Can you name the highest developed countries? by Soija

Can you name the highest developed countries?

created by Soija

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: Human Development Reports
List of countries by Human Development Index (HDI). Compiled in 2009 on the basis of data from 2007. Since Hong Kong is a tricky one (not a country) you'll get that answer for free. ;)
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Rating	Country	HDI
1		0.971
2		0.970
3		0.969
4		0.966
5		0.965
6		0.964
7		0.963
8		0.961
9		0.960
10		0.960
11		0.960
12		0.959
13		0.956
14		0.955
15		0.955
16		0.955
17		0.953
18		0.951
19		0.951

Rating	Country	HDI
20		0.950
21		0.947
22		0.947
23		0.944
24		0.944
25		0.942
26		0.937
27		0.935
28		0.934
29		0.929
30		0.920
31		0.916
32		0.914
33		0.910
34		0.909
35		0.903
36		0.903
37		0.903
38		0.902

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Most developed countries Quiz

by Soija

Created Dec 1, 2009 in Geography
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	Masternachos:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 01:52 GMT	1 point
	Hong Kong is not a country, sorry.

	TheDestr0yer:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 02:04 GMT	1 point
	I like the idea of the quiz. To fit with a term I like to call Sporcle Law, you should remove Hong Kong and accept 'UAE' for United Arab Emirates.

	Soija:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 02:08 GMT	3 points
	Yes Hong Kong isn't a country, I know. But I've edited the Game Note for that. :) 'UAE' has been added. I forgot to do that before. Thanks for the comments.

	MK18:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 02:22 GMT	1 point
	good game. you might want to consider lessening the time. i got all except 2 within the first 4 minutes and then spent the rest of the time guessing countries until i got the other 2! i like the game a lot though! even though hong kong isn't a country, you obviously should keep it on there since it's on the hdi list. maybe you could consider accepting 'china' as an answer for hong kong?

	Soija:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 02:31 GMT	3 points
	Hi, tnx. I did consider to accept 'china' befor I saved the game, but I didn't think that's honest, since China comes 92nd.

	transparentblack:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 15:22 GMT	0 points
	that still doesnt mean you can put hong kong on that list.

	Soija:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 17:42 GMT	3 points
	You should read the game note first. HDR put Hong Kong on that list.

	godpaul25:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 00:34 GMT	-4 points
	When i think of highest developed countries, iceland and luxembourg are always way ahead of the USA. These indexes are all ridiculously biased towards eurotrash and socialism.

	Zephos:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 00:24 GMT	2 points
	None of these are socialist states, the socialist states are mostly low-middle ranked. With North Korea probably being direly low. So in other words you're retarded.

	Zephos:	Mar 16th, 2010 at 00:32 GMT	2 points
	Also you can't just randomly declare bias, you have to demonstrate it exists. And "THE USA IS SLIGHTLY LESS PROSPEROUS THEN A HANDFUL OF PLACES" as a reason is going to get you rightly laughed at.

	gregdool:	Jun 5th, 2010 at 20:20 GMT	2 points
	socialist is definitely a more accurate description of iceland and the nordic countries than it is for north korea. north korea is a communist state. godpaul is right, socialist-leaning countries always score higher on these things. sweden, iceland and norway have some of the most progressive tax systems in the world.

	Zephos:	Jul 23rd, 2010 at 18:55 GMT	1 point
	They aren't socialist states, they're democracies that have voted in these policies and the politicians who push them. Socialist states are constituitionally bound to socialism like the five communist states.

	chriskotx:	Aug 16th, 2010 at 01:06 GMT	2 points
	I bet the Irish love being ahead of the UK on this list.

	historybuff1861:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 15:43 GMT	1 point
	Greece is socialist. and they are republics a democracy is when every single person votes on every single bill the are either republican democracies like the USA our republics.