Can you name the border countries in the Border Country Marathon [part 13 of 16]? by tahitiwahini

Can you name the border countries in the Border Country Marathon [part 13 of 16]?

created by tahitiwahini

Enter a border country in the box below
Correctly named border countries will show up below
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Source: NEXT LEG in the Border Country Marathon
Can you name the border countries for every country in the world? Click on NEXT LEG to go to the next part of the marathon. This quiz has two bonuses.
Border countries must share a land or freshwater border with the subject country. Bonus answers are accepted for countries that only border the subject country by bridge or tunnel. Territories that are neither recognized by Sporcle as official countries, nor as integral parts of official countries, are also accepted as bonus answers. Abbreviate with Confidence™ Multi-Word Abbreviations (see comments) and all common Sporcle country abbreviations are accepted (see http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/common_country_name_alternatives). Data comes from the CIA World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/). To start the Border Country Marathon at the beginning: http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/bordering_medium_countries_1
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Border Country Marathon [part 13 of 16] Quiz

by tahitiwahini

Created Feb 4, 2011 in Geography
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	tahitiwahini:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 20:26 GMT		1 point
	Starting February 1st, 2011, the complete Border Country Marathon will go live. The series includes every country in the world that shares a border with at least one other country. That's 155 countries; from Russia to Vatican City. Each of the sixteen quizzes contains an average of 12 subject countries, 52 bordering countries, and a time limit of 5 minutes. Simply click on the NEXT LEG link in the source section to go to the next quiz in the marathon.

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 15:53 GMT		1 point
	I had three main goals I was trying to attain with this quiz series. First, I wanted to cover every single country in the world that borders at least one other country. Second, I wanted to design each individual quiz so that within that quiz no border country is used more than once. That is, when you type in a border country it's the answer for only one subject country in the quiz. This is a very restrictive requirement because it essentially means that within a single quiz no two subject countries can border the same country. Third, I wanted to have each quiz fit comfortably on the screen so that no scrolling would be needed to see the whole quiz. This resulted in each quiz consisting on average of 12 subject countries, 52 border countries, and a time limit of 5 minutes. With the Border Country Marathon series I think I've achieved all three main goals. But I wasn't able to achieve a fourth goal, which would have been to cover each country no more than once in the series. In order to meet each of the three main goals it was necessary to include a few countries twice in the quiz series. I've tried to keep this to an absolute minimum, but I hope players understand why it was necessary. Finally, given the previous requirements, I think that 15 is the minimum number of quizzes possible for this series. Since Russia borders 14 countries there have to be at least 14 quizzes because Russia can appear as a border country only once per quiz. Plus Russia must appear once as a subject country, in which case it can't also be a border country in that quiz. The situation is the same for China since it too borders 14 countries. However, in practice I was unable to acheive the theoretical minimum of 15, since I needed an additional quiz to cover all the countries required to complete the Border Country Marathon.

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 15:59 GMT		1 point
	**** Announcing MULTI-WORD ABBREVIATIONS **** For multi-word country names I am accepting abbreviations consisting of the first letter of each word in the English name of the country. There are three exceptions to this rule: Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, and Sierra Leone. For these countries the first word of the name will be accepted; namely, Czech, Saudi, and Sierra.

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 16:04 GMT		1 point
	The Multi-Word Abbreviations accepted are: Antigua and Barbuda (AB), Burkina Faso (BF), Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), Central African Republic (CAR), Costa Rica (CR), Cape Verde (CV), Czech Republic (Czech), Domincan Republic (DR), Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Equatorial Guinea (EG), El Salvador (ES), Timor-Leste (ET for East Timor), Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Guinea-Bissau (GB), Cote d'Ivoire (IC for Ivory Coast), Marshall Islands (MI), North Korea (NK), New Zealand (NZ), Papua New Guinea (PNG), Republic of the Congo (RC), Saudi Arabia (Saudi), South Africa (SA), Solomon Islands (SI), South Korea (SK), St Kitts and Nevis (SKN), Sierra Leone (Sierra), St Lucia (SL), San Marino (SM), Sri Lanka (SL), Sao Tome and Principe (STP), St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), Trinidad and Tobago (TT), United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA), and Vatican City (VC).

	confused:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 18:55 GMT		3 points
	Multi-word abbreviations (as in your fourth comment) are fine, but I'd stick with Sporcle convention for Czech, Suadi and Sierra -- I had put down four countries before I realized "republic" was still clogging my input.

	confused:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 18:59 GMT		2 points
	That said, I've really enjoyed this series a lot, and appreciate your sticking with it. It must have taken a lot of work to have so few repeating countries on each quiz, but it makes for a really nice workout! Thanks.

