Can you name the border countries in the Border Country Marathon [part 4 of 16]? by tahitiwahini

Can you name the border countries in the Border Country Marathon [part 4 of 16]?

created by tahitiwahini

Enter a border country in the box below
Correctly named border countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
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 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/). To start the Border Country Marathon at the beginning: http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/bordering_medium_countries_1
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Poland

Senegal

Uganda

Uzbekistan

Armenia

Guatemala

Panama

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cambodia

Gabon

Ghana

Oman

Bhutan

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Border Country Marathon [part 4 of 16] Quiz

by tahitiwahini

Created Jan 25, 2011 in Geography
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	tahitiwahini:	Jan 25th, 2011 at 04:54 GMT		0 points
	This quiz series covers the countries that border medium-sized countries, large- and small-sized countries have been done already in other quizzes. Here are the quizzes in this series so far: http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/bordering_medium_countries_1 http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/bordering_medium_countries_2 http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/bordering_medium_countries_3 http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/bordering_medium_countries_4 http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/bordering_medium_countries_5

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 25th, 2011 at 04:56 GMT		0 points
	For those who find border-related quizzes interesting these quizzes use borders to navigate around the world: http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/around_world_by_border_length http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/around_world_2_by_border_length

	biner:	Jan 25th, 2011 at 06:41 GMT		-1 points
	You may also try my successive journeys through all countries in Europe (http://www.sporcle.com/games/biner/europeonce and http://www.sporcle.com/games/biner/europeonce2), Africa (http://www.sporcle.com/games/biner/africaonce) and North/South America (http://www.sporcle.com/games/biner/americaonce). Have fun!

	CarlG:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 21:10 GMT		1 point
	Wayyy too much time. The least guessed is 75%?

	flixuk:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 22:26 GMT		2 points
	it doesn't accept 'rep of congo'

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 22:54 GMT		0 points
	@fixuk: no, but it does accept the commonly accepted Sporcle country name alternative, Rep Congo. For the rest of the country name abbreviations accepted please see: http://www.sporcle.com/games/tahitiwahini/common_country_name_alternatives

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 22:56 GMT		1 point
	@CarlG: there seems to be some agreement that the current time limit is too high, so I will reduce it to four minutes.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 23:01 GMT		1 point
	Sorry to see biner's comment rated down. The quizzes he mentions are very well done and in fact they were the inspiration for my two Around the World (Border by Border) quizzes. I'm glad he posted the links here. When I find a quiz format I like, I enjoy playing all similar quizzes out there. biner is just making that easier to do.

	Chocolatl:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 23:18 GMT		2 points
	Sorry, but these needs a lot more time. Even knowing all of them, I can't type them in fast enough in four minutes.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 23:46 GMT		1 point
	@Chocolatl: yeah, I think you're right. I'm going to reset the time limit to five minutes. It's not intended to be a typing test ;-)

	CarlG:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 01:20 GMT		0 points
	But isn't part of the fun not necessarily being able to get them all? The best quizzes are ones where you miss one or two because you just don't have the time to sit and think. I had time to think about Uganda, which I struggled with, and still finished in just over 3 minutes.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 02:27 GMT		1 point
	CarlG: since you finished the quiz in less than four minutes, would you have enjoyed the quiz more if the time limit had been four minutes instead of five minutes? For the quiz to be a challenge to you it sounds like it would need to be three minutes. Five minutes seems to be a reasonable compromise to me. I do understand that it can be fun to race against the clock to finish the quiz, but the problem I (or any other quiz creator) has is that what's too slow for some will be too fast for others. My intention is to err on the side of allowing someone to successfully answer all the questions (assuming they have a good mental picture of the map of the world), without needlessly penalizing someone who doesn't happen to type quickly. You know how fast you finished the quiz so you can try to finish the quiz in under three minutes if you wish. That is, you can race against the clock as it were, regardless of the actual time limit. However, I don't want to set the time limit at four minutes and force someone who simply wants to answer all the questions (and may not be able to do so in under four minutes) to take the quiz multiple times. It really is true that you can't please everyone. Hope you enjoyed the quiz anyway.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 03:10 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.

	Nobbe:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 05:49 GMT		2 points
	South Korea has already been done in No. 2!

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 14:56 GMT		1 point
	@Nobbe: thanks for catching that! It was unintentional, so I've removed it from this quiz.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 29th, 2011 at 14:56 GMT		2 points
	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 14:51 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 14:53 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).

	tahitiwahini:	Feb 13th, 2011 at 22:59 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 03:13 GMT		1 point
	I've added a new bonus answer to this quiz, which will become an official answer on July 9, 2011: http://bit.ly/bv64sa

	tahitiwahini:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 20:57 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