Can you name the countries of South America? - sporcle

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How many countries of South America can you name? Type a country into the box below. If you correctly name a country, it will show up on the map below. You've got 5 minutes after you hit the start button.
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There are 74 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

	MikeHolmes:	Sep 7th, 2008 at 19:32 GMT	3 points
	Loving this site, going into favourites so i dont forget it. But, on this on i was typing in venezuela and it wouldnt accept it?!?

	MJ:	Sep 10th, 2008 at 05:04 GMT	28 points
	Awesome site! Who thought education could be fun again?

	davidr:	Oct 4th, 2008 at 19:24 GMT	1 point
	@MikeHolmes90: I've never had that problem -- maybe you were consistently mistyping it that time? (Or you'd already got Venezuela?)

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	magister:	Nov 2nd, 2008 at 01:22 GMT	30 points
	@gedion: "French" Guiana is not an independent nation, but is controlled by "France."

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	magister:	Nov 16th, 2008 at 20:15 GMT	29 points
	Maybe so, but the title plainly is "Countries of South America."

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	magister:	Nov 17th, 2008 at 21:47 GMT	16 points
	As per all of the Sporcle quizzes, (with the exception of Largest Countries by Landmass) overseas holdings are not included.

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	sactoshc:	Dec 7th, 2008 at 01:54 GMT	12 points
	thanks for the interactive map that allows you to jump to all the different continents!

	Udo:	Dec 10th, 2008 at 06:30 GMT	3 points
	Spamkopf: the world map states: "Countries are UN member nations plus 3 other widely recognized nations." That's probably true of this map as well. The Oceana map also does not include many island groups.

	44magnum:	Dec 11th, 2008 at 21:28 GMT	-2 points
	I knew all of the countries but struggled with the spelling of some of the names. That is what happens form a public school education...lol.

	ckbryant:	Dec 12th, 2008 at 16:48 GMT	10 points
	I think it would be good to have one or more quizzes that were _only_ about the overseas territories. For instance, you could name all the territorial possessions in the Caribbean, or the territories on the UN's official list of Non-self-governing territories, or the list of British overseas territories, and so forth. By the way, this is the best map in the "continents" series--you list the territorial possessions on the map, and the colored areas fit very nicely.

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	Jeromesh:	Jan 31st, 2009 at 02:24 GMT	-1 points
	French Guiana is part of France (not just controlled by it) and is part of the EU. Perhaps France should be an acceptable answer!

	Tony:	Feb 13th, 2009 at 22:59 GMT	5 points
	@Whole Lotta Sporcle: Trinidad and Tobago is considered part of North America, the same was as Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, all of which are at similar or lower latitude.

	A_is_for_Addict:	Feb 13th, 2009 at 23:19 GMT	3 points
	I learned Trinidad and Tobago as part of South America since they are on the same continental shelf. However, they are normally lumped with the rest of the Caribbean, and that often associated with North America. It's a bit of an ambiguous position since they're technically in Central America.

	James Hansen:	Feb 18th, 2009 at 21:00 GMT	-2 points
	28 seconds :) All the countries neighboured enough are either independently controlled or, not part of south america. T%T is in the caribbean/north america, technically.

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	RedZeppelin:	Mar 5th, 2009 at 20:42 GMT	7 points
	it would make more sense to include France in the quiz than French guayana, since the latter is not a country but a province of France

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	Kaytayyyyyyy:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 07:17 GMT	-4 points
	12 of 12, which would have been impossible if I never took a spanish class. :-)

	pbrown:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 05:21 GMT	1 point
	Easiest continent to get all the countries, excluding australia

	ConorONeill:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 23:17 GMT	5 points
	oceania is a hard one because of all the small island nations but thats just my opinion

	Addisnow:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 20:46 GMT	1 point
	Europe is clearly the easiest. Flags, countries, capitols, the whole shabang.

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	SlovakOne:	Apr 13th, 2009 at 17:40 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz, but 5 mins is way too much. 2 mins would be enough.

	Runcible:	Apr 23rd, 2009 at 01:22 GMT	7 points
	South America is easiest.

	Veni_Vidi_Vidic:	May 14th, 2009 at 13:03 GMT	4 points
	I just did it in 14 seconds. 5 minutes is far too long.

	Octoman:	May 16th, 2009 at 21:53 GMT	3 points
	did it in 29 seconds. I could of done better but i blanked on peru for a couple of seconds. Peru!

	GeoExpert:	May 19th, 2009 at 04:24 GMT	11 points
	South America is the easiest, Runcible. But France should be on here because of French Guiana. French Guiana is not a dependency, it is a region (state) of France. Same relationship as USA-Alaska

	GeoExpert:	May 19th, 2009 at 04:25 GMT	9 points
	@magister. French Guiana may not supposed to be on here, but France could be. (look at previous comment for details)

	Diego:	May 19th, 2009 at 05:30 GMT	2 points
	Thanks for helping me learn all the South American countries, I can now recall them all in 25 seconds.

	tikkamurph:	May 29th, 2009 at 16:54 GMT	-2 points
	all of them in 50 secs, quite good i think

	HiddenPalace:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 06:16 GMT	-3 points
	Time Remaining: 04:38 Very, very easy.

	qwertyuiop:	Jun 19th, 2009 at 03:47 GMT	-2 points
	i could do it much faster if i was a better typer