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40 Random Missing Countries on the World Map

Can you name the 40 random countries that are missing from the world map? Time is a factor!
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Extremely small countries in the Lesser Antilles have been omitted
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Last updated: September 25, 2024
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First submittedMarch 24, 2022
Times taken975,686
Average score65.0%
Rating4.26
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Country
Estonia
Mali
Lesotho
Kuwait
Czech Republic
Bangladesh
Argentina
Uzbekistan
Ecuador
Greece
Country
Ivory Coast
India
Qatar
Angola
Comoros
Djibouti
South Korea
Spain
Tunisia
Rwanda
Country
United States
Ghana
Hungary
Madagascar
Cyprus
Suriname
Slovenia
Benin
Indonesia
Portugal
Country
Albania
Costa Rica
Myanmar
El Salvador
Kiribati
Tonga
Marshall Islands
Kenya
Kosovo
Peru
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100 Recent Comments
+7
Level 56
Oct 18, 2022
LMK if you have any suggestions or anything on order to improve the quiz. Have fun playing!
+6
Level 65
Sep 17, 2024
This took an embarrassing amount of attempts
+4
Level 79
Sep 18, 2024
15 attempts !! great quiz
+3
Level 85
Sep 20, 2024
I FINALLY got it, in 2:10. Embarrassingly after 189 attempts, but yay me! haha
+1
Level 55
Sep 21, 2024
North Korea and Japan sank into the sea lmao

A classic dream XD

P.S. Uganda Rwanda Burundi Tanzania and Kenya all sank plus Qatar XD

+17
Level 86
Sep 21, 2024
Not enough time. Not fun.
+4
Level 56
Sep 23, 2024
No way! I will change absolutely nothing after this comment!
+1
Level 65
Mar 23, 2026
Yeah, coulda been wub but it's over now
+2
Level 81
Sep 23, 2024
can't wait for 196 Random Missing Countries on the World Map next
+2
Level 56
Sep 23, 2024
Yeah but you'll have to answer in 30 seconds
+10
Level 44
Sep 25, 2024
Well, I agree with those who have said it is really a test of typing skill, not necessarily geographic knowledge.
+1
Level 56
Sep 25, 2024
I never said the opposite
+11
Level 57
Sep 25, 2024
But why is it advertised as a geography knowledge quiz when it is just a typing speed quiz? I'm not asking you to change it, just curious.
+2
Level 56
Sep 25, 2024
Because you still have to know all 196 countries name and where they are in the world 🤦‍♂️
+6
Level 74
Sep 25, 2024
Nine micro-nations in my first go. All but impossible in the time
+7
Level 74
Sep 25, 2024
Second time and just the eight micro-nations this time. Impossible to see. Great idea for a quiz but you need to limit the number of micro-nations as the time is very very tight as already pointed out numerous times. Zooming in and out takes up too much time.
+1
Level 56
Sep 25, 2024
You don't have to zoom in every time, you should just assume they're missing and type them in anyways, or at least that's what I do and I get it right every single time
+17
Level 59
Sep 26, 2024
"you should just assume they're missing"

Wow. What an incredibly intelligent quiz... not.

Dude, I've read the comments and I know you're on your "it's my quiz and I make the rules" train, but IMHO, you've made something completely irrelevant.

+2
Level 56
Sep 26, 2024
Bro just let me live my life damn, ur literally fighting a war over here
+10
Level 86
Sep 26, 2024
More time please!
+2
Level 69
Sep 26, 2024
Finished with 1 second left! Comoros and Mauritius were my last ones because some pesky French islands confused me!
+15
Level 82
Sep 26, 2024
The timer really needs to be longer, it's only doable with a lucky draw at the moment. If you get any of the countries that need zooming in or some of the islands it's basically not doable.
+4
Level 68
Sep 26, 2024
The islands are the easiest ones apart from the biggest ones
+1
Level 56
Sep 27, 2024
I j got it in 1.35, and i got Gambia, Jamaica, Malta, Cyprus, Kuwait, Equatorial Guinea, and Qatar. U got plenty of time
+10
Level 59
Sep 26, 2024
Ah, it's a fast typing quiz, and the maker even admits that. Guess I won't bother complaining about the low visibility of small missing countries and the low time.
+2
Level 56
Sep 26, 2024
Why do you guys have so many problems with fast typing quizzes
+8
Level 53
Sep 26, 2024
The problem isn’t a fast typing quiz, the problem is it’s advertised as sheerly a geography quiz. Or that’s my opinion at least.
+1
Level 56
Sep 26, 2024
WHERE
+1
Level 56
Sep 26, 2024
BY WHO
+5
Level 82
Nov 7, 2025
In this quiz, in the title and in the caveats, by you.
+5
Level 77
Sep 26, 2024
Very strict timing. You have to be nearly perfect to get all of them. It took me about 6 attempts!
+8
Level 59
Sep 26, 2024
Sorry, I most likely wouldn't be able to type in the 40 countries in time if I had a list of them, so it's just another fast-typing quiz...
+9
Level 69
Sep 26, 2024
Please please please add some more time! Doing quizzes in a foreign language is difficult enough.
+1
Level 56
Sep 26, 2024
U can take it untimed lol
+2
Level 44
Sep 26, 2024
100 % (i left france in the ocean where it belongs)
+4
Level 69
Sep 26, 2024
Like others I think this quiz is a speed typing test. It's really easy to spot the missing countries. IMO easier than the 20 country quiz
+2
Level 45
Sep 26, 2024
Gambia is brutal
+12
Level 57
Sep 27, 2024
quizmaster: "let me know if there is anything i can improve on this quiz"

