Can you name the countries that lie entirely higher than 250 meters above sea level? by tyl

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High level countries Quiz

by tyl

Created Mar 28, 2011 in Geography
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	tahitiwahini:	Mar 28th, 2011 at 14:33 GMT		12 points
	Very interesting quiz, but please provide a source. I'm surprised to see that countries like San Marino, Nepal, and Bhutan didn't make the cut.

	tahitiwahini:	Mar 28th, 2011 at 14:41 GMT		3 points
	It makes sense that all these countries are landlocked. Although all of the countries I mentioned have territory below the 250 m threshold and therefore are rightly excluded. Would still like to see a source though.

	Patricio:	Mar 30th, 2011 at 12:31 GMT		9 points
	Fun quiz, Lesotho is awesome!

	Peterlie:	May 16th, 2011 at 20:59 GMT		5 points
	The source lists Serbia's minimum elevation as NA. If that means Not Applicable, what a peculiar country and topography that must be. If it means Not Available then, well, that raises other issues of its own. Either way, it made me laugh.

	buckleppin:	May 16th, 2011 at 22:25 GMT		4 points
	@Peterlie: How very Borgesian!

	Pit_trout:	May 17th, 2011 at 01:50 GMT		7 points
	@Peterlie: perhaps the data it was based on (old CIA World Factbook data) originally gave a low point for “Serbia and Montenegro” when that was one country; then, since the dissolution, if the old low point is in Montenegro, it would become the new Montenegro low point, but one would have to go to more local sources to find the low point of Serbia.

	Masoreth:	May 17th, 2011 at 20:55 GMT		9 points
	Also Bhutan and Bolivia are out of this top 10 -list. I'm surprised.

	emma2323:	May 18th, 2011 at 05:27 GMT		4 points
	Very surprised that Botswana is on the list (think: Okavango Delta, Kalahari Desert) and Nepal is not. You learn something new every day. Great quiz!

	tyl:	May 18th, 2011 at 08:34 GMT		6 points
	Serbia should definitely have its lowest point deeper than 250 m. German Wikipedia says Subotica's elevation is at 109 m. (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subotica). Budapest is at something like 100 m and Danube River won't float up a hill ;-)

	tahitiwahini:	May 18th, 2011 at 16:45 GMT		2 points
	According to the CIA World Factbook Serbia's lowest elevation (35 m) is at the intersection of the Danube and Timok Rivers: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2020.html The Timok River borders Bulgaria for 15 km upstream from the point it empties into the Danube River: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timok_(river)

	Dralcoffin:	May 18th, 2011 at 16:53 GMT		3 points
	Nepal has its southern borders on the Gangetic plains, which are under 100 meters in elevation. But Bhutan is much more surprising, so I went to look on Google Earth. Bhutan's southern border is crossed by several rivers plunging onto the Gangetic plains, and a few of their valleys get down to 100 meters. Hence, those two countries are comfortably not on here.

	Dralcoffin:	May 18th, 2011 at 16:59 GMT		2 points
	As for Bolivia, the southeastern corner where the Paraguay River flows through the Pantanal is below 90 meters.

	koopa08:	May 18th, 2011 at 18:49 GMT		2 points
	I just started rattling off landlocked countries, as a coast represents seal level :)

	jackmerlin:	May 18th, 2011 at 19:00 GMT		5 points
	I tried the Netherlands and Maldives, but alas no luck!

	loganite:	May 18th, 2011 at 21:43 GMT		3 points
	Great quiz! I'd like to see one based on the highest AVERAGE elevations...I'll bet Bhutan and Bolivia would make that one!

	Dralcoffin:	May 18th, 2011 at 23:01 GMT		1 point
	@loganite: I'd love to see that list as well, although I'm not sure if there is any data on that.

	GreatScott:	May 19th, 2011 at 00:40 GMT		2 points
	Good challenging quiz! No matter how many times I typed in Nepal, it wouldn't take it! haha... some surprises I wasn't expecting.

	beastlybeast:	May 19th, 2011 at 02:16 GMT		-1 points
	good one no bhutan!

	Sixtytwobobs:	May 22nd, 2011 at 23:05 GMT		1 point
	I got everything but Mongolia, the most gotten one

	scbroncos:	Jan 5th, 2012 at 16:50 GMT		1 point
	what about kosovo? it says its minimum elevation is 297...