| The only country . . . | Country | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| To have a population greater than 1 billion | India | 95%
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| To have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council | China | 91%
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| To be a member of the EU | Cyprus | 90%
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| With an emperor | Japan | 88%
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| To host a Summer or Winter Olympics | South Korea | 86%
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| To have more than 1 million active military personnel | North Korea | 85%
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| To have a non-rectangular flag | Nepal | 79%
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| To touch the Himalayas | Bhutan | 77%
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| To average more than 30 million international tourists per year | Thailand | 77%
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| To have once been an empire that controlled more than 10% of the world's land | Mongolia | 76%
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| With a top four finish in the men's FIFA World Cup | Turkey | 76%
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| To have nuclear weapons | Pakistan | 75%
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| To be the birthplace of one of the world's four largest religions | Saudi Arabia | 75%
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| To have a population density greater than 3,000 people per square kilometer | Singapore | 75%
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| To be the site of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | Iraq | 74%
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| To have more than 150,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves | Iran | 73%
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| To touch the Mediterranean Sea | Lebanon | 73%
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| To have an 8-letter sequence in its name without an A, E, I, O, or U | Kyrgyzstan | 72%
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| To have a land border with a country that does not recognize it diplomatically | Israel | 70%
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| To be home to more than 50 million Christians | Philippines | 69%
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| To have an area greater than 1 million square kilometers | Indonesia | 68%
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| To have a name that ends in -stan | Afghanistan | 67%
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| To touch the Caspian Sea | Turkmenistan | 64%
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| To touch a river associated with a "Cradle of civilization" | Syria | 62%
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| To be home to more than 5% of the world's Muslims | Bangladesh | 59%
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| To have won more than 50 Olympic medals | Kazakhstan | 59%
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| To have a name that would be worth more than 25 points in Scrabble | Azerbaijan | 58%
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| To have an average elevation of greater than 2,000 meters above sea level | Tajikistan | 56%
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| To have a population of less than 1 million | Maldives | 55%
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| To be a former Soviet Socialist Republic | Georgia | 52%
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| To have a Z in its name | Uzbekistan | 52%
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| To be among the top 25 countries in Human Development Index | Taiwan | 51%
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| To have a name more than 10 letters long | United Arab Emirates | 51%
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| To touch the Persian Gulf | Kuwait | 50%
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| To be an island country | Bahrain | 49%
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| To have a capital that starts with B | Brunei | 49%
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| To have a population density of less than 25 people per square kilometer | Oman | 49%
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| To have a name consisting of multiple words | East Timor | 48%
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| To touch the place of Earth's lowest elevation | Jordan | 47%
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| To have tropical rainforest (Köppen Af) | Malaysia | 46%
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| To have Arabic as an official language | Yemen | 46%
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| To have a sword on their flag | Sri Lanka | 45%
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| To have an area less than 15,000 square kilometers | Qatar | 44%
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| To have an Indo-European language as an official language | Armenia | 43%
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| To have a name less than six letters long | Laos | 43%
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| To touch the Tropic of Cancer | Myanmar | 42%
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| To have a capital whose name consists of multiple words | Cambodia | 39%
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| To be in Asia | Vietnam | 36%
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