Can you name the countries you would pass through if traveling in a straight line to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan? by Edelweiss

Can you name the countries you would pass through if traveling in a straight line to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan?

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Maritime territory is not counted. A straight line is used. Kyrgyzstan itself is not counted as an answer.
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Which Way To Kyrgyzstan? Quiz

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Created Feb 21, 2011 in Geography
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	shiNKorea:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 05:42 GMT		9 points
	awesome quiz mon!

	Bleu:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 08:40 GMT		6 points
	Nice quiz regarding Sporcle favourite country. Missed only one, probably because I was expecting country to be twice in the list if it visits in other country and returns to country earlier visited.

	indianwolf1992:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 10:11 GMT		-1 points
	Great quiz, got em all. But I think there's a mistake, because in the Auckland part you end with India, although India does not border Kyrgyzstan. So there should be more countries after India before reaching Bishkek. Change that, and it's awesome. 4 globes now, but with that one change it is 5. Super idea.

	MisterF:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 14:20 GMT		2 points
	indianwolf: I think the line just goes back through China after that, and if the quiz maker chooses not to repeat countries in the same path, then India could very well be the last answer that hadn't previously been listed.

	Edelweiss:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 15:37 GMT		3 points
	MisterF is right. I only listed every country once (for each starting point) so that the list wouldn't become too cluttered. Vote this up if you want me to change that...

	confused:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 20:11 GMT		5 points
	Edelweiss: I'm not trying to advertise, but if you're into maps you might check out my takeoff of this quiz. http://www.sporcle.com/games/confused/gc_to_kyrgyzstan Thanks for kick-starting a fun (if ultimately unproductive!) morning.

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 20:42 GMT		1 point
	Clever quiz, Edelweiss! Thanks for the link, confused.

	zmoney:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 01:11 GMT		2 points
	I hate to be pedantic, but some of these answers are completely wrong. To correctly determine the shortest path between two points on the globe, you need to use a "great circle" route, which aligns both points on the maximum circumference around a sphere. For instance, the great circle route between Vancouver, BC and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan should look like this: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=YVR-FRU/ This route would not be evident from looking at a Mercator projection of the globe, as used by Google Maps, but it is in fact the shortest route. I really like the idea behind the quiz, but felt like I should point this out. =)

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 01:39 GMT		1 point
	@zmoney: sometimes it can be interesting to read the previous comments. I call your attention to confused's link in particular.

	zmoney:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 01:45 GMT		3 points
	@tahitiwahini: I did read the previous comments. It just appeared to me that the creator of the quiz intended to use the shortest path between these cities, as stated in the description. Since no one had mentioned that his routes were wrong, I did.

	confused:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 01:48 GMT		2 points
	In all fairness to zmoney, I was trying not to breach sporcle etiquette by plugging too heavily, and didn't clearly state that I'd done a quiz with great circle routes. Obviously, we thought alike, and it's really interesting to compare the two paths.

	Pit_trout:	Mar 27th, 2011 at 16:06 GMT		1 point
	Lovely concept, @Edelweiss; and kudos also to @confused for a version that satisfies the geographical pedants among us.

	TheCleverone:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 10:54 GMT		1 point
	Brilliant quiz Edelweiss, 5 globes

	Raglflagl:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 06:49 GMT		1 point
	Oman just got on this quiz by the skin of its teeth.

	LinnS:	Jan 6th, 2013 at 13:28 GMT		-1 points
	Great quiz, I just don't understand why you had to go "Sweden-Estonia-Latvia-Russia", when you can just go "Sweden-Estonia-Russia" and skip Latvia? Or Sweden-Finland-Russia, since those countries are actually properly bording each other, instead of having Sweden and Estonia with a sea between them?

	BuonragazzoJr:	Mar 29th, 2013 at 12:57 GMT		2 points
	@LinnS: the quiz description specifies that you would be travelling in a straight line. I thought it was a great quiz. It was creative and it had a good amount of time. Only missed Philippines, Bangladesh, and Oman... :(

	packmanwiscy:	Apr 4th, 2013 at 14:32 GMT		1 point
	I'd like a second one, maybe with different cities

	sliceswiththings:	Apr 8th, 2013 at 01:51 GMT		1 point
	This is great! Now I know my way to Kyrgyzstan!

	timjim:	Apr 15th, 2013 at 23:45 GMT		3 points
	One thing I think you should check, would Palestine now be valid for Cairo?