Fill the World Map by Guessing the Closest Country

Name the closest non-bordering country from the last one you guessed until you've filled in the entire world map. The game starts with the United States.
Not counting any overseas territories
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are considered as bordering countries since they share an artificial border on Passport Island
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First submittedJune 2, 2022
Times taken35,957
Average score34.9%
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Distance
Country
Distance
Start : United States
3 km
Russia
2 mi
43 km
Japan
27 mi
50 km
South Korea
31 mi
263 km
China
164 mi
4 km
Taïwan
3 mi
156 km
Philippines
97 mi
53 km
Malaysia
33 mi
1 km
Singapore
1 mi
6 km
Indonesia
4 mi
40 km
Brunei
25 mi
956 km
Vietnam
594 mi
104 km
Thailand
65 mi
486 km
India
302 mi
1 km
Sri Lanka
1 mi
716 km
Maldives
445 mi
1916 km
Pakistan
1191 mi
16 km
Tajikistan
10 mi
59 km
Kazakhstan
36 mi
39 km
Mongolia
24 mi
770 km
North Korea
478 mi
2731 km
Myanmar
1696 mi
297 km
Bhutan
185 mi
43 km
Bangladesh
27 mi
22 km
Nepal
14 mi
957 km
Afghanistan
595 mi
101 km
Kyrgyzstan
62 mi
290 km
Turkmenistan
180 mi
199 km
Azerbaijan
123 mi
211 km
Iraq
131 mi
220 km
Lebanon
137 mi
45 km
Jordan
28 mi
7 km
Egypt
4 mi
15 km
Saudi Arabia
9 mi
16 km
Israel
10 mi
228 km
Cyprus
142 mi
69 km
Turkey
43 mi
198 km
Romania
123 mi
68 km
Slovakia
42 mi
142 km
Slovenia
88 mi
45 km
Bosnia and Herzegovina
28 mi
68 km
Hungary
42 mi
70 km
Czech Republic
43 mi
218 km
Italy
135 mi
8 km
Monaco
5 mi
236 km
Switzerland
147 mi
227 km
Luxembourg
141 mi
64 km
Netherlands
39 mi
133 km
United Kingdom
82 mi
33 km
France
21 mi
148 km
Austria
92 mi
24 km
Croatia
15 mi
70 km
Albania
44 mi
38 km
Serbia
24 mi
114 km
Greece
71 mi
114 km
Kosovo
71 mi
54 km
Bulgaria
34 mi
148 km
Ukraine
92 mi
220 km
Lithuania
136 mi
152 km
Estonia
95 mi
47 km
Finland
29 mi
213 km
Latvia
133 mi
144 km
Sweden
89 mi
4 km
Denmark
2 mi
94 km
Poland
58 mi
287 km
Moldova
178 mi
337 km
Belarus
206 mi
571 km
Germany
355 mi
Distance
Country
Distance
33 km
Liechtenstein
20 mi
372 km
Belgium
231 mi
622 km
Ireland
386 mi
839 km
Norway
521 mi
973 km
Iceland
604 mi
1637 km
Canada
1017 mi
1657 km
Bahamas
1030 mi
89 km
Cuba
55 mi
85 km
Haiti
53 mi
188 km
Jamaica
117 mi
448 km
Dominican Republic
279 mi
576 km
Colombia
356 mi
137 km
Nicaragua
85 mi
14 km
El Salvador
9 mi
161 km
Belize
100 mi
56 km
Honduras
35 mi
177 km
Mexico
110 mi
752 km
Costa Rica
467 mi
535 km
Guatemala
332 mi
878 km
Panama
546 mi
445 km
Venezuela
277 mi
14 km
Trinidad and Tobago
9 mi
130 km
Grenada
81 mi
1 km
Saint-Vincent and the Grenadines
1 mi
42 km
Saint-Lucia
26 mi
129 km
Dominica
80 mi
154 km
Antigua and Barbuda
96 mi
68 km
Saint-Kitts-and-Nevis
42 mi
524 km
Barbados
325 mi
507 km
Guyana
315 mi
1252 km
Peru
778 mi
