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Five Closest Countries by Country #1

Name the five closest countries to the following 8 countries.

Whole series: 1, 2, 3

Left distances are in miles, right distances are in kilometres, excluding territories
Partly based on Jerry928's quiz on Oman and my United States version.
The rest are based on Google Maps.
Quiz by relessness - May 20, 2016

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United States
0		0
0		0
2		3
53		85
93		150

Australia
53		85
198		319
284		457
951		1531
993		1599

Oman
0		0
0		0
0		0
32		52
212		341

Lesotho
0		0
175		282
228		367
267		430
439		707

Panama
0		0
0		0
104		167
276		444
363		584

Monaco
0		0
6		10
152		245
232		374
248		399

Bhutan
0		0
0		0
28		45
42		68
188		303

Cyprus
43		69
66		106
100		161
142		229
182		293

Answer Stats

scambigol

(66)

Fantastic quiz! How did you work out the data?! Minor note: under Cyprus, Syria is listed before Turkey despite being 23 km further away

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Nov 25, 2014

Quizzer6794

(58)

*23 miles

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Sep 30, 2015

Jerry928

(68)

Agreed - this was fun! I hope you do some more.

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Nov 25, 2014

relessness

(47)

Thanks, these quizzes were actually partly based on all your Closest Country quizzes... I should probably credit you.

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Nov 25, 2014

scambigol

(66)

Yes do credit Jerry, he certainly deserves it ;) Actually now that I think about it I suggest (to both of you, as a coproduction?) to do a similar one on seas/oceans, assuming Jerry's done enough closer to sea quizzes already

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Nov 25, 2014

Jerry928

(68)

OK, this is relly's and this is Jerry's. Tee hee

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Feb 22, 2015

relessness

(47)

Click here for the sequel!

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Feb 18, 2015

relessness

(47)

And for a city version...

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Feb 20, 2015

buck1017

(71)

That was fun...and I finally broke my losing streak and got 100% on this one.

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Jan 7, 2015

ander217

(71)

Ditto.

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Feb 22, 2015

Shiloh376

(65)

Fun Quiz! I've never seen such a high average.

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Jan 8, 2015

MayaB

(59)

Awesome quiz! It really makes you think! I can't believe I managed to get everything from the first try (albeit with only 3s left).

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Jan 12, 2015

Roger77024

(59)

Suggest you add clarification that overseas territories don't count, and that the Jetpunk 197 are all that apply.

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Jan 15, 2015

Sulps

(59)

You should definitely clarify that. Or, like I prefer, add the overseas territories to the quiz. For example, Cyprus is closer to the British bases on the island than any other country. I'm pretty sure British and French territories are near some of the other countries as well.

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Feb 22, 2015

cuotak

(50)

Singapore is only 810 miles from Christmas Island of Australia

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Feb 22, 2015

KoljiVriVoda

(65)

You have great ideas :)

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Feb 9, 2015

plattitude

(77)

Almost missed the furthest from Monaco. I would've thought that Austria or Liechtenstein were closer, but they miss it by a couple of miles.

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Feb 19, 2015

kiwiquizzer

(55)

That was the only one I missed!

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Feb 26, 2017

GEOgraphery

(34)

I was stuck on that for a while, but I got san marino with 49 seconds to spare :)

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Mar 20, 2017

lubi

(58)

Great quiz! Though I double-checked your distance between Australia and Papua New Guinea, which seemed much too small to me. And indeed it is: Google Maps tells me that the island of Saibai in the Torres Strait (part of Queensland) lies about 2.32 miles off the shore of New Guinea, instead of the 53 miles that the quiz has.

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Feb 19, 2015

Tastymeatpie

(65)

Just got Solomon Islands with 58 seconds left, an excellent quiz!

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Feb 22, 2015

Miquelino

(50)

Could you accept just Solomon?

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Feb 22, 2015

Freddy47

(21)

Never would have gotten Russia for US...pretty tricky!

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Feb 22, 2015

precisioncontrol

(55)

Thinking of Sarah Palin helps....LOL.

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Feb 22, 2015

Celloninja

(33)

You got to remember the diomede islands. They are two miles apart!

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Feb 23, 2015

sillie

(76)

Data in miles makes it quite a bit harder than if it was in kilometers. You guys should ditch imperial, it really makes no sense.

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Feb 22, 2015

Getreelgirl

(27)

monaco is a mint chocolate cookie, silly!

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Feb 22, 2015

SkyjumperTalon

(41)

yet the country is still smaller

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Jan 2, 2017

samiam1955

(56)

Amazed that Oman is closer to Pakistan than many other countries I tried first. It was the last one I got. Time to look at a map.

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Feb 22, 2015

mrnmama

(57)

I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea that Oman is closer to Pakistan than Qatar.

