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249 Countries of the World according to ISO
According to ISO 'Country codes' standard, there are 249 countries in the world (194 of them independent).
Can you name them all?
Can you name them all?
The list of countries is taken from ISO 3166-1: Country codes.
Only correct English spellings/variations/abbreviations are accepted! (As seen on each individual country's English Wikipedia article.)
You can omit 'the' and 'and', but not 'island(s)', where these words are part of the country name.
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| First submitted | May 22, 2017 |
| Times taken | 9,957 |
| Average score | 64.3% |
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Same goes for Antigua and Barbuda, Sao Tome and Principe, and others.
Allowing 'St' instead of 'Saint' is already a stretch. :)
"Sint Maarten" is the proper English spelling of the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin. The French part is named the same as the whole island, true, but for me it makes no sense to accept the name of the French part for both of the countries.
"St Bart(h)s" is accepted, because the Wikipedia lists it in bold, unlike other variants.
The response of "Oh, I allow SGSSI but not South Georgia" if the name is "really long" is not "more correct", but rather plays out as a guessing game of which abbreviations you happened to pick. How long is really long? I would argue that Dominican Republic is a long name at 17 characters, whereas United Kingdom is only 13, but you accept UK and not DR.
For me, this turned a rather enjoyable quiz into one I couldn't be bothered to finish.
Just a point : The orthograph of "French guiana" is pretty puzzling to me, and made me lose a bitof time.
In french, we say "Guyane Française" with a y, in english and many other languages, the nearby independent country is called "Guyana" with a y.
So the "Guiana" with an i, is very disturbing. I understand that it is the orthograph of the ISO norm. But maybe you could accept the orthograph with a y.
I think 'Guiana' is not only the ISO norm, but general English as well, at least from the look of the Wikipedia entry...
I'd like to keep it separate from 'Guyana'. How about adding 'Guyane' as a type-in?
Congratulations on sticking to your guns on type-ins and English language spellings.
Unfortunately, quizmaster has made a lot of people soft by allowing these type-ins on other quizzes, but your quiz is a truer test of their knowledge.
I understand you are trying to use Wikipedia as a standard, but it doesn't seem right to allow Congo for R. Congo but not D. R. Congo and Virgin Islands for BVT but not for USVT.
(If you're open to loosening your restrictions, I don't think it would be overkill to include acronyms like NZ, DR, and ROK.)
I think that extra leniency would make this a lot more fun to come back to. Brilliant idea!