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Can you name the countries of the Danube River basin (DRB)?
created by
gnatural
Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source:
International Commission of the Protection of the Danube River
The 9 bordering and containing countries are entered from source (west) to sea (east). Those marked with an asterisk (*) are part of the basin without bordering or containing the river itself.
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Countries
Percentage of total DRB
7%
10%
5.9%
11.6%
4.4%
10.2%
29%
5.9%
1.6%
0.2%*
Countries
Percentage of total DRB
< 0.1%*
2.9%*
2%*
4.6%*
< 0.1%*
0.9%*
< 0.1%*
< 0.1%*
3.8%*
3.8%*
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Countries of the Danube Quiz
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Created Dec 10, 2009 in
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Featured Aug 28, 2011
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Trazom
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Dec 10th, 2009 at 16:54 GMT
5 points
Excellent quiz!
sproutcm
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Dec 10th, 2009 at 16:56 GMT
6 points
Aw, you didn't make me have to spell Herzegovina.
ragazzo
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May 5th, 2010 at 09:56 GMT
4 points
Great quiz!
OscilatingGibbon
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May 5th, 2010 at 15:26 GMT
5 points
Nice quiz. It's interesting and challenging because you have to think about where the river goes, where the hills/mountain ranges are and therefore which countries are likely to fall within the drainage basin.
flixuk
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May 5th, 2010 at 16:25 GMT
2 points
please don't accept 'bosnia' for 'bosnia and herzegovina'
Dralcoffin
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Oct 17th, 2010 at 01:16 GMT
12 points
I know the source doesn't include it, but Kosovo makes 20 countries in the basin. Such change from a century ago: German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russian Empire (9 countries).
Bogeiman
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Dec 1st, 2010 at 06:43 GMT
-3 points
Its a good quiz, but i don't see how switzerlabd is
Dralcoffin
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Jan 9th, 2011 at 02:20 GMT
6 points
^^Maloja and Inn Districts in the southeastern corner of Switzerland are in the Inn River valley. The Inn River joins the Danube at Passau, Germany.
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blairio
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Jun 1st, 2011 at 09:02 GMT
-37 points
@Dralcoffin Kosovo isn't a country
Game published: Aug 28th, 2011 at 04:03 GMT
Scuba_Steve
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 04:52 GMT
14 points
@blairio - Yes it is.
nowaybrah76
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 05:49 GMT
1 point
damn why do I always spell "Moldova" Maldova...screws me up everytime
NY_MOB
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 05:50 GMT
12 points
Okay, I just looked it up. "The Republic of Kosovo declared independence on 17 February 2008". So the author of this quiz ( submitted December 10th 2009) should have included Kosovo, because it is NOT part of one of the other countries regardless of what the outdated source believes.
mellomeh
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 05:59 GMT
0 points
That may be so, however apparently none of Kosovo's rivers flow into the Danube drainage basin. So it shouldn't be included.
mellomeh
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 06:07 GMT
12 points
Actually I stand corrected, the Ibar river eventually drains into the Danube. Kosovo therefore should indeed be included as an answer.
Volante
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 06:50 GMT
1 point
Just because a state has declared independence doesn't mean it's recognized as a country worldwide. You can, frankly, declare anything you darn well please. I can declare I'm the Dauphin of France, but that doesn't make it so.
seedrfc
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 08:42 GMT
10 points
Kosovo is an official country though and should be included.
Michelle100
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 08:55 GMT
17 points
Kosovo is regarded as a separate country on Sporcle and should be noted as such
megascarp
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 10:13 GMT
2 points
@Volante there are many countries which are internationally recognised but not entirely worldwide. the People's Republic of China is not recognised by the Republic of China and Israel is not recognised by many countries for example, and there are many others too. Kosovo is recognised majoritively internationally and meets the criteria to be an independent nation, and if Mellomeh is correct then it should be included regardless of the Danube Commission.
ubeor
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 12:55 GMT
17 points
Since the source does not consider Serbia and Kosovo to be separate countries, I would just change the "Serbia" entry to read "Serbia (includes Kosovo)", and allow "Serbia" or "Kosovo" as correct answers to activate it.
trick39berry
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 13:21 GMT
0 points
Darn you, Bulgaria!!!
british
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 15:37 GMT
4 points
@megascarp: you are wrong. Kosovo is only recognised by the majority of countries. You need about 98 to be considered an independent nation. Heres a link to show which countries recognise Kosovo as independent: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/CountriesRecognizingKosovo.png I counted only 83. Thats not majority, its not even half. I believe its only about 40% of countries as well
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Zwach2
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 16:20 GMT
-8 points
I understand your desire to keep with what the commission considers, but could you change it anyway to something would be acceptable to Kosovars, like say Albania (including Kosovo). If you ask someone from Kosovo, and I have, they will say that they were never part of Serbia. Also everywhere else on Sporcle, Kosovo is a country so %$#@ your source.
chikka2
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 16:28 GMT
6 points
A great river: what incredible geographical and historical variety!
eab21
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 18:31 GMT
1 point
Never knew that Romania had that much of the basin.
