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

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

created by tahitiwahini

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Source: BACK TO THE START of the Border Country Marathon
Can you name the border countries for every country in the world? Click on BACK TO THE START to go to the beginning of the marathon. This quiz has one bonus.
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/).
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Border Country Marathon [part 16 of 16] Quiz

by tahitiwahini

Created Feb 6, 2011 in Geography
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	tahitiwahini:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 20:29 GMT		0 points
	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 3rd, 2011 at 16:02 GMT		0 points
	**** 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 16:07 GMT		0 points
	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).

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 04:07 GMT		4 points
	To those of you who have completed the Border Country Marathon: CONGRATULATIONS!

	altosax29b:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 05:01 GMT		2 points
	Woo, I made it

	MaiPenRai:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 09:49 GMT		2 points
	MOAR

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 16:37 GMT		1 point
	@altosax29b and MaiPenRai: Special congratulations and honors to the winner and runner-up of the Border Country Marathon!

	wolfmantony:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 16:46 GMT		2 points
	Nice job tahiti!

	joebobs:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 19:48 GMT		2 points
	Congratulations on finishing this tahiti, an excellent series of quizzes. :)

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 21:56 GMT		1 point
	@wolfmantony and joebobs: thanks guys! Glad you liked it.

	thebantams1903:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 00:45 GMT		2 points
	finally finished this epic journey :)

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 03:10 GMT		1 point
	thebantams1903: Cool! I'm thinking of adding bordering bodies of water to this quiz series and renaming it Border Country Biathlon. Stay tuned ;-) Congratulations on lasting through to the end!

	awt6:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 14:09 GMT		2 points
	Great Quiz, I timed myself and did it in 79 minutes, 25 seconds, I ran out of time on 4 of them and had to re-do them, adding them to my total time :-/

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 10th, 2011 at 00:52 GMT		1 point
	@awt6: Congrats! Thanks for sharing your statistics. I think you're the first who's actually figured out their total time. There's a new version of this series coming out in March. The new version will cover water borders as well as the land borders. I'm thinking of allocating 10 minutes per quiz since I think the water borders are more difficult to get than the land borders.

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 23:38 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 03:10 GMT		1 point
	I've added a new Multi-Word Abbreviation: SS for Southern Sudan.

	tahitiwahini:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 21:09 GMT		1 point
	Hope you enjoyed 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

	Sbb618:	May 12th, 2011 at 15:57 GMT		2 points
	I made it! Never ran out of time.