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Countries that Bordered the USSR

There were 12 countries that had a land border with the Soviet Union in the post-WWII era. How many can you name?
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Country
Afghanistan
China
Czechoslovakia
Finland
Hungary
Iran
Country
Mongolia
North Korea
Norway
Poland
Romania
Turkey
105 Recent Comments
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Level 44
Jan 20, 2017
Kazakhstan?
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Level 58
Mar 14, 2017
Kazakhstan was one of the 15 republics that made up the USSR.
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Level 71
Aug 13, 2020
Those Soviets really needed their potassium...
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Level 91
Jul 21, 2018
How about Googlestan?
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Level 16
Aug 20, 2018
Lol

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Level 75
May 18, 2020
I think the Googlestan empire rules.
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Level 44
Aug 5, 2022
You forgot Firefoxstan! It's a very important country for the world (wide web)!
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Level 77
Nov 7, 2023
Duckduckgostan?
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Level 68
Nov 8, 2023
Anything but Orspelstan
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Level 43
Feb 1, 2017
If this is post WW2, wouldn't North Korea just be Korea?
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Level 61
Feb 10, 2017
Because North Korea is best Korea
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Level 75
May 1, 2017
YES
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Level 16
Aug 20, 2018
Agreed
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Level 51
Jul 26, 2019
i thought of this too
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Level 35
May 15, 2025
It said post-WWII era, so it does not necessarily mean immediately after WWII. It's pretty ambiguous admittedly.
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Level 54
Mar 6, 2017
Is there another way to spell Czechoslavakia?
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Level 58
Mar 14, 2017
Yes, wrongly :-)
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Level 63
Sep 1, 2024
Or rather, correctly, as the spelling above is wrong.
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Level 76
Apr 4, 2017
It's CzechoslOvakia, my brainless friend.
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Level 70
Apr 22, 2017
Unlike you ChaosLord, some of us are not perfect.
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Level 47
Dec 5, 2017
Well, we would expect him to be, he is a pretty high level, and has been taking these quizzes for a while.
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Level 75
May 18, 2020
First put a Czech, then an o, then a Slovakia.
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Level 47
Sep 9, 2024
Yes. The correct way
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Level 26
Mar 29, 2017
Before World War 2 Japan took over the Korean peninsula and Manchuria, so wouldn't Japan be a option?
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Level 58
Apr 4, 2017
The instructions ask for those countries around after the war, not before, during, or imagined.
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Level 45
May 23, 2018
'imagined' you mean not official because it was an occupation
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Level 50
Jul 25, 2019
And the sharing of Sakhaline island... Was this after the war?
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Level 50
Jul 25, 2019
That's it!

USSR attacked Japan AFTER WW2.

Before that, they had a common border in Sakhaline.

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Level 66
Apr 22, 2017
I wonder how close Pakistan was to bordering the USSR.
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Level 66
Aug 1, 2017
I think it's about 20km, that's the narrowest bit of Afghanistan between Pakistan and Tajikistan.
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Level 65
Dec 6, 2021
And also India if you consider the POK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) region as India which 20% of the world's population does.
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Level 65
Dec 6, 2021
and also India if you consider the POK region as India which 20% of the world's population does.
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Level 32
May 10, 2017
I forgot about Czechoslovakia
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Level 39
May 26, 2017
12/12 with 2:14 remaining
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Level 79
Aug 24, 2017
*Guesses Czech Republic and Slovakia* Hmmm, I wonder what it could be? Not Yugoslavia, not India... Wait a minute, could it be Czechoslovakia?

