I've taken this quiz very many times, really helps you learn geography. A few countries never seem to be missing - Cyprus, Lebanon and Djibouti. Wondering why as other very small countries are regularly missing?
Yes, those countries are undetectable, at least without zooming in specifically. Several other smaller nations have been omitted, such as the Lesser Antilles and Europe microstates. Would you be interested in a version that includes all countries (except micronations)?
Yea I think cyprus is just as visible ( if not more) and noticeable if it is missing as haiti. (which is even trickier, because it still has half of its island there).
I wasnt aware that they were excluded, every round I started by checking if malta and cyprus were still there haha. (Then african islands and maldives, then iceland and new zealand, they are easy to overlook when missing. Then I check for other obvious missing countries, then I count oceania, but remain clueless in that region haha)
I love this quiz so much - the best one I've done on the site I think. I've done it so many times and it's still fairly tricky, and helps me consolidate my knowledge of the countries' names
I became strangely obsessed with this quiz, practising it every day, first to solve it and then to improve my time. Today I hit 25 seconds - possible only because the randomiser threw up a string of 4 & 5-letter countries, no 'stans, no islands, and both Congos, which gives you two answers for the price of one! Thanks for the entertainment
I usually look for 5 island micronations in Africa, 2 on the west coast (Sao Tome and Cape Verde) and 3 on the east (Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles).
Oceania can definitely be tricky, but you can see the small islands in rows of 3-2-3-3. Nauru would be the first country in the 2nd row, or specifically for Nauru you can look for a tiny dot next to the "large area" of Kiribati.
The first time i started geography, Someone in our school mentioned JetPunk. I was blank by even hearing that name. He said try it out. I started first with my Countries of the world quiz. But i couldn't even name a single country in Africa... I got interested and tried other quizzes. To be exact this was my first 6th quiz to try out. Thanks to these type of quizzes, everyone can learn something everyday. Thanks, Quizzer6794
Some of the best quizzes, Sometimes in these types my eyes are very sharp, well I some of the 6% who have completed this. Thanks for the quiz Quizzer6794.
Yes - I couldn't see what was missing - apparently UK, but it wasn't. And I had the Kosovo problem before. Shame, this was my favourite quiz - please fix it.
Sorry this was my fault - we're currently updating quizzes to use the new world map, and I forgot to update the associated path ids for UK, Kosovo and Dominican Republic.
Ha! I got Kiribati, Maldives, Iceland, Nauru, Sao Tome and Principe, Jamaica, and Taiwan all on the same turn! So many islands, it's a good thing I know my world map!
Yeah, I have no clue where any of those are (other than Kiribati), so I just count. If there's 11, there are none missing. If less, I type them at random until I get them. You'd think after a while, I'd remember where they are, but nope.
Fiji has two big islands you can actually see. Solomon Islands are the closest to Papua New Guinea. Vanuatu are below them. Tonga is above NZ. Samoa is above Tonga. Pretty easy really, when you practise.
Yeah, Malawi is tough because its absence basically just makes Lake Malawi look bigger. Rwanda and Burundi are tough too, especially if both are missing, because it just looks like another African Great Lake.
I had hard ones which where Kosovo, Zimbabwe, Jamaica, Seychelles, Tuvalu, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Greece, Slovakia, Equatorial Guinea, Panama, Micronesia, Madagascar, Suriname, Australia, Mongolia, Czech Republic, Papua New Guinea, Algeria, El Salvador
I've attempted this a very large number of times (as I find it so addictive!), but for some reason it seems that Bhutan is never one of the missing countries. 🤔
Somehow, I got Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic all missing. I thought that Germany had lost Austria, Sudetenland, and Bohemia and Moravia a long while ago...
I got all 20 of the 20 missing countries. The last one was hard to spot. The last one is South Korea, or R.O.K . When I saw something and said: is there anything here? Then I saw R.O.K. and made the amlunt 20. I did all of it.
I just had one that had Russia, Canada, China, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Venezuela, Botswana, Syria, Cameroon, Malaysia, Uruguay, Bangladesh, Portugal, Croatia, and Belgium. I cannot believe it.
I know you don't get item-level stats for randomized quizzes, but I think it would be really interesting to see which countries (when missing) are easiest and hardest to notice.
