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Countries of the World in a (Better) Spinning Globe

How many countries can y... wait, the map is spinning - and this time with more frames! Can you still name every country before the time runs out? As you answer, the map will be filled in.

Since the SVG map is extremely heavy, you may encounter problems as a mobile user. I recommend using a PC.
If the animation isn't showing properly, try using a different browser like Chrome.
Use the common, English name. Has to be a sovereign nation, so Scotland and England don't count, etc...
You can click the map to zoom
Animated using CSS. Maps created using Python. Map data from NaturalEarth.
Huge thanks to Stewart for uploading the SVG. This quiz would not be here were it not for him!
Quiz by Crem
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Last updated: November 13, 2020
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Europe
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Vatican City
Asia
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
China
Cyprus
East Timor
Georgia
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Oman
Pakistan
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkey
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen
Africa
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic
of the Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Republic of the Congo
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
North America
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
South America
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
 
Oceania
Australia
Federated States of
Micronesia
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
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Level 84
Nov 13, 2020
Wonderful!
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Level 68
Nov 13, 2020
Thank you!
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Level 65
Nov 13, 2020
Very good quiz! I just stopped for some reason... could've gotten perfect. Nominated!
+3
Level 65
Nov 13, 2020
Amazing job! One of the most creative designs on the site!
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Level 54
Nov 13, 2020
Better than one of the best quiz I've ever seen on JetPunk, is it possible?

Crem: Yes.

I don't know what to say, exept huge congratulations!!! And nominated, sure.

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Level 54
Jan 17, 2021
Ok, so, my new objective: give to this awesome quiz enough visibility to help it to become featured. First step: include it in a "Have you missed this awesome quizzes?". I'm almost sure it could get some nominations with it. I'll start the redaction of this blog! This quiz has to be known...!
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Level 68
Jan 17, 2021
Thank you, it's amazing to know that you like my quizzes this much. I don't know if this can get featured (it can look extremely glitchy at times, and the page is quite slow), but I guess we'll cross that bridge when (and if) we get to it. Thanks for the support!
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Level 54
Jan 20, 2021
The blog is published for 3 minuts, and this quiz has already won one nomination. I hope it will continue like that...!
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Level 54
Jan 21, 2021
Ok, so, one day after the release, of the blog, it gained 5 nominations (but only 3 takes, it’s funny and it means what it means about the nominater... but we thank them...!). I was hoping on 7, but 5 isn’t too bad (it’s actually the second most nominated quizzes presented in the blog since the release). But it’s not enough to become featured. To stay in the high of the nomination ranking page, it wouldn’t be great to you get around 40 nominations. With 40 nominations, you would just have to wait a few weeks to be in the top five, and then become featured. I have a kind of « extreme solution », but I have to wait around of a month to do it, so, waiting it, I’ll try to share this quiz to my French friends who use JetPunk. Maybe you could get 2 or 3 nominations, we will see...

But you will do it, it’s sure!

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Level 54
Feb 3, 2021
Pandora mentions your quiz in a blog! Many users seem supporting your cause with this quiz.

With it, the quiz should be at the top of the nominations leaderboard. I'm sure it's just a question of week, now.

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Level 68
Feb 3, 2021
Yep I saw that! The nominations for this quiz have been steadily rising for some time now, thanks for all the help!
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Level 54
Feb 4, 2021
You're welcome! I actually didn't do nothing, excepting writing something and posting it on JetPunk, that's all. If it can help a very creative user as you, I'm very happy!

Good luck for the end of this adventure (because now it's almost sure you will get a very deserved star!) and good luck for the next ones! I'm waiting for your next works (and the announcement of the new Pokémon region...!)!

Thank you for your awesome quizzes, and good luck and continuation!

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Level 40
Nov 13, 2020
This is one of the best quizzes I've ever seen. Amazing work on the svg/ coding here! I somehow got 196/196 on this.
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Level 20
Jan 18, 2021
Nominated :)
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Level 51
Jan 20, 2021
WOAH!
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Level 43
Jan 20, 2021
I’m spinning the button of nominate! So nice!
+1
Level 56
Jan 20, 2021
brilliant work once again, Crem!
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Level 68
Jan 20, 2021
This is just astonishing. If this doesn't get featured, then I'll quit JetPunk!
+1
Level 68
Mar 30, 2021
Oh my, it's too bad it can't get featured :( I won't quit...
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Level 67
Jan 25, 2021
It spins the wrong way.
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Level 68
Jan 25, 2021
You made a similar comment under the first version of the quiz, right? I'll reply the same way: you're obviously correct, but this orientation looks better to me.

Quizzes like this require some abstraction anyway, which is why the map projection is orthographic and not geostationary, and the map isn't tilted by ~23°.

If I had an easy way to let the user decide which way the globe spins, I would do it, but CSS is not that interactive.

I hope you still enjoyed the quiz!

