Countries by Wikipedia Descriptions #5 - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country	Russia	88%
A 9.1-magnitude quake hit on March 11, 2011, and triggered a large tsunami	Japan	86%
The Apennine Mountains form the peninsula's backbone and the Alps form most of its northern boundary	Italy	85%
Phuket, Krabi, Ranong, Phang Nga and Trang lay along the coasts of the Andaman Sea	Thailand	84%
Named in honor of King Philip II of Spain	Philippines	83%
The tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa	Algeria	81%
Urnes Stave Church in inner Sognefjord is on UNESCO's World Heritage List	Norway	81%
Includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) west of the mainland	Ecuador	78%
Its eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation	Australia	77%
Was invaded, and later annexed, by Saddam's Iraq	Kuwait	76%
It has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815	Switzerland	76%
It remains formally at war with Syria and Lebanon,	Israel	74%
Other international airports include Gimpo, Busan, and Jeju	South Korea	69%
The nation established independence from Australia on 16 September 1975	Papua New Guinea	67%
Once formed the core of the Maya civilization	Guatemala	65%
Has won the FIFA World Cup on two occasions, on home soil in 1930 and again in 1950	Uruguay	65%
Geologically part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge	Iceland	58%
The number of princes is estimated to be at least 7,000	Saudi Arabia	55%
Became the first state in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion in the late 3rd or early 4th century AD	Armenia	31%

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