Stats: Mystery of the Squarest Country Lyrics

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Lyrics	% Correct
{Slovakia}? No.	83%
{Bangladesh}? No, {Bangladesh} looks like a wizard! (You think everything looks like a wizard!)	82%
{Georgia}? No.	68%
Hmm... {Italy}'s a boot.	68%
What about {Benin} and Togo? No, they're both far too skinny.	66%
And so is {Papua New Guinea}!	63%
And {Yemen}'s more of a rectangle! Yes I can see.	63%
Cuba's very long and thin and both {Koreas} are short and squat.	63%
{France} is famously a hexagon, that fact is quite well known.	63%
{Malaysia}? Jay, {Malaysia}'s not a square! But there must be one somewhere!	63%
{North Macedonia}? Too round.	63%
Not in {Oman} or the UAE.	63%
Both the USA and {Canada} have squares in large amounts, but we're only counting countries, and states don't count.	62%
{Kuwait} looks like a little thumb, Madagascar looks quite lean.	62%
Mozambique has got too many sides, {Uzbekistan} as well.	62%
And {Australia}'s a cat-dog, and Japan we must reject.	60%
But it's not the only one, it's joined by {Sierra Leone}.	60%
{Ghana}? Too long.	58%
And Nauru's nearly a circle and {Somalia}'s a sock.	57%
Burundi looks quite like a heart, {Qatar} looks like a bean.	57%
{Poland} would look like a square if it invaded to the south.	57%
Tajikistan's quite funky, as is elephant head-shaped {Thailand}.	57%
There's no square in {Indonesia}'s 18,000 tiny islands.	57%
Little Rwanda? Doesn't stand a hope in hell. Nor does {Israel}. (Are we seriously going to go through every country? Yes, I think it's important.)	55%
{Guatemala} has two squarish sides in this bit in the north. But it won't meet our criteria 'cause it needs a third and fourth.	55%
{India}'s a diamond and Slovenia's a splot.	55%
{Kazakhstan} looks like a turtle with a leaf stuck in its mouth.	55%
{Burkina Faso} is irregular, four-sided it is not.	54%
Little {Paraguay}'s no paradigm, Mauritania's an L.	54%
{Mali} starts off strongly, but right here it goes to pot.	54%
And Malawi's like a seahorse, {Guinea-Bissau}'s a weathered rock.	52%
If you have a lot of coastline then your sides will not be straight, so the squareness of the Philippines, Greece, and {Ireland} won't be great.	52%
What about these little countries, {Costa Rica}, Lebanon?	52%
Is {Morocco} square? No, it's more of a stair.	51%
{Russia}'s nothing like a square. Too long as far as I'm aware.	51%
They're not square and nor are Denmark, Finland, China, or {Iran}.	51%
Norway, {Sweden}, and New Zealand all have far too crinkly edges.	49%
There's no square in Singapore, Brunei, {Mauritius}, or Gabon.	49%
{Chile}'s very, very, very, very, very, long and thin.	48%
{Luxembourg}ers are all squares which their borders don't reflect.	48%
Despite a square's efficiency, the {German}s don't come close.	46%
The {Vatican}? The {Vati}-can't.	46%
And Iberia would pass but {Spain} alone's not square enough.	45%
Ethiopia and {Switzerland} look like potato wedges.	45%
{Liberia}? No.	45%
Little {Monaco}'s so tiny you can see the piers within.	45%
Moldova? {Guinea}? Don't be silly.	45%
There's Ukraine, Venezuela, Eritrea, Cyprus and {Kosovo}!	45%
And {Peru} is like a resting dog, Guyana's like a ghost.	42%
{San Marino}? {San Mari-no}!	42%
{Timor Leste}? Doesn't pass the test.	42%
{Myanmar}'s like a genie and not even slightly boxy.	40%
So the winner of our contest,Fitting all our tight prescriptions, It's the squarest of the squarest! The nation of the Pharaohs! The land of Cleopatra! The country where the Sphinx is! It's the land of the {Egypt}ians!	40%
What about these landlocked countries like {Nepal} or South Sudan?	40%
{Chad} looks like Jay Leno, Eswatini couldn't be rounder.	38%
And the following are countries with a sticky-outy bit: There's Afghanistan, {Namibia}, the DRC's got two.	37%
