Current and former teams recognized by the IOC with the most medals per letter of the alphabet Quiz

Can you name the current and former teams recognized by the IOC with the most medals per letter of the alphabet?

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Source: Sports-Reference: Olympics
NOTE: Includes nations that don't currently exist but competed in past Olympic Games.
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Letter	Country	Medals
A		448
B		218
C		429
D		185
E		519
F		787
G		768
H		478
I		655
J		399
K		75
L		20

Letter	Country	Medals
M		54
N		453
P		283
Q		2
R		416
S		1010
T		82
U		2576
V		11
W		243
Y		87
Z		8
G	8

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	bazmerelda:	May 19th, 2012 at 16:22 GMT		68 points
	I completely forgot we participate as Great Britain at the Olympics.

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	Dantelle:	May 19th, 2012 at 16:34 GMT		12 points
	I guessed Germany (bonus answer) and East Germany, but actually didn't think of West Germany (where I was born). Big fail.

	ekrakauer10:	May 19th, 2012 at 16:40 GMT		49 points
	Any chance Qatar purposely made themselves the only country beginning with Q to make it to more Sporcle quizzes like this one?

	Ironstamp:	May 19th, 2012 at 16:46 GMT		22 points
	@ChileNoseJam: Almost all Bulgaria's medals are at the summer games (212 of 218). The are particularly strong in Wrestling and Weightlifting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria_at_the_Olympics

	eab21:	May 19th, 2012 at 16:58 GMT		19 points
	Couldn't resist trying Vatican City.

	chasmmi:	May 19th, 2012 at 17:17 GMT		82 points
	Poor Oman, can't make the list despite being the only country beginning with O. That's just depressing

	jacana:	May 19th, 2012 at 18:24 GMT		7 points
	Saw the torch today as it started its journey round the UK :D

	jthweatt:	May 19th, 2012 at 18:26 GMT		13 points
	If I ever get to start a country, I think I will call it Xenophobia. That way, perhaps in the far-off future, being a Xenophobe will finally have a positive context...

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	Lovenkrands:	May 19th, 2012 at 19:10 GMT		12 points
	Soviet Union? Or does that go as USSR? @ssab: England, Scotland and Wales make up Great Britain. Add in Northern Ireland and that's the UK. But they compete in the Olympics as Great Britain. Suppose that would piss me off if I was from Northern Ireland. There was talk that they wouldn't field a soccer team in the Olympics because of the historical divisions between the four home nations. Germany competed as two separate nations from 1945 until unification.

	Lovenkrands:	May 19th, 2012 at 19:17 GMT		13 points
	Just looked this up. Northern Irish can compete for either Great Britain or Ireland, and in most sports the Irish team would be easier to make. And yes, the folks in Northern Ireland object to the name and want to compete as Team UK (per wikipedia).

	A_Trep:	May 19th, 2012 at 19:21 GMT		2 points
	England, Wales and Scotland are Great Britain. The island itself. The Isle of Man competes as Great Britain and the Northern Irish athletes have the option of competing as Irish or British at the Olympics and many other international sporting events as well. The name Great Britain continues to be used because of its historical use in the games.

	save_ferris15:	May 19th, 2012 at 20:25 GMT		19 points
	Bulgaria beats Brazil? Amazing.

	jessiainscough:	May 19th, 2012 at 20:41 GMT		10 points
	Missed Kenya, Latvia, Mexico, and um...Great Britain, where I am from, oops. I guess i've had it drilled into my head by sporcle as UK!

	Ashtherogue:	May 19th, 2012 at 20:52 GMT		6 points
	Being from Northern Ireland, the team competes officially as 'Team Great Britain and Northern Ireland'. As we know, NI is part of UK but not Britain and they (NI) want to change the team name. People from NI can also compete for the Ireland team as well. Annoying because it's the only one I didn't get.

	unkpoker:	May 19th, 2012 at 22:15 GMT		14 points
	Wait - there AREN'T any countries that start with "W"!!...oh...yeah...

	TimeAndTide:	May 19th, 2012 at 22:32 GMT		8 points
	After trying several 'G' countries to no avail, I finally tried 'Great Britain' as a joke or out of exasperation ... shocked to see it appear!

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	cwjoly:	May 19th, 2012 at 23:56 GMT		11 points
	@DaDude- if you read the title of the quiz it says current AND FORMER teams... all the countries that you listed have competed in the Olympics

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	jonbar18:	May 20th, 2012 at 01:09 GMT		15 points
	The answer for 'S' should be Soviet Union. According to the source you used, the USSR competed as Soviet Union, which unfortunately means Sweden has to make way.

	ktappe:	May 20th, 2012 at 03:08 GMT		1 point
	This is the sixth quiz I've run out of time on in the past day. Is Sporcle shortening the times on all quizzes? Will we never be allowed again to ponder the answers to questions?

	Pogues:	May 20th, 2012 at 04:40 GMT		3 points
	135 medals for ALL the M countries combined? Yeesh, not a strong letter.

	Elizzy19:	May 20th, 2012 at 09:21 GMT		1 point
	Oops I completely forgot about Bulgaria!

	phibbyfan:	May 20th, 2012 at 09:34 GMT		1 point
	Surprised Kenya is so low. There aren't really that many 'K' countries even if you don't know they have more medals than any other African nation.

	dtb1977:	May 20th, 2012 at 19:05 GMT		-3 points
	If Sporcling were an olympic event who would get the silver? I assume everyone agrees it is obvious that the United States would win gold by a landslide.

	c3pojones:	May 20th, 2012 at 20:34 GMT		4 points
	I can't believe Hungary has that many medals. I can't recall seeing any athletes compete from there. But I'm sure I'll see tons this year...now that I'll be looking for them.