With other first letter country quizzes in which Jetpunk accepts a very common variant, I think the quiz should add a free answer for Papua New Guinea, just to save people typing in the answer. The C first letter quiz does that for both Congos and for Ivory Coast.
The B quiz does so for Myanmar.
The M one does so for Micronesia (although, interestingly, not Myanmar).
See also the P quiz and Palestine.
[Note: I don't think that it's necessary for the Netherlands even though the issue does arise there too.]
proud to have gotten nauru, but missed new zealand.. ugh..northkorea took me a while too, and weirdly the one I got before ( so as one of the lasts) was norway...
This is the french way of saying it, and since it was colonized by the french and as such named by them, it's not necessarily wrong, though the more english way is how the first person said it
My take: To me it's a little pretentious to go pronouncing each country's name in its own accent or language, though pretentious can be fun. I like nee-ZHAIR (as I like CHEE-LAY, instead of NIGH-jer and chilly) for better distinction.
Never in my life would I have gotten North Macedonia. Even if I put North in front of a ton of random countries I still wouldn't have typed Macedonia. North South Africa, North East Timor, North North Korea, North Jamaica, North Vatican City...never woulda guessed it.
North Macedonia now. I think Swaziland changed their name recently, also, and Bujumbura is no longer the capital of Burundi. And it's only February. These guys must own stock in school globe companies...
North Macedonia's name was changed 3 days ago from playing this quiz, and I had to google the new name. There was no way I would have known that. Learning something new every day.
There is a city in Greece called Macedonia that Macedonia (the country) wanted to name themselves after. However, Greece wouldn't allow them so they just made their name North Macedonia.
Macedonia is a general area in that region, with lots of history. North Macedonia represents that they are in the north of that area. A bit like South Africa, when there's no country called Africa, but it's in respect to where they are in their region/ continent.
Kind of funny that there’s so many territories/regions/islands whose names start with New (New Mexico, New England, New Britain, etc.), but there’s only one official country whose name starts with New (New Zealand)
The B quiz does so for Myanmar.
The M one does so for Micronesia (although, interestingly, not Myanmar).
See also the P quiz and Palestine.
[Note: I don't think that it's necessary for the Netherlands even though the issue does arise there too.]
MY DAD IS FROM NIGERIA ARE YOU KIDDING ME
i actually started banging my head on the table and now i have a hickey Q_Q
"northkorea, nz, holland, macedonia".
nicaragua, niger, nigeria, nepal, namibia, norway and nauru stay the same
North Macedonia
And North korea
:P
ITS A FREAKING CITY!!