{Cameroon} is like a chicken with a huge badonkadonk.	37%
Greenland's not a real country even though it's really big. The {UK} looks like an old witch sitting sideways on a pig.	37%
South Sudan has left behind a very square North {Sudan}ese.	37%
{Nicaragua} would look square if you viewed it in 3D.	35%
The Gambia, {Vietnam}, and Panama all look like snakes.	35%
{Kiribati}? Not square, alas.	34%
{Senegal}? Not square at all.	34%
{Uganda} cannot be a square because of all the lakes.	34%
While {Iraq} and Jordan's lines are straight, the angles just aren't right.	34%
{Brazil} is too triangular,	32%
{Equatorial Guinea}'s very square, but unfortunately, since its capital's on an island, then the squarest it can't be.	32%
If your country's made of islands, then a square you'll never be. There are loads of island nations that are mostly empty sea: Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the {Solomon Islands}, the Seychelles,	32%
But add Ecuador and {Bahrain}, and it's massively improved.	31%
Some parts of {Tuvalu} look rude.	31%
The {Dominican Republic}, that just tapers to the east.	31%
The {Netherlands} is flat although its edges do not fit.	31%
Tunisia and {Albania} look like each other.	31%
{Turkey} is too rectangular.	31%
The CAR so near, so far, {Botswana}'s like a flounder.	29%
This monkey is Armenian, this shooting star's {Laotian}.	29%
If {Bolivia} expanded, then a square it just might be.	28%
Little {Liechtenstein} and the Argentines are not square in the least.	28%
{Mexico}? No, no, no, no.	28%
{Mongolia} looks like a bat, the Congo's kind of foxy.	28%
Now the only countries left are ones whose squareness are the best. If you know which ones are coming, we're incredibly impressed! Little {Montenegro}'s square if you rotate it some degrees.	28%
{Samoa}'s like a butterfly whose wings have been removed.	28%
The Maldives, Micronesia, {Fiji}, the Marshall Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis,	28%
{Libya} is nearly square, it's more a parallelogram.	26%
Syria's just a bit too slopey, and {El Salvador}'s too long. (That doesn't rhyme!)	26%
The angles in {Angola} mean it's nearly good to go.	26%
And Cote d'Ivoire and {Suriname} do well in our exam.	25%
{Azerbaijan} looks like a bird that's been run over by a truck.	25%
{Bulgaria}'s too knobbly,	25%
{Belize} has one edge here that's straight but this bit's rather lumpy.	23%
Haiti, Croatia, and {Zambia} all have shapes that wrap around.	23%
Listing every country by its shape is not an easy job when inevitably loads of them look only like a blob.So to make things more efficient, as I'm sure you've got the gist, here are all the blobby countries in a quick compiled list: Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, {Belarus}, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina,	23%
{Portugal}? Too thin, too tall.	23%
{South Africa}'s too wobbly,	23%
Sri Lanka's like a raindrop, {Kyrgyzstan}'s a bird in flight.	23%
Algeria and {Kenya} are pentagons, Honduras is too bumpy.	22%
And {Nigeria} comes close, although it bulges down below.	22%
São Tomé and Príncipe, {the Bahamas}, Cape Verde, Tonga, Vanuatu!	22%
The {Saudis}? Too much on a slant.	22%
{Comoros} would if it were glued.	20%
{Lesotho}'s sort of squarish but the angle's on the wonk.	18%
{Turkmenistan} looks like something or another.	18%
Jamaica, {Malta}, and Niger are creatures from the ocean.	15%
{Colombia}'s kind of squarish though its borders are quite rough.	14%
{Palau} looks like a jellyfish, Pakistan looks like a duck.	14%
Cambodia, Czechia, {Djibouti}, Dominica, Estonia,	12%
Serbia, St. Lucia, Tanzania, {Uruguay}, Zimbabwe!	12%
Grenada, {Hungary}, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania,	11%

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