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The Only European Country ...

Given the statement, name the only European country which fits with the clue.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Not counting overseas territories of the United Kingdom
For the purposes of the quiz, we consider Cyprus to be in Asia
Quiz by Gassu
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Last updated: January 16, 2020
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First submittedJuly 25, 2017
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The only country that ...
Country
starts with the letter E
Estonia
has left the EU
United Kingdom
has more than 100 million people
Russia
has the death penalty
Belarus
is ruled by a seven-person council
Switzerland
has an orange stripe on its flag
Ireland
has territory on the African mainland
Spain
has roads with no speed limits
Germany
uses the Złoty as its currency
Poland
has an average elevation above
1,500 meters
Andorra
The only country that ...
Country
doesn't have mosquitos
Iceland
is an absolute monarchy
Vatican City
is doubly landlocked
Liechtenstein
has a trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund
Norway
is entirely surrounded by the Mediterranean
Malta
has a capital whose name starts with K
Ukraine
has one billionaire per 10,000 citizens
Monaco
gets 40% of its power from wind
Denmark
doesn't have an "A" or "E" in its name
Kosovo
borders both the Mediterranean
and North Sea
France
103 Recent Comments
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Level 47
Jan 13, 2018
andorra is also doubly landlocked
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Level 69
Jan 13, 2018
"Doubly landlocked" means "all its neighbours are landlocked". Both France and Spain are not landlocked. The only doubly landlocked countries are Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
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Level 50
Mar 28, 2025
I didn’t know that, but i still got it right
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Level 78
Apr 16, 2025
people just say whatever
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Level 66
Jan 13, 2018
Bit deceptive to have the EU flag as the pic? But hey the 100m ppl clue soon makes you realise its all of Europe (and it helps to read the instructions! Doh!). Good quiz, quite tough. Viva the EU, from an embarrassed Brit!!
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Level 50
Jan 13, 2018
All done.

Problem with Andorra, Ukraine and Norway. Tricky.

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Level 68
Jan 13, 2018
*packs up and moves to Iceland*
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Level 43
Oct 16, 2023
They have midges, which are worse...
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Level 72
Jan 14, 2018
Not counting Cyprus is really weird...
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Level 48
Jan 15, 2018
WHy is Cyprus not in the quiz!Cyprus might be closer geographically to Africa and Asia but is definitely European! + it's in the European Union. Also Kosovo is not recognised by all as an independent country
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Level 45
May 29, 2018
neither is china.
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Level 59
Jan 16, 2020
Firstly, Kosovo IS recognized by a majority of countries (now), and secondly, JetPunk recognizes Kosovo, too.
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Level 72
Jan 15, 2018
There are no speed limits on certain roads on the Isle of Man, UK. Not like Germany's autobahns - these are rural roads, where the law basically says don't drive like an idiot. But I think that technically, the UK has roads with no speed limit too!
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Level 36
Jan 31, 2018
The Isle of Man isn't actually part of the UK. It's a dependency, with the Queen as head of state, but is entirely self-governing.
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Level 57
Apr 23, 2021
If it’s not a part of the UK, then what country is it?

It doesn’t matter though, because it said not counting British territories.

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Level 73
Jan 25, 2022
It's the Isle of Man. Mann. Ellan Vannin. It's not the UK.
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Level 72
Aug 26, 2022
The British Isles are a confusing bunch of rocks aren't they
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Level 44
Jan 22, 2018
Cyprus is surrounded by the Med AND doesn't have an A or E in the name. Not happy.
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Level ∞
Feb 23, 2021
Are you referring to the African island nation of Cyprus?
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Level 41
Mar 12, 2025
Its populated by Greeks and Turks, is in the EU and while it could be considered middle eastern or Asian, I have never heard of the island referred to as African?

And yeah ik I'm like four years late lol.

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Level 15
Jan 22, 2018
Misleading with the European Union flag- thought it was about EU countries only.
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Level 53
Jan 22, 2018
Agree. EU is just 44% of European land and 69% of Europe's population.
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Level ∞
Jan 23, 2018
Changed the image
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Level 72
Oct 29, 2018
Well now it's just some buildings. They represent less than 1% of European land and less than 1% of Europe's population. A bit misleading - thought it was only about the country that they're in.
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Level 36
Jul 15, 2018
what about England? country that begins with E
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Level 70
Jul 15, 2018
Not a country
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Level 58
Apr 17, 2020
Well, yes it is...
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Level 43
Apr 21, 2021
No it is not
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Level 74
Apr 26, 2021
Of course it is. Look up "England" on Wikipedia, sentence #1: "England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom."

But I think we all understand that it shouldn't be included in this quiz anyway...

