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Countries with Letters Missing

Each country will have every other letter taken out, you have to try to fill in the gaps. Harder than you think!
Answers must correspond to yellow box
Quiz by lolrobbielol
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Last updated: February 19, 2019
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First submittedNovember 29, 2012
Times taken137,898
Average score51.9%
Rating4.97
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Hint
Country
_R_Q
Iraq
_E_I_O
Mexico
_R_Z_L
Brazil
_U_S_A
Russia
_R_L_N_
Ireland
_R_N_E
France
_H_T_N
Bhutan
_I_I
Fiji
_E_M_N_
Germany
Hint
Country
_F_H_N_S_A_
Afghanistan
_G_P_
Egypt
_Z_R_A_J_N
Azerbaijan
_A_Z_N_A
Tanzania
_T_I_P_A
Ethiopia
_J_B_U_I
Djibouti
_Z_E_I_T_N
Uzbekistan
_I_B_B_E
Zimbabwe
_A_A_A_C_R
Madagascar
Hint
Country
_O_O_O
Kosovo
_Y_R_S
Cyprus
_U_U_D_
Burundi
_W_T_E_L_N_
Switzerland
_O_A_B_Q_E
Mozambique
_U_E_B_U_G
Luxembourg
_H_L_P_I_E_
Philippines
_A_A_A
Canada
_W_N_A
Rwanda
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Level 44
Feb 25, 2013
Good idea. Great quiz.
+5
Level 82
Oct 11, 2017
People seem to have trouble with this quiz. I aced it on my first try. On these particular kinds of quizzes I seem to have a fairly high aptitude--but I sure suck at other kinds of quizzes.
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Level 59
Oct 13, 2017
I'm the other way round - I struggle with this kind of quiz even though names of countries aren't normally an issue for me.
+11
Level 74
Oct 30, 2021
Here's my strategy for this:

1. immediately write Iraq

2. randomly pick a clue in column #2 and solve it

3. randomly pick a clue in column #3 and solve it

4. randomly pick a clue in column #1 and solve it

5. Repeat #2 - #4

***Rules:

- Never spend more than 1 second thinking unless it's the last country

- Write your strategy in the comments as the time runs out if you really can't think of France.

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Level 23
Oct 15, 2017
I ALMOST missed mAdAgAsCaR, and i lived there for a long time
+14
Level 76
Jul 10, 2019
I've found that this happens quite often. I think when doing these quizzes, you don't normally think "Well, let's see, which country do I live in" first. Every country (or city) becomes just an item equal to all the others, Whether you're living in it - or have lived there - or happen to just have been there on holiday becomes entirely irrelevant. It's like doing a mathematical equation that has the solution of, say, 80. Of course you know the number 80, and maybe your granddad had just turned 80. That won't get you to the solution any faster, though. You still have to work it out.
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Level 54
Dec 2, 2023
ooh do tell i want to hear your stories
+1
Level 67
May 22, 2019
I scored 25/27. I'd love to know how I missed Kosovo and Zimbabwe
+18
Level 83
Feb 25, 2013
man... I usually ace countries quizzes, but this was tough!
+10
Level 65
Oct 13, 2017
Er, that because they are usually based on geographic knowledge rather than the spelling of them!
+5
Level 75
Feb 25, 2013
Probably the most challenging quiz yet. With 14 on my first attempt I finally got them all after about 30 tries. Lots of fun!
+5
Level 60
Feb 25, 2013
This was hard! I went at it backwards, thinking of countries then trying to find ones it might be.

Also, Panama could work for the Canada answer, couldn't it?

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Level 54
Feb 25, 2013
Yes, that answer should work anyway
+7
Level 91
Feb 25, 2013
That's what I guessed, and it accepted it.
+13
Level 66
Oct 14, 2017
C "eh" N "eh" D "eh"
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Level 39
Jul 20, 2018
i typed panama, just to see if it works: it showed up as 'Canada'.

I other quizzes i type 'holland' instead of 'Netherlands' because it's shorter and usually replaces it in the same sort of way.

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Level 65
May 20, 2019
but panama is a country, (that correctly fits the question here) and holland is not..
+17
Level 27
Feb 25, 2013
I didn't know that connection between the U.S. and Russia before :D

Very good quiz idea!

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Level 72
Jun 16, 2017
I bet you do a bit more now! ;)
+10
Level 23
Feb 26, 2013
_O_O_O Looks like shock faced emoticons XD!
+2
Level 32
Feb 26, 2013
suprised to see Azerbaijan with over 60% yet Mexico on only 30%...
+8
Level 61
Oct 13, 2017
I'm from Mexico and got Azerbaijan but not Mexico.
+10
Level 71
Sep 4, 2019
I think Azerbaijan is easier because there is a Z as the second letter. That narrows it down quite a bit for guessing. if the x was one of the given letters for Mexico it would have been much easier for basically the same reason.
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Level 56
Mar 15, 2013
great quiz idea, and as others have said, a lot harder than I thought it would be. pleased with 25 on first attempt.
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Level 44
May 21, 2013
It's hard. I couldn't believe that people forgot to answer Indonesia. Fortunately, I'm an Indonesian.
+1
Level 42
Jul 11, 2014
you have a very nice name :)
+2
Level 74
Feb 21, 2019
In French it means "the frog." Grenouille imitates the sound frogs make :) Its Latin root, 'rāna,' was also onomatopoeic.
+3
Level 65
May 20, 2019
they should ve called a frog a rabbit in english..
+4
Level 36
May 20, 2019
indonesia isnt on there??
+1
Level 65
May 30, 2013
Tough quiz, sucked a lot of people in just because they think they know the names of the countries, but 196 possibilities and you give 3 letters of a 7 letter word.

