Completed modern topographic surveys in 1885 Quiz by Malo_Polska

Can you name the completed modern topographic surveys in 1885?

created by Malo_Polska

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Colonies and states with surveys independent of their "mother" country are listed separately. Information is sourced from Lloyd A. Brown's "The Story of Maps"
This quiz has not been verified by Sporcle

Popular trivia games today

Color Sequence Memory Game

5833

Tea Producing Countries

3019

True or False Logic Quiz

1548

Word Ladder: Island Countries

1183

3x3 Word Blitz

1013

'A' Baby Names (2009)

907

Country Trivia Logic Puzzle

821

Missing Word: World Movies

754

And more...

PLAY GAME

04:00

Show Missed Answers

Year Initiated	Country
1554
1595
1663
1720
1730
1746
1761
1773
1776
1781

Year Initiated	Country
1783
1793
Late 18th Century
Late 18th Century
Early 19th century
Early 19th Century
1830
Mid 19th century
Mid 19th Century
Mid 19th century

Javascript is not currently enabled on your browser.
If you do have Javascript enabled:
This site uses javascript to make the magic happen.
Please turn on javascript and reload this page, or use a more current browser (like Firefox)

You might also like these games:
Countries of Europe	Countries of Africa	Countries of the World

There are 4 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

Surveyed Countries - 1885 Quiz

by Malo_Polska

Created Jan 28, 2013 in Geography
Game Plays 58

Friend Scores and Standings

Loading friend results....

Top Games Today in Geography

Top Games with Similar Tags

Top User Games in Geography

	Dralcoffin:	Jan 28th, 2013 at 15:59 GMT		1 point
	For those wondering where the US is: parts of Alaska weren't surveyed until the 1950s. The Lower 48 was completed by 1881 (the Oklahoma Panhandle).

	johnlk:	Jan 28th, 2013 at 16:58 GMT		0 points
	How can Russia have completed its topographical survey in 1720 when large areas in central Asia and the Caucasus did not come under Russian control until the mid-19th century? Same thing for the German states, all of which gained lots of new territory after the time of the listed surveys.

	Malo_Polska:	Jan 28th, 2013 at 17:09 GMT		1 point
	The year listed is when the survey was initiated, not completed. In the cases of Sweden and Bavaria, these early surveys were not continuous efforts with the published surveys available by 1885, but represent the first modern, scientific surveying efforts in those countries

	Malo_Polska:	Jan 28th, 2013 at 17:11 GMT		1 point
	My understanding is that substantial parts of the "wild west" were unsurveyed in the late 19th century. My source, Brown's Story of Maps, lists the countries with complete and published surveys at the time of the first world geographic conference - whose express goal was to make a modern scientific world map. The US was not considered to have completed national surveying efforts at that time.