears, I thought I must have got Faroe and went on with other areas. Bummer!. >(
I managed to get 10 from Slovenia....only because my girlfriend is from Slovenia. Still she's going to be disappointed that I only got 10, recognised about another 10 when I saw the answers.
yep, a Finnish friend of mine said that the "Helsinki-Uusimaa Region" is only called "Uusimaa", which I double checked and removed Helsinki from the quiz
Type-ins are not working for words with 'ð' -- e.g. blaskogabyggo is not working for bláskógabyggð and borgarbyggo is not working for borgarbyggð. Thanks!
The letter for "ð" is not "o", but it is "d" (the uppercase version of ð is Ð), but with people being confused (your comment) of which letter it is, I accepted so that any letter can be accepted for it (the same thing I did with the letter "Þ", which is the letters "th")
This is not really interesting. I don't like quizzes with less than ten answers, but this is the opposite excess. Statistical regions would be a more relevant choice for unitary countries like Slovenia, North Macedonia and Latvia.
Excuse me? Not interesting? This is one of the largest map quizzes on the site, and the largest featured quiz. IAB spent over a month making this. It's one of the hardest quizzes. And you say it's not interesting?? What the hell is wrong with you?
Harder is not better. Sorry but I consider the municipalities of Slovenia as totally useless knowledge. Even for Slovenians it's useless to know them all. Do you think I know all the communes of Belgium? I don't. There are much more interesting things to study. What's wrong with me may be that I have varied interests and tastes and that I don't find funny to memorize tens of thousands of insignificant locations. So yes, the design may be nice and praiseworthy, but I think it's not an interesting list to know.
Who said you have to learn all of them? That's not the purpose of this quiz. I don't think anybody is ever gonna get all the answers without cheating. The purpose of this quiz is to see how many you can get, which I personally find fun and interesting. I also have varied interests and tastes.
If you took the quiz Untimed then it wouldn't register as you completing it, I think. But even if you took it untimed it should still show your best score in the brown box that comes up when you finish or give up.
Good quiz! It was quite odd, that Päijät-Häme didn't work for one finnish subdivision, when almost in every other subdivisions finnish names for them worked. I din't know the english name of that region, before i checked it after the quiz.
Tuzi became a municipality in 2018, however, I can't really find any maps that show it as a different municipality to use as a source, Sorry. (Tuzi is still an answer though)
Fck half an hour in, I accidentaly clicked give up.. (I have had that happen a few times recently but on this one it is extremely !!! Annoying. With scrolling somehow Im not in the typing box anymore so have to click it to start typing again, and apparently (on tablet) I often miss..
well I was at 101, I think in the 2nd half hour maybe I would ve gotten 20 more. Gonna take a break mow and try later without looking at the answers (will take a peek at the average)
The fact that the UK accounted for only 4 answers here really screwed me over. If all the separate counties were included I could’ve got about 100 more
The UK actually counted for 8 answers, There's also the Crown Dependencies of Isle of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey and the Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
Since this quiz only includes inhabited subdivisions, I went looking for the least populated one, and so far my best offer is Árneshreppur, population 43, which 1% of quizzers (incredibly) have heard of and can spell correctly.
A lot ending in -hreppur (meaning county I believe) so I guess you would only have to remember Árnes. And if you are from (or have been to) Iceland that is not to hard I guess. And Arne is also not an uncommon first name in scandinavia, that would help. (árn means eagle I think)
Re the UK; "The nearby Isle of Man, Bailiwick of Guernsey and Bailiwick of Jersey are NOT PART of the UK, being Crown dependencies with the British Government responsible for defence and international representation"
I officially broke 900! Only Iceland and Slovenia left. I don't know which one to do next, Iceland's are hard to spell, and Slovenia from the sheer number of them. Maybe I'll settle with what I have.
Just to make it a bit easier and consistent, please do accept type-ins like "Western Bothnia" for "Västerbotten" in Sweden. Just like you accept "North", "Mid" and "South" for the Danish regions.
I know you've probably heard this a lot, but is there any way to shorten some answers? This would only be for countries with many regions, though. I had the regions for Iceland, Latvia, Russia, and Slovenia in a notes document, and even using copy and paste it took 15+ minutes to do all of them! This obviously makes it very hard to get even close to 100%, which is my ultimate goal. I think one possible short-cut is scrapping the 'reppur' for iceland and replacing it with 'r' or similar. Please take my ideas into consideraton.
"The county of Skeiða and Gnúpverja" sound less scary allready doesnt it? Don't know what the individual names mean though.
It is hard to imagine someone not being familiar AT ALL with english words, but just try; "The United states of America" would seem like a mouthfull wouldnt it?