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Level 48
Mar 13, 2025
England, like Wales and Scotland, is a constituent country of the UK. Nobody cries about Wales being a country.
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Level 23
Mar 13, 2019
What about Cyprus , it doesn't have an "A" or "E" in its name.
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Level 37
Apr 4, 2019
No mosquitos in Iceland? Who says that? We definitely encountered them in Iceland on Lake Myvatn. They were a plague!
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Level 46
Jul 18, 2020
they are known as midges, and they have 2 species to my knowledge. and one species does actually bite, so it's like having mosquitoes anyways :/
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Level 63
Apr 6, 2019
Moldova doesn't have an A or E in its name.
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Level 70
Apr 6, 2019
Have you really proofread this comment?
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Level 81
Oct 28, 2019
He started to but six letters in to it he decided it looked good enough to post.
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Level 80
Oct 28, 2019
HAHA ;D
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Level 66
Oct 18, 2020
except the last letter?
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Level 51
Apr 6, 2019
Austria has an Autobahn
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Level 43
Apr 23, 2021
yeah but we have speed limits on them, germany doesn't
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Level 39
Oct 26, 2019
how come cyprus isnt included ?
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Level 75
Aug 6, 2020
Cyprus is considered part of Asia on JetPunk. The "Countries of the World" quiz notes in as part of Asia
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Level 77
Apr 23, 2021
Not only on Jetpunk. Look at a map. Continents are defined by physical geography - continental plates, oceans, mountain ranges, etc, not what currency they use. Is every country that uses US Dollars in North America now? Cyprus is clearly in Asia, and it would be in Africa before it was in Europe!
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Level 66
Jan 13, 2024
The Himalayas, Indus, and Ganges separate India from the rest of Asia, should it be considered a continent?

Continental boundaries are completely arbitrary.

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Level 41
Mar 12, 2025
Funnily enough, it is considered a subcontinent! The Indian subcontinent includes India and a few of its neighbours that are separated from the rest of Asia by the mountain ranges you mentioned. It just happens to be on the smaller side, so it isn't considered its own continent.
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Level 74
Mar 13, 2025
Continents are defined by convention; these conventions are inspired by physical geography, as well as human geography, politics, languages, and a bunch of other factors, like how easy it is to make lists on a trivia site.

It's also important to understand that, like most coarse taxonomies, it's just not very important, and it's especially not important when it comes to being fine-grained about their "borders". It literally doesn't matter whether Cyprus is in "Asia" or "Europe" or "Africa" or is a continent of its own for that matter; any more than it matters whether Pluto is a planet or not.

That being said, how about my meaningless coarse taxonomy?

There are five continents: Africa, Antarctica, Eurasia, North America and South America.

There is also Oceania, a continentoidal region.

Eurasia is a megacontinent, because it has two subcontinental peninsulas: Europe and South Asia.

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Level 70
Apr 25, 2021
Continents have never been defined by physical geography - where the hell do you get that from?

To illustrate my point: jetpunk considers Trinidad and Tobago to be part of North America.

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Level 41
Mar 12, 2025
Well, Trinidad and Tobago are located on the Carribean plate and that tectonic plate is considered to be part of the North American continent in its entirety. Continents are absolutely defined by geography for the most part. Yes, there are some inconsistencies, but your example is not one of them. Exactly because of geography, T&T does not belong to South America, as that would require the borders of the tectonic plate to be disregarded.
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Level 70
Mar 12, 2025
"Is considered" is doing some very heavy lifting, here. If continents were defined by tectonic plates, Trinidad would be in the Caribbean continent, and Cyprus would be partially in Africa.

By the way: the notion of "parts of the world" (meaning continents) dates from Antiquity. The word "continent" was formed in the 16th century and originally designated any continuous land - each island being its own continent.

We've only known about tectonic plates since the 20th century.

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Level 43
May 4, 2020
I couldn't figure out the Ireland one until 10 seconds left because I kept guessing Germany and Belgium.
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Level 83
Aug 14, 2020
Denmark (Kobenhavn). Unless you state....has a capital whose English name starts with K.
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Level 59
Oct 1, 2020
It doesn't really need to be stated. Generally, on the English version of JetPunk, we are referring to the English spelling of things.
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Level 43
Apr 21, 2021
Unitd Kingdom doesn't contain and A or an E
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Level 91
Apr 23, 2021
Well... yeah, you're right about that.
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Level 42
Apr 23, 2021
Kosovo is serbia gosciu
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Level 77
Apr 23, 2021
Wrong. Serbian government, military, police, border police, etc have no jurisdiction in Kosovo. Pretending that Kosovo is Serbian is purely nationalistic brain-washing.
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Level 57
Apr 24, 2021
UN resolution 1244 read that Mr. WT2008
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Level 19
Jan 13, 2024
Ma sta pretending bro? Learn History. Watch war documentaries and get your facts straight before commenting on here as though you're suddenly gonna fix everything.

