Can you name the landlocked countries of Europe?

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Landlocked European Countries Quiz

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Created Sep 24, 2009 in Geography
Featured Mar 20, 2011
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	juusosieni:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 09:09 GMT		2 points
	Ouch, I missed Moldova.. It's funny that Europe has 14 landlocked countries, it seems there are less.

	mendelevium:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 09:10 GMT		113 points
	im looking forward to the Oceania Landlocked Countries quiz

	Brizza:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 09:50 GMT		23 points
	Interesting that so many more people get Vatican compared to San Marino. I always think of them almost as a pair.

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 10:08 GMT		-2 points
	I note the archived comments regarding Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. As I have posted many times before, omitting these countries (and Georgia) from European quizzes but including Turkey and Russia, is entirely inaccurate and undermines the credibility of Sporcle. Just because the Countries of Europe erroneously omitted these countries and included Cyprus which is wholly in Asia this is no reason to keep repeating the same mistake. The comment by RS89 that "Kazakhstan is in Asia period" is just nonesense. 136,000 sq km of the land area of Kazakhstan in Europe. That is a greater area than all of the answers in the quiz other than Belarus. Voting down urbanmapper's entirely correct and reasonable comments smacks of a modern from of book burning. If you do not like a comment try and come up with a rational contrary argument, or join the Flat Earth Society.

	lwfc:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 11:25 GMT		4 points
	So the two most guessed answers are the two I didn't get...what a fool..

	koipen:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 11:43 GMT		2 points
	With the fragmentation of Europe into so many nations, it is no surprise that so many of them are landlocked. All these could fit into Pakistan with plennty of room to spare.

	tulliuscicero:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 12:39 GMT		10 points
	Should be x/x countries, not x/x countrys.

	megascarp:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 12:57 GMT		-2 points
	Dont shoot me down for this but i think this could be a 1 minute blitz......ok vote me down.

Area (square km)	Country
83,871
10,908
61
78,867
33,846
468
41,284

	tahitiwahini:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 13:14 GMT		10 points
	Likewise if Turkey were only European, then European territory (Anatolia) would exist on the eastern side of the demarcation line referenced above. Sporcle has taken a reasonable position that has the practical benefit (i.e., minimizing duplication) of having only two countries included on both continents. If any of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, or Kazakhstan are ever accepted into the European Union it will be time to revisit that solution. Cyprus has been a member of the European Union since 2004.

	Statto2:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 13:34 GMT		35 points
	Perhaps it should be "San (not very) Marino".

	JamesSnell:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 14:01 GMT		-2 points
	Genius idea for a quiz. US Accent 'Good Job'

	Bretzky:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 14:06 GMT		10 points
	There are basically two definitions of Europe: a geographical one and a cultural one. In the geographical one, Russia, Turkey, and Kazakhstan would be considered a part of Europe and a part of Asia. (One could also make the argument for Azerbaijan and Georgia depending on where you draw the line through the Caucasus Mountains, but I tend to exclude both.) From a cultural standpoint, I don't think it's a big stretch to include both Russia and Turkey as a part of Europe. Both have assimilated a large amount of European cultural traditions and have had a significant enough of an impact on European history and culture to consider them as European. I don't think that describes Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, or Georgia, which have been much more heavily influenced by and more frequently interacted with Persian, Arab, and pre-Europeanized Turkish and Russian cultures than Europe. And it is the cultural aspect that I think decides the issue because that is really how we define Europe. In reality there are only four continents: Afro-Eurasia, America, Australia, and Antarctica. (A decent argument could be made for including Greenland, but you have to draw the line somewhere.) Africa, Asia, and Europe have been separated as continents mainly because of the cultural differences between the peoples inhabiting those areas. In the West, it is a mixture of culture and geography that defines the Old World continents and it is almost entirely culture that defines Europe.

	Statto2:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 14:21 GMT		8 points
	Interestingly Georgia and Azerbaijan are affiliated to Europe in both football (soccer) and athletics (track and field) and I suspect many other sports. This may be due to the fact that they are much closer to, say, the UK than Japan. Kazakhstan is affiliated to Europe in football but Asia in athletics. I suspect this is because their footballers who play abroad are most likely to be with European clubs and therefore it is more convenient that they play most of their away matches there while their athletes are likely to win more more medals in an Asian championships than a European one. I think all 3 countries have a large proportion of their population who might be considered ethnically Russian and whose ancestry may be traced back to Russia west of the Urals.

