Northernmost Countries Quiz

Name the world's 20 northernmost countries.

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°06'	Canada
81°51'	Russia
80°49'	Norway
71°23'	United States
70°05'	Finland
69°04'	Sweden
67°08'	Iceland

° North	Country
60°51'	United Kingdom
59°48'	Estonia
58°05'	Latvia
57°45'	Denmark
56°27'	Lithuania
56°08'	Belarus
55°26'	Ireland

° North	Country
55°06'	Kazakhstan
55°03'	Germany
54°50'	Poland
53°34'	China
53°32'	Netherlands
52°22'	Ukraine

Level 15

Jun 21, 2014

mongolia ? its north then china

+23

Level 83

Feb 18, 2015

"It's farther north than China."

than, not then.

Also, north is not a superlative.

Also, no, it's not.

Level 41

Dec 7, 2015

Best comment I've ever read!

Level 22

Jul 3, 2016

Also, North deserves a capital.

Level 75

Feb 15, 2017

physics: Japan had to give up Manchukuo some time ago.

Level 84

Feb 15, 2017

Should have said "North is not a comparative."

Level 83

Feb 15, 2017

Flute, okay fair enough. I'm sometimes stingy with my capitals. Interopia, five different grammar textbooks will use five different words to describe the same thing.

Level 58

Feb 15, 2017

Classic kalbamahut!

Level 70

Sep 4, 2018

@Silver, in this case it doesn't. @kalbahamut, I would be interested to have a reference to a textbook that says a comparative is the same thing as a superlative (an English one, as I know they are in some languages). A superlative is an adjective or adverb describing the highest degree of something, whereas a comparative describes one thing as having a greater degree of a certain quality than another.

Level 83

Jun 25, 2021

I'm not going to go hunting for examples, but with decades of experience teaching English I promise you I've seen what I described above.

Level 55

Jul 16, 2023

Use this as a learning opportunity. Almost universally, superlative refers to the «highest» degree of something, while comparative refers to something simply being of a «higher» degree than something else. If you've read otherwise in a textbook, I doubt it was anywhere near the only mistake in there.

Level 67

Oct 24, 2016

Why wouldn't you look at a map before you would make a comment like this?

Level 41

May 26, 2019

Clearly not!

Look at a map BOY!!!

Level 59

Apr 10, 2023

china bends around and is barely further north in the east

Level 26

Sep 26, 2014

Guys, just remember this concept: Scandinavia, North America, Low country, Baltics, Northern Slavic countries, and Central Asia (of course I can't give too much info)

Level 74

Jul 21, 2018

And you'd still miss the British Isles

Level 22

Jun 28, 2023

bro i got all but canada. im such a dumbass

Level 51

Jul 16, 2023

Wait, so you're the 1% that missed Canada? 😂

Level 44

Oct 5, 2014

Cool. With 2:54 left. Would not have thought that my home Germany is amongst the "top" 20 countries of the world ... And the US were the second last I put in.

Really a nice idea!

Level 54

Oct 13, 2014

hold it... Mongolia is north of china, and almost is completely even with Ukraine. Greenland I understand is part of denmark

Level 57

Oct 23, 2014

Just a personal thing ... I'd make it so Holland and the Netherlands both count. Cus there's no right or wrong answer there as far as I'm aware.

Level 65

Apr 14, 2016

Holland is not a country. North Holland and South Holland are provinces IN the Netherlands.

Level 70

Feb 15, 2017

...but the name Holland is pretty commonly used as a pars pro toto for the Netherlands. For instance, the song 'Hup Holland Hup' doesn't exclude the other 10 provinces.

Level 25

Oct 25, 2014

Forget china....

Level 19

Nov 12, 2014

2:26 first try! oh yeah!

Level 30

Feb 16, 2017

I got 2:21 left on my first.

Level 70

Nov 28, 2014

Didn't realize Kazakhstan was so far North. Also, I tried Mongolia forgetting that in one part China is farther North, so when that didn't work I didn't try China.

Level 23

Dec 4, 2014

got em all with 1:23 left!

