Can you name the countries who drive on the left side of the road?

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Left Driving Countries Quiz

by Ben

Created Jul 7, 2009 in Geography
Featured Jul 7, 2009
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	Liberal:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:04 GMT	57 points
	A lot of these countries used to be colonies of the UK.

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	springmom:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:06 GMT	8 points
	Okay - discrepancies from previous quizzes - in ALL of the other quizzes with East Timor, it's listed as Timor Leste. Please be consistent. Go with whichever is the country's proper name and leave it at that.

	Otacon:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:14 GMT	61 points
	I wonder how it is on the borders of these countries... For example, driving into Pakistan from Afghanistan might cause some problems.

	LightningWombat:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:14 GMT	51 points
	I kinda want to go where you switch...Like the border between Angola and Namibia and see what confusion is going on.

	bean:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:15 GMT	63 points
	The "Guess as Many Lands that the British Empire Walked All Over" game!!

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	ForPony:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:21 GMT	36 points
	Watch this turn into a political discussion.

	zalagreensbury:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:30 GMT	18 points
	Great concept for a quiz...it's like Sporcles responding to all my thoughts I previously thought were too random and or embarrassing to publicly pose.

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	brianc:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:35 GMT	27 points
	there are roads in somalia? (joking... sorta)

	Philip Fink:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:37 GMT	10 points
	What percentage of the world's population does this list make up? Almost certainly less than half, but still a pretty decent percentage.

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	Kazbar:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:46 GMT	15 points
	I don't know, this quickly became another "Guess as many countries as you can, quiz". I'll get voted down for saying as such, but after a while, that's all it was to me

	zombifany:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 05:50 GMT	7 points
	Now we need a name the countries who drive on the right side quiz

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	magpie:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 06:10 GMT	8 points
	almost half of these places islands (like britain) which prob makes it easier. was canada ever on the left?

	jbear31:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 06:22 GMT	16 points
	i didn't realize that over one quarter of all countries drive on the left side!

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	MattL1216:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:18 GMT	-1 points
	just as a correction, pretty sure st. vincent and the grenadines doesnt work, which should work...

	Escaho:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:27 GMT	4 points
	Damn you, Timor-Leste! I always forget you!

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	davidr:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:27 GMT	18 points
	@Scott: Turks and Caicos isn't a separate country: it's a British Overseas Territory.

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	davidr:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:30 GMT	20 points
	@Philip F.: According to Wikipedia, these countries have about 34% of the world's population, though only about 28% of the world's road traffic.

	davidr:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:36 GMT	37 points
	@Otacon: The change-over at borders between left-hand and right-hand driving countries is achieved on major roads either by using traffic lights or a bridge to lift one direction over the other. For roads with little traffic, there's just a sign telling you to sort it out on your own.

	davidr:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:39 GMT	15 points
	@The Snakes: Actually, the Americans do have some roundabouts. There's at least one in San Francisco and at least one in Sioux City, Iowa.

	Sausage:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:44 GMT	20 points
	@Davidr - Not as many as in Swindon - for non-roundabout users feast your eyes on http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=51.562865,-1.771371&spn=0.000859,0.002843&t=h&z=19 and be afraid.

	mbossa:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	21 points
	I didn't expect them to show up on the quiz, but the (now Chinese) cities of Hong Kong and Macau both still drive on the left. You can see a somewhat convoluted switchover point between Macau and Mainland China at http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=22.140586,113.545235&spn=0.006489,0.009645&t=h&z=17

	davidr:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:55 GMT	2 points
	@MattL1216: Unless you type very quickly, `S(ain)t Vincent' will get you St Vincent and the Grenadines. There seem to be some issues with this sort of thing at the moment: neither `antiguaandbarbuda' nor `trinidadandtobago' is accepted; nor is any version of `S(ain)t Vincent and the Grenadines' that includes `and' and/or `the'.

	yes:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 08:57 GMT	6 points
	I tried to think of countries that were closely associated with the British for the past century and a half or so. I missed Japan because of this strategy and from what little I know of history, though :(

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	jesus:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 10:10 GMT	12 points
	@Sausage: Just another reason not to go to Swindon. Cheers.

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	nilocjin:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 10:13 GMT	7 points
	@The Snakes: There are some roundabouts in the US (called rotaries, actually, in New England, at least). But the UK is a bit bizarre in having roundabouts where there's absolutely no need for them. Also, I don't quite understand the purpose of large roundabouts controlled by traffic lights (again, in the UK)... building the roundabout seems like a lot of effort to just create a really complicated lighted intersection.

	HarryHop:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 10:13 GMT	14 points
	For pure roundabout magic, get yourselves to Milton Keynes! There's hundreds upon hundreds... And each one loved by all.

	Steesh:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 10:46 GMT	12 points
	@ AJ- Try thinking before you speak eh? In there we have the country that was the kickstart to global development (UK and the industrial revolution) and Japan the most technologically advanced people in the world. Good quiz though, almost guess the British Empire colonies, but not quite :)

	JoeGrzzly:	Jul 7th, 2009 at 11:53 GMT	0 points
	@xball that was the joke. Also call me a dumb American but I had thought most of the world drove on the left-side and that we were the strange ones for driving on the right.