Northernmost Countries

Can you name the world's 20 northernmost countries based on their northernmost point on land.

Not including overseas posessions, such as Greenland

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First submitted	February 15, 2013
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Average score	90.0%
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° North	Country
83.10	Canada
81.85	Russia
80.82	Norway
71.38	United States
70.08	Finland
69.07	Sweden
67.13	Iceland

° North	Country
60.85	United Kingdom
59.80	Estonia
58.08	Latvia
57.75	Denmark
56.45	Lithuania
56.13	Belarus
55.43	Ireland

° North	Country
55.10	Kazakhstan
55.05	Germany
54.83	Poland
53.57	China
53.53	Netherlands
52.37	Ukraine

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101 Recent Comments

Level 36

May 9, 2017

Strange that Ireland is included but not its next-door neighbor, the United Kingdom.

Level 32

Jun 1, 2017

UK is in the answers

Level 58

Aug 22, 2017

Ha!!

Level 40

Jul 6, 2017

lol im use to that spelling now

Level 48

Dec 20, 2017

...missed Iceland and Germany. Going to bury myself now.

+16

Level 53

Dec 17, 2020

Lol @ missing Iceland with your name.

Level 67

Jan 29, 2018

Had them all but one with tons of time left. Down to the wire to think of US. Facepalm Alaska

Level 52

Mar 25, 2018

I said every country aside from Ireland. Somehow I said the UK but forgot Ireland. How stupid of me. XD

Level 65

May 22, 2018

I never really look at both sides of Asia at the same time, and think to myself to compare how high up Belarus, the Ukraine or Kazakhstan comes compared to the likes of Mongolia, Japan or South Korea... I could eventually figure out everything here - but I tried a lot of wrong things first.

Level 80

Jun 8, 2018

Without checking the map, I suspect that Mongolia is on the whole higher than Belarus or the Ukraine, just not quite so far North.

Level 53

Dec 17, 2020

Mongolia ranges from 41 degrees to 50. Ukraine from 45-52 (44 if you count Crimea). And Belarus is north of Ukraine. So they're more northern both in average latitude and northernmost latitude.

Level 41

May 22, 2018

How is China there and not Mongolia?

Level 48

May 22, 2018

There is a part of China more north than Mongolia if you look on a map.

Level 32

Jul 2, 2018

What about Japan?

Level 70

Jul 3, 2018

Cape Soya is the Northernmost point of Japan at 45o 31' n .... Mongolia for instance has Northern points in the 50s north and they are not on the list either. Ukraine is 53o22'n and is last on the list.

Level 62

Jul 20, 2018

Japan?

Level 55

Jul 20, 2018

Please correct the caveat:

possessions

Level 61

Dec 5, 2024

The description has a full stop/period instead of a question mark

Level 75

Jul 20, 2018

Started typing Ukraine and got UK. I would have gotten UK, too, but it still counts as a freebie and I love freebies.

Level 67

Jul 20, 2018

I struggled- good quiz.

Level 63

Jul 20, 2018

100%!!! YES!

Level 35

Jul 20, 2018

Ukraine?

Level 28

Jul 23, 2018

100% with 2:09 left!

Level 75

Jul 24, 2018

I think you need to specify which definition of 'northernmost' you mean. It became clear from the answers that it must be based on how far the northernmost point of the country is, but 'northernmost' can also be defined by things like how far north the country's median latitude is or how far north its southernmost point is, or how far north the population is on average, and it was not clear from the title which of these many definitions was intended.

Level 48

Apr 13, 2024

do you do math by any chance?

Level 32

Oct 2, 2018

Wait, where is Belgium?

Level 45

Oct 17, 2018

Ukraine?!?! What about belgium or mongolia or japan or north korea or something?

Level 53

Dec 17, 2020

North Korea is nowhere near this level. I think it goes to about 41, whereas the lowest country on this list is 52. Japan, too, is only about 45. Belgium is close however. Mongolia is somewhat close, I think it goes up to 49 or 50 (but might be closer than I think).

