Can you name the names of these countries based on their Norwegian name? by 1447

Norwegian name	English name
Estland
Forente Arabiske Emirater
Kamerun
Sentralafrikanske Republikk
Polen
Sør-Korea
Kirgisistan
Elfenbenskysten
Salomonøyene
Brasil
Irak
Tyskland
Folkerepublikken Kina
Kambodsja
Norge

Norwegian name	English name
Amerikas Forente Stater
Marokko
Nord-Korea
Hviterussland
Frankrike
Sør-Afrika
Filippinene
Russland
Tyrkia
Ungarn
Sverige
Mikronesiaføderasjonen
Storbritannia
Hellas
Tsjekkia

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Country names in Norwegian Quiz

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Created Nov 28, 2009 in Language
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	ablackperson:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 01:04 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz. I don't speak much Norwegian, but I got all but Elfenbenskysten.

	RebeccaAMax:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 17:19 GMT	0 points
	Maybe pick some harder ones?

	JeroAdmi:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 19:28 GMT	6 points
	Elfenbenkskysten looks like the Swedish word for it. @RebevvaAMax: I bet its very hard to pick hard ones with countries like Ghana and Indonesia. Countries that are almost always the same in languages with the Latin alphabet. The maker of this quiz picked the ones that almost always differ. Great quiz.

	EmperorAtahualpa:	Jan 31st, 2010 at 21:08 GMT	3 points
	@JeroAdmi: No "Elfenbenskysten" is indeed the Norwegian word for "Cote d'Ivoire". In Swedish it is spelled almost the same but with a "u" instead of a "y". In Icelandic, it's "Fílabeinsströndin" and in Finnish it's "Norsunluurannikon". :)

	Todd1952SF:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 13:17 GMT	3 points
	"Elfenben" in both Swedish and Norwegian is the word for "ivory." Since I knew that "kusten" in Swedish is "the coast," and the "s" after "elfenben" had to be genitive, I knew it had to mean "The Coast of Ivory." Sometimes the difference between a Norwegian word and its Swedish equivalent is one vowel versus another.

	redsxfenway:	Apr 13th, 2010 at 18:40 GMT	2 points
	I thought I was awesome for getting Hellas, guess not.

	UEAdam:	Apr 13th, 2010 at 19:57 GMT	14 points
	I respect the Norwegian language for spelling Kyrgyzstan in a much more sensible way.

	caramba:	Apr 13th, 2010 at 21:22 GMT	1 point
	I thought Norway in Norwegian was either Norge OR Noreg, depending on dialect. Good quiz, mostly challenging, but please accept PRC for China, as well.

	esumid:	Apr 13th, 2010 at 21:45 GMT	1 point
	surprisingly close to german. nice quiz.

	miyomiyo1:	Apr 13th, 2010 at 23:41 GMT	3 points
	"Kirgisistan" is actually one of the spellings I tried on the way to figuring out Kyrgyzstan.

	ulashima:	Apr 14th, 2010 at 09:48 GMT	1 point
	All country names would differ according to the dialect.

	D3nn1s:	Apr 15th, 2010 at 18:38 GMT	1 point
	@redsxfenway: I thought I was cool for getting Ivory Coast, and I was. I'm not Norwegian though.

	abanazerb:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 21:23 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz.

	Kyonkichi93:	Apr 29th, 2010 at 01:50 GMT	-1 points
	I got Czech Republic. So I'm kind of cool.

	johnlk:	May 4th, 2010 at 13:46 GMT	2 points
	It's bound to be similar to Swedish, because all the Scandinavian languages are closely related.

	PaulLambeth:	May 4th, 2010 at 21:55 GMT	2 points
	Tyskland thanks to knowing it in Icelandic. "White Russia" confused me for a while.

	kevincrumbs:	May 5th, 2010 at 03:09 GMT	2 points
	Well, two years of studying Danish helped on this one.

	phoeeeebe:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 11:42 GMT	1 point
	The coolest I was was Hungary. I tried turkey for almost every answer, well I got there in the end.

	chacho:	Jun 23rd, 2010 at 09:13 GMT	0 points
	I always find it funny that germany has so different names: gemany, deutschland, alemania (or alemagne), Niemcy, Saksa... and Tyskland. Another funny thing is the noreg/norge using the nynorsk or the traditional norwegian. and the "white russia" thing is actually really fun. so, that means that russians are asian or what? and it is like that on some languages...

	Quinto:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 03:43 GMT	1 point
	I forgot about "White Russia"...

	giraki:	Jan 9th, 2011 at 21:32 GMT	1 point
	Hellas threw me off a bit, otherwise no problem for a Swede.

	Aunekris:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 17:53 GMT	1 point
	@Ulashima. That's just b.s. I'm norwegian myself and all of the countries are the same in every dialect. Except from some country names where the pronounciation might differ

	jdm7:	Oct 6th, 2011 at 15:46 GMT	1 point
	wow, I did not know that Hellas is used elsewhere outside of Greece. Nice!

	DaneOfScandinavy:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 16:42 GMT	2 points
	You should accept FSM for "Mikronesiaføderasjonen" and PRC for "Folkerepublikken Kina". Besides that great quiz!