Can you name the most populous countries whose demonyms end in the following sequences?

created by lukebradford

Enter a country or demonym in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
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-ese
1
10
13
19
30

-ian
2
4
5
7
9

-can
3
11
25
37
52

-i
6
8
20
39
49

-ish
18
22
27
34
86

-ch
21
61
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Populous Countries by Demonym Ending Quiz

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Created Apr 13, 2011 in Geography
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	blue9254:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 19:54 GMT		20 points
	In desperation, I tried "Sri Lancan."

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	Saxonthebeach:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 20:07 GMT		22 points
	Wow, Czech is tricky.

	Hullabaloo:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 20:09 GMT		20 points
	Stupidly, I dismissed Saudi Arabia as 'Saudi Arabian'

	Pelmert:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 20:12 GMT		2 points
	Excellent quiz! Just have a look at the results, it's almost a normal distribution..

	slamb:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 20:37 GMT		-2 points
	I knew they were "Congolese", just not which variety.

	rct:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 20:44 GMT		27 points
	Fun Fact: Out of curiosity, I looked it up, and people from Nigeria are Nigerians, while people from Niger are Nigeriens. I imagine they're pronounced the same way in english.

	tulliuscicero:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 20:53 GMT		6 points
	I assume Sudan's going to drop a few places after the south secedes.

	idledandy:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 20:54 GMT		4 points
	Mozambican? Who knew?

	ponyo33:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 21:28 GMT		19 points
	why is Myanmar left off when they are the 24th most populous nation under the -ese category, but Sudan makes it as the 30th most populous?

	randomhandle:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 21:46 GMT		2 points
	Taiwanese isn't included as a bonus?

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	mjd75:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 21:59 GMT		15 points
	@ ponyo33 - the demonym for people from Myanmar is "Myanma", but "Burma" and "Burmese" are still used somewhat commonly. Thus the bonus, I am guessing.

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	WyvernSabres:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 22:36 GMT		37 points
	@CDB1986: The demonym for us British is, um, British.

	ZapRowsdower:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 22:46 GMT		3 points
	Nope, my brain doesn't work that way. Fun to give it a try, though!

	NotYou:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 23:39 GMT		3 points
	I was curious what qualified as a very bad guess, so I guessed some very small countries, just for fun, while I was stuck. One of the ones that comes up as a bonus is "San Marino (210)" under "-ese". Until I got this one, I assumed the numbers were the country's ranking by population, but then 210 doesn't make sense. It's probably something dumb that I'm just not seeing, but can somebody satisfy my curiosity regarding what's going on here

	cupcakes:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 00:10 GMT		3 points
	please accept dem rep congo...im lazy

	nhrafan:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 00:14 GMT		1 point
	@NotYou- It seems that the list used also includes autonomous regions of countries that wouldn't otherwise be used per Sporcle standards, such as Greenland, Iale of Man, Aruba, etc. The list is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population

	FrayedEnds1:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 00:31 GMT		15 points
	@cupcakes - You just have to be a bit lazier like me and write DRC, they accept that! I'm just annoyed I missed dutch.

	HER:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 00:56 GMT		7 points
	You may have missed Dutch, but I missed French, ugh. And worse, toward the end I started getting desperate and trying things like "Cubican" for people from Cuba. What?!?!

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	Hacksawz:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 01:13 GMT		4 points
	If nothing else, the quiz provides the reason for my flunking Spainian...........er Espanol.

	Saints09:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 01:21 GMT		1 point
	How about Canadian for atleast a bonus answer?

	lancetbj:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 01:56 GMT		3 points
	@spelengwisird21 "Congolese"

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	jbruin152:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 02:35 GMT		4 points
	No Kyrgyzstani?

	GbPack88:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 02:38 GMT		-2 points
	uzbekistan(44) and saudi (49). Shouldn't Uzbekistan be the 5th answer?

	catcherj:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 02:48 GMT		8 points
	@GbPack88: I believe it's Uzbek, not Uzbekistani.

	dancastro:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 02:53 GMT		6 points
	@rct: I think the main reason for Nigeria -> Nigerian and Niger -> Nigerien is that the former is an English-speaking country and the latter a French-speaking one. So you have Nigérien along with other French demonyms like Canadien, Australien, Italien, Brésilien (-enne for the all the feminine forms) and a lot more.

	SexualCamel:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 03:05 GMT		11 points
	Monaco's (209) demonym is not Monacan . It's Monégasque.

	NoVan:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 03:31 GMT		-1 points
	Oh, it's not Nepali? I guess that's just the name of the dominant language?