Literally 90% of the comments: "add 1 minute to the time limit"

Quizmaster: "No, and if you cant do it your elderly and or retarded"

a quick synopsis of this quizzes comments.

+1
Level 82
Sep 27, 2024
I only missed Lebanon 🤦‍♂️
+4
Level 81
Sep 27, 2024
Good quiz, took a couple tries to get 100%
+6
Level 61
Sep 29, 2024
I can't type that fast and this isn't the way to learn. I'll just forget this one.
+1
Level 56
Sep 30, 2024
im so sad
+3
Level 73
Sep 30, 2024
This is much better than the 20 missing countries one. Real challenge to spot the little ones and have come undone with Gambia, Djibouti and Lebanon already.
+2
Level 15
Sep 30, 2024
i finally got all 40 on my 43rd try with the time 2:19 haha
+2
Level 81
Oct 5, 2024
Love playing the quiz, but I just can't seem to pass the 50 second barrier. I finish in 50 seconds exactly again and again and again I've never had this level of consistency on any quiz before
+6
Level 57
Oct 9, 2024
Thank you for creating this quiz. It's very difficult to complete within the time limit unless you study the map BEFORE clicking 'Start'.
+1
Level 67
Oct 12, 2024
I'm wondering if Mauritius will be showing a much larger area when they gain the Chagos Islands next year.
+6
Level 46
Dec 9, 2024
Love the quiz but barely 2 minutes and a half are not enough :(
+1
Level 56
Jan 31, 2025
My record is 1.35, I feel like you can do 2.20
+7
Level 64
Jan 1, 2025
Like a lot of the comments I've seen, I too think that there is not enough time for the quiz. It's simply not enough time for me to look through the map and find the missing countries, especially when there are some small countries missing.

I would suggest adding more time, since it sounds like people are trying to find all the countries before clicking start to have a chance of actually getting them all. However, if you like it being a fast quiz where the time limit is the biggest challenge, could you at least but something in the title that suggests it's a speed test?

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Level 56
Jan 31, 2025
You're saying it like if I don't explicitly advertise it's a fast typing quiz I'm like scamming you or smth. It's just an harmless fast quiz, it's not like I'm getting money off of it
+1
Level 69
Jan 2, 2025
After 8 tries I manage to do this
+8
Level 57
Jan 3, 2025
There's too little time.

I managed to get 5/5 by checking all the missing countries before clicking 'Start', writing them in Notepad, and copy-pasting them after starting the game.

That's not how it should work: I should be able to guess all the countries with my knowledge, finding the missing small ones by zooming (and taking my time to do it). The suggestion to type small countries until you get the correct one simply proves that it is designed to have a low number of users getting 100% rather than any other reason.

That's why I rated it one star.

+1
Level 56
Jan 31, 2025
It's a fast typing quiz what did you expect
+3
Level 55
Jan 15, 2025
Please, just 30 seconds more!
+3
Level 67
Jan 26, 2025
Jeptunk has turned me into a Senegalese irridentist.
+1
Level 65
Mar 14, 2025
A map without italy, aaaaah beautiful
+1
Level 28
Mar 20, 2025
Very challenging! Different from the 20 one, including Gambia, Lebanon, etc. Love the extra challenge, good job!
+1
Level 20
Apr 7, 2025
Great quiz! My record is 1:51 for all of them. Maybe at a bit more of time for the ones who need it. Further it is a super quiz and i love you added some more smaller country's like lebanon and gambia. A good extra country would be brunei but thats up to you!
+1
Level 65
May 6, 2025
It took me six tries but I got it.
+3
Level 76
May 21, 2025
The quiz is fun ( and I don't think it needs a minute more like people suggested, but 30 sec or something could be helpful) but the attitude of the quizmaker is awful.