Level 66

Dec 4, 2014

2:42 left :)

Level 28

Dec 23, 2014

I thought mongolia was north of china?

Level 44

Feb 15, 2017

For the most part yes, but China's northernmost point is further north than Mongolia's northernmost point.

Level 16

Dec 23, 2014

should allow holland for netherlands too!!

Level 43

Feb 17, 2017

Do they allow " the 13 Colonies" for the U.S.?

Level 60

May 7, 2017

No, because Holland is only one province of the Netherlands

Level 79

May 10, 2017

So you presumably insist on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

Level 60

Jul 20, 2018

There's a difference between shortening the name of a country in the name of simplicity and just including regions and provinces as type-ins. If Holland were allowed, the amount of arguments for each of the 50 states to be type-ins and for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to be type-ins for their respective sovereign states would be astronomical.

Level 57

Jun 17, 2022

lol chill down mate. we know holland is a part of the netherlands but we also know it's a very common name to refer to the whole country. yes it's technically wrong but so what, don't be so pedantic

Level 57

Jun 25, 2021

that's like saying Nunavut for Canada.

Level 25

Jan 6, 2015

because I can't spell Kazakhstan. (I do Kahzkstan

Level 60

Jul 20, 2018

Then learn.

Level 42

Jan 7, 2015

It's ok I can't spell money (yes I can).

$o$

Level 42

Jan 7, 2015

Cooooool

Level 23

Jan 24, 2015

2:45 left

Level 47

Feb 15, 2015

20/20 pretty good for a 12 year old, hey Adam Sutherland!

Level 35

Jun 2, 2017

Then how about a 9 year old? :)

Level 34

Nov 8, 2017

What about that the age doesn't matter at all?

Level 51

Feb 15, 2015

Maybe I'm missing something, but aren't the Faroe Islands a sovereign nation? And aren't they further north than the UK?

+11

Level 83

Feb 15, 2015

You are missing something, and that something is that the Faroe Islands are not a sovereign nation.

Level 75

Feb 15, 2017

That's open to debate! I personally think it is a country.

Level 35

Feb 15, 2017

Well, the Faroe Islands are a country, but not a sovereign nation

Level 60

Feb 15, 2017

But we can agree that they're not a sovereign nation, right?

Level 59

Aug 22, 2017

@Jerry928: you can think of the Faroes as a sovereign country to your heart's desire, but that doesn't make the international community agree with you.

Level 43

Nov 13, 2017

Kinda like Pluto

Level 70

Sep 4, 2018

@Jerry, I'd be interested to know if you think the Isle of Man is a sovereign country. My understanding is that the relationship is similar.

Level 24

Feb 15, 2015

Quiz suggestion: Find out what the latitude of the average square mile in a country is in relation to the North pole. Then, use this info to make a quiz. I would not know how to do this, so I'll give my idea to you.

Level 70

Sep 4, 2018

There are a few ways to define the exact centre of a country. You can find the point inside it furthest from a border or coastline (in maths this is called the incentre). Alternatively you can try to find a centre of mass (centroid) assuming an equal distribution of mass. This will heavily depend on what you count (e.g. including French Guiana as part of France will move the centroid possibly into Spain?)

Level 36

Feb 15, 2015

Great quiz! Got all but that elusive Kazakstan. I can't tell you guys how many times I type in Belarus on various geography quizzes, only to not have it show up ever. Nice to see it finally cracks the list for something.

Level 23

Feb 15, 2015

Got all but Belarus

Level 78

Feb 15, 2015

So everybody seems to accept Ukraine is that far north as to make it on this quiz?! It's on the damn Black Sea, which makes it practically Mediterranian! Took me a bit to guess that one. And still it makes it further north than Mongolia. Yep, signing up for club "Mongolia, you are further north than that, right?".

Level 82

Feb 17, 2017

What kind of logic is this? USA and China are partly in the tropics, and Russia is on the Black Sea/Mediterranean as well. Ukraine is not that small and despite having nice warm beaches in summer, it has evry cold winters.

I think part of the confusion is that the Mediterranean is further north than one would think. NYC is south of Rome, and the beaches at Odessa are further north than Minneapolis or Montreal.

