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Countries by Satellite Image #2

Guess the countries that are pictured in these satellite images.
All images from the Landsat satellite
Dear nitpickers: If multiple countries appear, guess the one that has a greater percentage of the image
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Last updated: April 2, 2018
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First submittedJune 20, 2017
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Average score68.8%
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55 Comments
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Level 78
Jun 20, 2017
Nice :) 100%
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Level 74
Sep 11, 2017
Me too, with 2:30 remaining. I don't usually boast like this but this time it feels quite an achievement, especially with Guinea-Bissau
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Level 74
Sep 11, 2017
Damn! Tried just about every other West African country
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Level 72
Apr 12, 2020
I tried one and gave up, usually don't like pointless guessing. It looked like west coast africa but had no idea which
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Level 44
Sep 5, 2023
lol i got 3:20 remaining how
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Level 55
Jun 20, 2017
Cool quiz, I wanted to suggest a quiz.You could do a countries of the world quiz spelled backwards. I think it would be a fun challenge for me and most other users.
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Level 76
Jun 24, 2017
Interesting idea - how about setting that one up yourself? Anyone can create quizzes here!
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Level 55
Nov 3, 2018
I've been making that one for a while now. Takes a long time when you're trying not to mess up.
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Level 73
Jun 30, 2017
I would have been guessing for a long long time before

i got the least guessed answer.

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Level 78
Aug 4, 2017
Kuwait always looks like Darth Vader's helmet. It's strange. *MEGA KUWAITIAN CONSPIRACY*
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Level 72
Apr 12, 2020
Man, I mentioned it looking like darth vader once myself, but I didnt see it this time, though I was thinking hmm what country in the middle east could this be..
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Level 25
May 28, 2021
The darkside of the force is a pathway to many ablities some may consider.....arabian
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Level 45
Sep 10, 2017
Did anyone else's imagintion get vivid on Bagladesh pic? Or is it just sick ol' me? :D
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Level 35
Sep 10, 2017
Yes its sick old you
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Level 35
Sep 10, 2017
*ol' not old
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Level 58
Sep 13, 2017
Weirdo!
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Level 85
Sep 18, 2017
And here I thought I'd be the only one who saw a lumberjack wearing a sombrero, cooking flapjacks over a campfire, in that image.
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Level 72
Apr 12, 2020
I have no idea what you could have been seeing, even trying to see thing which could fall under the "sick" category.
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Level 70
Sep 11, 2017
If you want a really tricky 'Country' quiz try my Double Trouble Country Quiz .... here it is
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Level 24
Nov 16, 2017
Now you got me checking all the pics.

Doesn't Egypt - or River Nile rather - look like a silhuette of a chimp? I can easily see her eye (a lake area?) and mouth (starting just above Abu Simbel). The bend of Nile (north of Luxor) looks like a protruding nostril or something else extra. ;)

BTW. If you ever get a chance to go on a Nile cruise, go, GO! It it the most amazing experience.. felt like a four-day time travel.. <3

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Level 72
Apr 12, 2020
yea I can see it, you know there is a word for seeing faces in things, pareidolia (did have to look up the exact word though, not one easy to remember..). Basically meaning (seeing) an imagine besides/on top of the actual depicted one (para idol)

If you get bored google pareidolia and check images :) some are amazing others very funny

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Level 21
Dec 17, 2017
This quiz was really really hard! Harder than the rest. 6/16 :(
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Level 43
Mar 1, 2019
Easy!
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Level 80
Mar 15, 2019
For the penultimate picture, I believe China and India both take up a higher percentage of the image than Nepal.
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Level 45
Mar 15, 2019
I mean, Nepal is centered directly and the middle so it becomes very obvious. And they didn't show the whole country of India or China as well.
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Level 86
Mar 15, 2019
Well, those aren't the rules. The rule is which country takes up a greater percentage of the image.
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Level 78
Mar 15, 2019
Yes, and Nepal takes up the greatest percentage of the four countries you can see in the picture.
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Level 78
Mar 15, 2019
Nope! I was curious and bored at work, so I did a quick superposition of the borders over the image and some rough calculations, and I've got Nepal taking up roughly 38% of the image, China taking up about 36%, India about 25%, and Bangladesh has the remaining >1%.
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Level 72
Apr 12, 2020
Haha good job :)
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Level 80
May 26, 2021
Well well!
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Level 72
Apr 12, 2020
That's what you get with satellite images, you will always get the countries they border in the picture aswell (besides island countries). Only if a country were the exact shape as the picture this wouldnt occur ( apart from zooming in so much you dont see borders at all, but that makes it too hard to guess in most cases)
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Level 49
Mar 15, 2019
I forgot Israel, which looked like Norway, Kuwait, Guinea-Bissau and Bahrain
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Level 72
Mar 15, 2019
Guinea Bissau with 6 seconds left FTW.
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Level 55
Mar 16, 2019
Love this quiz!
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Level 38
Mar 21, 2019
There's no attribution.
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Level 75
May 25, 2019
easy! 100%
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Level 74
Jun 1, 2019
Easy. 3:20 in first try.
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Level 21
Nov 21, 2023
Huh, I got 3:31 (29 seconds) on my first attempt..
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Level 47
Jun 17, 2019
Didn't get Guinea-Bissau or Ecuador first time XD
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Level 44
Feb 29, 2020
Singapore is so zoomed in

The buildings looked like snow

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Level 37
May 31, 2021
That *is* the entirety of the main Singapore island (and almost the whole country, with only some islands not shown). And it is white due to urbanisation.
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Level 57
Aug 13, 2020
Took 1:03 got all of them first try, did have to guess Guinea Bissau though.
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Level 37
Apr 11, 2021
Like
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Level 23
Apr 13, 2021
100%

3:00 left

WR

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Level 60
May 26, 2021
The hardest part for me was guessing the scale of the pictures, so singapore was very difficult since I searched for a much bigger portion of coastline on my imaginary worldmap. Same goes for Bahrain.
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Level 37
May 31, 2021
We are a really small country, so few people have zoomed in that much I suppose. ;)
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Level 67
May 26, 2021
Me: is on google earth 1 hr+ each week

Also me: WHAT?!? HOW DID 18% OF PEOPLE GET IT ALL RIGHT?!?

Me: Google Earth really helps

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Level 29
Oct 8, 2021
i would have got all with 2 minutes left but i said senegal instead of guina bissau
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Level 62
Aug 26, 2022
Got it with 3:23 left
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Level 79
Nov 18, 2023
Wow. I’m always terrible at these, but this time I got them all. It helped that I got 5 random later question when I was trying to guess the first few.
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Level 28
Nov 19, 2023
Why is Palestine not a valid answer?
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Level 67
Nov 20, 2023
because it's not a country...?
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Level 48
Nov 19, 2023
Guinea-Bissau is really taking most of the picture? Seems like Senegal or Guinea are taking good portion of it too.
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Level 47
Apr 25, 2024
today I learnt abouth Bahrain's satellite image
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Level 20
May 17, 2024
bahrain and singapore was all i missed