583 km
Argentina
362 mi
2340 km
Ecuador
1454 mi
486 km
Brazil
302 mi
713 km
Chile
443 mi
457 km
Paraguay
284 mi
276 km
Uruguay
172 mi
1013 km
Bolivia
630 mi
1620 km
Suriname
1007 mi
3351 km
Cape Verde
2082 mi
571 km
Senegal
355 mi
262 km
Sierra Leone
163 mi
223 km
Ivory Coast
139 mi
319 km
Togo
198 mi
101 km
Nigeria
63 mi
95 km
Equatorial Guinea
59 mi
199 km
Republic of the Congo
124 mi
431 km
Chad
268 mi
167 km
South Sudan
102 mi
420 km
Eritrea
261 mi
29 km
Yemen
18 mi
20 km
Djibouti
13 mi
624 km
Sudan
387 mi
497 km
Democratic Republic of the Congo
309 mi
158 km
Gabon
98 mi
118 km
Angola
73 mi
32 km
Botswana
20 mi
202 km
Mozambique
125 mi
281 km
Comoros
175 mi
327 km
Tanzania
203 mi
425 km
Somalia
264 mi
571 km
Oman
355 mi
51 km
Iran
32 mi
20 km
Kuwait
13 mi
322 km
Bahrain
200 mi
Distance
Country
Distance
1 km
Qatar
1 mi
31 km
United Arab Emirates
20 mi
1515 km
Syria
941 mi
335 km
Armenia
208 mi
821 km
Uzbekistan
510 mi
774 km
Georgia
481 mi
1400 km
North Macedonia
870 mi
79 km
Montenegro
49 mi
495 km
San Marino
308 mi
221 km
Vatican City
137 mi
665 km
Malta
413 mi
288 km
Tunisia
179 mi
498 km
Spain
310 mi
68 km
Algeria
43 mi
521 km
Portugal
324 mi
202 km
Morocco
125 mi
238 km
Mali
148 mi
189 km
Gambia
118 mi
60 km
Guinea Bissau
37 mi
280 km
Mauritania
174 mi
253 km
Guinea
157 mi
267 km
Burkina Faso
166 mi
450 km
Liberia
280 mi
469 km
Ghana
292 mi
43 km
Benin
27 mi
668 km
Cameroon
415 mi
86 km
Niger
53 mi
701 km
Central African Republic
436 mi
414 km
Uganda
257 mi
95 km
Burundi
59 mi
419 km
Kenya
260 mi
365 km
Rwanda
227 mi
610 km
Zambia
379 mi
517 km
South Africa
322 mi
707 km
Malawi
440 mi
161 km
Zimbabwe
100 mi
1 km
Namibia
1 mi
695 km
Lesotho
432 mi
285 km
Eswatini
177 mi
1182 km
Madagascar
734 mi
263 km
Seychelles
164 mi
354 km
Mauritius
220 mi
2131 km
Ethiopia
1324 mi
1383 km
Libya
859 mi
1348 km
Andorra
838 mi
4567 km
São Tomé and Príncipe
2838 mi
10216 km
Laos
6348 mi
2962 km
Palau
1841 mi
396 km
Micronesia
246 mi
482 km
Papua New Guinea
300 mi
2 km
Solomon Islands
1 mi
155 km
Vanuatu
96 mi
747 km
Fiji
464 mi
327 km
Tonga
203 mi
262 km
Samoa
163 mi
1036 km
Tuvalu
644 mi
342 km
Kiribati
212 mi
287 km
Nauru
178 mi
597 km
Marshall Islands
371 mi
3092 km
Australia
1921 mi
441 km
East Timor
274 mi
2988 km
Cambodia
1857 mi
8606 km
New Zealand
5348 mi
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101 Recent Comments
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Level 61
Oct 21, 2024
Nice quiz! Nominated!
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Level 59
Oct 21, 2024
Thanks :)
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Level 61
Oct 28, 2024
Surprisingly fun! Nommed as well
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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
Kind of late to nominate the quiz, since it just got featured :D