WTH? a country made up of 5 words?? couldnt they just pick one? (Yes I know, UK has more, but many people, outside of jetpunk I mean, wouldn't know or be able to reproduce the entire thing)
It is all a matter of perspective :)
If you have trouble imagining, here is some help, using different letters "Yjr Imoyrf dysyrd pg Snrtovs" (All letters moved one position sideways on the keyboard)
I do love Icelandic and the way some new words can be cleverly created (like tölva for computer).
But I do have trouble with how letters are sometimes pronounced, especially the "g" depending on its position, and some combinations like "fnd". I also felt very stupid the first time I heard Keflavík with the correct pronunciation.
Some typeins I missed this time: Athos or Mt Athos for Mount Athos, Medjimurje (đ=dj in Croatian when you don't have the letter, like oe/ue/ae in German)
Hi IAB, I made a spin-off of this quiz which focuses only on the subdivisions which are by the sea. It is a Map Click kind of quiz instead, and I also added the european part of Turkey. Anyways, the quiz is here in case you want to see it (it's my first map lol). Hope you don't mind, and thank you!
Would I be allowed to copy your quiz? I've had an idea with this SVG (All First-Level Subdivisions of Europe by second-largest city (or by second to fifth largest cities, haven't decided yet)), so I wanted to ask if I would be allowed to copy this quiz.
Wow!
Very, very interesting quiz anyway.
Although maybe consider to accept Central Bohemia, Silesia etc without the last n?
Edit: Turns out, after doing some digging, the closest related english word is swath(e).
I would not have come up with that last one without some research, English isn't my first language so it wasn't one of the first things I thought about. (my initial thought was more; things meaning to separate. Many words having to do with splitting and cutting ultimately come from the same root. Though usually they have an sk sound at the beginning (though in English not always)
Also thought of dividing in two, zweiteilen/zweiteilung (German), tweedeling (Dutch), the first part sounding close. But obviously the wrong route :)
Only minor quibble - It would be nice to have an arrow to indicate where the insets belong.
Some things have changed because of the last update, changes include:
The number of answers changed from 619 to 1153
- all hyphenated ones should accept either first or second part
- "detailed locations" can be dropped: Cerklje, Črna, Kostanjevica, Lovrenc, Miklavž, Ribnica, Radlje, Ravne, Rečica, Selnica, Središče, Sveti Jurij, Sveti Andraž, Sveta Trojica, Šmarje, Šmartno, Zagorje
- all sveti/sveta can be abbreviated as "sv"
- (Gornja) Radgona, Rogaška (Slatina), Sobota, Gorica, Konjice, Lašče
I'll come back another day.
Fixed.
After some practice I'm at 902 as of today. I know all countries fully except for Latvia, Iceland, North Macedonia and Moldova...
Slovenia was a pain in the ass to learn though.
well I was at 101, I think in the 2nd half hour maybe I would ve gotten 20 more. Gonna take a break mow and try later without looking at the answers (will take a peek at the average)
- They aren't independent countries.
- They exist so it wouldn't make sense to not include them.
- The closest country (politically) is the United Kingdom.
The same can be said to the Faroe Islands to Denmark.Just to make it a bit easier and consistent, please do accept type-ins like "Western Bothnia" for "Västerbotten" in Sweden. Just like you accept "North", "Mid" and "South" for the Danish regions.
If so, my tag is Victor#9829
That is basically the only easy way to contact me.
And when I drop the s I get all sorts of tools, mainly hot air guns (to strip paint) but also electric saws (mainly for your hedges)
WTF Iceland?
It is hard to imagine someone not being familiar AT ALL with english words, but just try; "The United states of America" would seem like a mouthfull wouldnt it?
WTH? a country made up of 5 words?? couldnt they just pick one? (Yes I know, UK has more, but many people, outside of jetpunk I mean, wouldn't know or be able to reproduce the entire thing)
It is all a matter of perspective :)
If you have trouble imagining, here is some help, using different letters "Yjr Imoyrf dysyrd pg Snrtovs" (All letters moved one position sideways on the keyboard)
But I do have trouble with how letters are sometimes pronounced, especially the "g" depending on its position, and some combinations like "fnd". I also felt very stupid the first time I heard Keflavík with the correct pronunciation.
Oh, and Cutonomous republic of Crimea? :P
My record is now 615 with 26 countries of which I know all the provinces, so I can brag around when I meet people from there.
Seriously, it's interfering with my thesis and life :O
Can you please accept Caporetto(Kobarid), Postumia(Postojna), Capodistria(Koper), Grigioni(Grisons), San Gallo(St. Gallen), Zara(Zadar)?
Slovenia: yes
I think I found two subdivisions that incorrectly trigger multiple areas.
1. Soroca in Moldova. It turns Soroca green as well as Soldanesti.
2. Pomoravlje in Serbia. It turns Pomoravlje green as well as Podunavlje.