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Top 10 Biggest Economies in Africa

Can you name the ten African countries with the largest GDPs?
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First submittedAugust 23, 2016
Times taken103,552
Average score90.0%
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GDP
Country
1899 bil
Egypt
1444 bil
Nigeria
1026 bil
South Africa
769 bil
Algeria
432 bil
Ethiopia
GDP
Country
409 bil
Morocco
366 bil
Kenya
271 bil
Angola
244 bil
Tanzania
241 bil
Ghana
68 Comments
+30
Level 76
Aug 23, 2016
Maybe make it 2 minutes? 3 minutes is plenty of time to play scattergun with African countries and get the lot.
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Level 76
Aug 23, 2016
I got them all at 2:24 and was guessing a lot, so agreed. Possibly the same with the other quizzes in the series?
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Level 89
Jul 22, 2018
For the 2 of you indicating you named 54 countries in 36 seconds just goes to show you're great African nations by rote, but not using your thinking caps about the subject at hand.
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Level 72
Apr 16, 2020
Thinking takes more time than randomly blurting stuff out. The same mechanism goes for everyday life, the loudest people that speak non-stop don't always say the most intelligent things. (That doesn't mean that everyone that is quiet is very clever ;) ) Especially if measured by amount of valuable contributions/word ;)

But going slightly off-track, and I'll stop before this becomes an entire essay ;) And nothing was aimed at either of you personally btw. Just saw the resemblance between quiz and real life, a quality/quantity thing.

I am just of the opinion, what is the fun in just randomly naming all the african countries you know, it is much more fun to actually think about the question.

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Level 78
Sep 18, 2020
I agree...on quizzes like this I assume i'll be able to figure them out, but i like to play a game of hangman with myself. Try to figure them all out before getting X number of misses. I only had 2 misses on this one. Pretty good.
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Level 62
Oct 26, 2020
Took me 2 minutes to figure out Kenya.. it's not that hard to guess countries based on total GDP if you at least roughly know their population.
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Level 85
Sep 10, 2016
thirded. I had 2:24 left
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Level 63
Sep 26, 2016
I actually tried to think and picture the big African countries rather than guessing completely and still got them all with 1:02 left so I agree. 2 minutes seem like a good time.
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Level 80
Dec 2, 2016
I got a few by trying to think of any African countries that were internationally known for any particular industry (including tourism). Then I got the rest of them by just guessing the most populated countries. There were no big surprises (What!? How did Lesotho and Burundi make the list!?), so I got them all with 2:28 left.
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Level 68
Dec 2, 2016
It takes more time if playing on a mobile phone
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Level 71
May 23, 2018
Who plays Jetpunk on a mobile phone?
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Level 62
Aug 23, 2023
I do.
+14
Level 30
Jan 9, 2020
I play jetpunk on a mobile
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Level 29
Apr 4, 2020
So do i
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Level 79
Apr 16, 2020
And takes even more time if you're blind.
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Level 72
Apr 16, 2020
A lot of the time (previously all of the time, now an ancient very heavy laptop). A big percentage of the time I play before I go to sleep, or right when I wake up. (my brain wakes up before my body does, for most people it is the other way around) and a tablet is way more convenient then. Same goes for in the garden.

A smartphone might get fiddly I agree, but then again, some smartphones now adays are about the same size as tablets..

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Level 49
Jun 10, 2020
Well having word suggestions in the keyboard kind of compensates, though I agree mobile versions should give more time as a general rule.
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Level 59
Jun 10, 2020
I always take quizzes on phone
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Level 51
May 24, 2021
SWATkun takes quizzes on phone apparently
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Level 46
Mar 26, 2022
Bruh
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Level 56
May 15, 2022
Me too
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Level 78
Dec 2, 2016
1:58
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Level ∞
Jan 21, 2018
Reduced to 2 minutes
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Level 63
Jan 22, 2018
Smart decision! It is pretty clear (at least if, like me, one lives in Europe) that the three large north African countries should be on the list. And anyone presumably knows that Nigeria and South Africa are big. So there's plenty of time to "scattergun" the rest of the continent.
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Level 64
Mar 20, 2018
I need 3. Change it back.
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Level 79
Apr 16, 2020
@Cooldrive Haha no.
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Level 81
Mar 20, 2018
Very easy. I finished with my first 12 guesses. Only misses were Libya and the DRC.
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Level 79
Apr 16, 2020
Interesting that neither of those countries are there now.
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Level 81
Jun 10, 2020
They weren't there before. I meant that they were the only 2 I guessed that weren't on the quiz.
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Level 65
Dec 2, 2016
So I was sitting there with 2:00 left and one more country to get (it turned out to be Angola) just typing, Congo, D.R. Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, all the while getting angrier and angrier...but seriously how is D.R. Congo not in the top ten?

