Can you name the countries with the highest points above sea level on each continent?

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Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: Collected from the CIA World Factbook
The exact height of and jurisdiction over certain summits is disputed.
Also try: Countries by Mountain

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Africa
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Asia
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Europe
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North America
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Oceania
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5

South America
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Highest Countries by Continent Quiz

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Created Oct 28, 2009 in Geography
Featured Feb 1, 2011
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	carbon_rod:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 19:27 GMT	0 points
	Good quiz, but I'd shave another minute off.

	Fruitbat:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 19:31 GMT	43 points
	I needed all of those minutes!

	Spelvout:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 19:31 GMT	151 points
	As flat as it might be, I strongly believe that the Netherlands are one of the highest countries in the world

	lukebradford:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 19:35 GMT	21 points
	I had no idea Australia was so flat compared to the top three in Oceania. Especially Solomon Islands.

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	GundisalvusKuno:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 20:08 GMT	75 points
	markyb: Thanks for proving to everyone that you get the joke

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	the_domingo:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 20:36 GMT	21 points
	Ok, DRC, you win this time. Again.

	ClintT13:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 20:37 GMT	6 points
	v-a-n-u-a ... TIME'S UP! Little island country from Survivor cost me a perfect score by two letters!

	tulliuscicero:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 20:41 GMT	8 points
	Poor Chile. They're just so close.

	Moomba44:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 20:42 GMT	8 points
	Australia should be number three instead of number four in Oceania. Mawson Peak on Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean is undisputed Australian Territory.

	Cockroach:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 20:45 GMT	13 points
	I guessed Palau and Tuvalu, but can only remember 2 of those 3 at any given time. Ah, well.

	1derfool:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 21:35 GMT	5 points
	Kyrgyzstan?

	dancastro:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 22:05 GMT	2 points
	@DonEscamillo (archived comment): I always thought (like most Sporclers?) that the summit of Mont Blanc / Monte Bianco was exactly on the French-Italian border (and therefore both countries should be tied). Seemingly there is a border dispute over a tiny portion of land that includes the summit. There is a Wikipedia page about that dispute (Histoire de la frontière sur le mont Blanc) but it's available only in French, Italian or German. @tulliuscicero: Chile is at approximately 8 miles from the summit of Aconcagua, which is entirely within Argentina. That happens because the international border doesn't follow the line of the highest summits but that of the water divide.

	Booger:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 22:13 GMT	6 points
	My original disclaimer available in the archived comments states as follows: "Please Note: The exact height of and jurisdiction over certain summits is disputed, as is whether certain summits are located on one continent or another."

	Taquione:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 22:16 GMT	35 points
	Any chance of adding the answers also in meters. Some of us look at the world through SI units.

	reganBuffalo:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 22:52 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz. To think, the highest answer for Oceania wouldn't make the top 5 in 3 continents: Asia, Africa and South America.

	NY_MOB:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 23:01 GMT	2 points
	Mount Elbrus is the one that caught me. I thought it was in Asia. So I looked it up and apparently that whole region is part of the whole "where does Europe end and Asia begin" debate. Once again. I've learning something new by taking a Sporcle quiz. Thank you Booger.

	Anne13:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 23:05 GMT	5 points
	High marks for this quiz!

	greebles:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 23:06 GMT	28 points
	If I live to be 100, I'll never understand my guess of "monaco"

	ivarercool:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 23:17 GMT	19 points
	Metric please... Come on, it's the globally recognized system (apart from a few conservative countries).

	tnty4life:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 23:29 GMT	19 points
	@Spelvout: The Dutch actually claim tallest average people. So in a way, you are right.

	ivyagogo:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 23:38 GMT	2 points
	I really need to study my African geography.

	mbc:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 23:39 GMT	1 point
	Mauna Kea is 13,786 feet, so shouldn't USA be second for Oceania?

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	lrsnb12:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 23:57 GMT	-3 points
	Argentina that high? I guess it has a lot of the Andes doesn't it... Kept searching in the right area for Uganda and Costa Rica, but couldn't come up with them in time. :( Excellent quiz, though, keep up the good work.

	the_domingo:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 00:02 GMT	2 points
	@tnty4life: I'm pretty sure they are. Their football strikers prove it.

	lichenboy:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 00:03 GMT	4 points
	Yet again, the whole artificial division between Europe and Asia is really annoying. It bugged me since I was a kid; no teacher could explain to me that its based on a cultural and therefore an arbitrary geographic division (they just thought I was being annoying). So, yeah, I tried Georgia and Azerbaijan to figure out if they counted here as Europe along with Russia (no), then went on with countries in the Alps.