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 20:45 GMT		1 point
	@confused: that's a legitimate complaint about the multi-word abbreviations and it concerns me as well. I'm not sure of a way around the problem short of dropping the exceptions you mentioned. However, they are the exceptional case, I think it only really happens with those four countries. For the time being I shall keep them in and take in more comments, favorable and unfavorable, about the multi-word abbreviations. In the end it may come down to keeping the acronyms and just dropping the exceptions (Czech, Saudi, Sierra, and Sri). I do like the fact that all the multi-word countries have abbreviations under the current scheme. I actually like Czech better than Czech Republic, and in fact, Česko is the short form name for Czech Republic in the Czech language and the government has been trying to change the English version of the name to Czechia for some time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Czech_Republic). I'm much less fond of Saudi, Sierra, and Sri. Aside from having to remember those four exceptions I think forming the acronyms for the rest of the abbreviations is both easy and natural.

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 21:01 GMT		1 point
	@confused: thanks for the kind words about the series. It was fun to put together, but it wasn't especially easy to achieve having no repeating border countries within a quiz. Lucky for me I have a stubborn streak. It was like making the seating arrangements for a Hatfield-McCoy family reunion dinner. If only there were a game mode option that would apply what the player types in to just a single answer, rather than all the answers, then the contortions involved in creating the series would have been unnecessary. When I've played some other border quizzes, by the time you get down to the end of the quiz you're only filling in the gaps left when earlier countries were accepted for multiple borders. That's something I really wanted to avoid in this quiz. There are no gimmes in the series, you have to work for every border.

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 23:34 GMT		1 point
	REVISED Multi-Word Abbreviations: the rules for the multi-word abbreviations are very simple: use the first letter of each word in the common Sporcle name of the country to compose the acronym. Omit insignificant words: "and", "of", and "the". There are ten exceptions to this rule: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvaldor, Marshall Islands, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka. For these exceptions the abbreviation is merely the first word of the multi-word country name: Bosnia, Costa, Czech, Dominican, El, Marshall, Saudi, Solomon, Sierra, and Sri. These exceptions were necessary in order to eliminate conflicts with other abbreviations. I was unable to come up with an acceptable abbreviation for South Africa and St Lucia. All of my quizzes (http://www.sporcle.com/user/tahitiwahini/contributed) use both the commonly accepted Sporcle country name alternatives and the multi-word abbreviations. To see the Multi-Word Abbreviations please visit: http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/common_country_name_alternatives The complete list of all the Multi-Word Abbreviations: AB (Antigua and Barbuda), BF (Burkina Faso), Bosnia (Bosnia and Herzegovina), CAR (Central African Republic), CI (Cote d'Ivoire), Costa (Costa Rica), CV (Cape Verde), Czech (Czech Republic), Dominican (Dominican Republic), DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo), EG (Equatorial Guinea), El (El Salvador), FSM (Federated States of Micronesia), GB (Guinea-Bissau), Marshall (Marshall Islands), NK (North Korea), NZ (New Zealand), PNG (Papua New Guinea), RC (Republic of the Congo), Saudi (Saudi Arabia), Solomon (Solomon Islands), Sierra (Sierra Leone), SK (South Korea), SKN (St Kitts and Nevis), SM (San Marino), Sri (Sri Lanka), STP (Sao Tome and Principe), SVG (St Vincent and the Grenadines), TL (Timor-Leste), TT (Trinidad and Tobago), UAE (United Arab Emirates), UK (United Kingdom), US (United States), and VC (Vatican City).

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 03:08 GMT		1 point
	I've added a new Multi-Word Abbreviation: SS for Southern Sudan.

	tahitiwahini:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 21:06 GMT		1 point
	Hope you are enjoying the Border Country Marathon! If you want to tackle an even bigger challenge check out the Border Country Biathlon which is similar to the marathon except that both bordering countries and bodies of water are included. I was able to structure the biathlon such that there are no repeats of subject countries in the whole quiz series, something I was not able to achieve in the marathon. Here's the start of the biathlon: http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/border_country_biathlon_1_of_16

	Cheeselord:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 12:18 GMT		0 points
	you've put austria and zambia in two legs of the marathon