Can you name the country OR element represented by these two-letter codes?

created by caramba

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Each two letter code is an element symbol or a country's internet top-level domain, so the answer is an element OR a country.
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Code	Answer
BD
BN
BO
CE
DE
ET
EU
FE
GN
HE
HG
HN
HO
HS
ID
LB
LT
MA
ME
ND

Code	Answer
NL
OS
PB
PD
PL
PO
PU
RA
RN
RO
SA
SL
TA
TI
TN
UA
YB
YE
ZN

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Country or Element? Quiz

by caramba

Created Aug 22, 2010 in Miscellaneous
Featured Jun 28, 2011
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	ninja143:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 19:17 GMT		16 points
	I found this quite confusing...

	Saints09:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 19:17 GMT		5 points
	Man it would be a lot easier if it was the other way around...great quiz got a grand total of 7

	ffi:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 19:44 GMT		8 points
	Good idea for a quiz; I found, however, that the element abbreviations were too easy, and the Internet extensions too difficult, which seems to be borne out by the results of the quiz. This is probably just because we Sporclers are more accustomed to elements than Internet extensions, but until that has changed it would probably be better to stick with more obscure elements and easier-to-guess Web extensions.

	caramba:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 20:09 GMT		3 points
	Well, that publish came out of nowhere! Thanks! If you want more of the same, here is a previously-published quiz of the elements that have the same abbreviation as a country code. http://www.sporcle.com/games/caramba/tungstan

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	friction:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 20:23 GMT		6 points
	It would have been easier if it was a Name any Country or Element quiz and not this

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	caramba:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 21:04 GMT		1 point
	@DyslexicGod: You have to have a title for the third column, then, using the Style page, you slide the 2nd little square on the right of the column sizer toward the left.

	EyeKanFly:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 21:17 GMT		2 points
	TL is also the country code for Timor-Leste (changed from East Timor with code TP in 2002). That should be removed from the quiz.

	caramba:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 21:24 GMT		1 point
	@ EyeKanFly: Today I learned something new. Thanks; I have removed TL.

	J_C_Lately:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 22:01 GMT		-2 points
	SL could also be Sri Lanka

	caramba:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 22:06 GMT		3 points
	@J_C_Lately: That would be LK.

	DougQuarry:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 02:33 GMT		0 points
	I really don't know how I got Mercury but couldn't figure out Montenegro.

	jcookie:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 02:41 GMT		5 points
	why is Morocco MA?

	happygi1more77:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 03:01 GMT		0 points
	Very confusing

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	Glimril:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 05:33 GMT		5 points
	@jcookie: ma = maroc/marocco @Heyman: these are internet top level domains, Slovakia is .sk and Slovenia .si, just like the US is .us and Canada is .ca etc

	tbh444:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 09:42 GMT		3 points
	Quite surprised by the low recognition for some of the tlds - .de and .nl are fairly common for pages of international scope, even .ua I see occasionally

	Mathiusdragoon:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 09:44 GMT		-3 points
	The wording on the quiz instructions makes it impossible to determine if the use of the word "or" is an exclusive or. That is until the quiz stops making sense halfway through and it "clicks"

	adjamemnon:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 09:47 GMT		0 points
	.eu is also a top-level domain for the European Union.

	tomstar86:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 12:03 GMT		3 points
	My thought on seeing the answers: "WHAT?! UA for Ukraine! That's stupid! I didn't put it because it seemed ridiculous!Why isn't it UK?........Oh."

	Pogues:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 16:09 GMT		2 points
	I thought for sure the countries would be way easier than the elements for myself. Boy was I wrong.

	matt01:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 19:58 GMT		-1 points
	I found this really boring, not something I usually feel when doing sporcle quizzes, just went "you know what, i really don't care!"

	shakescene:	Jul 2nd, 2011 at 02:36 GMT		3 points
	The French name of Morocco is "Maroc" and the Spanish one also begins with "Ma" (I've forgotten which R's are double and which C's), as any stamp collector could tell you.

	Sparky:	Oct 27th, 2012 at 20:37 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for the info on Morocco. I tried Manganese, Magnesium, Macedonia and Moldova before I gave that one up for lost ...