YES 100%

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Level 61
Nov 27, 2017
Korea and North Korea should be accepted as both bordered the USSR after WWII
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Level 72
May 23, 2018
Korea wasn't unified at any point after the Second World War. The Japanese empire conquered Korea and when the empire was dissolved Korea was split between the USA and the USSR. It is arguable that at this stage neither North not South Korea were really countries yet, but they were occupied by two different countries and were certainly not one country.
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Level 66
May 23, 2018
What about Tanna Tuva?
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Level 47
Mar 25, 2019
That was a state just before world war 2, this is after ww2
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Level 69
Dec 23, 2018
Dprk should be accepted for north korea
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Level 61
Oct 26, 2019
That's like saying Ukgbni for the United Kingdom, there is already a defining difference between the 2 Koreas as in North and South.
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Level 80
Dec 12, 2019
Ukgbni doesn't have to be accepted for the United Kingdom, as the first two letters are already accepted for it.
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Level 61
Jan 22, 2019
Could you put in the title post WWII didn't notice that thing until i finished it, confused me at the beginning why didn't it accept baltic nations and japan.
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Level 20
May 10, 2023
The baltic nations were a part of the unites soviet socialist republic.
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Level 39
Jan 23, 2019
how did i forget about mongolia???
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Level 47
Mar 25, 2019
OH MY GOD WHY DID I FORGET CHINA AND MOMGOLIa
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Level 51
Dec 8, 2020
I don't understand China, but you just misspelled Mongolia; hence you didn't get it.
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Level 69
Jun 4, 2023
Momgolia sounds like a brand of women's hiking clothes.
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Level 41
May 20, 2019
Forgets Mongolia and Finland after getting all the less obvious ones.
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Level 61
Oct 26, 2019
Well Finland and Mongolia were both part of the USSR at one point so maybe you just subconsciously thought of it as part of it already.
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Level 70
Apr 2, 2020
What?
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Level 70
Apr 21, 2020
No they weren't
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Level 75
May 18, 2020
Wasn't Finland part of the Russian Empire and Mongolia part of Qing Dynasty China?
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Level 69
Jun 4, 2023
Russian Empire != Soviet Union
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Level 75
Jul 25, 2019
0:45 left
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Level 51
Jul 26, 2019
As north korea was only officially formed in 1948, i think korea and even south korea are also good answers for that question, even though all the three are somewhat wrong
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Level 51
Jul 26, 2019
nice and interesting quiz by the way! :)
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Level 46
Aug 1, 2019
please allow Slovakia or Czechia or Czech Republic to count as Czechoslovakia
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Level 79
Aug 1, 2019
No.
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Level 80
Dec 12, 2019
Good.
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Level 69
Dec 12, 2019
Slovakia maybe, Czechia definitely not. But no, the USSR bordered a country called Czechoslovakia.
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Level 32
Oct 6, 2019
turkey???? if you see armenia, azerbaijan and georgia. Where is Turkey?
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Level 79
Oct 6, 2019
It is on the list.
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Level 75
May 18, 2020
Turkey bordered Armenia, which was part of the USSR with Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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Level 65
Nov 30, 2019
Does Japan count with Sakhalin Island?
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Level 79
Nov 30, 2019
No.
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Level 75
Apr 17, 2020
Gahhhh only missed Czechoslovakia, tried Czechia and Slovakia but totally forgot that they were the same country after WWII.
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Level 75
May 18, 2020
I wonder what would happen if the USSR won the Cold War. Would the USA break up into 50 states? Good thing that didn't happen, otherwise the Countries of the World Quiz would be much harder.
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Level 79
May 18, 2020
Nobody won the Cold War.
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Level 81
May 18, 2020
The Soviet Union disintegrated. The United States remained the world's only superpower. The US and its allies clearly won. Unless you are saying that the entire exercise was unproductive and wasteful which, if so, fair enough.
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Level 81
Aug 20, 2020
If the United States ever broke apart into different successor states I think it's more likely that many of them would form different clusters. I imagine independent states of... Hawaii, Alaska, Texas, California, and Florida. But after that probably New England that would include New York, a new Southern Confederacy, a mountain state centered around Denver or Salt Lake City, a Pacific Northwest state with a capital in Seattle, a midwest farm belt state, Chicago maybe as an independent city-state, and an Eastern seaboard state from Pennsylvania down to Northern Virginia and perhaps extending down the coast as far as Norfolk and Virginia Beach. That would be 12 new countries, not 50. West Virginia and some Native American reservations might declare sovereignty, as well. And maybe Vermont, Ohio, Puerto Rico, Guam, Las Vegas, and Disney World.
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Level 81
Dec 6, 2021
The different US states did use to think of themselves as separate sovereign entities, but joined together in a common federation of independent states, probably similar to how different member states of the EU feel today. But that's pretty ancient history, now. Slowly the USA moved closer to something like the UK, where the constituent entities were independent and "states" ("countries") in name only, power was increasingly concentrated at the federal level, and citizens of individual states began to think less of themselves as Virginians or New Yorkers and more as Americans. Until finally we got to the status quo of the day where, in the US, if you hold allegiance to your state or city higher than to your country this is usually seen as quaint or cute but unrealistic, and only kooks and dingbats like Ted Cruz openly talk about secession, and then are publicly ridiculed for it.
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Level 71
Dec 6, 2021
Yeah, even in our age of polarization, no one is talking about the breakup of the United States. The difference is that the Soviet Union was really a successor state to the Russian Empire, which was made of dozens of ethnicities with their own histories and geographic regions. The weakening of the Soviet Union in the late '80s was the perfect time for these nations to regain sovereignty and break free of Russian influence. In contrast, most parts of the US have the same acknowledged history, and while we are ethnically diverse, our diversity isn't based around geography or history.