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Level 65
Jan 27, 2021
Amazing SVG!
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Level 65
Jan 27, 2021
Nominated!
+1
Level 74
Jan 28, 2021
Fascinating quiz!!! Nominated!!!
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Level 65
Jan 28, 2021
I do indeed wish you made the first version private so you could have a more professional name on this.
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Level 38
Feb 2, 2021
whos here after Pandora's mention?
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Level 65
Feb 4, 2021
I think Russia is in 31 of the 36 frames...
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Level 54
Feb 5, 2021
Nice, what about adding missing dots feature
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Level 68
Feb 5, 2021
I forgot to say this under this quiz, but I am fairly sure it's not compatible with this quiz. I think syncing the dots with the rotation would require accessing the javascript of the feature, which is not possible (Stewart already made an exception by uploading such a heavy SVG)
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Level 39
Feb 16, 2021
Nominated!
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Level 66
Feb 19, 2021
Why are there so many "Countries of the World" quizzes going to get featured soon? Once you master Countries of the World, then there are all these quizzes that are basically the same exact thing.
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Level 68
Feb 20, 2021
You have to consider that JetPunk is mainly a geography website, and that for many users "countries of the world" is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of a quiz. At the same time, quizzes aimed at niches are naturally not even remotely as likely to get people interested.

Also, while it's true that there are many variations of the "Countries of the World" quiz, I think a number of them are actually very interesting and creative! If you can recite every country by heart without any hint they indeed are all the same quiz basically, but part of the fun is putting yourself on the spot. I believe this quiz does a pretty good job in that regard, as you can only see a portion of the planisphere at a time, and for a short period.

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Level 48
Feb 19, 2021
9:49 left, epic
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Level 63
Feb 25, 2021
Amazing Quiz! This SVG must have taken hours to make.
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Level 51
Feb 27, 2021
There is 1 frame in which Eurasia is invisible.
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Level 68
Feb 28, 2021
If you are stating a fact, then yes, Eurasia is present in all but one frames. It makes sense since it's the biggest continental area, and also the one that develops East-West the most.

If you were instead trying to report a bug (as in "I can't see Eurasia in a frame where it should be there"), then it's a problem on your end

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Level 51
Mar 3, 2021
But I can't believe that Eurasia isn't in all the frames... lol
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Level 75
Mar 1, 2021
Is it possible to reduce the file size at all?

(even with the slowness it's quite possibly one of the best quizzes on all of JetPunk)

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Level 68
Mar 1, 2021
No, I think this is as good as it gets with this number of frames. Stewart and I just barely managed to reduce it enough for it to be uploaded to JetPunk (~2MB), changing the source code as well as using tools like svgomg.

Thank you for the compliment though!

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Level 54
Mar 2, 2021
No! It was my main fear about this awesome quiz... No star with 89 or 90 nominations... It's really sad...

Sorry for you... You really deserve it...

Maybe QM is trying to adapt it to JetPunk "correctly". Or did he said it was impossible to feature this quiz?

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Level 68
Mar 2, 2021
The Quizmaster emailed me and said that the quiz is too glitchy to be featured, but he's open to hearing about other quizzes of mine that could be featured in its place. He hasn't replied back yet, but we'll see!

In any case, being in the upper positions of the nominated quizzes already gave this a lot of attention, which I'm happy about!

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Level 54
Mar 2, 2021
You are very positive, and I actually think you are right. I'm sure another amazing quiz you made will be featured! And more and more after. I'm a bit disapointed for you and all the work you did for this quiz, but it's true that many users discovered it when it was at the top of the the most nominated quizzesleaderboard.

So once again congrats for all the work you did, on this quiz and other ones too, and of course thank you a lot for all this beautiful content.

P.S.: I'm sure Pokémon Legend Arceus will have a beutiful map in 2022...! ;-)

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Level 51
Mar 3, 2021
Why, just WHY! It's not glitching for me, even though my internet is admittedly the worst in the community. It should at least get an honorable mention on the FP, if not featured.
+1
Level 66
Apr 13, 2021
Aw, I had hopes for this quiz :(
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Level 71
Apr 13, 2021
You cant nominate noooo
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Level 25
May 5, 2021
C-R-E-A-T-I-V-E(creative)
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Level 71
May 14, 2021
This quiz is absolutely AMAZING! There are few quizzes that deserve to be on the front page more than this one, and I really mean it. It's too bad that it can't get featured, but I'm still glad so many people had a chance to see this. Good luck getting featured in the future!
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Level 68
May 15, 2021
Thank you :)
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Level 40
May 31, 2021
Why it cant be nominated D:
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Level 68
Jun 1, 2021
This quiz had enough nominations to be featured, but QM decided against it since it's a bit glitchy. As with other quizzes that were deemed not featurable, it was removed from the nomination system
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Level 60
Jun 7, 2021
I wonder why the percentages are higher than on countries of the world
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Level 68
Jun 7, 2021
Since this quiz is not featured or spotlighted only people who stay on JetPunk a lot take it, so the average user taking this quiz simply knows geography better (or memorised more countries) than the average user taking the more general quiz
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Level 60
Jun 26, 2021
The nominate button disappeared
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Level 40
Aug 25, 2021
Crem said: This quiz had enough nominations to be featured, but QM decided against it since it's a bit glitchy. As with other quizzes that were deemed not featurable, it was removed from the nomination system
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Level 43
Jan 23, 2023
Very good!
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Level 59
Mar 23, 2023
All 196 in 7:25, amazing quiz!