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 14:57 GMT		0 points
	@tahitiwahini: There are dozens of comments on this subject elsewhere on Sporcle and I have commented on all of the points that you have made any number of times. To summarise: 1. I quite agree that Eurasia fits the criteria for a continent rather than Europe and Asia. 2. If we accept the concept of Europe as a continent then it must have land borders which are (almost) universally accepted as the watershed of the Greater Caucasas and Ural mountains and the Ural River. Despite extensive research I have found no dissenting academic view. 3. This is a geography quiz, so cultural matters are an irrelevance. 4. The concept that some countries should be included in Europe and others not is a nonsense (and rather arrogant). How do you set the criteria? Should we include Israel, the US, Australia etc as part of Europe (as they clearly are culturally)? 5. The EU is an irrelevance, it has territory in North America, South America, Africa and Asia as well as Europe. Surely the Council of Europe is a more relevant body. 6. Countries that straddle continents are in two continents. It is as simple as that. French Guiana is is South America. It is part of France, therefore France is (partly) in South America. 7. There is nothing practical about including some transcontinental countries in Europe (and Cyprus which is entirely in Asia) and yet omitting others. If there is a quiz on Europe countries, then include all countries that are part of Europe, ditto Asia. If there is a quiz on European mountains, lakes, cities etc then it is only necessary to include those actually located in Europe. No confusion or practical difficulties there.

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 15:06 GMT		-3 points
	@Bretzky: Please state your authority for stating that the Americas or Africa/Eurasia should each be treated as one continent. There is nothing in the definition of a continental land mass that precludes it from being connected to another. I think your suggestion that some countries are more cultural European than others is extremely dubious and offensive to many peoples. I very strongly suggest that you never make this comment to an Armenian or Georgian, particularly after asserting that Turkey is more assimilated. Do you think that Australia is more or less culturally European than, say, Albania?

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 15:11 GMT		7 points
	@Statto2: The confederation that a country's national football team has membership of is very flexible. Australia is part of the Asian conferderation, Guyana, the North and Central American/Caribbean confederation and Israel the European confederation. This makes no difference to the fact that they are located in Oceania, South America and Asia respectively.

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	climber_v12:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 16:09 GMT		6 points
	Turkey can be divided into two parts: Thrace and Anatolia. Thrace is the bit next to Bulgaria and Greece, and Anatolia is the larger part which is next to Syria, Iraq, etc. Thrace is considered by Wikipedia and most of the world to be in Europe, and Anatolia is in Asia. Hence why Turkey appears in both quizzes of Europe and Asia. The dividing line here is the Sea of Marmara, and the border closest to the Caucasian countries is, funnily enough, the Caucasian mountains. Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan are on the Asian side of this, so they're in Asia. Kazakhstan is a little more tricky, I'm going to research more on that and post another comment later. By the way, I admire you for putting up an idea you believe is true on Sporcle despite the fact that most Sporcle quizzes are against it. "The majority is not always right." At first I thought that having part of Kazakhstan in Europe was a load of old codswallop, but I realise we need to be open to other ideas.

	nyo:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 16:13 GMT		7 points
	@zeppelinoid Promoting your quizes in the comments in spam. Please don't spam published quizes.

	jaypunkrawk:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 16:16 GMT		0 points
	Phew...got the last one, Austria, with seven seconds left. I always get the more obscure ones first. The total area clues helped me figure out I was missing a larger country.

	climber_v12:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 16:38 GMT		9 points
	@zeppelinoid: Putting two of your replies to other comments together, you believe that (one) this is a Geography quiz and should be treated as such, and cultural differences should not be brought into it, and that (two) Europe and Asia are definitely different continents. I think that I and the rest of the world agree with you on the latter, but consider this - why should Europe and Asia be different? Could it be geographical? They are not separated by an ocean. You might say they're separated by mountains (Ural and Caucasian) but no-one puts Italy, Vatican and San Marino on their own continent because they're separated from other countries by mountains. Why then? I'd say because of the intensely different cultures of Asia and Europe. This difference is slacking off slightly now, because of global connection, but back in the days when people first decided that there should be two continents on the one landmass, the cultures of one continent was extremely different than the cultures of the other. Therefore I'd say that the cultures have got something to do with this argument, and I'd say that Kazakhstan has always had a very different culture than any European nation. Please reply.

