How many countries of North America (which includes Central America and the Caribbean Islands) can you name? Type a country into the box below. If you correctly name a country, it will show up on the map below.
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Countries of North America Quiz

Rating:	Report a mistake
Published: August 30th, 2007
Category: Geography
Plays: 2,078,532

Tags: America Quizzes, Country Quizzes, North America Quizzes, map, civicsclass

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	MJ:	Sep 10th, 2008 at 00:56 GMT	60 points
	Wow, those islands are tricky!

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	foreverfreebird:	Sep 26th, 2008 at 19:28 GMT	21 points
	Yeah...it's all a matter of how you classify, and there's not really a "right" way to do it. I know growing up we thought of Central American as part of South America, although actually looking at a map now it does make more sense as part of North America. And then, now (I'm American) I live in Italy, and here my friends were all taught in school that there are only six continents. They think of "America" as a continent--both north and south.

	davidr:	Oct 4th, 2008 at 15:20 GMT	9 points
	If you look at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Tectonic_plates_boundaries_detailed-en.svg , you can see that everything north of Guatemala is on the North American plate, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are on the Caribbean plate and Costa Rica and Panama on the Panama plate. The North Andean plate has a big land boundary with the South American plate so that goes most naturally with South America. But the boundary between North and South could be chosen at any of the plate boundaries. Including Panama in North America gives the narrowest cut so it seems most sensible, but the decision is pretty arbitrary.

	Edu:	Oct 4th, 2008 at 15:35 GMT	44 points
	@ SporcleAdmin: A bit confusing that "St" is not accepted here but it is fine in "Countries of the World" quiz (Instead one has to type "saint" fully)

	magister:	Oct 5th, 2008 at 03:20 GMT	6 points
	@davidr: I would hope that you recognize I respect you, but you've outdone yourself with completely gigantic hard-to-follow comments on that one.

	Jeremy:	Oct 6th, 2008 at 21:46 GMT	33 points
	I have to agree with Edu. It would be nice if you could type St. Lucia.

	springmom:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 03:02 GMT	22 points
	If you go look at any map of the region, "Saint" is never typed out. They all use the abbreviation "st." Please change it. The first time I did this one, I missed those because I kept putting in St instead of the whole word. I mean, here we don't type out Saint in St. Louis, do we? No, we don't.

	Faxman:	Oct 20th, 2008 at 22:54 GMT	25 points
	After doing Countries of the World in 15 minutes, the 10 minutes for this quiz really seems like a lot of time.

	magister:	Oct 27th, 2008 at 02:31 GMT	8 points
	@faxman: Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development strikes again.

	shorts:	Nov 6th, 2008 at 04:19 GMT	18 points
	Absolutely ridiculous it doesn't recognize St.

	James:	Nov 13th, 2008 at 21:19 GMT	9 points
	davidr u are in every game, talking, are u part of the web site or sumin?

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	mahatma:	Nov 23rd, 2008 at 18:19 GMT	20 points
	I will add to the chorus requesting consistency in the area of 'Saint', 'St', 'St.' Another thing that keeps sticking with me is that 'Saint Vincent' is enough for one answer, but 'Saint Kitts' is not. It would seem to me that the whole name should be required (a la 'Sao Tome and Principe', 'Bosnia-Herzegovina', etc).

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	chillicothe20:	Dec 3rd, 2008 at 16:07 GMT	83 points
	Anybody else think "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" sounds like a musical act? Like Gladys Knight and the Pips?

	mosfunky:	Dec 5th, 2008 at 19:42 GMT	18 points
	please allow "St" for "Saint." Thank you.

	sactoshc:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 21:52 GMT	8 points
	this is the perfect way to practice for jeopardy...love it.

	ckbryant:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 12:54 GMT	14 points
	The only complaint I have about this map is that Barbados should probably have a line to it like the other tiny islands. I can't even really tell if it gets colored in when you type the name, because it's so small. I think it would be good to have one or more quizzes that were _only_ about the overseas territories. For instance, you could name all the territorial possessions in the Caribbean, or the territories on the UN's official list of Non-self-governing territories, or the list of British overseas territories, and so forth. Another good possibility would be to do all the major territorial divisions in the Caribbean, whether they're countries or not--so you'd have Martinique and Aruba, for instance, as well as Dominica.

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	chambers:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 15:51 GMT	6 points
	why do i always forget antigua and barbuda thats the only one i missed on all the continents

	SporcleAdmin:	Dec 19th, 2008 at 22:52 GMT	41 points
	St has been fixed. Please accept our apology for our unbearable slowness.

	davidr:	Dec 29th, 2008 at 01:31 GMT	10 points
	@someguy55: Netherlands Antilles is not an independent country.

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	autigers:	Dec 31st, 2008 at 14:43 GMT	15 points
	Cayman Islands are under the UK, similar to the british virgin islands

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	Mr Bojangles:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 19:59 GMT	17 points
	@WarioBro: It's because you have an unrelenting annoying habit of trying to convince everyone you're awesome.

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	davidr:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 20:21 GMT	9 points
	@mike: Um. `St' is accepted, now. And, yes, it does have to be Antigua and Barbuda because that's the name of the country.

	LeeC:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 14:15 GMT	5 points
	Along the St vs Saint line, can we have & accepted for and? Got tired of writing that out.

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	GeordieGuitarist:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 00:19 GMT	18 points
	I've always thought Saint Vincent and the Grenadines would be a great name for a band.

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	EgoTrippin:	Mar 1st, 2009 at 22:58 GMT	13 points
	Puerto Rico is part of the United States

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	subway24:	Mar 7th, 2009 at 16:09 GMT	0 points
	Wow, I got 13! I always considered North America to have 3 countries, but then this quiz would be a piece of cake. Anyway, thanks for making Sporcle and I hope you make more geography quizzes!

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	ShevanelT2:	Mar 12th, 2009 at 18:04 GMT	-3 points
	i missed 2! and they were easy ones too! Jamaica and Barbados!