Can you name the most populous countries of each continent? by Emperor_Ziggy

Can you name the most populous countries of each continent?

created by Emperor_Ziggy

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Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America

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Most Populous Countries by Continent Quiz

by Emperor_Ziggy

Created Oct 23, 2009 in Geography
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	cjcourt:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 02:39 GMT	15 points
	Like it! :-) I don't think you need to list Asia #1's full name.

	Apples:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 09:30 GMT	14 points
	Yeah, I would like to see a source too, but otherwise a really good one. Managed to snare them all. Possibly could shorten the time limit.

	PBRbateman7:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 13:33 GMT	9 points
	Too much time

	GeoExpert:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 15:25 GMT	7 points
	Great, great concept, but I would like to fill in the source box.

	htimsetan:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 16:02 GMT	3 points
	5 minutes would be better than 8. Good quiz.

	dstern1724:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 17:06 GMT	2 points
	too much time, got them all by guessing in 3 minutes

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	Emperor_Ziggy:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 19:22 GMT	5 points
	Thanks for the feedback, my screw-ups are now fixed.

	Uhlan:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 21:32 GMT	-3 points
	Hawaii isn't in Oceania. Neither is the USA.

	Otacon:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 00:52 GMT	0 points
	I was going to guess Bangladesh but was thinking "NAW, IT'S TOO SMALL"

	Eagle3:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 01:33 GMT	3 points
	otacon, ditto but I somehow got solomon islands.

	RS89:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 19:17 GMT	3 points
	russia is in asia as well as europe

	Emperor_Ziggy:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT	1 point
	@RS89: That does not mean that Russia would be in Asia's top five. However, if you are referring to the population of the Asian part of Russia being counted, Russia would still top the list for Europe without the Asian part being counted.

	Qazza2k9:	Oct 25th, 2009 at 19:48 GMT	0 points
	GOD DAMN IT SOLOMON ISLANDS!!!!!!

	cuendillar:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 11:13 GMT	2 points
	Russia do indeed fall (just) short for Asia. It's the 9th most populated country overall, but Bangladesh (7th) still have about 20 million more. There's simply too many highly populated countries in Asia.

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	Booger:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 16:28 GMT	1 point
	Great ziggy, wonder how you came up with this idea??

	A_is_for_Addict:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 17:57 GMT	5 points
	At the risk of being hammered down in ratings, I'm going to defend kaminskikov's suggestion. Hawaii is more closely associated (in a physical geography sense) with Oceania than North America or Asia. It lies slap bang in the middle of the Pacific plate and is often considered part of the Polynesian division of Oceania (along with Tuvalu, Tonga, Samoa, parts of Kiribati, New Zealand and several territories). I'm unsure of how it should appear in this quiz, a bonus answer on the Oceania category (which appears when typing USA for the North America section) would be a reasonable compromise. Also, it would be interesting to have the populations listed alongside the countries.

	Emperor_Ziggy:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 20:24 GMT	2 points
	@Booger: I can't tell if that's sarcasm or seriousness, but I didn't put a lot of effort into the idea. It was just something simple that no one had done yet, so I thought that I might put it on Sporcle.

	jaspa:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 18:20 GMT	3 points
	@octacon: I thought the same thing, except I didn't shout it at my screen.

	elnok:	Oct 28th, 2009 at 13:29 GMT	2 points
	4:00 is still too long... 3's probably better, no? You can get about 90% of them in under a minute, then the rest are trial and error.

	HPZ:	Oct 30th, 2009 at 15:29 GMT	7 points
	I'm a fan of Sporcle's default font size. I don't think they game is improved any by using gigantic text. Great game though!

	midlifecrisis:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 01:15 GMT	1 point
	Good game, but I didn't score well no with the time reduced.

	JoeyBeauchamp:	May 21st, 2010 at 08:31 GMT	0 points
	Take two minutes off, it's really quite easy

	HiddenPalace:	May 21st, 2010 at 16:28 GMT	0 points
	I got them all in a minute. Whilst I'm not advocating you reduce it to one minute, there is plenty of time here for guesses.

	sportsguyluke:	May 21st, 2010 at 20:35 GMT	5 points
	@kgolisano: there is also a country in central africa called "Republic of Congo," so common Sporcle practice is to not accept Congo for either due to confusion. DRC is accepted however.

	marpocky:	Dec 14th, 2011 at 01:24 GMT	1 point
	I agree that something needs to be done about the Hawaii/Oceania issue. It's true that the entire US is not in Oceania, but Hawaii is, and there are more Hawaiians than there are Fijians or...uh...Solomonians? Comparatively, Turkey is often included in Europe, and its population is more than that of France, the UK, or Italy. Similarly with Russia having a greater population than Bangladesh. If you are going to exclude those from their respective lists based on the fact that Turkey's European population and Russia's Asian population are too small, I think you have to include the US on the Oceania list.