Thank you though and thanks to the Quizmaster!

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Level 89
Oct 28, 2024
Dang, I was just getting into the Africa groove and ran out of time after Tanzania. The pesky Caribbean took me too long.
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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
Hope you will achieve that part next time :)
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Level 88
Oct 28, 2024
Quizzes usually accept PNG for Papua New Guinea. Why this doesn't.
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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
It does? It was probably not the right answer when you tried it...
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Level 74
Oct 28, 2024
Great quiz, but add another 10 minutes please!
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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
Many thanks! The point of the quiz is to be hard to complete on your first try; you should be punished if you make too many mistakes ;)
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Level 83
Jan 18, 2025
Slow typists (like me) will probably never get it. It took me many tries to finish the COTW quiz in the same time given here.
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Level 95
Oct 28, 2024
Very fun! Thanks for the challenge! I look forward to taking it many times
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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
Many thanks and good luck to you for your next tries :D
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Level 89
Oct 28, 2024
I do not understand how I misspelled Tanzania 4 times. I swear I tried it multiple times.
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Level 50
Feb 4, 2026
Username checks out
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Level 85
Oct 28, 2024
The country after Netherlands should be St. Kitts and Nevis. Saba is NOT an overseas territory, but a special municipality of the Netherlands.

Even if Saba was an overseas territory (which you could debate), the country after France should be Dominica. Guadeloupe is definitely not an overseas territory, and it is much closer to Dominica than metropolitan France is to Austria.

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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
Both of the territories you are mentionning are literally overseas regions.

"Guadeloupe is definitely not an oversas territory" > You chose the wrong person to say this so confidently because i am french and i can tell you i never heard someone saying such a thing...

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Level 85
Oct 28, 2024
Yes, overseas REGIONS, not territories. Every other quiz on JetPunk works this way.
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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
Overseas territories = all kind of them, including regions

Overall the quiz has been made to avoid including these kind of places that are too far away from the mainland

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Level 85
Oct 28, 2024
Makes sense, but you should really specify that in the caveats. The vast majority of quizzes on JetPunk don't count French overseas regions as "overseas territories".
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Level 59
Nov 10, 2024
haven't replied when i changed it but i edited the description a bit
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Level 77
Jan 21, 2025
"That are too far away from the mainland" is exactly why discounting overseas territories is a bad idea. How do you decide what is too far away and what is close enough? How is someone else supposed to guess what you decided? In the order of this quiz, it only comes up a couple times, but it's really hard to know, for example, which of Australia's islands are counted and which are not. Are we counting the Torres Strait islands, but not Norfolk Island or Christmas Island? That would be one reasonable way to interpret this, but certainly not the only way. Maybe count none of the islands? What about Spain's territories in North Africa, or the Canary Islands? Is Gibraltar close enough?

The easiest ways around this are either 1: include all overseas territories, or all populated overseas territories, or 2: use the Jetpunk standards for what does and does not count.

Honestly I'm not a huge fan of the Jetpunk standards, but they are easy to learn and then you aren't left guessing.

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Level 79
Oct 28, 2024
Is there a starting country from which NZ is not the last one?

