Tropical Countries Quiz

Can you name the Tropical Countries?

created by zoopy

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Correctly named countries will show up below
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Source: Map of World with Tropic Overlay
Name the countries in the tropics, either fully within or crossing one of the tropics: Tropic of Cancer (North) or the Tropic of Capricorn (South). Do't forget the overseas territories!
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Crosses Tropic of Cancer

Totally Within Tropics - Northern

Totally Within Tropics - Straddles Equator

Totally Within Tropics - Southern

Crosses Tropic of Capricorn

Straddles Tropics and Equator (doesn't cross any of them)

Overseas Tropical State or Territory

Crossed Equator and a Tropic

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Tropical Countries Quiz

by zoopy

Created Dec 9, 2009 in Geography
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	JDass:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 14:22 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz. Needs another 2 minutes though and acceptable answers (ie. Dem Rep Congo, CAR).

	Fidelio:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 14:45 GMT	2 points
	Yeah, more time would be helpful. There were plenty of countries that I knew were in the region that I didn't have time to name - and it wasn't as if I was just going through every country I knew.

	WadeGarrett:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 14:50 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz, but I think the territories should be bonus answers. Also, Equatorial Guinea is spelled incorrectly.

	mbc:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 15:24 GMT	2 points
	I like it but I think you missed Bolivia. France should be on too, because of Guiana etc.

	dtro:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 15:28 GMT	1 point
	I thought I type uae.

	zoopy:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 16:31 GMT	2 points
	Thanks for the feedback. I did miss Bolivia (and Cape Verde!). Fixed the others. Also regrouped into 6 groups so that entirely in Northern Hemisphere/Southern/Straddles Equator are differentiated. Also tried to order countries from West to East in each group, starting at the International Date Line (um, Western Hemisphere, pretty much). Also did change UK, New Zealand, Japan into bonus, but kept France and Netherlands as these seem like fully integrated states. Thanks.

	yellowcarpet:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 17:12 GMT	2 points
	You spelt Micronesia Wrongly. Prevented me from getting 100%. =(

	A_is_for_Addict:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 17:22 GMT	1 point
	Can you also accept Rep Congo for the Republic of the Congo please. Great quiz :D

	apchilds:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 19:12 GMT	1 point
	I don't know whether it's possible to adjust the layout so "Overseas Territories" aren't so low on the screen (because "Totally within tropics - northern" is such a large category). I didn't even see the Overseas part until I tried New Zealand and couldn't find where it had appeared!

	Heresy:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 21:27 GMT	1 point
	Maybe split the longest list by west/east hemisphere? Else continent?

	zoopy:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 02:48 GMT	1 point
	I kinda like that they are so far away - they are far away from their home countries too. I made Netherlands a bonus. If you can't get France from of its umpteen territories ... well.

	joebobs:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 23:52 GMT	0 points
	Don't do the east/west or continent split, it'd make it too easy. Absolutely great quiz! I'm nominating it. :D

	OldSpider:	Dec 15th, 2009 at 06:05 GMT	1 point
	St Lucia should also be accepted as Saint Lucia.

	antiomi:	Dec 15th, 2009 at 17:25 GMT	1 point
	didn't take united states for Hawaii???

	micah:	Dec 15th, 2009 at 18:40 GMT	1 point
	I like the idea of splitting the long list by hemisphere. You're already arranging them geographically so it shouldn't change the difficulty by that much, and it makes the layout way less painful.

	bsd987:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 06:19 GMT	1 point
	If you are treating US for Hawaii as you do, then you should treat France for Guadalupe, Martinique, and French Guiana exactly the same. No point to give it its own category.

	smarty:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 07:27 GMT	1 point
	like bsd987 stated, french guiana, guadeloupe and martinique are a part of france, not just dependencies.

	smarty:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 07:30 GMT	1 point
	actually, now that i read the title of the category, the usa should be under the same category france is under then.

	ulashima:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 09:25 GMT	1 point
	Well, even East Timor is a colloqual English name for the country, the counrty's official English name (and Sporcle name) is Timor-Leste. The answer should be Timor-Leste and East Timor should be another accepted answer.

	ulashima:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 09:26 GMT	1 point
	New Zealand's territory is Niue, not Nieu.

	zoopy:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	1 point
	ok, made the French overseas departments officially part of the country - which necessitated adding a new group! Also added a group for Brazil which crosses equator AND a tropic. Made UK, Netherlands and New Zealand not bonuses otherwise the group disappears. still there is one bonus!

	koopa08:	Jun 1st, 2010 at 00:22 GMT	1 point
	too much time...you could name all the countries in that time limit