Can you name the regions that are FIFA members, but not U.N. members as a sovereign state?

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Non-U.N. FIFA Members Quiz

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Created by: GeoExpert -
Published: November 10th, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 18,205

Tags: Soccer Quizzes, State Quizzes, region, fifa, sovereign, non, member

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	handslikemine:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 04:21 GMT	2 points
	Turks and Caicos isn't spelled correctly

	shawnoc:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 04:23 GMT	2 points
	This quiz was awesome. Practicing the continent quizzes might actually hurt you in this quiz.

	csjoholm:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 04:27 GMT	2 points
	"Faeroe Islands" should be accepted for "Faroe Islands". Great quiz idea.

	thebirdgirl:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 04:28 GMT	1 point
	YIKES! That was hard, or I'm dumb. Very enjoyable, though.

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	maniacalclown:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 05:25 GMT	12 points
	Oh lord, I can't believe I forgot the UK constituents.

	thebirdgirl:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 05:30 GMT	14 points
	clown: No kidding - I got Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland...but NOT England. haha

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	Wales:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 06:02 GMT	5 points
	Guadeloupe and Martinique have FIFA teams and they aren't countries, shouldn't they count too?

	chillicothe20:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 06:14 GMT	12 points
	Wales: those are non-FIFA, but CONCACAF-affiliated members.

	kevincrumbs:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 06:31 GMT	6 points
	LucasEwalt: Taiwan enters FIFA competitions as "Chinese Taipei", meaning that Chinese Taipei is the correct answer. Also, Taiwan is pretty much NOT recognised as a country by pretty much everyone.

	recklessness:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 06:35 GMT	3 points
	Some of those countries also compete by themselves in the Olympics: Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Turks & Caicos, Palestine, Guam, Netherlands Antilles, Cayman Islands and American Samoa.

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	Osprey39:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 06:49 GMT	10 points
	^ NASA? You know that's an agency of the US government, right? That's the worst example you could possibly come up with. Most countries treat Taiwan as independent, but very few have official diplomatic relations with them.

	Havok3595:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 07:03 GMT	12 points
	For the longest time (and potentially still) the People's Republic of China wouldn't have diplomatic relations with anyone who recognized Taiwan as a country. When given the choice between relations with the PRC or Taiwan, most countries choose the one that's a global superpower.

	Zalx:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 07:10 GMT	4 points
	I can't believe the difference here between the four parts of the UK listed. And England forth most guessed!!!!! Former winners (as us Englishmen like to remind everyone, all the time)

	eurythmech:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 07:18 GMT	6 points
	Brilliant idea for a quiz. Well done.

	davidr:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 07:38 GMT	9 points
	@Lucas Ewalt: `Chinese Taipei' absolutely should be an answer! Taiwan is a member of FIFA under that name, but not a member of the UN under any name. In fact, only around 25 countries give diplomatic recognition to Taiwan. China has a policy of refusing diplomatic relations with any country that recognizes Taiwan and, for most countries (including, for example, the USA, the UK, Russia and Japan), it's much more important to have diplomatic relations with China than with Taiwan.

	schulace:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 08:00 GMT	25 points
	At least this is one geography related quiz where we won't have boneheads saying "What about Wales? England? Scotland?"

	davidr:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 08:11 GMT	10 points
	@schulace: Maybe we'll get some counter-boneheads knee-jerking that it should be the UK. :-)

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	davidr:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 10:01 GMT	6 points
	@mdunne: There aren't any missing: Martinique and Guadeloupe aren't members of FIFA. And the FIFA member is specifically Tahiti, not French Polynesia as a whole.

	recklessness:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 12:03 GMT	2 points
	Tahiti was on this year's Under-20 World Cup

	GeoExpert:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 12:05 GMT	6 points
	Taiwan may be recognized by several countries, but it is not in the United Nations. It does have a FIFA team, and is known as Chinese Taipei.

	Rico_ferico:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 12:05 GMT	-1 points
	1 out of 24.....owned. got completely the wrong end of the stick

	Steesh:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 12:25 GMT	2 points
	I made a quiz listing the CONCACAF(North and Central American) teams and that was the only reason I did OK on this. It was only then I realised the obscurity of some of these footballing "nations". Also as has been mentioned earlier some have football teams but are not FIFA members such as Guadaloupe or Martinique but are members of CONCACAF.

	Everblue:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 13:21 GMT	1 point
	No Sealand?

	marpocky:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 13:28 GMT	1 point
	Wow. I can't think of another quiz I've taken where I got every answer EXCEPT the top 5 most gotten. I got all the teeny little Caribbean and Pacific ones, but not the obvious European ones.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 13:47 GMT	2 points
	Did awfully. Got the 4 home nations and faroe islands because i remember Scotland not being able to beat them a few years ago!

	schmollie:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 13:50 GMT	1 point
	Isn't American Virgin Islands for U.S. Virgin Islands reasonable?

	LucasEwalt:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 14:02 GMT	3 points
	My bad. I wasn't reading the 'recognized by the UN' part close enough. I was basically just going off of whether or not it was an answer in the 'countries of the world' quiz on here... which I suppose has very little international influence :)

	nobullship:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 14:02 GMT	-3 points
	no it's not

	ZeZapatiste:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 14:19 GMT	0 points
	I was pretty sure there were Guadeloupe and Martinique but the reason was given before... I forgot a lot even if I tried to remember who were involved in qualifying for the World Cup. But lot of them lose at the first round

	Commodore:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 14:24 GMT	1 point
	So non-US Centric, I can't believe it!

	Booger:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 14:26 GMT	7 points
	United States Virgin Islands should be accepted.

	redsxfenway:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 14:40 GMT	2 points
	@booger: agreed, I entered United States Virgin Islands, skipped US Virgin Islands, and missed it.

	kelsh:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 15:19 GMT	5 points
	Are they not also called Dutch Antilles?

	mjenks:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 15:28 GMT	2 points
	Well, this answers my questions about Faroe Islands after I was checking the scores for UEFA the other day. Thanks!

	colinc28:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 16:15 GMT	3 points
	such a great football quiz, definitely helps following the CONCACAF and UEFA qualifying

	Jelle:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 17:04 GMT	4 points
	If you look at the official site of the Tahiti football team it says that it represents the whole of French Polynesia, so it should count.