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Can you name the most populous nation that begins with each letter of the alphabet? Enter a country in the box below Correctly named countries will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Kicking222 Populations are July, 2009 estimates as of cia.gov You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 2192 TV Shows (U.S.) 1772 Broadway Opening Lines 1731 You Do Know Jack 788 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 676 Same Last Name 673 And more...
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Letter	Nation	Population
A		40,913,584
B		198,739,269
C		1,338,612,968
D		68,692,542
E		85,237,338
F		64,057,792
G		82,329,758
H		9,905,596
I		1,166,079,217
J		127,078,679
K		39,002,772
L		6,834,942

Letter	Nation	Population
M		111,211,789
N		149,229,090
O		3,418,085
P		176,242,949
Q		833,285
R		140,041,247
S		49,052,489
T		76,805,524
U		307,212,123
V		86,967,524
Y		23,822,783
Z		11,862,740

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	fatbeard:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:32 GMT	59 points
	I think I would be satisfied with any quiz involving geography. Still though, keep 'em coming. Love the quiz

	ks99:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:35 GMT	14 points
	great quiz. very fun

	JohnJF:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:35 GMT	47 points
	Any quiz where I can get Qatar and not Japan is all right by me.

	bean:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:36 GMT	10 points
	Who has two thumbs and guessed Tonga off the top of his brilliant head for T? This guy!

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:37 GMT	27 points
	Even though I can get 100% on the countries of the world quiz, I always struggle with mental blocks on these types of things. Still a fun quiz though, I like these A-Z ones.

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	Victor2K:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:46 GMT	13 points
	Democratic Republic of Congo is sure a long name to remember in the only letter you made to get stuck

	quiztaker:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:46 GMT	7 points
	Nice quiz, smacked myself in the head for missing France.

	chris1889:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:47 GMT	28 points
	South Africa, South Korea and Spain are only separated by 2.5 million. guess which one of the three I didn't think of

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:48 GMT	5 points
	@joe, according to Wikipedia at least, South Korea has around 48 million. So it's close.

	cottb128:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	60 points
	Time was very fast, but it made the quiz more fun that way I think. And that's what I will use as my excuse for guessing the country of Kentucky not once, but twice.

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	quiztaker:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:50 GMT	10 points
	@victor: DRC is accepted for Democratic Republic of the Congo.

	BamaRainbow:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:50 GMT	4 points
	@Joe: According to the source, South Korea is in second place for the "s" countries by about half a million (48.5 million)

	thesean:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:50 GMT	6 points
	@unidentifiedkiwi: It also puts South Africa at 47,900,000, about 400,000 less. I suppose it all depends on who is doing the estimating.

	BamaRainbow:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:53 GMT	11 points
	@Victor2k: I'm utterly embarrassed at missing Dem Rep of Congo when I realized it no longer qualified for the "Z" list. I also missed Ethiopia--I kept typing Egypt.

	ronnymexico:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 08:58 GMT	4 points
	Yeah, good quiz but another minute would be nice, mainly to think of the DRC...

	Iceberg:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 09:00 GMT	1 point
	Gah! I got stuck on D and thought of it right at the end but not in enough time to even type DRC.

	Sneuticles:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 09:32 GMT	14 points
	sweeeeet quiz, missed two, PERFECT amount of time. sporcle, eff yeah.

	MetaphysicalMan:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 09:33 GMT	31 points
	I am definitely a Sporcle vet. Not only did I know Democratic Republic of the Congo right away, but I even used the 'DRC' acronym. I don't even know myself anymore..

	nhrafan:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 09:34 GMT	4 points
	i kept telling myself that libya must be that answer for l, but, as with many other letters, it just barely missed the cut. whats more, i couldn't make myself type in the right answer because, "nah, it can't be right"

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	Jaspers:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 10:20 GMT	10 points
	West Xylophone could be a bonus answer.

	XCivilWarGhost5X:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 10:49 GMT	-4 points
	USA!

	shoredude2:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 10:51 GMT	-2 points
	Missed A, H, and L. Somehow I forgot A. Kept thinking I must be spelling Honduras wrong. And though L had to be Libya or Lebanon.

	y2jdilemma:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 11:21 GMT	3 points
	Got tripped up by L and P. I completely blanked on L, and P I was hung up on Peru for some reason. Awesome quiz.

	jd1z:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 11:29 GMT	1 point
	I can't believe Qatar got it.

	DrRichie:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 11:37 GMT	5 points
	Arghh !!!!!!Kenya!!!!!!!!!!!! Great quiz

	mbossa:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 11:54 GMT	10 points
	If this quiz existed a bit over 12 years ago, it could have used Western Samoa as the 'W' answer. And maybe some time in the future Western Sahara will be a nation.

	minor9th:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 12:05 GMT	2 points
	I's amazing how many people have been frustrated by missing just 1 or 2 answers. I myself missed H. That probably means it's just the right amount of time...

	dav_uz:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 12:34 GMT	1 point
	ahrg spent ages trying to spell Philippines but it was Pakistan, damn! Missed Kenya as well...

	BigThing:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 12:44 GMT	6 points
	There cannot be enough of these, great quiz. Can you make it accept "Democratic Republic Congo"? I think most others do.

	NYCub:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 12:52 GMT	3 points
	Got everything but S, now I'm kicking myself for thinking of EVERY 'S' country except South Africa! Also, I was surprised when I typed in Laos and it was correct, so that one was kind of a fluke :)

	NYCub:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 12:53 GMT	-1 points
	@Minor9th How do you miss 'H'? There are only three possibilities! ;)

	Aoibhinn:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 13:20 GMT	6 points
	Great quiz! Only missed Kenya because i was convinced Kazakhstan was the answer.

	D3nn1s:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 13:30 GMT	0 points
	Awesome quiz. I only missed T and K though, and I had D and E in the last seconds.

	Onno:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 13:33 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz, although that accounts for pretty much every geography quiz where USA isn't the most guessed answer.

	ZeZapatiste:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 14:11 GMT	5 points
	I thought Thailand was more populous than Turkey. Cool quiz, anyway

	MikeSang:	Aug 17th, 2009 at 14:40 GMT	14 points
	kept trying Venezuela... and even resorted to Vanuatu a couple times