...except NZ itself :D

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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
The french version of the game, which starts with France, ends up with a different country ;)
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Level 79
Oct 29, 2024
Interesting, thank you! But actually I have a problem with the distance between Russia and US in that quiz... see comment there!
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Level 59
Oct 29, 2024
Just saw that, thanks for spotting it! I'll work on it asap but making such quizzes is really time consuming (between 20 and 50 hours of work i'd say)
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Level 79
Oct 31, 2024
I understand! Take your time and thank you for your quizzes!
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Level 89
Oct 28, 2024
Ran out of time at 129, great quiz, the Caribbean island-hopping took a lot of my time haha
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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
Great score for your first attempt!
+3
Level 87
Oct 28, 2024
First time i tried this quiz and I enjoyed it. I got stuck in the balkans kept trying Montenegro and getting stuck. 1/5 this attempt but a great quiz.
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Level 59
Oct 28, 2024
Thanks a lot :)
+1
Level 96
Oct 28, 2024
I love this quiz - took a few tries to figure out the entire string, but now I've completed it a couple of times just to try to lower my time. Thanks for all the effort to compile this for our enjoyment.
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Level 59
Oct 29, 2024
Glad you liked it! I made similar quizzes with world capitals, US states and US state capitals, you can find them in the list of my english quizzes :)
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Level 75
Oct 29, 2024
Maybe we can have a fill the world map by guessing the furthest country
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Level 59
Oct 29, 2024
That's a really good idea! I will think about it though it will take me way more time to figure which country make it out...
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Level 95
Oct 29, 2024
I keep thinking that Sao Tome and Principe must go earlier than it does. It's a tricky quiz!
+2
Level 79
Oct 29, 2024
Me too
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Level 65
Jan 18, 2025
It's just there, just not close enough apparently. Pals with Andorra, of all places!
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Level 79
Oct 29, 2024
176
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Level 74
Oct 30, 2024
Very tricky and neurally stimulating: I just love it!!! Great quiz
+1
Level 59
Nov 10, 2024
Many thanks :D
+1
Level 83
Oct 30, 2024
Great quiz idea. I scored it only 3 points because it's WAY too short of a clock. Should be at least 40 minutes.
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Level 59
Nov 10, 2024
As I said before, 40 minutes would allow way too many errors so the quiz wouldn't be even challenging. If you have enough time to try the 10 countries around each of them everytime, do you really think you deserve a 5/5?
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Level 81
Oct 31, 2024
The one after PNG threw me, because I knew the closest Australian island was only a few km from PNG but did not know that the nearest Solomon Islands island was just 2 km. Learn something new every day!
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Level 59
Nov 10, 2024
Eheh that's a very tricky one to say the least :D
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Level 76
Oct 31, 2024
Very clever quiz. It just needs, oh, about 12 extra hours added to it for any hope for me to finish....
+1
Level 59
Nov 10, 2024
On my way to add 4 days to the timer!
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Level 61
Nov 1, 2024
One of the hardest quizzes I've EVER done! Great quiz!
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Level 59
Nov 10, 2024
Thanks a lot haha! I promise you that there are a lot of harder quizzes on that website, for example my puzzle quizzes if you're looking for some ;)
+2
Level 53
Nov 2, 2024
Around a minute left on this quiz. (Mostly) Enjoyed every second of it.
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Level 59
Nov 10, 2024
Thank you, glad you liked it :)
+1
Level 50
Nov 3, 2024
DR is closer to Saint Kitts than Colombia i think
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Level 59
Nov 10, 2024
May be surprising but it doesn't !
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Level 66
Nov 10, 2024
Great quiz, but if the starting country changed randomly, I'd try it multiple times.
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Level 59
Nov 10, 2024
Would be really fun to me too imo but as i already need some dozens of hours to work on such a quiz, I guess i would need literally years to do such a thing so that's sadly a big no. If anyway is interested in wasting such a big time though, I'd be glad to play their quiz :)
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Level 71
Dec 4, 2024
Hey, are you sure that the Solomon Islands are closer to PNG? Since you indicated the distance to be 2km, I assume you measured between Kukuvulu Island and Elo Island, but Kukuvulu Island also belongs to Solomon Islands according to this source:

https://www.getamap.net/maps/solomon_islands/solomon_islands_(general)/_kukuvuluisland/

In that case, the closest distance would be Kukuvulu Island to Alasina Island at roughly 3.7km which is pretty much the same distance as Saibai Island to mainland PNG.

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Level 68
Jan 7, 2025
Wow
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Level 80
Jan 18, 2025
Great quiz, but it needs more time
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Level 67
Jan 18, 2025
Great job, loved the idea !
+1
Level 35
Jan 18, 2025
Great quiz. I completed it 100 % but I took it untimed.
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Level 67
Jan 18, 2025
Maldives closer to Pakistan than to Seychelles??
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Level 69
Feb 5, 2026
I was surprised by that too
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Level 55
Jan 18, 2025
This was fantastic. I just spent way too much time in Caribbean. Nightmare of Oceania was still to come...
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Level 63
Jan 18, 2025
What fun I had. Failed the first time. Completed the second time. Awesome quiz
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Level 57
Jan 18, 2025
Wow! Pure brilliance! I knew that some sneaky micronation would come while doing Europe and kept trying Liechtenstein after every other try!
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Level 73
Jan 18, 2025
Wow, this was really hard! I had to turn off the timer because I was having fun completing it and had only made it to country #68 by the 20-minute mark.
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Level 58
Jan 18, 2025
The amount of times Sao Tome got skipped was crazy. I must have typed it in at least 10 times. Great quiz, I can't imagine how long this took to make.
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Level 67
Jan 18, 2025
Fantastic quiz! Certainly a quiz where you can't get away with just knowing all Caribbean island states, or all the 'Stans'. This teaches you proper placement!
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Level 37
Jan 18, 2025
Wow, amazing quiz!

