Countries by a Single Clue #3

^ER+[AEI]TR[EI]A

So any thing that starts with the following:

E

Any amount of Rs

A, E, or I

TR

E or I

A

Therefore, both ERETRIA and ERRRRRRRRRATRIA work.

Also, spellings change over time in some places. For example in Britain it is labour, in the US it is labor - who's entitled to say one is correct and one is misspelled? Letters are dropped sometimes - when I was young the capital of Indonesia was Djakarta instead of Jakarta. At what point does one spelling become incorrect? Language evolves all the time, and with it the "correct spellings". Some things are obvious, but I like correct answers being the focus rather than correct spellings unless it is a spelling quiz.

Sorry but saying someone should "grow up" shows a huge amount of immaturity and seems to be more applicable to yourself.

As for the matter of allowing misspellings for countries or not I am a bit on the fence or in two minds (I think that is the saying right, not a native english speaker, sometimes saying pop in my mind after only having heard them a few times so not always sure if I remembered it correctly) on the one hand I agree with Mufc and Ander and ♡ their comments. But on the other hand I think it is a missed opportunity to learn the correct spelling (in English)

Somehow I feel stronger about learning the correct spelling of (for?) countries than of cities, I guess countries are more known, and less of them and more important to know and, I don't know *shrug*

Also there are children who play Jetpunk who may have trouble spelling.

Besides misspellings, some acronyms are just QoL and And as mentioned, there are some variations like Turkiye, Cabo Verde, etc that are common and perhaps more apt than the JetPunk name.

I wouldn't say "not at all".

It's on the equator and it's very close to being on the prime meridian - I don't know about its territorial waters but it looks like it doesn't quite stretch there.

Since there's no universal way to define the hemispheres of longitude, that makes Sao Tome very close indeed to being an island country spanning all 4 hemispheres.

I cannot disagree more. There are 4 hemispheres--one for each of the compass points--divided by the Equator and Prime Meridian/180 longitude. In a 3D world, there really ought to be 6, using another dividing line of 90 E/90 W Longitude, but such a line adds little practical value (possibly a dividing line for where "East Asia" begins?).

'Four hemispheres' sounds wrong because hemi- means half: you can only have two halves of a whole. But the point is that the world is often divided into hemispheres in two different ways (the northern and southern hemispheres, and the western and eastern hemispheres), and in both cases Kiribati straddles the dividing line between the two hemispheres. So the question does make sense, though perhaps could be better worded.

@plattitude that is like diving a circle, or anything basicly. The money on your bank account into 4 halves. You cant... if you half something you have two parts..

That's kind of a ridiculous statement, of course I can. There's the half in my account that I earned, and the half my wife did. There's also the half that is available to spend, and the half that is emergency use only. There's the half that will go to my favorite child when I die, and the half that the rest will have to go through an elaborate series of riddles to claim a share of...

What you're trying to say is that you can't have four mutually exclusive halves, but no one is claiming the hemispheres are that.

I'm sure there are still some people who wouldn't know that, even with "North" tacked on to the name.