Progressively Less-Known Countries by Hints - Statistics

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% Guess	Hint(s)	Country	% Correct
96	Formerly known as the Soviet Union	Russia	99%
97	Divided into 50 states, this country was founded in 1776	United States	99%
95	Claims the most populated urban area, Guangzhou	China	98%
94	Country that only borders Ireland and claims Gibraltar	United Kingdom	98%
92	Often considered a subcontinent, its capital is New Delhi	India	97%
93	Completely surrounds Vatican City and San Marino	Italy	97%
87	Won the 2022 FIFA World Cup, fought with the UK over the Falkland Islands	Argentina	96%
85	Home country of boy band BTS and electronics company Samsung	South Korea	96%
84	Contains a city once called Byzantium, then Constantinople, then Istanbul	Turkey	96%
86	Contains the southernmost point in the world, also shares a long border with the above	Chile	95%
88	Its capital is the northernmost in the world	Iceland	94%
63	Shares the peak of Mount Everest with China	Nepal	94%
77	Country invaded by Putin-lead Russia in 2022	Ukraine	94%
75	Birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Sigmund Freud	Austria	93%
76	Least densely populated country in the world and birthplace of Genghis Khan	Mongolia	93%
82	The Lord of the Rings movies were filmed here by Peter Jackson, a native kiwi	New Zealand	93%
67	Thanks to a canal in this country, it is much easier for ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific	Panama	92%
65	The smaller of the two landlocked countries in South America	Paraguay	92%
74	Containing both Mecca and Medina, this country is a popular pilgrimage site for loyal Muslims	Saudi Arabia	92%
71	The Taliban forced this country to change their flag in 2021; now it is Arabian text on a field of white	Afghanistan	91%
64	Country that sort of looks like it's "eating" Bosnia and Herzegovina	Croatia	91%
70	The only country in the world where Hebrew is the official language	Israel	91%
66	This was the largest country by area in Africa until it lost its bottom 25%	Sudan	91%
61	Country that contains the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world	United Arab Emirates	91%
52	Caucasian country that shares its name with a U.S. state	Georgia	89%
57	Four letter country on the Indochina Peninsula and one of the most heavily bombed in the world	Laos	89%
46	Small Catalan-speaking nation sandwiched between Spain and France	Andorra	88%
47	Small Mediterranean island nation off the coast of Sicily	Malta	88%
78	Site of a major missile crisis in the 1960s	Cuba	87%
80	The only country that ends with the letter Q	Iraq	87%
42	Small European country between Switzerland and Austria	Liechtenstein	87%
62	Bordered by Poland to the north and Hungary to the South, this country has the most castles per capita	Slovakia	87%
56	Country that borders the above ruled by dictator Pol Pot	Cambodia	86%
79	The largest island in the Indian Ocean, and it actually does have penguins	Madagascar	86%
50	This country got into a naming dispute with Greece and ended up adding a cardinal direction to their name	North Macedonia	86%
72	Country formerly known as Siam	Thailand	86%
44	Country in South America whose "French" version can be found two countries to the east	Guyana	85%
59	Country that possesses the Galapagos Islands	Ecuador	84%
37	Country that gained independence in 1993, making Ethiopia landlocked	Eritrea	84%
39	Hard-to-spell country that borders the above	Kyrgyzstan	84%
58	Balkan country that doesn't recognize Kosovo as an independent country	Serbia	84%
40	"Stan" country with the third highest average elevation in the world	Tajikistan	84%
38	Indian Ocean island country with the lowest average elevation in the world	Maldives	82%
41	Country near Madagascar with an AK-47 on its flag	Mozambique	82%
49	This host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup only borders one other country	Qatar	82%
51	Country with the most popes per capita	Vatican City	82%
36	Easternmost country in the Lesser Antilles where Rihanna was born	Barbados	80%
60	Island in the Caribbean whose flag contains no red, white, or blue	Jamaica	80%
68	The capital of this country went through six name changes in 30 years until the government finally settled on Astana	Kazakhstan	79%
55	Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in this country's modern-day territory	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78%
34	Country between Togo and Nigeria whose main exports are palm oil and cotton	Benin	77%
53	Central American country with a large number of bat species	Honduras	75%
45	African country that borders Lake Victoria with a median age of 19 in 2023	Uganda	75%
43	Three word country in Africa whose official currency is Bitcoin	Central African Republic	74%
32	African island country where the last dodo bird was killed	Mauritius	74%
30	Country between Cameroon and Gabon whose capital doesn't lie on the country's mainland	Equatorial Guinea	72%
83	Wojciech Nowicki took the gold here in 2020, Lil Yachty took the Wock here in 2022	Poland	72%
48	Country whose exclave, Cabinda, is separated from the mainland by DRC	Angola	67%
31	The four stars on this Oceanic country's flag represent its four states	F. S. Micronesia	66%
28	Lesser Antilles country where Alexander Hamilton was believed to be born	Saint Kitts and Nevis	66%
54	The larger of the two doubly landlocked countries	Uzbekistan	64%
27	Oceanic country near Wake Island made up of five islands and twenty-nine coral atolls	Marshall Islands	62%
35	Country whose capital is Nouakchott	Mauritania	62%
26	Oceanic country whose national anthem, "Yumi Yumi Yumi", was written in Bislama and has been translated to English and French	Vanuatu	60%
24	Country made up of three islands and the only Arabic-speaking country in the southern hemisphere	Comoros	57%
23	Portuguese-speaking country whose center is closest to the point (0, 0)	São Tomé and Príncipe	54%
25	The only country with territory in all four hemispheres	Kiribati	52%
29	The only country named after a woman, it has the most Nobel Laureates per capita	Saint Lucia	50%
33	The roundest country in the world with a green-white-blue flag pattern	Sierra Leone	49%

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