Level 21

Jun 15, 2017

what about alaska

Level 59

Aug 22, 2017

I have to ask: is Sillie's comment a joke? You have the internet, but cannot possibly look at a map?

Level 35

Feb 17, 2015

Gets China... Forgets Finland......

Level 66

Feb 19, 2015

03:20 left at first try.

Level 50

Mar 1, 2015

also known as: "Name As Many North European Countries That You Can" quiz

Level 51

Nov 12, 2017

China is in Europe?

Level 20

Jun 26, 2015

How is Japan not on here?

Level 83

Aug 2, 2016

By not being as far north as these countries. I'm not sure what other answer one can give to a question like that.

Level 68

Aug 28, 2016

Rhetorical?

Level 20

Jun 26, 2015

Missed China.(facepalm)

Level 35

Aug 4, 2015

Oh damn. forgot Poland

Level 29

Dec 5, 2015

Same here

Level 37

Nov 8, 2015

did it with 2.26 left, countries of the world quiz really helps a sister out :)

Level 37

Nov 12, 2015

All with 1:44 remaining :p

Level 37

Nov 12, 2015

Took a while to get Kazakhstan tho

Level 65

Dec 1, 2015

I got them all, but a map really messes up your perception of north/south. I was convinced that Ukraine is farther south than Japan, North Korea, Mongolia, South Korea, and even Mexico.

Level 54

Dec 17, 2020

Mexico is mostly tropical. Its northernmost point doesn't reach Libya's northernmost point.

Level 57

Jun 25, 2021

a common misconception with maps in general is that Europe is much further south. Odesa, Ukraine is about in line with Montreal, Canada. And New York is just south of Rome.

Level 66

Feb 13, 2016

How can people miss Kazakhstan, that was like the 7th country I wrote.

Level 35

Mar 29, 2016

All with 20 secs left.

Level 26

Apr 6, 2016

I only missed China and I only got 2 points. Fix this please! :(

Level 38

May 31, 2016

I feel stupid for not getting Netherlands, Ukraine, and China, ugh I forgot that I think the most popular countries don't exist

Level 51

Jun 10, 2016

Mongolia?

Level 62

Jul 20, 2018

Homeland of Genghis Khan, who founded what would eventually become history's largest contiguous land empire. Sadly, with its current borders, it just doesn't make it onto this list.

Level 83

Jun 22, 2016

I'm in Minsk right now. Farthest north I've ever been. It's really weird only have 3 hours of darkness at night.

Level 70

Sep 4, 2018

I live in Manchester, which is on the same latitude. The other side of the problem is having to get up before the sun rises in winter. I've never really noticed much difference in other countries I go to, possibly because I more often go on holiday in August (where there isn't as much difference), possibly because the furthest south I've been is only around 35°N, and possibly because I get up later on holiday anyway.

Level 29

Jun 26, 2016

i am an idiot. i forgot kazakhstan. :(

Level 59

Aug 22, 2017

We've all been there. All been an idiot that is, I don't think we've all been to Kazakhstan...! :-)

Level 22

Jul 3, 2016

Japan?

Level 62

Jul 20, 2018

Land of the rising sun.

Level 41

Jul 15, 2016

wasnt even thinking about Kazakhstan got it in the end though

Level 47

Jul 27, 2016

I got all except Iceland. How does one just forget Iceland?

Level 84

Feb 15, 2017

Ask England. They did it too. ;-)

Level 83

Aug 2, 2016

I love all the people disputing the answers to this, especially the 'But Mongolia is north of China!' crowd. Objectively that is not the case, Manchuria, specifically Heilongjiang, is more northerly. If you really don't believe it, Google Maps or Google Earth can display the latitude of any point. It's very easy to check.

Level 48

Nov 16, 2016

Amen. Very well explained, saving me a very snarky reply. I only wonder how long it takes for someone ignore everything already posted and ask the same question again.

