Always interesting on these huge ones to see which the least guessed one is which you do manage to get. Mine's Ninh Binh, 3%, little place south of Hanoi where I spent a few days on a motorbike trip. "Ha Long Bay in the rice paddies."
Agreed. Mine is "SOCCSKSARGEN" at 3%, although I actually typed in the old name. Lucky for me it was accepted, I would not have gotten the official name.
Mine is Igdir at 8%. I got like 30 Turkish provinces. I banged my head against the wall when I realized that I forgot ANKARA. Satisfied with 300 though.
I ended up with 216 including most of the ones in Saudi Arabia and all in Israel. Good for 4 points. Good enough for me. Most obscure pick-ups at 3% each currently were Cagayan in the Philippines and Adjara in Georgia, plus a couple I must have got by accident... a little surprised that both of those weren't higher especially Adjara as it's a semi-autonomous region.
Got 187. Not that bad. Couldn't go further I think. Got all from Cyprus, Singapore and, of course, Russia. Just missed 2 from Kazakhstan. And only 2% got Jizzakh, Namangan, Andijan and Jambyl. That was a great trip through Central Asia :)
Can you accept Balochistan for Sistan Va Balochistan in Iran as well? Also, in India, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu are now one union territory.
Minor detail: the location of Pa Laung in Myanmar seems to be incorrect. It should be quite a distance further southwest. The map on wikipedia has this problem too.
An amazing piece of research. Only a couple of minor niggles - it's a bit harsh not to accept 'Nakhichevan' for the Azerbaijan exclave as that was the usual transliteration not that long ago. Also, there are the Governorates of Palestine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorates_of_Palestine - it's a bit of a shame not to acknowledge the existence of the place.
Okay, this time round I missed Hong Kong. Which is a triple yikes on account of 1) It's probably one of the best known of all of these; 2) It's flag is the image for this quiz; and 3) It's the only one of these I've actually lived in.
Something is up with the corrected guess percentage. How do the regions of North West in Sri Lanka and Singapore have different percentages? And how is Gwangju the most guessed with answers such as Seoul and Tokyo which have 16% and 22%? My correct guesses are also different than what I got last time I played this quiz...
You included Egypt, Akrotiri/Dhekelia, and the Australian territories, and you also removed the African part of Yemen, the European part of Russia, and the Oceanian part of Indonesia. So, why not also remove the European parts of Turkey and Kazakhstan as well as add the British Indian Ocean Territory?
Ive been trying to memorize these subdivisions and eventually the world and im so far at about 790 memorized, well its more than that, but its every country but caucasia area, turkey, syria, lebanon,iraq,jordan and cyprus.
Vietnam has been reduced to 34 first-level subdivisions (28 provinces and six municipalities) recently, compared to 58 provinces and 5 municipalities. Philippines also introduced a new region (Negros Island Region).
Hey Vicky, do you have in mind updating the quiz to include the new regions added and the ones modified since 2022? I know it is a lot of work but it would be a great up-to-date quiz with the changes included! Nevertheless, one of the best quizzes out there.
This is a great quiz, but Palestine needs to be included in some way! Subdivisions of West Bank and Gaza would probably make most sense, but there should be some kind of acceptable answer as otherwise it is basically denying that that land even exists.
Hey Vicky, i have some little update about Vietnam province and cities. Our country government make the province into 34 province by merge some province and update some new project about cities:
North Jeolla is not a South Korean province now. In 2024, North Jeolla Province changed its name into Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province. It should be classified as a special self-governing province together with Gangwon and Jeju.
I only know the arab/israeli ones by heart, kept guessing cypriot and turkish ones. Other than that i spent the 45 minutes i had by typing whatever came to mind, most of it wast gibberish that would get accepted but i managed to get 481 somehow. Knowing the capitals, and older kingdoms and shit like that helped a lot. I don’t know what made me spend an hour on a quiz, but I know that this is my first and last time spending that much time lmao
There are four cities in Maldives, Addu, Male, Fuvahmulah and Kulhudhuffushi. But the quiz missed the last one and replaced its name with 'South Thiladhunmathi', which is actually an atoll.
The name of the subdivision is still called "Thiladhunmathi Dhekunuburi", or "South Thiladhunmathi Atoll", as far as I know. But I will add a type-in for Kulhudhuffushi
I mean Tajikistan's a mess politically, the old name for the region that split up was "Districts under Central Government Jurisdiction" so I guess they just reasoned that that was clearly more than one. They're not too bad to learn, but I was similarly annoyed to find that 70% through a run
Some of these have very (too?) generous spelling acceptance. It particularly shows when typing the first letters of one region and it accepts another. A couple of examples are: Os(aka)--> Osh; Rak(hine)-->Ras Al Khaimah; Kol(humadulu)-->Issyk-Kul; and Ale(ppo)-->Ahal
I thought my pain was over with finishing the US counties quiz, and I find this one...
good job anyways
outstanding quiz - thankyou!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorates_of_Lebanon
also hi lol
Kazakhstan - Same thing could be said with West Kazakhstan and Atyrau regions.
BIOT - No permanent population.
Zangilan
Zagatala
but it should be the other way around.
Hà Giang, Tuyên Quang:Hà Giang
Lào Cai, Yên Bái:Lào Cai
Thái Nguyên, Bắc Kạn:Thái Nguyên
Hoà Bình, Phú Thọ, Vĩnh Phúc:Phú Thọ
Ninh Bình, Nam Định, Hà Nam:Ninh Bình
Bắc Gianh, Bắc Ninh:Bắc Ninh
Hải Phòng, Hải Dương:Hải Phòng
Hưng Yên, Thái Bình:Hưng Yên
Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị:Quảng Trị
Quảng Nam, Đà Nẵng:Đà Nẵng
Kon Tum, Quảng Ngãi:Quảng Ngãi
Bình Định, Gia Lai:Bình Định
Phú Yên, Đắk Lắk:Đắk Lắk
Khánh Hoà, Ninh Thuận:Khánh Hoà
Lâm Đồng, Bình Thuận, Đắk Nông: Lâm Đồng
HCMC, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, Bình Dương: HCMC
Đồng Nai, Bình Phước: Đồng Nai
Long An, Tây Ninh: Tây Ninh
Tiền Giang, Đồng Tháp:Đồng Tháp
An Giang, Kiên Giang:An Giang
Cà Mau, Bạc Liêu:Cà Mau
Cần Thơ,Hậu Giang,Sóc Trăng:Cần Thơ
Vĩnh Long, Trà Vinh,Bến Tre:Vĩnh Long
and Huế now is a city