Ulkomaalainen
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 18:57 GMT
4 points
"Albania (including Kosovo)" would be a bad compromise on anything, since neither does Kosovo say they're part of Albania nor does Albania claim the Kosovo. Just because the people are related wouldn't make that acceptable on a quiz like this at all. The argument here is only between Kosovo (claims being an independent country) and Serbia (claims that Kosovo is part of Serbia). Also, there is no real way of determining which country constitutes an independent country, at least numbers won't help. For Sporcle consistency though I would name Kosovo as a country here, although in this way at least no one would not get a country.
Volante
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 19:09 GMT
10 points
This quiz is too Kosovo-centric! Seriously though, IMO, what this boils down to is what the source dictates. We observe what our source says and translate it into a quiz, and we do ourselves a disservice if we start putting our words into another's data.
thebirdgirl
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 19:10 GMT
4 points
Putting aside the issue of what countries are recognized by whom and why, I think that this 'controversy' can be blamed on the source material. If you dig a little bit closer into the source link, its data all considers Kosovo to be a province of Serbia (as the bonus answer explains!). Therefore, if the quizmaker wanted to include the percentages, they had to keep them together. But I think we can all agree that this isn't clear, but we should give them the benefit of the doubt. It would perhaps be better if Kosovo and Serbia were both accepted for that answer, however.
Acronicta
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 21:01 GMT
-1 points
Why is Ukraine marked with an asterisk? A big part of the Danube Delta lies there, and the border between Romania and Ukraine runs along the river, so surely it should be one of the bordering and containing countries. In comparison, Moldova touches Danube proper for 1/3 of a kilometre, and it is still included in the "A-list".
foolishchild
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 21:46 GMT
1 point
Put in Romania on a whim, just because of geography, certainly wasn't expecting to have 29% of the basin.
CorneliusTree
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 21:51 GMT
4 points
I gotta admit, only thing I knew about the Danube is that it was blue.
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kellkris
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 22:07 GMT
-6 points
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Albaniaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
Golden
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Aug 28th, 2011 at 23:09 GMT
7 points
Really, it's pretty difficult in this quiz to handle kosovo differently. The source provided the data, was the author to guess at the split of water contribution between serbia and kosovo? In any event, who is to say that the fact serbia and kosovo's data was combined by the source means the source doesn't recognise them as separate nations. Would people be complaining if they had lumped Romania and Bulgaria together for the purpoes of their dataset? Sporcle published so why are we complaining that it doesn't meet their publishing conventions. Sometimes we just have to accept that particular data sets or not based on complete geographical accuracy and move on.
tomstar86
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Aug 29th, 2011 at 00:56 GMT
-1 points
Albania but no Liechtenstein? Bizarre!
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TheLanimal
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Aug 29th, 2011 at 02:11 GMT
-8 points
Before this quiz I had no idea where the Danube was, I guessed countries on Africa, Asia, and South America before I found the sucker. Ended up getting all but two of the countries. Anybody else do this?
Bob91351
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Aug 29th, 2011 at 15:41 GMT
2 points
Why can I only ever seem to remember to type 2 of the 3M countries???
wolfeman
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Aug 29th, 2011 at 17:43 GMT
1 point
Liechtenstein? I imagine it would be on there. Interesting...
Ulkomaalainen
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Aug 29th, 2011 at 21:51 GMT
2 points
Liechtenstein borders the Rhine and is really not big enough to be in two river systems.
catgal2005
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Aug 30th, 2011 at 22:55 GMT
1 point
@CorneliusTree It's actually kinda green...it's pretty dirty. (But I get the reference.)
schulace
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Aug 31st, 2011 at 10:02 GMT
1 point
@TheLanimal: No.
Stiltner
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Aug 31st, 2011 at 21:42 GMT
2 points
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