(you absolutely have the right to keep the quiz the way you like it, but you do not need to be rude to each and every one that gives a suggestion, especially since you asked for suggestions. Just don't respond to them then.)

+1
Level 61
May 27, 2025
Great challenge. Took me a lot of tries but finally did it in 1:54!
+4
Level 75
Jun 27, 2025
Really needs more time... come on
+1
Level 46
Jun 29, 2025
Yes. Finally sub 2:00 at 1:48
+2
Level 82
Jul 18, 2025
If Switzerland and Austria are both missing, and there is no little dot in the space where they should be, how is Liechtenstein not a missing country?
+4
Level 46
Jul 21, 2025
Why so little time? You could still challenge yourself to finish it in two minutes and the rest of us could still enjoy the quiz without having it cutoff so soon.
+3
Level 36
Jul 25, 2025
This needs 2:30
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Level 36
Jul 30, 2025
Alright, it took me 16 tries to finally get them all, so it's possible but it was a real challenge for me, now I can get all 40 of them under 2 minutes, thanks for this quizz
+1
Level 45
Aug 20, 2025
it was missing USA, i leave it like that. :P
+1
Level 28
Aug 23, 2025
used all 3 pauses for thinking time
+3
Level 38
Aug 24, 2025
As a Chinese I missed Taiwan multiple times lol
+1
Level 36
Aug 24, 2025
Sacré défi !
+2
Level 41
Sep 3, 2025
Good quiz, but it doesn't seem like enough time to solve.
+5
Level 64
Sep 22, 2025
This is not geography test, or even a typing test. It's an eye test.
+2
Level 43
Sep 24, 2025
Excellent quiz, but with more time it would be more enjoyable
+2
Level 59
Sep 29, 2025
28 attempts, this was painful
+1
Level 55
Oct 3, 2025
Very surprised I got it first try, but it would be more fun with 186 countries missing.
+1
Level 43
Oct 15, 2025
Excellent quiz to learn the locations of all countries, whether or not if you already know their names.
+2
Level 69
Oct 22, 2025
Just wanted to say that I appreciate you not conceding to the crowds and extending the time of the quiz. It was difficult, but man it felt good when I finally got the hang of it. At this point I just type in Gambia at the beginning just in case...
+1
Level 46
Oct 29, 2025
Could you change the missing countries to anything but the same blue as the oceans, even a different shade of blue?
+1
Level 80
Dec 13, 2025
They do have a different shade of blue when they are there. You have to memorize those areas and then figure out during the quiz which ones are missing.
+1
Level 45
Nov 1, 2025
I got 11 pacific and carribean islands why am I so unlucky
+1
Level 57
Nov 16, 2025
It is me writing down the missing countries on paper in advance that I finally passed the quiz.
+1
Level 52
Nov 24, 2025
I don't think adding Gambia is fair. Or maybe I'm just too much used to the 20 missing country quiz.
+1
Level 60
Dec 11, 2025
1:56 new best time!!!
+2
Level 37
Dec 20, 2025
Give us more time bro, not everyone types at a supersonic speed lol.
+1
Level 58
Jan 3, 2026
finally got them all with one second left! curse you belize, i won't be foiled!
+1
Level 59
Jan 16, 2026
This is actually insanely hard.

I tried it three times and I usually have around 37 countries done, but I look and look at the map and think nothing is missing, everything looks normal and then both koreas are missing...

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Level 60
Jan 22, 2026
ican't get past 38 i don't type fast enough it's so frustrating
+1
Level 67
Jan 22, 2026
39 five times in a row :P
+1
Level 51
Jan 28, 2026
so deceptively difficult
+1
Level 27
Feb 6, 2026
Don't know if I am the only one but Israel is missing every round I play lol
+2
Level 39
Feb 14, 2026
cant get past 39. ive probably played this 30 times in the past 45 minutes
+2
Level 55
Feb 24, 2026
Does anyone else find the time restriction really hard?
+2
Level 47
Mar 10, 2026
The time is incorrect, the quiz is a typing test and not a geography test.
+1
Level 37
Mar 11, 2026
100% booya! That only took two weeks =P Great quiz, thank you!
+2
Level 67
Mar 14, 2026
How did I not see Uzbekistan lol
+2
Level 43
Mar 24, 2026
pls add more time
+1
Level 41
Apr 23, 2026
basically the trick here is to check the microcountries first, then start the quiz.
+1
Level 64
May 8, 2026
Have you extended the time of this quiz, or have I suddenly become a genius?! Haha!