Can you name the countries which are the only one to contain each bigram (* = a space was removed)? by cheezguyty

Can you name the countries which are the only one to contain each bigram (* = a space was removed)?

created by cheezguyty

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Click any empty Bigram or Country to answer for that location
Source: Countries of the World quiz
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Bigram	Country
ae
aj
aq
aw
bh
bw
by
cc
cy
cz
db*
dh*
dj
dk*
dn*
dp*
du
ee
ek
eq
ex
ez
fg
gd
gl
ht
id
ik
io

Bigram	Country
iq
iw
iz
jo
kh
km
kr
ku
ky
lb
ls*
lt
lv
ly
nk
nl
ns
nu
nz
ob
od
og
oo
op
oz
ph
pt
qa
rs

Bigram	Country
rz
sc
sn
sp
sy
tk*
tl*
tn
ty
tz
uc
uk
ul
um
uv
uw
ux
uy
uz
wg*
wz*
xe
xi
ye
ys
yz
zb
zs
zu
oi

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Country Bigrams Quiz

by cheezguyty

Created Nov 22, 2009 in Geography
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	cheezguyty:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 08:29 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for playing my quiz! Please leave any comments or questions.

	Chromatos:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 09:28 GMT		3 points
	Wow, this was tough... Also, USA fits for "fa" also.

	lupin:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 15:27 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz! It was really tough - got just over a third of the answers.

	TimeAndTide:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 16:38 GMT		1 point
	Tough quiz! 51 of 92, and I'm pleased with that! I had the same comment as Chromatos: United States oF America -- so there are two FA bigrams. This is definitely one I'll try again sometime.

	thedpr:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 16:50 GMT		3 points
	If you're going to be using the standard short forms of country names (i.e., not "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland") then shouldn't it simply be Micronesia? I'd vote for not counting multi-word bigrams, but that's just me.

	nitpicker:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 17:23 GMT		1 point
	Bigrams separated by a space shouldn't be included. Also, the "oi" bigram is odd, since Sporcle accepts "Ivory Coast" as an answer. But a great quiz -- much better than I thought when I saw it!

	Heresy:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 18:36 GMT		2 points
	I'll be looking at each country name now a little differently! Thanks for the tough quiz.

	cheezguyty:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 22:39 GMT		1 point
	Thanks for the comments! I removed "fa" because I failed to realize there were two possible answers. I've also removed "fe" and "fm" because, even though the correct name of the country is Federated States of Micronesia, it is much more well known by just Micronesia. I've also made "oi" (Côte d'Ivoire) a bonus answer, since it is known by many as Ivory Coast.

	cheezguyty:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 22:51 GMT		1 point
	@thedpr: While you make a valid point, there is a small difference. The United Kingdom is an accepted abbreviated name and is commonly used by its government and around the world. But the government website, United Nations, and the CIA World Factbook refer to the Federated States of Micronesia by that name and never as Micronesia. I know that the latter is more well known and used, but I felt like I had to find an official source to make a decision in those gray areas. However, I will leave FSM out of this quiz because it is worse to have everyone miss it due to a technicality than to put it in just to prove a point.

	cheezguyty:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 23:09 GMT		1 point
	@nitpicker: I know that bigrams don't usually span across a space, but I was left with no alternative. I didn't want to include spaces in the bigrams (e.g. _H for Bosnia and Herzegovina). But if you took each word by itself, then country names with multiple words have nothing holding them together. I will look into doing something to alleviate this problem.

	cheezguyty:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 23:24 GMT		1 point
	After careful consideration, I decided to label the 10 bigrams in which I removed a space with a star. Please note that d_b and db are the same considered the same bigram. Sorry if you were confused before I did this.

	Kicking222:	Nov 28th, 2009 at 15:32 GMT		4 points
	This is a really, truly stellar game. One of the best I've seen in a long time, and certainly better than anything I've come up with recently. Personally, I would go with official names- include the "oi" in Cote d'Ivoire, for example- but that issue could certainly go either way. My only wish is that a quiz could be longer than 20 minutes- I don't know about anyone else, but this one requires so much thought that I was still coming up with answers as time ran out. Still, I would love to see this one published on the main page- it's that brilliant.

	cheezguyty:	Nov 28th, 2009 at 23:52 GMT		1 point
	Thanks Kicking222 for your kind words! I know that this quiz was going to be a long one, and I thought about splitting it into two, but I decided against it. Would it be better if I did that? I am always trying to think of new quiz ideas, but it is difficult to come up with a new concept. I love geography and wordplay, so I really enjoyed making this and I hope to create similar quizzes.

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	cheezguyty:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 00:07 GMT		8 points
	@puckett86: Actually, if you could read, you would have known that I contributed this game a month and a half before Bray did. Perhaps you should tell him that instead.

	DJC83:	Mar 27th, 2010 at 19:10 GMT		3 points
	Awesome quiz. And you're right that your quiz was contributed well before Bray's. Makes one wonder why his is so similar to yours.... ^_^

	Jam1:	Nov 30th, 2010 at 20:18 GMT		-2 points
	Accepting 'Micronesia' for the Federated States of Micronesia is like accepting 'America' for the United States of America. Micronesia is a group of Islands in the Pacific that are shared amongst many countries, just like America is two continents that are shared amongst many countries. If I had my way, sporcle quizzes would display Micronesia as 'Federated States' or 'FSM', like they display America as 'United States' or 'USA'

	cheezguyty:	Dec 1st, 2010 at 00:16 GMT		1 point
	@Jam1: I appreciate your comments; however, Micronesia is not even on this quiz, so I'm not sure what your point is. I originally had FSM as an answer, but since most if not all of the other quizzes on this site do not even call it by that name, it was unfair to expect everyone to think of that as a possible answer.

	puckett86:	Dec 1st, 2010 at 00:24 GMT		4 points
	Wow this quiz got bumped today, and I just realized my comment from a few months ago was totally wrong. Sorry cheezguyty. You're right; you were first. That was the second comment I ever made on this site, so I hope you'll forgive my ignorance at the time.

	cheezguyty:	Dec 1st, 2010 at 03:17 GMT		3 points
	@puckett86: I gladly forgive you, and I hope you can forgive me for such an impolite response. I was a little upset at the time about the other quiz getting published instead, but I've learned to live with it now.