Level 84

Feb 15, 2017

Level 41

Sep 9, 2016

Got them all in a decent time Kazakhstan was my last

Level 19

Sep 12, 2016

yay Got it

Level 35

Feb 15, 2017

Knew all of them cause i tried to make the same quiz yesterday

Level 52

Feb 15, 2017

2.47 left for me

Level 57

Feb 15, 2017

where is Kazakhstan ?

Level 83

Feb 15, 2017

central Asia

Level 32

Jun 1, 2017

Level 61

Feb 15, 2017

all with 3:09 remaining first try.

Level 37

Feb 15, 2017

Huh, missed china because I thought mongolia would be more northern, and Iceland, *facepalm*

Level 16

Feb 15, 2017

US for united states? Holand for netherlands?

Level 82

Feb 17, 2017

US is too short, USA is accepted on Jetpunk. So is Holland.

Level 57

Jun 25, 2021

Holland shouldn't be accepted, that is a country from the 16th century. And is now a province in the Netherlands.

Level 52

Feb 15, 2017

Yay! Got them all right.

Level 46

Feb 21, 2017

i missed china omg

Level 66

Apr 26, 2017

same, gosh

Level 39

Apr 17, 2017

Got them all, got China at the last few seconds.

Level 37

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 59

Aug 22, 2017

Ha!!

Level 41

Jul 6, 2017

lol im use to that spelling now

Level 48

Dec 20, 2017

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

Level 54

Dec 17, 2020

Lol @ missing Iceland with your name.

Level 66

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 63

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 76

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 54

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 40

May 22, 2018

How is China there and not Mongolia?

Level 49

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 71

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 59

Jul 20, 2018

Japan?

Level 55

Jul 20, 2018

Please correct the caveat:

possessions

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 66

Jul 20, 2018

I struggled- good quiz.

Level 65

Jul 20, 2018

100%!!! YES!

Level 36

Jul 20, 2018

Ukraine?

Level 28

Jul 23, 2018

100% with 2:09 left!

Level 76

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 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 54

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 25

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 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 63

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 51

Oct 11, 2019

is accepts kazakjstan for kazakhstan

Level 19

Oct 29, 2019

How is China here but not Mongolia?

Level 50

Jan 24, 2020

Because part of China is further north than mongolia

Level 50

Jan 24, 2020

Got China at last second. Good quiz

Level 32

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 16

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 39

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 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 76

Jul 23, 2020

Easy-to-remember countries in the northern hemisphere that range from decent-sized to gigantic. It's really not that difficult.

Level 66

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 45

Jul 23, 2020

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

Level 35

Jul 23, 2020

I got Holland/Netherlands with 53 seconds remaining.

Level 28

Jul 23, 2020

completed in 54 seconds on first go!

Level 44

Jul 23, 2020

The Netherlands is shockingly northern!

Level 28

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 30

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 52

Oct 4, 2020

Lol i almost missed China

Level 53

Oct 15, 2020

ugh how did i miss iceland

Level 58

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 54

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 39

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 57

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 54

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 57

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 48

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 58

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 42

Oct 24, 2021

first try although wasn't expecting ukraine

Level 65

Nov 4, 2021

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

Level 53

Nov 4, 2021

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

Level 57

Nov 9, 2021

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

Level 27

Jan 4, 2022

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

Level 32

Jan 4, 2022

Missed Netherlands :(

Level 61

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 26

Feb 25, 2022

like what countries?

Level 67

Jan 6, 2022

2:07 remaining

Level 40

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 26

Feb 25, 2022

I'm suprised only 67% get Kazakhstan

Level 26

Feb 25, 2022

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

Level 44

May 9, 2022

got them all and im only nine

Level 43

Jun 10, 2022

love the quiz! i need a south version

Level 23

Dec 17, 2022

Mongolia man?! Where

Level 26

Feb 14, 2023

daayyym almost forgot Netherlands and Ireland!!

Level 37

Apr 17, 2023

Fun quiz!

Level 27

May 29, 2023

that was surprisingly easy

Level 29

Jun 1, 2023

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

Because of me ;) (my brain)

Level 20

Jul 16, 2023

100% with 2:55 left

Level 22

Nov 15, 2023

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

Level 22

Nov 15, 2023

I was so dumb gosh

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