Level 26

Dec 27, 2018

dummy missed denmark

Level 24

Jan 24, 2019

Being Norwegian, I consider over half of these countries to just be "the south".

I like "the south". We go there on holiday sometimes. It's warm there.

Level 48

Apr 13, 2024

hahah

Level 77

Nov 27, 2024

If one doesn't want to include Denmark, that's fine, but then we should include Greenland, rather than erase it (on a quiz where it's pretty relevant). On a related note, Svalbard is not exactly an integral part of Norway. I don't care that it's used as Norway's northern part, but if you looked at the various statutes and agreements that govern Greenland's and Svalbard's status, it's hard to see that one ought to be entirely erased while the other is considered integral.

Level 28

Jan 31, 2019

I like how there’s like 50 people saying they missed Kazakhstan, even though it’s not a big deal since only 62% (including me 😀) got it. Fun fact: Astana is the northernmost non-European capital.

Level 62

Mar 3, 2019

Yes! Got them all with 1:49 remaining at 11:02:27 AM. China, of course, was the last one I guessed.

Level 53

Oct 11, 2019

is accepts kazakjstan for kazakhstan

Level 18

Oct 29, 2019

How is China here but not Mongolia?

Level 49

Jan 24, 2020

Because part of China is further north than mongolia

Level 49

Jan 24, 2020

Got China at last second. Good quiz

Level 50

Mar 20, 2020

Not to flex, but I got 20/20 in in 48 seconds. I'm also 12.

Level 28

Apr 24, 2020

20/20, not bad for a sloth

Level 15

Jun 30, 2020

To author: you should make an explicit statement that overseas departments of France do not count (St Pierre and Miquelon borders northern province of New Foundland, Canada). Either that, or include France and drop Ukraine.

And no these overseas departments are NOT colonies or territories like Puerto Rico, they are an integral component of France. This is the reason why France's longest land border is with Brazil (another interesting factoid).

Level 38

Dec 30, 2020

St Pierre and Miquelon is not an overseas department though, it's just a territory. All of France's actual overseas departments are further south than mainland France.

Level 58

Jan 4, 2022

Even if you include overseas territories, France would not be included. St Pierre & Miquelon is considerably further south than the northern part of metropolitan France.

Level 77

Nov 27, 2024

Swing and a miss.

Level 58

Jul 23, 2020

18 of 20 1st try 30th percentile proof test takers are going ten times or more and pretending they achieved 20 on their 1st try when it was their 12 th

Level 68

Jul 23, 2020

I've gotten 20 3 out of 4 times including my first try but I'm a geography nerd. I believe the stats only count the first try.

Level 31

Jan 21, 2024

🤕

Level 45

Jul 23, 2020

got all correct with 1;51 remaning suprised to see poland instead of belgium

Level 34

Jul 23, 2020

I got Holland/Netherlands with 53 seconds remaining.

Level 27

Jul 23, 2020

completed in 54 seconds on first go!

Level 44

Jul 23, 2020

The Netherlands is shockingly northern!

Level 36

Jul 24, 2020

I missed Lithuania, Belarus, China and Kazakhstan.

Level 29

Jul 26, 2020

I got all correct!!!

Level 29

Jul 26, 2020

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland took up about 2/5

Level 29

Aug 16, 2020

Got 100%!

Level 32

Aug 17, 2020

3:09 left and 100% :)

Level 56

Sep 1, 2020

ALWAYS CHINA JUST ALWAYS CHINA

Level 51

Oct 4, 2020

Lol i almost missed China

Level 53

Oct 15, 2020

ugh how did i miss iceland

Level 59

Nov 2, 2020

Wow I got 100% with 2:55 to spare

Level 45

Nov 10, 2020

Tried mongolia, didn't even think about kazakhstan, I am dissapointed.

Level 16

Nov 16, 2020

I forgot the United States *facepalm* :(

Level 53

Dec 17, 2020

That's fair. The United States outside of Alaska doesn't get anywhere near this level of latitude. And Alaska is "across the sea territory" I must say.