I almost forgot Demark, with the enormous land of Greenland missing, but got Jamaica, the Netherlands and Belgium, and I then totally forgot Madagascar? I'm helpless.
4th try: I got them allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this quiz--one of my favorites. Without increasing the time allowed, please consider adding these very visible countries in: Timor Leste, Djibouti, Qatar, Cyprus. Thanks!
any stats nerds care to work out how likely it is that all of south america would be missing? because i feel like i've taken it enough times for that to happen, i love this quiz so much. my relentless speedrun attempts over lockdown finally took my fastest time down to 19 seconds but one day i will come back and lower it. thank you so much!
1/(184 choose 12) * (172 choose 8) gives 7.4*10^-6, so about a 0.0000007 chance to get all of south america missing. you'd expect this once every 135,000-ish takes, so with 2,746,000 total takes it's probably only happened about 20 times so far ever.
(i was way off in my original comment, i've *only* taken it about 1000 times so another 134,000 to go before it happens to me. Retake Quiz...)
Certainly NOT random. To creator, consider alternative algorithm, maybe one using a true random number generator versus an alphabetical list? As it is, it seems the countries that touch each other are favored to occur together, as are small nations near coasts, I guess to make things challenging.
Got to 20 on about 10th try, though got very close (18-19) on every attempt. A few tips for those who cannot get through this quiz... After a few tries you get the idea of the common suspects that trip people up: island countries, small countries by the coasts (oceans and inland lakes/seas) like Kuwait, Djibuti, Azerbeijan, El salvador, and all those tiny island nations around Africa and Oceania. You can reload until you get all or nearly all Oceania countries.
I agree, not random. There always seem to be several small countries every time you play. And they seem to run in streaks, e.g. if Equatorial Guinea is missing in the current quiz, it seems to have a higher-than-random chance of being missing in the next few subsequent quizzes.
Love this quiz, and finally got the right mix to be able to get all 20. Some of those smaller countries are hard to spot, but that's what makes it fun. Thankfully I have yet to encounter an iteration that includes Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, Singapore, Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Dominica, or Antigua. :-P (I suspect they aren't included in the options.)
heeeeey lesotho is an island yay now no supply shortages (not meant to be offensive) but now lesotho makes their own decisions without being influenced by south africa
Having mastered this now to the stage that I get 20/20 on a daily basis, could you re-program to add St Lucia,Trinidad, Grenada etc - they never come up. I know Malta comes up, but does Cyprus?
It's kinda cool to think what would happen if 20 random countries just disappeared off the face of the planet. How the map would change, with big countries like Canada, Russia,
the US, and China gone, and how that would affect politics and the world in general.
This quiz is difficult. Your eyes can't really miss anything, and you have to be aware that some islands that may not look missing may be off the map. After many tries, I finally got it! Common Scambigol W.
I love this quiz. I won't even say how many times I've taken it, but I've only managed 100% three times. I can't believe that I can stare at the map until time runs out and not see the fact that a major country is missing (Italy). It's understandable to miss Malta or Belize, but Italy?!
Holllyyyyy moley that is amazing. I thought 30 seconds was good. Part of it is getting a lucky combo, but I don't have the finger dexterity to break 25.
30 secondes to find the first 17-18 another 20 seconds to reach 19. 3-10 seconds left when I finish. I've played about 40 times today to beat my record (1:14). And I did 1:13 and after about 20 times I did 0:53
Reached a plateau on shaving off any time for this one. In order to have a new challenge using the same quiz, now I look at the map and write down all 20 missing countries before I start it. The goal is to get the fastest time typing them all in when I already know what they are. After I've set that personal record, I'll start with only 19 pre-identified, then 18, etc. Did I mention I like his quiz? :D
I hate having to type out Equatorial Guinea. I use as many shortenings as possible but every time I get it, my score gets worse. Besides this minor inconvenience, the quiz is great!
Thanks to the warning in Italics at the top of the page, the South Pacific and African island nations aren't that hard because I know to keep a special eye out for them. But countries like the UK, Japan, and the Netherlands? Miss them every time. (I missed perfidious Albion three times on the road to 20/20!)