You only see one side of the story. Do you know how many Serbs are still being attacked by those Albanians today? On the streets?

Why are we always made to look like the bad guy?

We put three fingers up, Symbol of Our Country, and half of Europe threaten to chop them off.

You need to calm down.

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Level 19
Jan 13, 2024
And also, you just saying that is supporting the ethnic cleansing done by Albanians to Serbs and is still being done today, you just are not aware because the news wants to hide it from you.
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Level 41
Apr 23, 2021
One of the few quizes I have 100% when the average is about 60% or less

But probably the reason is i live in Europe

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Level 64
Apr 23, 2021
for the cyprus clue, say the only country without an A, E or U. Kosovo fits all them
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Level 64
Jan 13, 2024
when did i write this
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Level 2
Apr 23, 2021
Cyprus would fit for the last one, right ?
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Level 46
Apr 23, 2021
If you read the caveat, it says that for the purposes of this quiz, Cyprus will be considered part of Asia.
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Level 42
Apr 23, 2021
Armenia has orange stripe
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Level 46
Apr 23, 2021
It isn't a European country.
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Level 53
Jan 13, 2024
It is according to some definitions (not Jetpunk's though)
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Level 33
Apr 26, 2021
New question. Wat country is the best in Europe? Answer: Sweden because it true Happiii :))) Best country ever love you sweden love from sweden
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Level 44
Apr 26, 2021
I live in Europe and it had never crossed my mind that Cyprus could be considered part of Asia. Dudes, it's in the European Union, how can it possibly be considered other than a European country?
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Level 55
May 20, 2021
If Kosovo independent Republika Srpska in Bosnia is too.
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Level 53
Feb 15, 2022
nah
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Level 19
Jan 13, 2024
FR though, they're acting like Serbs are the greedy ones
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Level 64
Aug 13, 2021
Spain has an orange stripe, just has something on it.
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Level 53
Feb 15, 2022
thats yellow
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Level 37
Sep 8, 2021
What does 'doubly landlocked' mean?
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Level 74
Dec 30, 2021
It means that all the countries it borders are also landlocked.
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Level 36
Jan 28, 2022
try out my first quiz: countries-Easy multiple choice

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1486270/countries-easy-multiple-choice

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Level 53
Feb 15, 2022
poland has the euro right, they also have that?
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Level 68
Jul 25, 2022
Poland is in EU but not in eurozone.
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Level 64
Aug 25, 2022
Why isn't Cyprus used as an answer for any of these?

Just kidding please don't ban me

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Level 24
Aug 25, 2022
ggez
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Level 65
Aug 25, 2022
We can also consider that, in addition to Spain, France has territories in Africa, with la Réunion and Mayotte
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Level 70
Aug 25, 2022
That's why the question is written that way to exclude non-mainland territories
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Level 71
Feb 22, 2023
I read EU as UN and am therefore part of the dumb 3% that got this question wrong while getting everything else right 😂🤦🏼‍♂️ smh...
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Level 11
Jul 17, 2023
kurde wpisalem wszystko dobrze i mi nie zaliczylo
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Level 35
Aug 10, 2023
Iceland also left the EU
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Level 81
Apr 11, 2024
they never entered.
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Level 56
Jan 13, 2024
Cyprus doesn't have an a or e
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Level 47
Jan 13, 2024
Should Cyrpus not have been accepted for the last question....? Its literally part of the EU
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Level 70
Jan 13, 2024
No. Being in the EU does not mean you're in Europe. Cyprus is in Asia.
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Level 60
Dec 29, 2024
I don't think JetPunk is ever going to convince the majority that this is true, but at least people have gotten in the habit of clarifying this belief in the quiz instructions.
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Level 28
Jan 13, 2024
I guess Moldova can considered as an answer for the question about capital whose name starts with K
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Level 54
Mar 18, 2025
The capital of Moldova starts with C

Chisinău

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Level 22
Jan 13, 2024
There are more countries that doesn't start with an "A" or "E" other than kosovo...
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Level 64
Jan 13, 2024
not in europe though
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Level 56
Mar 12, 2025
It didn't say start. It wanted a country name without any As or Es in the entire name, and (in Europe) only Kosovo meets that condition.
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Level 43
May 9, 2024
I have a feeling Belarus isn't the only country with the death penalty, cough Russia cough.
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Level 26
Mar 12, 2025
Serbia actually has both E and A in its name
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Level 56
Mar 12, 2025
Kosovo is independent.
+1
Level 61
Mar 12, 2025
Cyprus does not have an A or E...
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Level 24
Mar 12, 2025
it's also not in europe, according to jetpunk
+1
Level 24
Mar 12, 2025
typed in kosovo as the timer ran out
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Level 34
Mar 12, 2025
I typed denmark so often for the Capital starting with K thinking i typed it wrong... dang it