Level 38

May 12, 2021

I cannot agree with this, as an American. Before Alaska became a state, then I may agree with this, but Alaska is part of our fifty states, so therefore it is our mainland and not an overseas territory.

Level 60

Jun 25, 2021

it actually does get reasonably close, the northernmost point is Angle Inlet at 49 N. But Alaska is a state, as well as Hawaii, this was confirmed in 1959.

Level 53

Dec 17, 2020

I FORGOT GERMANY. But the thing is I didn't forget it, exactly. I spent the last 1:30 of the quiz at 19/20, thinking "What could the last one possibly be???" I was iron certain that I had already typed Germany lmao

Level 59

Dec 17, 2020

Dang it, I thought I already typed Denmark, and I didn't think Ukraine jutted that far north.

Level 31

Feb 25, 2021

I'm a little concerned how China is in the list and Mongolia isn't and which Mongolia is the northern border of China.

Level 23

Mar 5, 2021

how does only 65% get kazakhstan

Level 47

Apr 6, 2021

Got Kazakhstan with few seconds to go... surprised Mongolia is not there but otherwise this was fairly easy coming from North Europe

Level 59

May 21, 2021

Ukraine and Kazakhstan are surprising, since they look so "southern" on the maps...

I guessed Belgium and Mongolia before I tried those two.

Level 37

Aug 14, 2021

I got 100% with 3;08 left…. Let’s goooooo

Level 41

Oct 24, 2021

first try although wasn't expecting ukraine

Level 69

Nov 4, 2021

I got USA with 10 seconds left... 20/20

Level 59

Nov 4, 2021

What about Saint Pierre and Miquelon? It has a closer affiliation with France than Greenland does with Denmark.

Level 60

Nov 9, 2021

I think mainland France would be closer anyways, but St. Pierre et Miquelon is around 46°.

Level 26

Jan 4, 2022

2:24 100% i forgot ukraine thought it was more south idk why ;-;

Level 32

Jan 4, 2022

Missed Netherlands :(

Level 64

Jan 5, 2022

Got all the answers but very surprised by some, as I thought other countries were higher. Obviously need to brush up a bit

Level 25

Feb 25, 2022

like what countries?

Level 74

Jan 6, 2022

2:07 remaining

Level 44

Feb 4, 2022

I feel like if this quiz involved the center points of the countries, the results would be a LOT different

Level 24

Feb 9, 2022

0:06 seconds left and got China! 20/20

Level 25

Feb 25, 2022

I'm suprised only 67% get Kazakhstan

Level 25

Feb 25, 2022

btw I got 20/20 and i'm only 8!

Level 46

May 9, 2022

got them all and im only nine

Level 44

Jun 10, 2022

love the quiz! i need a south version

Level 22

Dec 17, 2022

Mongolia man?! Where

Level 29

Feb 14, 2023

daayyym almost forgot Netherlands and Ireland!!

Level 37

Apr 17, 2023

Fun quiz!

Level 37

May 29, 2023

that was surprisingly easy

Level 28

Jun 1, 2023

How the **** did I get Kazakhstan on the literal last second? (Me)

Because of me ;) (my brain)

Level 30

Jul 16, 2023

100% with 2:55 left

Level 42

Nov 15, 2023

Got it with 3:44 remaining got Netherlands at the last second

Level 42

Nov 15, 2023

I was so dumb gosh

Level 39

Jun 23, 2024

how is Belarus less north than Ukraine? Is there an Ukraine territory further north than Belarus?

Level ∞

Jun 23, 2024

Where in the world are you getting that from?

Level 39

Jun 23, 2024

one of the answers is Ukraine but Belarus is further north than Ukraine

Level 39

Jun 23, 2024

oh sorry i didn't saw i alredy put Belarus in the answers

Level 27

Aug 29, 2024

I'm kinda surprised Ukraine and Belarus are on this list

Level 32

May 13, 2025

Wow I didn't expect China

Btw is a good quiz

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