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Can you name the countries with the most territory lying on the following lines of latitude?
created by
ImpromptuJ
Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Click any empty Latitude or Country to answer for that location
Source:
Great Circle Calculator
Territorial waters are not tabulated into the rankings. No countries officially have any territory above 85°N or below 60°S.
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Latitude
Country
Kilometers of Territory
80 degrees North
899 km
75 degrees North
1123 km
70 degrees North
3332 km
65 degrees North
5637 km
60 degrees North
6084 km
55 degrees North
6982 km
50 degrees North
4330 km
45 degrees North
3608 km
40 degrees North
4182 km
35 degrees North
3934 km
30 degrees North
3813 km
25 degrees North
2129 km
20 degrees North
1537 km
15 degrees North
1481 km
Latitude
Country
Kilometers of Territory
10 degrees North
1179 km
5 degrees North
1196 km
Equator
2345 km
5 degrees South
3968 km
10 degrees South
3719 km
15 degrees South
2279 km
20 degrees South
3026 km
25 degrees South
3914 km
30 degrees South
3693 km
35 degrees South
1402 km
40 degrees South
783 km
45 degrees South
470 km
50 degrees South
408 km
55 degrees South
264 km
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Countries by Latitude Quiz
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Created Feb 13, 2011 in
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Featured Mar 8, 2011
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Patteroast
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Feb 13th, 2011 at 21:03 GMT
14 points
Interesting quiz! They are mostly pretty easy to figure out if you have a good mental map, but there are some surprises!
indianwolf1992
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Feb 14th, 2011 at 14:18 GMT
10 points
Very interesting quiz: short, fun, and makes you think. CAR was the only one I missed. Awesome quiz though. Five globes!
Rig
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Feb 15th, 2011 at 00:44 GMT
6 points
Good idea for a quiz
borisyegerov
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Feb 15th, 2011 at 00:54 GMT
7 points
also, makes you really really good at typing australia quickly....
explodingtrees
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Feb 15th, 2011 at 02:29 GMT
5 points
Very creative quiz. Thanks for making it!
CuCN
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Feb 15th, 2011 at 05:35 GMT
1 point
Interesting and creative, but in my opinion it was also slightly too repetitive.
Steela
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Feb 15th, 2011 at 10:23 GMT
6 points
Really fun, do one for longtitude..... perhaps there'll be some surprises!
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lukebradford
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Feb 15th, 2011 at 21:44 GMT
-13 points
Great quiz! I think it would be a little less typing intensive and more fun if it wasn't answer-in-order and all the Australias, etc. appeared at once.
Ribhump
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Feb 16th, 2011 at 12:50 GMT
-1 points
very good idea. I think it may be a little easy in the time given though, maybe reducing the time limit by 1min would make it more challenging...
Patricio
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Feb 19th, 2011 at 01:02 GMT
2 points
Awesome quiz!
Archaeopteryx
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Feb 19th, 2011 at 18:00 GMT
1 point
Really liked this one.
emma2323
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Feb 20th, 2011 at 08:27 GMT
5 points
It is an interesting quiz. Good job! Took me a couple minutes to figure out you can name a country more than once (as on other quizzes they all just appear at once)... but I have just got home after a couple drinks so I would blame me not the quiz on that... haha
cms479
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Feb 22nd, 2011 at 21:23 GMT
0 points
Very, very cool concept. You should accept "us" for United States, especially if you're going to make us type it a bunch of times.
marpocky
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Feb 23rd, 2011 at 14:30 GMT
2 points
12 countries on this list. I'm curious how much that number goes up if you include every integer latitude in between. I'm guessing not much. Maybe a few more in the 25N-equator range.
Badgerhawk
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Feb 25th, 2011 at 03:26 GMT
1 point
Fun quiz. Wish I had thought of Sudan, I should have!
Game published: Mar 8th, 2011 at 19:03 GMT
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Jules
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 19:31 GMT
-36 points
wasn't clear you could use same country more than once.... was wracking brains for alternatives...
Hullabaloo
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 19:46 GMT
-1 points
Not easy that one.
mendelevium
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 20:16 GMT
28 points
Russia! Russia! Russia! Russia! USA! USA! USA! Brazil! Brazil! Brazil! Brazil! Australia! Australia! Australia!
koipen
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 20:19 GMT
14 points
+ Argentina! x3 One of the better quizzez to get published. Longitude would be interesting too I guess, If it weren't that half of the answers would be Russia.
NvjdsIsSmart
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 20:25 GMT
7 points
I loved how this quiz had overlapping answers, its sort of like finishing a homework assignment 8 times over, it makes you say, "YES!!!!!!!!!"!
GPB
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 20:43 GMT
4 points
A lot of fun but the answers are really kind of disappointing. Big chunk 1! Big chunk 2! Big chunk 3!
Time for redistricting!
Fruitbat
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 20:49 GMT
4 points
Love this idea.
QueenDexy
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 21:34 GMT
0 points
I thought it was a little deceiving
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Khazar49
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 21:35 GMT
-17 points
Another name for the quiz could be "guess the widest countries", but that would be too simplistic.
TeddyStalin
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 21:38 GMT
12 points
Perhaps it's worth mentioning in the instructions that the same answer may be used more than once.
Pogues
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 21:49 GMT
27 points
I was wracking my brain trying to come up with 80 degrees north, trying EVERY country I could think of in the northern reaches. Still I failed to figure it out. My 7, yes SEVEN, year old son walks out, sees the answer, and said...try Greenland. *Head Slap*
blue9254
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 21:51 GMT
5 points
@Pogues I totally agree. "What the heck is north of Russia?" I felt pretty dumb.
firefrey
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Mar 8th, 2011 at 23:24 GMT
0 points
looking at the distribution chart, it looks like quite a few people failed immediately or gave up and then went back again to conquer the quiz
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mikeyg99
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 00:39 GMT
-9 points
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hweb2012
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 01:23 GMT
0 points
trickier than i thought it would be!
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tvfan3
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 01:33 GMT
-5 points
Yes, got em all. God bless the Central African Republic
gellchom
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 02:29 GMT
0 points
I thought this was a very good idea for a quiz. Thanks!
punniker
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 03:38 GMT
5 points
@Khazar49- your mom would have made the quiz if that was the case.
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smythereens
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 04:03 GMT
-18 points
This was just lame. I got tired of typing Russia and quit.
Atario
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 06:19 GMT
3 points
Chile?? Why you little--!
NY_MOB
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 12:15 GMT
0 points
Very clever quiz. Loved it.
pfrijiritr
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 15:51 GMT
0 points
Halfway through typing "Saudi Arabia" when the timer went. 23/28. Really great quiz: definitely something I haven't thought about!
Berubium
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 18:54 GMT
0 points
I would love to see one for longitude; probably a lot harder for most people to visualize (well for me at least)...
SpeedyY
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Mar 9th, 2011 at 23:25 GMT
0 points
central african republic- screw you :)
TexasHolders
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Mar 10th, 2011 at 01:49 GMT
-1 points
Ahh, tried U.S. in several of the spots, didn't realize it required it be spelled out. Don't most geography quizzes accept US for United States?
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