Can you name the countries which are only six letters long?

Can you name the countries which are only six letters long? Enter a country in the box below Correctly named countries will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Ben You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Popular trivia games today Fewest Letters 2 10784 Films by Characters in Other Films II 6994 Harry Potter Top 200 4619 Song Title Fill-in-the-Blank 3448 Adam Sandler Movies by Recurring Themes 3266 2010 NCAA Tournament Teams 2496 TV Show Opening Credits 2116 And more...
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	jzev:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 23:21 GMT	33 points
	I like these quizzes, there harder because you don't have a map in front of you, you have to draw your answers from memory

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	Kevin:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 23:38 GMT	45 points
	Would be interested to see a "Top twenty-five longest country names" quiz or something to that effect come up. 26/31 on this, though I really should have gotten 29.

	zalagreensbury:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 23:45 GMT	10 points
	the only way i've been able to tackle quizzes like this is to just go in geographical order quickly musing over the countries names from Canada down and then all to the west. It's pretty quick and works a lot; there, that's my little tip.

	Kevin:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 23:50 GMT	8 points
	I tend to do the same thing, although I started in SA and worked up.

	DonnyB:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 23:51 GMT	9 points
	As usual with these geography ones, Africa and Central America are my undoing. Still, these are a lot of fun.

	lulubelles:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 23:54 GMT	1 point
	24/31, ran out of time. most stupid answer I missed was Mexico but I got Tuvalu, Kosovo etc. Go figure

	ChanandlerBong:	Jun 5th, 2009 at 23:57 GMT	-4 points
	Got all 31, but it took me about 6 minutes to get the last one (France). Go figure.

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	meowww:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:06 GMT	-2 points
	finished with a minute left...spent 2 minutes going crazy, finally realized it was tuvalu

	geowiz85:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:19 GMT	5 points
	@ CBong haha, i hear ya, France was the only one i didnt get. i feel incredibly stupid for it

	Skydog:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:22 GMT	11 points
	Didn't do so hot this quiz, but was fun!

	darth_shrimper:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:24 GMT	32 points
	Easy to miss Russia, tucked away down there. WTF?

	Sparky:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:29 GMT	16 points
	I too embarrassingly missed France =S even though France is our next door neighbour, I even thought of it a couple of times in my quick world map scanning, but being only one syllable I think it seems shorter than it is. Seems like 5 letters somehow. I'm still embarrassed about that though!

	y2jdilemma:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:30 GMT	1 point
	I almost missed Russia too. Thought of it with like 30 seconds left. Ended up missing 4. 2 that I really had no business missing (Turkey and Kuwait). These quizzes are fantastic. I also like that theyre not in alphabetical order because sometimes theyre easier that way.

	Fro:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:34 GMT	3 points
	@zalagreensbury: That's exactly how I do it too - it works well. Although this time somehow I skipped over Brazil...

	shel99:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:34 GMT	10 points
	I love these quizzes! I always seem to get the obscure ones (Tuvalu) and forget some obvious ones (Brazil....DOH!). 7 letters next? :)

	rottenmonk:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:36 GMT	-4 points
	I got 30/31 and missed France. Ugh =/

	clavinfield:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:38 GMT	1 point
	Haha, Brazil was the big glaring one that I missed. Kept passing over it when I mentally pictured SA, but got Guyana, for some reason. Also, went through a lot of red-herring 7-lettered countries, making me think another installation of this quiz would be quite the long list!

	GPB:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:42 GMT	0 points
	Jzev, I agree completely. It also requires you to be able to count to six. Brazil, Mexico, Israel. Is it the weekend yet?

	GeoExpert:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 00:56 GMT	2 points
	When doing the five letter quiz, I tried many of these countries only to realize they are 6 letters, not 5. Also missed France while getting Tuvalu.

	darko:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 02:07 GMT	0 points
	good game, also nice font in the table. ;)

	debbiedoesnothin:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 02:12 GMT	10 points
	I can't count. Angola and Malawi have 7 letters, right? No? I'm such a dork!

	Distiller:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 02:13 GMT	2 points
	Managed to get them all. Very fun quizzes, having to go through all the world's countries, missing the likes of Monaco. :)

	BrettCaudill:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 02:17 GMT	1 point
	awesome quiz, but kind of wish it was in alphabetical order.

	djiboutianclimax:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 02:53 GMT	4 points
	Why do people feel compelled to write down the score they got, as though other people are interested?

	HarryHop:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 03:03 GMT	1 point
	I missed Brazil?! I've never been so ashamed, fortunately I got 29 plus The Gambia to stop me hanging my head in shame.

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	lostnone:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 03:19 GMT	1 point
	also got Tuvalu but missed France - does that make me a genius or an idiot???

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	Zalx:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 04:05 GMT	11 points
	Since the scandal that was Trinidad and Tobago appearing in the Natural Gases quiz, I have made it a point to always guess them in geography quizzes. With the seconds rolling down, they were worth a shot...

	Denzil:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 04:16 GMT	-4 points
	Bahahahaha I got 22, but missed México!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes I'm a dumbass.

	aweis:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 04:24 GMT	2 points
	I got tuvalu but missed canada, and I live in the us! Great quiz!

	davidr:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 04:55 GMT	9 points
	@Kevin: I submitted a quiz of the 27 longest country names a few weeks ago — I hope it will be published soon. (It's 27 because there are four countries tied in 23rd place, then two at =28th and seven at =30th, so there weren't any round numbers available.) The quiz uses the long names of the countries (e.g., Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) but you can enter the normal short names that are used in all Sporcle quizzes (e.g., Luxembourg).

	Kevin:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 05:00 GMT	10 points
	Oh. Well, definitely want to say thanks for letting me know, because I was actually going to go through the process of putting one together. Good to know that would have been a waste of time. The way you did it is going to be tough, since Sporcle has conditioned me and others to know the conventional names, but I guess that's the only way to do it fairly.

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	cocky:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT	3 points
	I don't think you should have the formal names on a longest names quiz. Too many countries have "The People's Republic of" or similiar words that you never hear that would make the quiz too difficult. If you had china on the five letter list, you shouldn't have The People's Republic of China on the other game.

	livfred:	Jun 6th, 2009 at 05:30 GMT	10 points
	I agree with cocky, mostly. I think the longest country names quiz should be based on the commonly used names for the countries, but I think it would be okay -- and even interesting -- to include the formal names parenthetically (with the list selected based on the short names). e.g.: (The People's Republic of) China (which would not be included in the longest country name quiz using this criterion, as its name is only five letters long).