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 16:39 GMT		2 points
	@climber_v12: the watershed of the Greater Caucasus runs through the north of Georgia and Azerbaijan. Approximately 3% of Georgia is in Europe and 8% of Azerbaijan. Armenia is further south and entirely in Asia. For the record about 5% of Kazazhstan is in Europe, 3% of Turkey and 23% of Russia.

	climber_v12:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 16:43 GMT		-3 points
	Your sources? And I still think that the Asian/European boundaries of Georgia and Azerbaijan are still a bit dodgy, not to mention Kazakhstan's. Okay, so's Russia's, but there's enough of Russia right next to Ukraine and Belarus to convince anyone.

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 17:04 GMT		1 point
	@climber_v12: Logically, if Europe is considered to exist as an entity, it must have boundaries. These can cross political borders. There are a number of countries that span other continents (Panama, Indonesia, Egypt etc). If one wishes to define Europe on cultural grounds, it would be necessary to explain how it is possible to differentiate between countries that are physically part of both Europe and Asia (Russia, Turkey, Greece, Georgia, Azerbaijan & Kazakhstan), countries that are not physically part of Europe (Armenia & Cyprus) and countries that are culturally but not physically part of Europe (Israel, the whole of the Americas & most of Oceania)? If one wishes to use a political definition, then surely Reunion, Curacao, French Guiana, Aruba, Sint Maarten, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Greenland, the Azores, Madeira, the Canaries, Ceuta and Melilla must all be part of Europe (despite this being palpable nonsense). Alternatively, one could use the definition of the Council of Europe which includes or recognises all of the aforementioned countries that are actually partly in Europe (Kazakhstan has guest status, but is acknowledged as being European) as well as Cyprus and Armenia (which are acknowledged as not being geographically European, but are included based on historic and cultural ties). Whichever method one uses, I cannot think of any logical or factual reason to exclude any of the countries that are partly in Europe other than based on Western cultural bias. Even then I would argue that Georgia is culturally far more European than a number of the other countries.

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 17:22 GMT		3 points
	@climber_v12: I computed the areas by downloading maps and making an approximate measurement of the the areas on either side of the Greater Caucasus and the Ural River. The Russian and Turkish proportions appear in most sources so these are not in dispute. I am not in front of a PC at present but when I last researched this, I could find no academic sources that did not agree with my definition of the boundaries of Europe unless they used arbitrary political borders (i.e. a non geographical basis). Please let me know if you can find anything to the contrary, but the countries in question certainly consider themselves to be partly European and so do the European Council and the EU. Much as I respect Sporcle, I do not think is has quite the same level of authority as these august bodies.

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 17:25 GMT		2 points
	@climber_v12: Incidentally, I am not certain that you are correct regarding your comment about Kazakhstan. I have never been there, but I know it has very sizeable Russian and German speaking minorities.

	amusing_name:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 17:46 GMT		2 points
	I think I failed by not knowing that Kosovo was a country >_

	climber_v12:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 17:49 GMT		-2 points
	@zeppelinoid: In your comment three above this (starts off "Logically, if Europe..."), you implied that Panama is in both South and North America. I would disagree. Also, you shot yourself with your own gun when you talked about political divisions in the same comments. You said that defining Europe by political divisions would put lots of political divisions around the world inside Europe, which you said was nonsense. Yet in one of your quizzes, (which you advertised in this quiz's comments) you said that some islands next to Turkey were both in Asia and Europe because you said they were controlled by UK. Contradiction there. Also you listed 'ways of differentiating between countries' which I didn't understand. What were you trying to say there? What I said in previous comments was that I think the Asia/Europe 'line' divided some very different cultures when someone dreamed it up, but as stated, that difference has because far less pointed now because of huge international connection, and organizations linking countries across the globe. Also cultures become more interspersed, hence why some people in Kazakhstan speak Russian and German.

	Bretzky:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 19:05 GMT		7 points
	@zeppelinoid: There is no agreed upon definition of "continent." However, if the definition is a large, discrete landmass, then Africa, Europe, and Asia would qualify as a single continent, as would North and South America, because there is no natural body of water separating those landmasses. The Panama and Suez Canals are both man made. I see no reason why the idea that some countries are more culturally European than others should be offensive, unless of course you believe that some cultures are better than others, which I don't.

	Asdfaeou:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 19:22 GMT		-1 points
	I'm not a huge fan of two things about this quiz: One the color scheme chosen (I don't like the clear boxes with just lines hanging freely) and I'm not wild about the random nature of the answers being chosen as the style, instead of six order or the like. That being said, both of those things are aesthetic personal choices and the thing that REALLY matters, that this is an accurate and interesting quiz is intact. Well done! Eagle!