Can you name the Countries that begin but don't end with a vowel? by hecuba

Can you name the Countries that begin but don't end with a vowel?

created by hecuba

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Y is not counted as a vowel for the purposes of this quiz. Authority is the official United Nations list of member states.
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Countries that begin but don't end with a vowel Quiz

by hecuba

Created Jan 19, 2012 in Geography
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	Maritimer:	Jan 19th, 2012 at 21:18 GMT		1 point
	Italy and Uruguay each end in a vowel; they should be removed. Good quiz, otherwise.

	manonthemoon:	Jan 19th, 2012 at 21:34 GMT		3 points
	5 globe quiz: I really enjoyed it. A few minor things - I would add ivory coast as an answer or at the very least a bonus answer. I would also mention that countries ending in Y are included (you can write this in the game info page in edit - then save changes).

	Lighthouse:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 00:04 GMT		2 points
	Yep nice quiz, but I would have liked to see both Ivory Coast and East Timor as bonus answers

	Riko:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 08:58 GMT		8 points
	I don't know why Maritimer is being downvoted: those 'y's are vowels in those words. 'Y' is generally considered a consonant when pronounced /j/ like in the word 'yes' (/jɛs/) or 'youth' (/juːθ/) but considered a vowel when pronounced like a vowel in Italy (/ɪ.tə.li/) or Uruguay (/jʊɹ.ə.ɡweɪ/ or /jʊɹ.ə.ɡwaɪ/). English is full of spellings that are remnants of old pronunciations and foreign origins (look up 'ghoti' on Wiki), so it's hard to make rules about written letters and spoken phonemes but it seems most people learn the vowels are "A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y and W". Italy and Uruguay would be cases of those sometimes. I think it would be best to make them bonuses.

	adhair:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 12:22 GMT		4 points
	Y is undeniably functioning as a vowel, there—unless someone can demonstrate a way of pronouncing "Italy" with a final consonant.

	IronFirefly:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 15:28 GMT		3 points
	the El Salvador conundrum

	Cortez:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 23:06 GMT		0 points
	This is an enjoyable quiz and a good idea, why the stuff about vowels? Is it really neccessary?

	ballabosh:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 03:07 GMT		2 points
	Completely agree about Y. If it's used as a vowel, it should be included.

	hecuba:	Jan 22nd, 2012 at 19:02 GMT		1 point
	The description says that Y is not a vowel. Let's move on shall we?

	adhair:	Jan 25th, 2012 at 18:34 GMT		1 point
	@hecuba: that obviously wasn't the case when the rest of us commented; now that it's in the description, it just makes it dumb.

	hecuba:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 13:02 GMT		3 points
	@adhair: I realise you are fantastically intelligent for knowing what a vowel is, so congratulations on that. However, your proposal would obviously make a stupid quiz. Do you want me to include countries like Ukraine on the basis that the final sound is a consonant? How do you propose I handle countries like Ecuador which behave differently in different accents? No, it's quite obvious that the quiz is about the letters, not the sounds. I realise people like to fret about whether the letter Y is a vowel, so I've stated explicitly in the description that "for the purposes of this quiz" it is not. That's all that needs to be done.