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Can you pick the largest country by total area for EACH letter of the alphabet A to Z?

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There are no countries that begin with W or X. This is total area of the country, not just the area of the landmass.
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Click the Biggest Country (A to Z) Quiz

by sproutcm

Created Apr 21, 2012 in Geography
Featured Dec 21, 2012
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	eab21:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 04:07 GMT		35 points
	I really had trouble with O, Q, and Y.

	Everblue:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 04:10 GMT		31 points
	-Mouse drifts over Kyrgyzstan-

	jefe_:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 04:43 GMT		7 points
	How are Oman, Qatar and Yemen not at 100%?

	mustango:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 04:59 GMT		23 points
	@jefe_ People have different methods, not everyone moves onto the next initial letter after getting one wrong. So it's very possible to run out of clicks before getting to all the letters.

	NS7:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 05:09 GMT		6 points
	I celebrated way too hard when I got the "S" country

	NightGypsy:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 05:11 GMT		17 points
	It seems that for a few of these, the generic map of the world is really out of proportion...

	Colmar:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 06:04 GMT		29 points
	Isn't Greenland being part of Denmark (although annoying) the Sporcle Standard?

	cuendillar:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 06:21 GMT		35 points
	@Colmar: It doesn't actually matter for this quiz. The DRC is still larger, even though it certainly doesn't look that way with the Mercator projection..

	Bobman1:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 07:14 GMT		11 points
	Awesome concept; fun quiz. Utterly mortifying that, having got the U answer right, I clicked on another U country as if I forgot that three seconds earlier, I already put that letter to bed.

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	gwynn19:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 12:56 GMT		8 points
	Very surprised about the N answer. I would have bet it's Nigeria. Turns out the two are close in size, but Nigeria has 10 times the population.

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	ThereIsBearGum:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 14:17 GMT		11 points
	Actually, DRC is larger than Denmark even if you include Greenland.

	MysticalCowz:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 15:23 GMT		-1 points
	Only 2 out of 3 get Russia? :(

	Rob42:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 17:35 GMT		6 points
	@MysticalCowz: It's probably because people are doing it in alphabetical order.

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	BenN:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 17:59 GMT		10 points
	@McNuts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

	Honest_John:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 18:20 GMT		8 points
	On the Mercator projection McNuts, polar regions especially look enormous because they are 'stretched' to make the spherical(ias) Earth fit on a rectangular map.

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	maficsam:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 20:08 GMT		6 points
	some patience would have helped me on a few of these. I prematurely clicked Ukraine and Indonesia, thinking "oh, that's a big country"

	AtomicIce:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 20:42 GMT		1 point
	Whatever the reason, I'm still surprised that Russia, Oman, Qatar, Yemen aren't above 2/3 right. Also surprised Zambia isn't above 50%

	acbc66:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 22:54 GMT		3 points
	Given your disclaimer about country size, not just landmass size, I would really have thought some of the archipelago nations (Indonesia, Philippines, Micronesia) would have come in here. Seems that there's a LOT of ocean area in there.

	fnurt:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 23:43 GMT		7 points
	"Would it blow your mind if I told you Africa is, in reality, 14 times larger than Greenland?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY

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	noticeperiod:	Dec 22nd, 2012 at 01:48 GMT		6 points
	Wow, I never knew about the Mercator projection, it is completely changing my whole world right now

	timjim:	Dec 22nd, 2012 at 02:00 GMT		1 point
	I feel bad for the people who picked Vatican City as one of the countries.

	NY_MOB:	Dec 22nd, 2012 at 02:16 GMT		7 points
	Jhoule: Shouldn't you read some of the previous comments first?

	Jbosdriesz:	Dec 22nd, 2012 at 11:39 GMT		7 points
	I'm just glad this isn't a minefield quiz...

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	TheLuggage:	Dec 22nd, 2012 at 15:56 GMT		10 points
	I was going to bring up the Greenland thing, but then I read the comments and find out it was already brought up and answered. Then I saw at least 3 more comments asking an already answered question. PLEASE read before commenting. Chances are it has already been answered.

	PhillyP14:	Dec 22nd, 2012 at 18:48 GMT		7 points
	To be honest, I really enjoyed this. Stop with the greenland comments

	AK_WDB:	Dec 23rd, 2012 at 08:09 GMT		3 points
	Interesting. I definitely picked Denmark and I know that the Mercator projection grossly exaggerates Greenland's size, but even my National Geographic map in the Winkel Tripel makes Greenland look bigger than the DRC.

	shel99:	Dec 24th, 2012 at 00:22 GMT		-1 points
	Is there any way to allow a certain number of wrong guesses on these? I was going alphabetically and ran out of clicks before I got to the end...would have liked to have had the chance to finish it.

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