Maybe in the far future, regional cultures in North America will become distinct enough for the US to break up, but I doubt it'll happen anytime this century.

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Level 20
May 10, 2023
If the US states broke apart, Most of them would be bought out or invaded.
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Level 52
Aug 20, 2020
dang, bro... I put in Czechia and Slovakia but I forgot to combine them lmao. I forgot all about Czechoslovakia.
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Level 28
Sep 5, 2020
.. forgot Norway bordered Russia...
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Level 58
Nov 27, 2020
Nice quiz. Would perhaps be more of a head-scratcher if you included the whole of the USSR's history.
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Level 48
Nov 27, 2020
you need to put post-1949, because until then east germany was still theirs, making a border with the us, france, the uk and denmark i think. dont know when korea got independent tho
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Level 23
Mar 3, 2021
@Forestier No, Kaliningrad is next to Poland.
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Level 30
Apr 11, 2021
Shouldn’t Sweden be there?
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Level 70
Apr 22, 2021
USSR never owned Finland. Russian Empire did
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Level 30
Aug 26, 2021
I literally tried Czechia and Slovakia but at the time it was Czechoslovakia, I am sad
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Level 51
Dec 6, 2021
Can you please accept Czechia for Czechoslovakia?
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Level 71
Dec 6, 2021
It didn't exist at that time.
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Level 35
Dec 6, 2021
What about Konigsburg? Wouldn't that make it border East Germany?
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Level 84
Dec 6, 2021
No, Königsberg / Kaliningrad was part of USSR, but it borders Poland, not Germany (then East Germany). It also borders Lithuania, but that was just another part of USSR.
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Level 68
Dec 6, 2021
I feel like there should be a caveat that some of these countries may not still exist.

I didn't think to type former countries.

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Level 30
Dec 8, 2021
Can you accept Czechia for Czechoslovakia?
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Level 79
Dec 12, 2021
No, because they are two different countries.
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Level 20
May 10, 2023
13..actually
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Level 63
Sep 1, 2024
Czechoslovakia, not the USSR.
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Level 38
Jan 26, 2022
Norway almost got me
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Level 33
Dec 23, 2022
It took me so long to figure Afghanistan
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Level 42
Jan 19, 2023
Forgot it was czechoslovakia at this time
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Level 61
Feb 23, 2023
..nice...but too easy...
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Level 20
May 10, 2023
bro i literally put czechoslovakia with a space
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Level 69
Jun 4, 2023
I guessed the last country with 1 second Romaning
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Level 51
Aug 23, 2024
I literally tried Czechia and Slovakia:(
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Level 56
Jan 13, 2025
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania should be included because of the order in which the USSR broke apart. The other ones, save for Kazakhstan are debatable, but in October of 1991, they bordered the USSR.
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Level 92
May 18, 2025
Technically it's true, but effectively the USSR stopped being real when the first SSR, i.e Lithuania, withdrew.
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Level 55
Feb 10, 2025
Tuva?
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Level 56
May 15, 2025
I tried Slovakia and Czechia didn't think to try Czechoslovakia. Totally forgot about North Korea.
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Level 39
May 15, 2025
What about Tannu Tuva or Tuva People's Republic?
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Level 44
May 16, 2025
annexed by ussr in 1944
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Level 35
Jun 2, 2025
Another day, another forgetting that Mongolia wasn't a SSR