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Countries by Picture #6

Can you the countries that are depicted in these images?
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Last updated: March 16, 2018
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First submittedMarch 16, 2018
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58 Comments
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Level 86
Mar 16, 2018
Doesn't the Korea pic show both Koreas - with "the line" running between them in the center of the picture??
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Level 83
Mar 16, 2018
Yeah, the guards are North Korean, but you can see the concrete blocks marking the border just next to the 2 soldiers at the back.
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Level 73
Mar 17, 2018
Yeah, I kinda thought both countries should be accepted given it's clearly the border between them. Though it's not hard if you guess the wrong one to work out where you went wrong.
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Level 76
Mar 17, 2018
Yes, the building in the background is South Korea, as is the darker gravel that the North Korean border guards seem to be careful not to step into.
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Level 69
Dec 22, 2021
Definitely both Koreas.
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Level 83
Mar 16, 2018
Beard ✔️ Opium poppies ✔️ must be Afghanistan
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Level 76
Dec 22, 2021
Seems like geopolitics have rendered targets of US foreign policy reducible to opium, bad leaders, and military installments. Too bad.
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Level 60
Dec 22, 2021
I think the hats/caps are also very typical.
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Level 85
Mar 16, 2018
How did 90% of everyone know that the third picture is specifically Tanzania? I guessed half of sub-Saharan Africa and didn't happen to guess that one. Was everyone else luckier than I was, or is there something in the picture that gives it away?
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Level 83
Mar 16, 2018
I got it with Kenya, looks like the Masai Mara
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Level 76
Dec 22, 2021
Except that the Maasai Mara is more or less "protected" from the Maasai.
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Level 68
Dec 23, 2021
Maasai still live in the area, I've been there and they're around, looking like this.
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Level 76
Mar 16, 2018
The Maasai people in the picture live in northern Tanzania and central/southern Kenya. Kenya was also accepted. They picture clearly features the Maasai.
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Level 77
Mar 16, 2018
They are Masai (clothes, dance). Masai live in Kenya and Tanzania.
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Level 83
Mar 16, 2018
And Masai are one of the most famous African ethnic groups by appearance
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Level 68
Mar 16, 2018
I thought the mountain was Kilimanjaro from Tanzania, so I got a free answer!
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Level 78
Mar 19, 2018
The clothing looked like the Wachati peoples from Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls (I know...I know)...unfortunately, I didn't know what African country that was supposedly set in. I also got it because I guessed the mountain was Kilimanjaro.
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Level ∞
Jul 13, 2021
The Maasai are a patriarchal, traditional, militaristic, cattle-herding society from Tanzania and Kenya.

When I was in Tanzania, you would occasionally see a teenage boy jumping up and down by the side of the road. They were hoping tourist vans like ours would stop and pay to have their picture taken. You'd also see herdsmen with large groups of very skinny cows.

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Level 80
Jul 25, 2021
I learnt about them while reading Roald Dahl.
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Level 76
Dec 22, 2021
More than a bit reductionist.
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Level 60
Dec 22, 2021
I also got it with Kenya. Maybe the answer should be Tanzania/Kenya ?
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Level 69
Mar 17, 2018
Why is there a blank map? Pictures of landscapes, people, monuments are what makes this quiz series so great, so that map really feels out of place in here... :S
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Level 58
Aug 7, 2018
I was thinking the same thing. It's weird to me that they chose a picture of a map when there's lots of good pictures of Nicaragua's landmarks/scenery/people/etc exist.
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Level 89
Aug 7, 2018
Perhaps to emphasize the very large lake and even larger bodies of water to the east and west? I got it right away.
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Level 56
Mar 17, 2021
Of course you got it right away, it was very easy with the map..
+2
Level 69
Apr 9, 2018
What is the Spanish picture showing?
+8
Level 76
May 18, 2018
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Level 65
Aug 7, 2018
Palestine is not a country.
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Level 91
Aug 7, 2018
Getting ready for the snarky responses...
+3
Level 36
Dec 22, 2021
Wow, so edgy!
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Level 57
Aug 7, 2018
I don't think you should accept Kenya. That is what I guessed, but it wasn't the correct answer, and I don't think I earned that point. Kenya and Tanzania are two entirely different countries. It's like accepting Spain for France or Brazil for Bolivia.
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Level 78
Aug 7, 2018
I think the point is that the picture could have been from either Tanzania or Kenya; there's no way to tell just by looking at it.
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Level 63
Aug 7, 2018
Imo the picture with a dune could be any country with sandy desert
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Level 89
Aug 7, 2018
Per wikipedia, the Southern Namib desert "...comprises a vast dune sea with some of the tallest and most spectacular dunes of the world..."

Seemed like the most obvious answer to me.

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Level 93
Aug 9, 2018
now i look at it again, i see the trees at the bottom for scale so that makes sense. I didn't notice them before.
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Level 80
Jul 25, 2021
Yep, I got it with 2 secs remaining
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Level 90
Oct 26, 2019
It could be Hammond, Indiana.

The dune isn't even a permanent landmark. That thing looks totally different by now.

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Level ∞
Jul 13, 2021
It looks nothing like Hammond, Indiana.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=hammond+indiana+dunes

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Level 80
Aug 7, 2018
South-eastern Morocco doesn't look much different from the picture for Namibia.
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Level 72
Aug 7, 2018
Kudos to those who figured out the magnificent Koryaksky behind the notoriously bland Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
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Level 90
Dec 30, 2020
That place just screams Soviet outpost.
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Level 90
Dec 30, 2020
Nothing in Nicaragua is more exciting than a multi-beige map.
+1
Level 54
Apr 17, 2021
To stop harvesting Opium, Taliban is only solution
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Level 45
May 27, 2021
The picture showcasing the dead sea is not a good depiction becasue thatc could be any large body of water.
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Level 72
Jun 12, 2021
Not with that amount of natural buoyancy.
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Level 74
Jan 7, 2022
Try reading a newspaper like that in the North Sea
+3
Level 59
Jul 28, 2021
I would like to see a picture of Nicaragua rather than a map of it
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Level 86
Dec 22, 2021
Agree - maps should be in different quizzes.
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Level 65
Dec 22, 2021
I guess that to guess Namibia it is necessary to guess all the countries with deserts and sand dunes in the world. Of course it is more obvious to start with the Sahara and Arabian desert (or maybe even Gobi) before the Kalahari desert.
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Level 74
Jan 7, 2022
No need to guess. Namibia is well know for its sand dunes and that landscape
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Level 85
Mar 23, 2023
I think that’s the Namib desert, not the Kalahari.
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Level 74
Dec 22, 2021
Can you the country? - I sure can... (Missing a word in the instruction, December 2021)
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Level 75
Sep 25, 2022
September 2022...
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Level 59
Dec 22, 2021
Yeah I feel like the Namibia one has nothing distinct about the country and unless you knew of that exact picture, it could be anywhere with sand dunes
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Level 63
Dec 25, 2021
"Israel" isn't a country.
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Level 72
Oct 10, 2023
Israel has a stronger government and higher standard of living than pretty much everything around it in the Middle East, meanwhile Palestine is two dysfunctional governments in a trench coat pretending to be one sovereign country. Don't get me wrong, maybe Palestine will get there one day and we'll be happy to accept that once it is. But until then, Israel is more of a country than Palestine has ever been.
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Level 82
Dec 28, 2022
That man in the Dead Sea has some of the most disgusting feet I’ve ever seen.
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Level 70
Dec 20, 2023
Palestine isn't a country.