If you get the obvious ones you are doing very well in my opinion.

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Level 42
Feb 14, 2014
got 'em all with 21 sec left. got stuck on kosovo and argentina for a long time. good quiz.
+1
Level 52
Feb 16, 2014
This was hard one! I got 27: Djibouti, France and Philippines missed somehow.
+1
Level 79
Mar 27, 2014
Tougher than I thought it would be. Turns out I'm pretty happy with the 20 I got. Nice job!
+1
Level 77
May 26, 2014
Got them all with 2:02 left. Kosovo was the last one after trying komodo, komoros, comoros, solomo.. just took a while to think about it. --- I agree it was a tough quiz and a real good one!
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Level 48
May 31, 2014
3:55
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Level 75
Jun 17, 2014
Enjoyed this one, but could have used more time.
+1
Level 82
Mar 6, 2015
somebody should redo this quiz and make the answers random and change everytime, make it really hard
+3
Level 29
May 27, 2015
That USA one completely throws you off. I couldn't imagine it as Russia
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Level 23
Oct 15, 2017
same, i actually got the answer by looking at the comments
+1
Level 59
Sep 23, 2021
How impressive :/
+1
Level 32
May 27, 2015
I'm Indonesian and I missed my own country :/
+1
Level 75
May 27, 2015
France is one of the last I found, and I'm french !
+1
Level 23
Oct 15, 2017
im french, and france is the first one i found ;-)
+1
Level 70
May 27, 2015
After Germany, the one that comes up reminds me of Lufthansa so I was like perfect!
+1
Level 65
May 27, 2015
I got 17 very tricky quiz
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Level 67
May 28, 2015
Great quiz. Got them all. First try. With 2:58 left.
+1
Level 66
May 28, 2015
Wow, that was tough!
+1
Level 44
Oct 17, 2015
19/30 first try, not bad for an 11 yo
+1
Level 65
Nov 20, 2015
Pretty Hard Quiz
+1
Level 67
Dec 20, 2015
I typed in PANAMA but the answer that came up was CANADA :/
+4
Level 71
Sep 4, 2019
they both fit the clue
+2
Level 49
Feb 15, 2016
20/30. Not too bad. _O_O_O. Surprised faces. I was laughing pretty hard when I saw that comment.
+1
Level 45
Jun 1, 2016
23% of people got Argentina, 30% got France, and yet ..... 63% of people got Djibouti!?
+1
Level 52
Jun 15, 2016
Took a little time to guess Indonesia.
+1
Level 32
Jul 31, 2016
Ran out of time trying to figure out Indonesia!!
+1
Level 48
Dec 14, 2016
If I didn't take the 'Countries of the World' quiz 3-4 times a week there are at least 8 I would have missed. And I didn't even come close to acing this.
+1
Level 52
Dec 14, 2016
Great quiz, got em all but just with only 18 secs left
+1
Level 52
Mar 25, 2017
3mth later got em all with 3.44 left, took a while to get one of them though
+1
Level 43
Dec 14, 2016
100% first time.. 2m 7s left!
+1
Level 40
Dec 14, 2016
just in time...8 seconds left at the end
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Level 69
Dec 15, 2016
Thought it was going to be a walk in the park. It was anything but.
+1
Level 44
Feb 15, 2017
Kosovo isn't working for me, but it's guessed correctly by 25%. Does it have another spelling or name that does work?
+1
Level 44
Apr 18, 2017
Kosovo worked for me. Did you spell it right?
+1
Level 52
Mar 26, 2017
this quiz was awesome!! Have to make one in my language haha. Couldn't get more than 22/30, but thanks to the "countries of the world" -guiz I got that much
+1
Level 83
Jun 16, 2017
Great quiz, make more of this, in different topics.
+1
Level 40
Aug 30, 2017
Did it on first attempt with 2mins left.
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Level 63
Oct 13, 2017
Why is this so hard? Kept staring at _G_P_ and _U_U_D_ wondering why I couln't just get them. Should be way easier but for some reason it isn't. Love this quiz :)
+1
Level 67
Oct 13, 2017
27/30. Missed Mexico, Philippines and Argentina. Damn!
+1
Level 66
Oct 13, 2017
Good quiz, #Brexit