Not sure if this subject has been addressed before, but it seems that there are a few countries that disappear more frequently than others. Haven't keep count, but after having taken this quiz over 7,000 times (yes, I'm obsessed - I see how many I can do in a row under 45 seconds), I seem to have Gabon and Burkina Faso, for example, missing more often than a lot of other countries. Maybe I'm just going blind after so many attempts . . .
this is a totally rad quiz, it really helped me place some countries on the map that i had never considered the location of. also, one time they disappeared portugal and it made spain look so weird
I wasnt aware that they were excluded, every round I started by checking if malta and cyprus were still there haha. (Then african islands and maldives, then iceland and new zealand, they are easy to overlook when missing. Then I check for other obvious missing countries, then I count oceania, but remain clueless in that region haha)
damn you el salvador!!!!!!!!!
Some countries you can hardly see but i learned to zoom.
The only one i missed was Samoa. Sigh.
Oceania can definitely be tricky, but you can see the small islands in rows of 3-2-3-3. Nauru would be the first country in the 2nd row, or specifically for Nauru you can look for a tiny dot next to the "large area" of Kiribati.
Kazakhstan
DR Congo
Tonga
Haiti
Palau
Country
Dominican Republic
Israel
Peru
China
Argentina
Country
Nicaragua
Cuba
Maldives
Vietnam
Brazil
Turkey
Namibia
Jamaica
Malawi
Australia
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rwanda, belize, Sao Tome, Seychelles, Comoros, El Salvador
in a single run. So hard.
Canada
India
Turkey
Nigeria
Fiji
Australia
Panama
Honduras
Guatemala
Azerbaijan
Country
Israel
South Korea
Russia
Somalia
Philippines
Armenia
Saudi Arabia
United States
Guinea-Bissau
El Salvador
Ireland
Thailand
Rwanda
Slovenia
North Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bolivia
Nepal
Poland
Kazakhstan
Afghanistan
Guinea
Italy
Finland
Russia
Uruguay
Malta
China
Australia
Huh, I guess Australia doesn't exist
(i was way off in my original comment, i've *only* taken it about 1000 times so another 134,000 to go before it happens to me. Retake Quiz...)
Gabon
Mauritius
Palau
Senegal
Iraq
Marshall Islands
Guatemala
Iceland
Mozambique
Fiji
Kuwait
Botswana
Suriname
Lesotho
United Kingdom
Benin
Azerbaijan
Maldives
South Korea
Kazakhstan
In the end, I missed South Korea and Iceland
Got to 20 on about 10th try, though got very close (18-19) on every attempt. A few tips for those who cannot get through this quiz... After a few tries you get the idea of the common suspects that trip people up: island countries, small countries by the coasts (oceans and inland lakes/seas) like Kuwait, Djibuti, Azerbeijan, El salvador, and all those tiny island nations around Africa and Oceania. You can reload until you get all or nearly all Oceania countries.
Somalia
Spain
Azerbaijan
Lithuania
Ireland
Algeria
Vanuatu
Japan
Georgia
Jamaica
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Burundi
Peru
Estonia
Sao Tome and Principe
Belarus
Nicaragua
Botswana
Yemen
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Egypt
Israel
Malaysia
Guyana
Namibia
Chile
China
Canada
Japan
Nigeria
Sweden
Ghana
Australia
Venezuela
Haiti
United Kingdom
Togo
Mozambique
Cambodia
Finally did it after 5 tries!
It's nearly impossible to spot if Israel is missing...
Kosovo
Albania
Mexico
DR Congo
Country
United Arab Emirates
Central African Republic
Tanzania
Botswana
Oman
Country
Kuwait
Chad
Egypt
Solomon Islands
Paraguay
Country
Niger
Morocco
Burkina Faso
Hungary
Nigeria
the US, and China gone, and how that would affect politics and the world in general.
Guatemala, Belize
Peru, Chile, Ecuador
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Sweden, Denmark, Poland
Gabon, Angola, Cameroon and Chad
Others were by itself
I just got 20/20 with 3 minutes to spare
You scored 20/20 = 100%
9.1% of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is 13
Your high score is 20
Your fastest time is 0:27
9.1% of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is 13
Your high score is 20
Your fastest time is 0:25
9.2% of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is 13
Your high score is 20
Your fastest time is 1:08
a really great challenge and concept
thanks to the creator of this quiz it was nice and CCCOOOLLL!!!!
GOODBYE....
Kind of hard to tell with islands but did good finding seychelles, but totally missed jamacia.