Can you name the country by the unique string of letters it starts with?

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Note: Three countries are fully and unique substrings of three other countries. So the full name only goes with the shorter one. Only the version with more letters goes to the longer one.
These use the standard Sporcle names. So, one of them has dropped the "FEDERATED STATES OF" and another excludes the starting article.
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String	Country
JAP
TOG
RU
BELG
POL
GEO
LIBE
KY
CAMB
HU
FR
BELA
VE
MALD
INDI
PE
AZ
MONA
NAU
GAB
MOL
EG
BAR
SAINTL
CZ
Y
TUV
NEP
SAN
LIE
SER
MAURITI
ZI
BOT
SOUTHS
PAN
GER
JAM
SOUTHK
BH
NEW
MOZ
SWI
LES
JO
KI
HO
KE
MAURITA
COM

String	Country
MAD
UR
NAM
ARM
SP
BURU
MAC
ME
EC
CY
BOS
TURKM
COL
CR
SWE
NIGERI
ANG
BUL
GREE
TH
BEN
MONT
AF
TUN
CHIN
ARG
BRU
EL
LAO
PALE
TAJ
ET
TR
NIC
MI
SUD
SIN
SEN
GH
CAME
BAHA
TAI
GREN
SAM
ER
CU
ANT
VAN
TAN
VI

String	Country
SAINTV
MALT
IT
SLOVE
DOMINICAN
MONG
Q
VAT
HA
IRE
SWA
SOUTHA
KO
BELI
GUINEAB
DEM
NIGER
SAO
DJ
MY
IRAQ
GAM
BOL
CE
GUA
GUY
COT
DOMINICA
SY
KA
RE
BAN
ALG
PAK
CAN
UK
SAINTK
POR
IRAN
SIE
PAP
UZ
TON
ES
UNITEDS
SUR
SOL
DEN
MALI
NORW

String	Country
NET
FIJ
AND
LIT
SAU
BRA
KU
MAR
IC
RO
TI
SOM
RW
SLOVA
UNITEDK
COS
ZA
UNITEDA
AUSTRI
TURKE
MOR
LU
PH
UG
GUINEA
MALAW
MALAY
BURK
LAT
FIN
SEY
CAP
IS
SR
BAHR
EQ
PALA
O
AUSTRA
LIBY
ALB
PAR
CHA
NORT
INDO
LEB
CHIL

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Country by Unique Starting Letters Quiz

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Created Oct 15, 2011 in Geography
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	strags11:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 04:18 GMT		60 points
	Ah, yes. The latest in a long line of Sporcle quizzes that seemed ridiculously easy at first and turned out to be insanely difficult in the end.

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	Sally:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 04:31 GMT		24 points
	Marshall Islands and Timor Leste? Got it. Mexico and Italy? Not so much. Oh Sporclitis.

	D_FenestrationX:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 04:50 GMT		13 points
	BANana Republic isn't a real country?

	laschmela:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 04:59 GMT		16 points
	PE... Petoria? TI...tanium? Wait what am I playing again?

	sharon:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 05:19 GMT		1 point
	The Gambia? When I play the countries in alphabetical order it's just Gambia.

	sproutcm:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 05:35 GMT		13 points
	@Sharon That's because alphabetizing ignored "the" at the beginning of things, but I've changed it to being just GAMBIA; however, that makes it GAM and Gabon is GAB but now Thailand is much harder because you only get the TH. And now another set of people will complain that "TH" should be "The Gambia."

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	TD3000:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 06:08 GMT		32 points
	This quiz has me thinking of everything but the actual countries. POR is Portland, MAC is Macau, GUA is Guam, VE is Venice, CHA is Charlotte, TRI is Tripoli, and so on...got me all messed up.

	chikka2:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 06:10 GMT		15 points
	My brain jumped to cities with the same letters (Ban= Banjul). Crazy-making but I love this quiz

	JoeFish:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 06:22 GMT		5 points
	Got tripped up pretty good with the "TH", what with the H being silent and all...

	ThereIsBearGum:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 06:28 GMT		9 points
	Could do with another minute

	ChristinaD:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 06:30 GMT		-1 points
	@JoeFish, not if you're Allen (The Hangover II)!

	Raglflagl:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 06:36 GMT		13 points
	I started typing in states at one point, but then thought not to think of states. Took me a while to get Georgia after that.

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	The_Baroness:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 07:49 GMT		15 points
	So Mordor doesn't count does it?

	Zak6009:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 07:52 GMT		4 points
	Sweeped, but the biggest irony is "MI" is what I got last with barely 10 seconds left... and it was right there in the description! Which I DID read.

	matt01:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 07:53 GMT		-2 points
	@Elgin_McQueen You are correct, highly informative and clearly very experienced with the ways of sporcle, and in no way are you an idiot

	WeaselKing1000:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 08:57 GMT		7 points
	@Elgin_McQueen 'US', 'UK', and 'DRC' all have at least some connection to the sets of letters that form those particular clues. 'Ivory Coast', apart from not being the country's name, bears no relation to the clue 'COT'. It's a word-based quiz. @sharon The trend these days is towards dropping definite articles from country names that used to be referred to with them in English. Thus, now it's more commonly just 'Gambia', 'Lebanon', 'Ukraine', etc. ...One more point: why is 'Rep Congo' accepted for 'REP', while 'Dem Rep Congo' isn't accepted for 'DEM'? Otherwise, an excellent and challenging quiz; kudos.

	hellofromUK:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 09:54 GMT		9 points
	Assuming the standard conversion of 5 characters = 1 word, you need to be able to type at 36 WPM to finish this quiz.

	harvey68:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 10:42 GMT		17 points
	When GREE came up. I started to type GREENLAND, my brain yelling at my fingers "It's not a country!!!STOP typing".

	Zak6009:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 10:53 GMT		9 points
	Elgin McQueen, it's true it's common Sporcle standards, but this is a quiz based on word beginnings. If you are already familiar with the name "Cote Divoire", obviously that's gonna be the name registering in your brain when you see "COT", no possible reason to go out of your way to type the other. Plus, it's not an acronym or shortcut like the ones you mentioned, it's a name that takes just as long to type. And seeing as "Ivory Coast" does not start with COT so there would be little reason to go out of your way.

	jessiainscough:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 11:00 GMT		0 points
	Great quiz! Missed some really obvious ones though!

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	TAR2:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 11:39 GMT		-3 points
	Considering all the scrolling up and down that is necessary, this quiz needs more time.

	GuardDuck:	Sep 13th, 2012 at 11:47 GMT		12 points
	Dominica, Niger and Guinea should be left out