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Level 71
Dec 2, 2016
A lot of war and corruption.
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Level 52
Dec 4, 2016
Belgium and King Leopold, with a massacre worse than the Holocaust, and corrupt leadership ever since.
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Level ∞
Jan 21, 2018
Finally someone gets it. Belgium, the source of all the world's problems!
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Level 76
Apr 7, 2019
I know you're joking, but Leopold/Belgium did actually make a few other imperialists blush.
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Level 79
Apr 16, 2020
Oh yes, blame the current status of the Congo on Belgium and King Leopold! (what Belgian colonists did were appalling, but would you consider it worse than the Holocaust?)
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Level 83
Apr 16, 2020
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Level 44
Jun 10, 2020
Are you serious? You blaming things that happened a 100 year ago on todays situation? China has been through ten times worse than that in the 40's, 50's and 60's and yet today they are an economic superpower. Playing the blame game instead of taking responsibility is very trendy these days...
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Level 44
Jun 11, 2020
I can assure you I'm fully aware of what happened in the Congo. You can analyze pretty much any country in the world and find bloodshed and brutalities in the past. History is NEVER an excuse for a country to remain in misery. Just look at how well Rwanda is doing today compared to 25 years ago.
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Level 71
Sep 20, 2021
I'm not an expert on Congolese history (and admittedly much of the stuff I do know is from "The Poisonwood Bible"), but the Belgians are in large part responsible I think. Belgium left the country overnight with barely any institutions. The entire country only had 16 college graduates when it gained independence, and no doctors or lawyers. Also, when conflict immediately erupted in the Congo after independence, Belgians continued to interfere with Congolese politics, killing their independence leader Lumumba and supporting Mobutu Sese Seko, who was notoriously corrupt. Seko was only deposed in 1998, which is much more recent than 1960.

I don't want to oversimplify things and lay the blame solely at Belgium's feet, but, to a large extent, I think their actions 60 years ago set the stage for the Congo's woes today.

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Level 56
Aug 16, 2022
@canadry because it didn't happen in Europe

(I'm joking in case someone doesn't get it)

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Level 69
Dec 2, 2016
Ethiopia was a last second guess - really surprised me.
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Level 81
Dec 2, 2016
While one of the poorest countries in Africa, there are still over 100 million people there.
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Level 58
Dec 2, 2016
100% with 58 seconds remaining. great quiz, maybe a bit more time???
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Level 59
Dec 2, 2016
My 100% on first attempt is getting reasonably common nowadays - about once a month!! Will reach level 50 soon and retire!!
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Level 66
Feb 17, 2024
Eight years later and they're sitting on level 59..
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Level 33
Dec 2, 2016
Nigeria, Algeria, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania
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Level 58
Jun 15, 2017
What about them?
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Level 49
Jun 12, 2018
I'm curious as well. What is your point?
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Level 79
Apr 16, 2020
China, India, England, USA, Mars!
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Level 40
Jul 28, 2021
ha
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Level 32
Dec 2, 2016
Got it with 29 seconds to go. Actually, I had only country remaining with a minute and a half to go, then I kept on typing the names of countries I had not written yet till I got Tanzania right!! Phew!!!
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Level 42
Dec 3, 2016
Heh, totally didn't forget South Africa... duh xD
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Level 69
Mar 20, 2018
And when I finally memorized that Nigeria was Africa's biggest economy, Egypt took over. :)
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Level 78
Mar 20, 2018
Mmm fun. FH, 0:24
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Level 96
Mar 22, 2018
I'm surprised that Egypt has the biggest economy with the current situation here to be honest.
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Level 62
Apr 7, 2019
Got all 10 with 0:53 left. Angola was the last one I guessed, though I got three in rapid succession before that as I noticed a concentration in eastern Africa.
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Level 37
May 1, 2019
Why is South Africa in the BRICS if both Nigeria and Egypt are well ahead of it economically?
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Level 49
Jan 19, 2020
Not per capita
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Level 29
Apr 4, 2020
I don’t understand how DRC have only $52billion but 85million people! How are they alive! And they’re heading for a bad future considering they’re projected to have 350million people in 80 years. I guess they haven’t practised safe sex.
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Level 83
Apr 15, 2020
Not very alive. Constantly at war basically
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Level 29
Apr 19, 2020
Maybe they should just stop having children! They have one of the fastest growing populations in the world
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Level 49
Apr 16, 2020
I missed Ghana which I think was the hardest on here.
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Level 57
Jun 11, 2020
This didn't show me the number of points I earned for guessing all of the countries. Fun quiz.
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Level 70
Jun 12, 2020
I go most of the countries right away

I got Ghana at the last second

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Level 51
Jun 12, 2020
100%
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Level 59
Jan 12, 2021
What the heck. Did the first column in a row!
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Level 48
Oct 22, 2023
100 % with only two guesses off, those being Tunisia and Ivory Coast. Good quiz
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Level 46
Nov 11, 2023
Bro i swear i never would have got Ghana