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Can you name the 25 most medium-sized countries?
created by
HPZ
Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source:
CIA World Factbook
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Area (sq km)
Country
Location
185,180
Asia
181,035
Asia
176,215
South America
163,820
South America
163,610
Africa
147,181
Asia
143,998
Asia
143,100
Asia
131,957
Europe
130,370
North America
120,538
Asia
118,484
Africa
117,600
Africa
Area (sq km)
Country
Location
112,622
Africa
112,090
North America
111,369
Africa
110,879
Europe
110,860
North America
108,889
North America
103,000
Europe
99,720
Asia
93,028
Europe
92,090
Europe
89,342
Asia
86,600
Asia
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Medium-sized Countries Quiz
by
HPZ
Created Oct 8, 2009 in
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HPZ
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Oct 8th, 2009 at 15:01 GMT
6 points
Thought this would be an interesting spin on the other country-size quizzes. For those that care, these are 25 countries centered around the median (Ethiopia's neighbor to the north).
evana
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Oct 8th, 2009 at 15:20 GMT
4 points
Interesting idea. Makes you want to curse those warped mercator projections.
dodsface
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Oct 8th, 2009 at 16:40 GMT
1 point
i like this
segacs
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Oct 8th, 2009 at 17:06 GMT
1 point
Really interesting, but I think the time might be too long. I got a lot of them just by guessing, which I had time to do.
HPZ
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Oct 8th, 2009 at 17:21 GMT
1 point
@segacs: I wasn't sure how much time would make sense. I wanted to make sure there was enough time for a non-expert to guess around and find a country that's actually in the list. Though now that I think about it I had that time limit in mind before I added the location hints, which probably make it easier. I think I'll drop the time a bit. Thanks for the input!
Onno
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Oct 8th, 2009 at 18:52 GMT
1 point
Interesting quiz. Finally some love for the median on Sporcle.
peanut4
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Oct 8th, 2009 at 23:12 GMT
3 points
I actually thought there wasn't enough time, simply because medium sized is difficult to find a frame of reference. Unlike biggest or smallest you have to find your feet for a couple of minutes.
HPZ
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Oct 9th, 2009 at 14:42 GMT
1 point
Thanks, peanut4. Looks like we've got one vote for "8 is too many" and one for "6 is too few." Anyone else?
HPZ
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Oct 9th, 2009 at 19:59 GMT
3 points
Thinking about it further, both the published quizzes for smallest and largest countries have eight-minute time limits. If a list starting with "Russia, Canada, USA" might take eight minutes, this [presumably tougher] list should take as long (if not longer).
gqb
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Oct 17th, 2009 at 23:33 GMT
2 points
Good quiz.
Goober
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Nov 9th, 2009 at 00:55 GMT
3 points
8 is good. No need to shorten it. Great quiz!
legriff
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Nov 9th, 2009 at 21:55 GMT
3 points
Time was just about right, maybe a minute less but I'm just nitpicking. @segacs: I would be very surprised if anyone *wasn't* guessing as there can't be a whole lot of people that have memorised the countries of the world in size order!
Nafets
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 21:54 GMT
2 points
Fantastic quiz! It really makes you think, and I found it quite eye-opening. I don't think of a lot of these as being very similarly sized. Well done, and I think the time's just about right.
miyomiyo1
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Nov 22nd, 2009 at 23:27 GMT
3 points
You might want to give a frame of reference (e.g. bigger than X and smaller than Y) because I had to enter a bunch of random countries until Portugal clicked and I was able to estimate around there.
Rdub19
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Nov 22nd, 2009 at 23:38 GMT
6 points
Nice quiz. It would be poetic to give it a middle-of-the-road rating, but it deserves so much more.
HPZ
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 18:43 GMT
1 point
@miyomiyo1: I knew doing that would make the quiz quite a bit easier, but I think it would change the spirit a bit. I do like that idea though; maybe a series of quizzes like "Can you name all the countries bigger than the Republic of the Congo and Smaller than the Democratic Republic of the Congo?" and so on. I'd play that!
TwoSheds
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Dec 26th, 2009 at 13:04 GMT
1 point
Hilarious, well done!
acroarcs
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Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT
1 point
Entertaining! As to time limit, I finished with about twenty seconds left. Educated guessing, but no type-everything-you-can guessing. So it seems right to me at 8 minutes.
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