Can you name the countries that lie on the Equator and the Prime Meridian?

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Equator and PM Countries Quiz

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Created Jan 27, 2009 in Geography
Featured Jan 27, 2009
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	iana:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 05:13 GMT	6 points
	20/21, a fun quiz. Who would have thought of Kiribati?

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	maniacalclown:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 05:28 GMT	3 points
	I can't believe I managed to pull a perfect score the first time through. I liked that the order of the list served as a huge clue, and I would have never come up with Kiribati without it.

	Brandon:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 05:29 GMT	15 points
	um, the us ends way north of the equator, which happens to go directly through part of kiribati, so no, it doesn't have as much claim lol

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	bsd987:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 06:20 GMT	50 points
	21/21. Equatorial Guinea doesn't cut it, hehe.

	Mr Bojangles:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 07:17 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz. 19/21. Can't believe I missed Kiribati and the Maldives. @Esteban: A US territory is not a country.

	kcap1:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 09:06 GMT	7 points
	Man, I only missed 2, and they were pretty obvious ones. Somalia and Ghana. Didn't even think of Ghana because I already had Togo and figured it couldn't go through both...

	buiksloot:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 09:53 GMT	0 points
	Me too, pronk. I was thinking of Ghana and its neighbors in 2-dimensions.

	faeryty:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 10:21 GMT	11 points
	I had exactly the same thought process re: Ghana. Didn't realise Kiribati was that far north and would never have got the maldives as they're the only one out of order!

	chambers:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 10:55 GMT	1 point
	ty has a great point. that was the only one i missed! otherwise, i loved it

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	Bretzky:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 12:38 GMT	41 points
	jack: Actually the official name for Sao Tome and Principe is República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe, not et. And besides, we've been through this before on other quizzes. The answers are in English, not the native languages of the countries shown. By your logic the quiz should also accept 中国 for China or Россия for Russia or France for France. Oh right, never mind about that last one.

	Booger:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 12:46 GMT	32 points
	Fun quiz. I agree that it's ironic that the equator does not pass through Equatorial Guinea. I had to type it in twice just to be sure!

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	debbiedoesnothin:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 13:18 GMT	6 points
	@ brett - You can get Ivory Coast by typing it in English but it shows up on the countries quiz in French. Fun quiz.

	ckbryant:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 13:39 GMT	15 points
	The _general_ practice, to which there are of course a raft of exceptions, is to use English translations of funtional or descriptive words, and leave pure place names in the original. If you go to the UN website and look for a list of countries, you will see "Central African Republic," "Sao Tome and Principe," and so forth. (But you will never see "Ancient and Bearded" for "Antigua and Barbuda," or, for that matter, "Saint Thomas and Prince" for "Sao Tome and Principe." So it's a little illogical. Welcome to Earth.) Cote d'Ivoire is special, as they have officially asked (for over 20 years) that their country be referred to by it's French name in all languages...although that just seems to bother a lot of people, so it's not universally honored. Now, I think it would be fun to include as many "local language" versions of names as possible on this quiz, but the English forms don't just come out of thin air--there's an ISO standard and everything.

	Kicking222:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 13:41 GMT	3 points
	Fun quiz. I'm actually surprised (by the stats) at how well people did on average- I think 31% getting 15 or more is really impressive. I only got 13, but I'm OK with that... if you gave me a year, I probably wouldn't have thought of Kiribati, Gabon, or Burkina Faso (though I somehow came up with Maldives- go figure).

	pbrown:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 14:25 GMT	14 points
	fun quiz, next should be countries on the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn

	Booger:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 14:49 GMT	4 points
	@nearlyextinct: It seems the order of the countries is from North to South for the countries along the Prime Meridian and from West to East for the countries on the Equator, starting from the Prime Meridian. The only exception is Maldives, which I assume was originally omitted by accident and added later to the countries on the Equator.

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	Jeremy:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 15:16 GMT	8 points
	Damn you Kiribati! And once again, Baker Island is not a country.

	tbh444:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 15:39 GMT	9 points
	I think Esteban's point is that USA as a country should be included because part of its territory (ie Baker Island) is on the equator. Can see the argument but you would not describe it 'in the USA' as such, either way would be a horrible trick answer! Got 20 with Kiribati at the 11th hour, but missed Maldives

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	marpocky:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 15:49 GMT	10 points
	@JSChen: Actually on the land borders one, French Guiana is not counted for France (which I think is the wrong choice...). Kaliningrad and French Guiana are actually parts of their countries, not just territories like Baker Island.

	tbh444:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 15:50 GMT	11 points
	French Guiana and Kaliningrad are integral parts of those countries as opposed to dependencies which are legally very different (e.g. French Guianans are full French citizens, people from Martinique aren't). But the question remains exactly what country is the equator passing through at that point if not the USA?

	melissa:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 15:56 GMT	4 points
	Great quiz - thanks sporcle!! I don't necessarily think the U.S. should be included by virtue of Baker Island (mainly because I would have missed it!!) -- but in Esteban's defense, Denmark is ranked on the "Largest Countries" quiz by virtue of its overseas territory Greenland. So I can see his point. Maybe the instructions could simply specify that territories, dependencies, etc. are not included.

	jkd:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 16:16 GMT	-2 points
	@pbrown: Another obvious extension would be the arctic and antarctic circles.

	Kicking222:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 16:27 GMT	10 points
	@jkd: The Antarctic Circle? I'm pretty sure there are zero countries on the Antarctic Circle.

	Uhlan:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 16:36 GMT	22 points
	I am so going to sue Equatorial Guinea under the Trade Descriptions Act.

	happyjoe5:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 16:37 GMT	6 points
	Move Maldives to between Somalia and Indonesia where it belongs. Based on where it is on the list I was trying to think of somewhere between Brazil and Sao Tome and Principe to fill that gap.

	whatchucare:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 16:45 GMT	-3 points
	That equator is a hell of a thing, passing through Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, yet NOT passing through Peru.

	will1:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 17:10 GMT	3 points
	I love quizzes where you have to go over the map in your mind to find the answer. Excellent quiz.

	nearlyextinct:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 18:36 GMT	3 points
	That is why I was asking the order because the Maldives confused me.

	Yellowknife:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 18:39 GMT	2 points
	Equatorial Guinea is actually at the 2nd Parallel north that is. I was surprised to Colombia and Maldives on the Equator list. Yes both countries do have tropical climates, but I was surprised that they extended that far south and I question Maldives because south of the Maldives is the much accursed and impossible to type British Indian Ocean Territory which actually lies on the equator also,but is not a country. On another note, Kiribati lies where the Equator meets the International Date Line and actually the IDT once cut the country in half (Until 1995).

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	ku_sucks:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 19:58 GMT	18 points
	dude, just drop it.

	davidr:	Jan 27th, 2009 at 20:27 GMT	6 points
	@Yellowknife: French Guyana is not a French territory: it is a full part of France, just as Alaska and Hawaii are full parts of the USA.