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Feb 23, 2015

BichoRojo

(22)

I also think Qatar is a bit closer than Pakistan. Now I'll have to go search in a reliable source, hehe.

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Jun 12, 2015

gooseriverpoint

(49)

Got it 100% on the first try with 1:43 left, good quiz! Somehow forgot New Zealand until after I had every other answer.

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Feb 23, 2015

PHX

(42)

stupid quiz! why don't you accept timor leste and solomon. those are the only two that I got left

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Feb 26, 2015

Anton1899

(14)

The only one I didn't get was the United States one, forgot about Alaska being so close to Russia!!!

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Mar 5, 2015

Remme9000

(46)

Love this one! Good job!

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Mar 15, 2015

legendarycobra

(27)

51 left. nice quiz.

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Mar 19, 2015

Quizzer6794

(58)

Wait a sec.... How did you get those columns with different headings? I've looked all over the quiz making page, but I cannot find it! Great quiz, though!

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Apr 14, 2015

cosmokim

(55)

I'm sure you already know this, but you go to manual settings and click "Add Outer Box". You can import answers into the box rows and change the heading. That's probably what relessness did.

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Jan 9, 2016

Quizzer6794

(58)

@cosmokim Thanks, and you're right. That was a while back though, and I actually found the answer out just a couple days later!

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Jan 9, 2016

LarryLovage

(61)

I guess the answers to "Cyprus" ought to put to bed the arguments about whether it's in Europe or not.

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Sep 23, 2015

Carry

(57)

One can only dream.

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May 25, 2016

AuntGrace

(46)

This was a great quiz! I can do this one and #2 now very quickly, Can we please have some more of this one with other countries?

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Oct 21, 2015

spiderman1917

(41)

i think greece is closer to cyprus than jordan because of an island called strogkili which is between rhodes and cyprus

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Dec 5, 2015

georgekotz

(63)

That's true, the distance from Strongyli is about 264 km.

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Jun 13, 2017

Anshul

(32)

36!

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Jan 10, 2016

Molibden

(44)

20/20

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Feb 26, 2016

Neptune777

(51)

This was an extremely fun quiz! 100% with 2:05 left.

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Apr 11, 2016

lacedout

(25)

when i didnt get RUSSIA

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Apr 18, 2016

18Jura12

(21)

I was typing for 20 sec Greece on Cyprus but nah

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Jul 4, 2016

Quizzical77

(47)

Isn't Kuwait closer than Iran to Oman?

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Aug 12, 2016

hellodrew

(48)

Iran's a lot closer, just across the Strait of Hormuz where as Kuwait's all the way up the Persian Gulf from Oman.

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Nov 2, 2016

Algernon

(60)

Solomon Islands gggrrrrrr. I must have named every other country within 1,500 miles of Australia. Cost me a clean sweep.

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Aug 29, 2016

SkyjumperTalon

(41)

Tried San Marino with 14 secs left

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Jan 2, 2017

Anzi

(60)

Great quiz!

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Jan 5, 2017

TinklePork

(57)

Interesting. Cyprus is closest to 5 Asian countries even though it's a European country

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Feb 9, 2017

kiwiquizzer

(55)

Umm...

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Feb 26, 2017

Gownowski

(30)

Wow such a fun quiz! I got 40/40 on my first try. I know me countries :)

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Mar 5, 2017

GreenFriday

(66)

Just goes to show how much maps are skewed. I was sure Vanuatu was closer to Aus than NZ was, it's 1742 km away. But because New Zealand is so much further south, the NZ distance looks more.

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Jun 13, 2017

JaskanQuiz

(45)

This was one of the GREATEST among nice quizzes! All with 1:32 left.

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Jun 13, 2017

crespipal

(52)

I assume overseas territory are not taken into consideration, since Cyprus borders with UK base of Akrothiri and Dhekelia

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Jun 13, 2017

kalbahamut

(70)

easy

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Jun 13, 2017

SundarIsaacs

(58)

Missed one. One point away from level 57.

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Jun 13, 2017

Antofagasta

(47)

Found it quite easy, but really good quiz.

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Jun 13, 2017

WickusOfficial

(34)

What a great quiz! I am very surprised that I got 100%! I really like these random quizzes. It's so creative, I would've never thought of making something like this. :)

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Jun 13, 2017

danielleadb

(18)

This was so fun! I loved it

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Jun 14, 2017

Djilas

(66)

As mentioned above, the last one for Cyprus is wrong, as the easternmost Greek island is closer than Jordan.

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Jun 16, 2017

Matriks404

(16)

I always forget about new zealand lol

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Jul 10, 2017

sandyito

(25)

There are some issue here for example Oman, what about Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, etc. How did you skip all the way to Pakistan? Maybe the name of the quiz should not be Closet countries or am I missing something here?

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Aug 11, 2017