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Recognize Former Countries by Shape

Name these former countries by recognizing their shapes
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51 Comments
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Level 86
Feb 28, 2016
Neither Missouri nor Kentucky seceded from the Union.
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Level 67
Feb 29, 2016
And West Virginia pretty quickly seceded from Virgina and rejoined the Union.
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Level 86
Jun 30, 2017
... and Leon's getting larger!
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Level 80
Dec 4, 2017
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Level 75
Apr 13, 2021
Been 5 years and this still ain't been fixed.
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Level 77
May 7, 2023
Both Missouri and Kentucky were home to rival governments, and the Confederacy granted statehood to the two. Thus, the map is accurate from a Confederate perspective.
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Level 68
Aug 21, 2016
Add CSA for Confederate States, and GDR/FRG for East/West Germany. USSR and other acronyms should also work as full words. Besides that, nice quiz.
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Level 28
Jun 30, 2018
Yup same
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Level 76
Sep 25, 2016
Fantastic quiz, very clever and original! Thank you for making it!! 9/12. I easily recognized the area of northwestern South America but had no idea what it had been called. West Germany looked so much like an island to me that I never considered anything else. And North Vietnam totally stumped me.
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Level 14
Aug 14, 2018
I kept writing Vietnam's old country names until I realized that this one is North Vietnam
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Level 79
Jun 7, 2020
The problem with FRG is that it still exists. Perhaps we can settle it that way: "West Germany" as a cultural concept ceased to exist, but not the political entity that is the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
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Level 66
Sep 26, 2016
the Confederacy! Why do I always forget the Confederacy!
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Level 43
Jan 3, 2017
Technically neither West Germany nor North Vietnam are "former countries": they simply annexed other parts of territory and became Germany and Vietnam.

Ah, and the shape of west germany is without west Berlin.

A part from those things great quiz, I would like to see another one.

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Level 74
Feb 8, 2017
Technically, West Berlin wasn't a part of Germany back then.
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Level 78
Apr 12, 2021
Sure it was - part of West Germany, anyway. As can also be seen in the shape of East Germany, where West Berlin is not included.
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Level 71
Jan 3, 2017
Really fun. More please.
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Level 74
Feb 8, 2017
May Great Colombia be acceptable for Gran Colombia? :(
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Level 78
Feb 8, 2017
Done :)
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Level 90
Sep 26, 2018
You want to type an extra letter?
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Level 64
Feb 12, 2017
Shouldn't Gran Colombia include all of modern-day Panama, not just part of it?
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Level 32
Mar 17, 2017
poor croatia they had 3 appearances
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Level 78
Mar 17, 2017
Slovenia and B&H also.
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Level 27
Apr 20, 2017
Good Quiz! I had a hard time finding yugoslavia, but when i did time ran out before i got the 'via' in yugoslavia D:
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Level 58
Aug 17, 2020
How about Yugosla as a type-in? Sounds like a fancy salad.
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Level 75
Jun 18, 2017
can you at least accept the confederacy or the csa? it took a while for me to get it.
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Level 78
Jun 18, 2017
Done.
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Level 51
Oct 14, 2017
I tried Confederacy (without the 'the') and it didn't work...
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Level 86
Jun 30, 2017
So "Confederacy" isn't an acceptable answer? Really?
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Level 43
Oct 14, 2017
Could you please accept "Austro-Hungarian Empire" as a correct answer?
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Level 25
Nov 8, 2017
I echo the comments about the Austro-Hungarian or Austrian Hungarian Empire (or even Habsburg Empire).

There was never a country called either East Germany or West Germany: they were the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or BRD) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR or DDR).

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Level 90
Sep 26, 2018
Good God, you love to type in a lot of extra letters in your quiz, huh? Don't forget there's no such nation as U.K., it's The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. You must moderate the German language quizzes here because I have to type in Vereinigtes Königreich every time instead of UK or VK.
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Level 70
Apr 24, 2020
Next thing you know they'' say Union of Soviet Socialists Republics instead of USSR.
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Level 48
May 6, 2020
yeah but in english you say uk but in german u dont say vk you either say großbrittanien(und nordirland) or Vereinigtes Königreich
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Level 81
Apr 22, 2018
Cool quiz.
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Level 78
Apr 22, 2018
Thank you :)
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Level 57
Jul 24, 2018
Great quiz - especially North Vietnam, which is completely obvious and completely impossible. I knew exactly what Gran Colombia was, but could not find the name - was it also once (further back in history) called New Grenada?
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Level 57
Jul 24, 2018
Yes - i thought so - it was New Grenada BEFORE it gained independence.
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Level 69
Jan 24, 2019
Great quiz, should be featured.
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Level 76
Apr 24, 2020
Texas did not have that shape when it was a country
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Level 73
Apr 12, 2021
I probably wouldn't have gotten Gran Colombia if not for the flag in this quiz's header image.
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Level 80
Jul 12, 2021
Nice quiz, got all but the Confederate States.
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Level 63
Sep 23, 2021
Please fix the Texas one and accept Roman or Holy Roman Empire for Roman Empire.

Also a similar quiz with more types of geography here:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1306568/geographical-shapes

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Level 59
Oct 1, 2021
Anyone else had this problem on mobile? Instead of picture on top and the corresponding yellow box underneath it, the quiz jumped in a way that yellow box is on the top of the screen ao I hqd to scroll uo after eqch question.
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Level 58
Jan 26, 2022
I think that you should remove the yellow box.
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Level 48
Mar 28, 2022
North Vietnam and West Germany are technically still countries, their regime of them is still ongoing.
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Level 63
Apr 13, 2022
Can you add 'nfl' as a type-in for Newfoundland? It's usually accepted to my knowledge.
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Level 57
May 15, 2024
11/12 :3
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Level 91
Aug 8, 2024
Loved the quiz, nominated. North Vietnam and West Germany don’t get mentioned in quizzes on the site usually.
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Level 49
Nov 6, 2024
for me the images dont work
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Level 50
Feb 13, 2025
Texas didn't have those borders until 1850, well after it stopped being an independent country. The Republic of Texas' de facto territory was just the eastern and central parts of the modern state, and it also claimed the entire territory of the modern state plus large parts of neighbouring states.
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Level 40
Feb 24, 2025
Texas is wrong.

West Germany doesn't include parts of berlin

And Austria-Hungary used to own part of China o that was probably a bad choice