Vote Leave

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Level 48
Oct 13, 2017
Surprised I did better than average on this. I'm usually just a little below average or average so I was surprised!
+1
Level 77
Oct 13, 2017
I found a website with all the countries and just ctrl+f for letters I was looking for. Cheating, but it worked.
+1
Level 65
Jan 25, 2019
Or just click give up, then you get all the answers all at once...
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Level 59
Sep 23, 2021
Wow that sounds so fun for you! /s
+1
Level 23
Oct 15, 2017
can someone comment the answers? please im stuck on _I_I and _W_Z_L_N_
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Level 37
Sep 2, 2019
^ Fiji and Swaziland (which is now eSwatini).
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Level 78
May 28, 2020
You could have looked at the answers after ending the quiz.
+1
Level 59
Sep 23, 2021
Why would you ask for the answers in the comments?
+1
Level 23
Oct 15, 2017
happy that they put small countries like Swaziland
+1
Level 29
Oct 15, 2017
You should have made this a fill in the blanks quiz
+1
Level 66
Oct 17, 2017
Great Quiz!
+2
Level 36
Oct 20, 2017
I looked at the problems, ready to click "start," and after "Iraq," I could not get another one until "Fiji." Literally, I sat here for hours (watching msnbc too) working on these! Only clicked start after I'd figured them out--didn't want the answers until my aging brain figured it out! Thanks for one of the hardest quizzes yet!
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Level 65
May 20, 2019
you should have clicked give up immediately after and not fillin the answer. Otherwise the statistics get really skewed. And that is part of the fun, seeing where ou did compared to others.
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Level 59
Sep 23, 2021
I disagree. The statistics aren’t affected with untimed, it’s good practice to figure it out, and that doesn’t stop you from seeing if what you struggled with lines up with the stats in the answers.
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Level 54
May 20, 2018
Missed Canada in the first attempt. Finished in second attempt with 4:59 remaining. great quiz
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Level 77
Jul 15, 2018
Swaziland recently changed its name to Eswatini. Update?
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Level 50
May 20, 2019
Switzerland =/= Swaziland
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Level 66
Jul 20, 2018
Good fun- I struggle with missing letters & anagrams.
+1
Level 63
Mar 25, 2019
I do too! Some I recognize right away, others won't come to me at all. Trying to guess the last 3 letters helped me a lot.
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Level 65
Jan 25, 2019
Mexico and France were harder than they should be, I got them though, Germany was weirdly tough aswell and I missed that one (plus Kosovo, latvia and erm 2 others)
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Level 48
Apr 29, 2019
do _S_
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Level 59
Sep 23, 2021
If you’re referring to ‘USA’, that’s not a country name, but if we were to use ‘FSM’ (Federated States of Micronesia) would also be valid.
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Level 55
May 20, 2019
Got to 26/27 with 5 minutes remaining, took 4:50 to figure the last one out.

Last one was Germany.

I live in Germany.

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Level 43
May 20, 2019
_w_n_a was so hard! (Rwanda). It was the only one I missed on my first attempt.
+1
Level 71
May 21, 2019
Moly moley, that was hard
+1
Level 76
May 23, 2019
Molepolole, that's in Botswana.
+1
Level 52
May 26, 2019
I put in Mosambique and was like "Why's this not right? Yeah, sucks it's spelled with an "s" in germany xD
+2
Level 37
Sep 2, 2019
Got 100% but Kosovo and Mozambique stumped me for a minute too.
+1
Level 63
Sep 4, 2019
i got.. uhh... 8
+1
Level 32
Nov 12, 2019
scored %1 HOORAY! wet no 100% sorry
+1
Level 66
Nov 20, 2019
Great Quiz, and much harder than expected! cheerio
+1
Level 59
Jun 30, 2020
pretty tough
+1
Level 48
Dec 10, 2020
Got Burundi with 17 seconds to go, got stuck there for a long time
+1
Level 43
Feb 27, 2021
tougher than i expected, ngl
+2
Level 56
Aug 11, 2021
_R_N_E Made me answer Orange xD
+1
Level 59
Sep 23, 2021
This might be the only quiz (besides maybe ‘Countries Bordering Brazil’) that France is the least-guessed answer.
+1
Level 70
Oct 30, 2021
why lenin
+1
Level 54
Oct 30, 2021
The _U_S_A one was so misleading.....
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Level 38
Oct 30, 2021
If only I had kept going thinking about the -stan countries! I named them in my mind except Uzbekistan which was the one I missed.
+1
Level 47
Nov 8, 2021
France is least gussed...
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Level 55
May 29, 2022
Harder than I expected
+1
Level 34
Jun 10, 2022
3:29 left, easy. (to me)
+1
Level 55
Jul 5, 2022
I got every single one with 2,5 minutes to go. Except the country where I'm from, Germany
+1
Level 67
Jul 31, 2022
Seriously, seriously easy. The only one I had to think about for longer than two seconds was Kosovo.
+1
Level 49
Mar 31, 2023
iiiii have a reading disorder :)
+1
Level 57
Apr 22, 2023
24/27
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Level 60
May 2, 2023
This was though. I only got 9/27. Any tips?
+1
Level 76
Aug 19, 2023
One of the rare quizzes where the easier countries on other quizzes are harder on this one.
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Level 49
Dec 5, 2023
Amazingly difficult. Good quiz!