Totally agree, was expecting #2 today. The great thing about this series (thanks QM) is that there is so much to be learned about countries with information in nuggets. Number of quizzes in this series could easily surpass the general knowledge quizzes and be even more useful.
Pretty easy. Even if you didn't know that Cape Verde was colonized by Portugal... and I did, I once went out with a girl from there... there are only 6 African island nations in total.
started with sao tome, did all the african islands, then thought huh?? then remembered I had forgotten about one, so cape verde was the last and allmsot looked over ( I forget it more often, and was sort of thrown off after sao tome wasnt it, I thought well the others do not sound portuguese... but well, lets try em all)
i think also Cyprus qualifies for having a DMZ as its northern (and only) border: maybe northern (turkish) cyprus is not a recognized state, but a border does not need an international acknowledgement to be effective (and sure the division in two of the island of Cyprus IS effective)
May I suggest writing DMZ in full? This is a site in english, yes, but you have many many people for whom english is not their native tongue.
I myself have not heard of DMZ before (and my vocabulary is quite big, I usually know more words in english than native speakers.) It is not a word you come across in daily life, unless perhaps in a documentary about korea. Or a book about military terminology.
Mauritius should work for "African island country uninhabited until discovered by Portugal" - although it was discovered first by Arabs the first to make a settlement on the islands were the Portuguese.
Belarus doesn't mean "White Russia" but "White Ruthenia", a historic land of Kievan Rus, which consisted most of today's Belarus. Name "Russia" also originated from Ruthenia.
Weird that you'd go with Ruthenia when you have the Rus there. In any case, it would be "White Rus", but since Russia is, practically speaking, the modern form of Rus, then "White Russia" is quite adequate; certainly more than a very old name for the region which is actually a latinized exonym.
Sao Tome and Principe was in fact uninhabited when it was discovered by the Portuguese. I thought for sure this was the answer, but you were just not willing to accept any alternate spelling, so I wasted all of my time trying to figure out how to get the proper keyboard input on a US keyboard. Since there seem to be two or three valid answers to the clue, maybe you should reconsider the clue's wording to avoid this.
Wasted way to much time trying to correctly spell São Tomé and Príncipe. The island country in Africa that was uninhabited until the Portuguese navigators, João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar discovered them in 1470
Having said all this - 9/20 :-(
I myself have not heard of DMZ before (and my vocabulary is quite big, I usually know more words in english than native speakers.) It is not a word you come across in daily life, unless perhaps in a documentary about korea. Or a book about military terminology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius#Portuguese_Mauritius