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Country Name Etymologies of Africa - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 39 times
- The average score is 24 of 52
Answer Stats
| Language | Definition | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| French | The coast of a previous main export | Cote d'Ivoire | 97%
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| English | Self descriptive, based on its position relative to the equator | Equatorial Guinea | 90%
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| Sotho | Land of Basotho speakers | Lesotho | 77%
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| Spanish | Lion mountain | Sierra Leone | 77%
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| Tswana | Country of the Tswana, which comes from the word alike, or equal | Botswana | 73%
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| English | Self descriptive, based on its place relative to Sudan | South Sudan | 73%
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| Portuguese | Green cape | Cape Verde | 70%
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| French | Self descriptive, based on its position in the continent and its government style | Central African Republic | 70%
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| Portuguese | Saint Thomas and the prince | Sao Tome and Principe | 70%
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| English | Self descriptive, based on its place in the African continent | South Africa | 70%
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| English | Land of the Zambezi | Zambia | 70%
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| Swazi | Land of the Swazi | Eswatini | 67%
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| Latin | Free | Liberia | 67%
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| Latin | Land of the Moors | Mauritania | 63%
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| English | Land of Tanganyika and Zanzibar | Tanzania | 63%
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| Portuguese (?) | Corruption of the word Ghana (?) | Guinea | 60%
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| Arabic | Land of the black people | Sudan | 60%
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| Italian | Land of the Red Sea | Eritrea | 57%
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| Portuguese and Unknown (?) | Corruption of the word Ghana and the name of the clan Bossassun (?) | Guinea Bissau | 57%
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| Kikuyu | Land of the White Mountain | Kenya | 57%
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| Latin | Home of ka and Ptah | Egypt | 53%
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| Berber | Land of God | Morocco | 53%
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| Buganda | United as a bundle | Uganda | 53%
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| Yoruba | Home of vexation | Benin | 50%
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| Kanuri | Lake | Chad | 47%
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| Ikirundi | Land of the Ikirundi speakers | Burundi | 43%
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| Portuguese | The land of the Ndongo | Angola | 40%
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| Arabic | The name Mussa Ben Mbiki | Mozambique | 40%
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| English | Land of its capital, derived from a Phoenecian god or the Berber word meaning to lie down | Tunisia | 40%
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| Dutch | Named after the Prince of Nassau | Mauritius | 37%
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| Kinyarwanda | Large | Rwanda | 37%
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| Portuguese | Variant of the Berber Zenaga | Senegal | 37%
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| French | Shrimp | Cameroon | 33%
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| Unknown | Corruption of Mogadishu | Madagascar | 30%
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| Malinke or Bamana | Hippopotamus | Mali | 30%
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| Nama | Land of the land where there is nothing | Namibia | 30%
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| Ewe | By the water of behind the sea | Togo | 30%
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| Unknown | Land of the [Covered], possibly meaning cattle herders or a legendary patriarch named Samaale | Somalia | 27%
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| Latinization of French | The land of this country's capital | Algeria | 23%
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| More and Dioula | Land of honest men | Burkina Faso | 23%
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| Portuguese (?) | The name of a kingdom of Bantu peoples | Democratic Republic of the Congo| Republic of the Congo | 23%
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| Tuareg | Flowing water | Niger|Nigeria | 23%
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| Arabic | Moons | Comoros | 20%
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| Latin | Land of the Blacks | Ethiopia | 20%
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| Portuguese | Cloak | Gabon | 20%
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| Shona | House of Stones | Zimbabwe | 20%
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| Unknown | Land of Tehuti | Djibouti | 17%
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| Unknown | The name of a native tribe that lived in the area | Libya | 17%
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| Unknown | Flaming water, or tongues of fire | Malawi | 17%
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| French | Named after King Louis the XV's finance minister | Seychelles | 17%
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| Unknown | Strong warrior king | Ghana | 13%
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| Madinkan | An ancient kingdom | The Gambia | 13%
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