Can you name the bordering countries of countries recognized by the Montevideo convention, but not by Sporcle? by NorwegianSalmon

Can you name the bordering countries of countries recognized by the Montevideo convention, but not by Sporcle?

created by NorwegianSalmon

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: Montevideo Convention
Only de facto borders are counted - that is, countries bordering areas actually controlled by these states, and not ones that they claim, but have no control over.
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Abkhazia

Nagorno-Karabakh

Northern Cyprus

Palestine

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Somaliland

South Ossetia

Transnistria

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Borders of Non-Sporcle Countries Quiz

by NorwegianSalmon

Created Nov 9, 2010 in Geography
Game Plays 1,282

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	tjvhammer:	Nov 9th, 2010 at 15:20 GMT	2 points
	Need to sort out the alternate answers so stats aren't inaccurate. I got 18/18 but 3 answers are still at 0%

	ButtercupSausage:	Nov 9th, 2010 at 15:49 GMT	2 points
	Interesting - involved plenty of guesswork for me, so could possibly be shorter. Good bonuses.

	shanti:	Nov 9th, 2010 at 19:01 GMT	-2 points
	got em, and the only one I've been to is the least guest one.

	hminion:	Nov 9th, 2010 at 22:30 GMT	4 points
	The generally accepted boundaries of Western Sahara has a short 40ish km border with Algeria.

	NorwegianSalmon:	Nov 9th, 2010 at 22:34 GMT	9 points
	@hminion Yes, but that part of Western Sahara is de facto controlled by Morocco, not the SADR, hence I did not include it. It is a bonus answer though.

	Rhys:	Nov 10th, 2010 at 11:05 GMT	2 points
	It's a good game, a little easy but there's nothing you could have done about that. 5 globes.

	gowhere:	Nov 10th, 2010 at 12:54 GMT	2 points
	I think you need to update your title a little to indicate that you are asking for bordering countries, as opposed to borders.

	bumfish:	Nov 10th, 2010 at 17:01 GMT	1 point
	I think your answers for Nagorno-Karabakh are wrong. It's entirely surrounded by Azerbaijan, and so doesn't border Armenia or Iran. Also, what about including Kosovo? Although many countries in the western world recognise it as independent (including USA and UK), there are still a majority of UN nations that don't.

	NorwegianSalmon:	Nov 10th, 2010 at 20:22 GMT	2 points
	Thank you. The source I was using was apparently wrong. It's surprisingly not very easy to find good, objective and reliable sources about that topic on the internet.

	NorwegianSalmon:	Nov 10th, 2010 at 20:23 GMT	6 points
	As for the lack of Kosovo, the purpose of this quiz was to have non-Sporcle countries. Kosovo is featured commonly on Sporcle, many of us know a bit about the geography of it. So is Taiwan, and even though Vatican City is only a UN observer, it more or less speaks for itself.

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	Zephos:	Nov 12th, 2010 at 00:24 GMT	3 points
	God I hope Somaliland gains independence. They really deserve it.

	nahtanoj999:	Nov 12th, 2010 at 14:50 GMT	1 point
	Since you are following the standards of control, you shouldn't list the palestinian state as bordering Jordan, since they don't control any land on that border.

	joebobs:	Nov 13th, 2010 at 21:48 GMT	4 points
	@ deco: Hong Kong is not considered a country by anyone, as it's well and truly part of China, however, it has different rules applying to it than the rest of China (i.e. it's a Special Administrative Region). So, because it has such different rules, lots of lists look at it separately, as including it with China would skew statistics.