Are we sure Republic of Congo closer to Chad than Angola? Angola looks so much closer on a map!

I kept trying Montenegro for so many and I was LIVID when I left Europe with it never being correct! >.

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Level 91
Feb 4, 2025
The Angolan exclave of Cabinda borders Republic of Congo, so Angola is disqualified as an answer there.
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Level 44
Jan 18, 2025
Excellent quiz - difficult and satisfying.
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Level 55
Jan 18, 2025
i did this with 0 seconds left
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Level 54
Jan 18, 2025
Great quiz, but needs a few more minutes. Shocked Sao Tome wasn't closer to many of countries on the west side of Africa
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Level 72
Jan 19, 2025
Wow! This is a lot of fun! Tough one! :]
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Level 39
Jan 19, 2025
16:47... try #2. Got to about 100 try 1. Great quiz, if frustrating :)
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Level 64
Jan 25, 2025
2:58 after a lot of attempts. this is my new favorite quiz on jetpunk :)
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Level 64
Jan 25, 2025
2:52!
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Level 64
Jan 28, 2025
2:46, i think sub 2:40 is possible soon
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Level 72
Feb 24, 2025
Phew, that was a rush :D literally finished the quiz with 1 second left. Good fun!
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Level 64
Mar 5, 2025
2:45 finally
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Level 55
Apr 1, 2025
This is REALLY convoluted

(I love it!!!!)

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Level 64
Apr 10, 2025
2:35. 10 second improvement and that might be my limit for this. awesome challenge though
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Level 73
Apr 24, 2025
Extremely fun if you know all country names/locations. 16:02
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Level 67
Apr 29, 2025
i finished with 5 seconds left X_X
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Level 60
May 11, 2025
RIP Cambodia
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Level 69
May 31, 2025
Yay, 13:36 !
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Level 55
Oct 3, 2025
Very interesting idea for a quiz. Will be playing over and over. I feel like DRC should go to Tanzania over Lake Tanganyika, but maybe I am missing something.
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Level 43
Oct 23, 2025
idk if I want to insult you or congratulats you...

185/196

But their is no way Dominican republic is closer to Nicaragua than St Kitts and Nevis

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Level 77
Jan 8, 2026
It's Colombia...
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Level 66
Dec 17, 2025
I wrote São Tome and Príncipe so many times
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Level 47
Dec 21, 2025
Awesome quiz!
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Level 61
Dec 30, 2025
Holy stress i completed this with 0 seconds remaining i typed in newzealand at the last second holy frick
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Level 32
Feb 12, 2026
very fun! got stuck after domrep because I was sure the next one would be a caribbean island and trying them all out before I finally saw Colombia... 79/195, looking forward to try again
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Level 57
Feb 25, 2026
Really nice quiz. I get better and better each time. First try I get stuck in St Vincent, now I'm in Micronesia :-)
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Level 59
Feb 25, 2026
Glad you like and improve on it!
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Level 20
Mar 6, 2026
Maldives are closer to Seychelles and Somalia than Pakistan.
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Level 61
Mar 5, 2026
Probablement le meilleur quiz que je n'ai jamais tenté sur le site!! Wow!! Bravo un vrai plaisir même après plusieurs essais.
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Level 59
Mar 6, 2026
Merci beaucoup ! Le quiz existe en version française sinon haha
+1
Level 57
Mar 22, 2026
Done in 12:09, great quiz
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Level 63
Mar 27, 2026
7 seconds left... so stressful...
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Level 50
Mar 30, 2026
I couldn’t believe I could finish this with 1 minute left.