Missing Countries Quiz

Can you name the Missing Countries?

created by Jaybaybay940

Enter a current country name in the box below
Correctly named current country names will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
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Questions pertaining to countries that have broken into many different places require only one country name for an answer
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Former Name	Current Name	Year
Czechoslovakia		1993
Zaire		1997
Tanganyika and Zanzibar		1964
East and West Germany		1989
Western Samoa		1998
Bengal		1539
Basutoland		1966
Hawaii		1898
Tibet		1950
Champa		1832
Sikkim		1975
Texas		1845
Rhodesia		1980
North and South Yemen		1990
Yugoslavia		1990

Former Name	Current Name	Year
South Vietnam		1976
East Pakistan		1971
Austria-Hungary		1916
Transjordan		1946
New Grenada		1886
Gran Colombia		1930
Ceylon		1972
Corsica		Several brief periods of independence
Southwest Africa		1990
Catalonia		1939
USSR		1991
Siam		1939
Abyssinia		Early Twentieth Century
Burma		1989
Urjanchai Republic		1914
	1914

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Missing Countries Quiz

by Jaybaybay940

Created Mar 6, 2010 in Geography
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	Rooster:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 18:39 GMT	-2 points
	I don't get how these countries are missing.

	Jaybaybay940:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 18:49 GMT	0 points
	where did they go? Oh they were renamed! Thats where i was going with that...

	Chunklets:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 19:35 GMT	4 points
	Fun game! I'd suggest allowing "serbia" and "montenegro" independently for "yugoslavia," since I believe those two countries are now separate.

	Flick:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 20:10 GMT	7 points
	If they are missing you can collect them from Newfoundland (Geddit)!!!

	Jaybaybay940:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 21:46 GMT	1 point
	Thanks Chunklets. You are correct!

	conradmcmasters:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 22:30 GMT	1 point
	too much time though

	kennyb:	Mar 7th, 2010 at 00:44 GMT	0 points
	You should add Newfoundland and Labrador/Canada/1949.

	jcrow09:	Mar 7th, 2010 at 00:49 GMT	1 point
	Could you accept DRC for Democratic Republic of the Congo? Thanks.

	Jaybaybay940:	Mar 7th, 2010 at 01:53 GMT	1 point
	I could add a few more, but i like it at exactly twenty. but if you have ten more to suggest, then ill add them :)

	okapi:	Mar 7th, 2010 at 03:29 GMT	2 points
	Kosovo for Yugoslavia, and for Rhodesia, specify northern or southern, southern is now zimbabwe, while the north is now zambia, so as the quiz currently is formatted, both should be accepted

	Jaybaybay940:	Mar 7th, 2010 at 16:15 GMT	0 points
	@okapi I am adding Zambia. But Kosovo declared independance from Serbia in 2008. It was not recognized as a country when Yugoslavia broke up. So i do not think it should be accepted.

	emilkr:	Apr 15th, 2010 at 13:50 GMT	1 point
	Interesting quiz. Got them all with 50 seconds to go. @Jaybaybay: Of course you can never make an exhaustive list of former or renamed countries. Leaving it at twenty is just fine. @okapi: I am tempted to disagree with you on Rhodesia. I think it is more correct as Jaybaybay had it in the first place. What is now known as Zambia was indeed formerly known as Northern Rhodesia and what is now known as Zimbabwe was at the same time known as Southern Rhodesia. But after Norther Rhodesia became independent as Zamibia Southern Rhodesia unilaterally declared its independence as "Rhodesia" and existed as such from 1965 to 1979 before briefly becoming Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and later Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is therefore the only country that has been called Rhodesia without any further definition.

	JoeyBeauchamp:	Apr 15th, 2010 at 14:01 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz, although a couple of spelling errors - Austia, Moldovia - and separate Serbia and Montenegro.

	emilkr:	Apr 15th, 2010 at 15:59 GMT	1 point
	One more thing: I believe all of what is now called the Czech Republic used to belong to Austria-Hungary. Not "parts of the Czech Republic" as stated in the quiz.

	Jaybaybay940:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 01:05 GMT	-1 points
	@Joey: no offense but I believe you are the one who has the spelling errors... and when Yugoslavia broke up the country was called "Serbia and Montenegro" @Emil: I agree on both counts and am compelled by your arguement to change the accepted answers.

	kokis:	Jun 18th, 2010 at 09:55 GMT	1 point
	great quiz

	Chipmunkdavis:	Jun 18th, 2010 at 16:42 GMT	1 point
	Accept dem rep congo and D R congo, other usual sporcle names. In addition, I reckon since you want to keep it at 20, if better ones are suggested replace east/west germany and north/south yemen. Somehow they just don't provide the challenge the others do :)

	RS89:	Jun 18th, 2010 at 20:53 GMT	1 point
	Should be Bosnia and Herzegovina.

	RS89:	Jun 18th, 2010 at 20:55 GMT	1 point
	@Jabaybay940: No, it is your spelling that is wrong. What Joey meant was that you misspelled those two countries in the answer sections.

	mrpotwtf69:	Jun 18th, 2010 at 23:47 GMT	1 point
	Hawaii is still Hawaii same thing with Texas. I don't get those. You should've used all 50 states from the U.S. if you wanted to do that. Because at one point they were all not part of USA.

	Jaybaybay940:	Jun 22nd, 2010 at 17:29 GMT	1 point
	@RS89,Joey: OOPS i misunderstood you :S problem has been fixed! @mrpot: well Texas and Hawaii both had their own governments at one point.. not all 50 states did

	WeaselKing1000:	Aug 28th, 2010 at 10:00 GMT	1 point
	Damn, I thought I'd be clever and put Moldova for the USSR; if I'd just put Russia I would have got the answer to Urjanchai Republic... >( Also, two points about Corsica: it isn't a département of France but a 'territorial collectivity' comprising 2 départements, and 'independance' should be 'independence'. Keep up the good work!

	Jaybaybay940:	Sep 18th, 2010 at 05:05 GMT	2 points
	Thanks Weasel. I changed "independence" but I'll be a little less specific and call Corsica a region of France :) I like your name btw.