Can you name every country by its distinguishing character in 3 minutes? What does distinguishing character mean?
A distinguishing character is the first character that is unique to that word, or country. So, for Mongolia, you would type ‘Mong’ because the ‘g’ is the first letter that is unique to Mongolia. (‘Mon’ is shared by Monaco and Montenegro)
For countries that are multiple words, the full name is used. (United Arab Emirates, rather than UAE)
For countries that may potentially be written starting with the word ‘The’ the ‘The’ is omitted. (United States, rather than The United States)