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Every Country in its Official/Native Language

Guess the official JetPunk name of each country – based on that country's name in its own language and script.
Answers must correspond to the yellow box
Native languages take precedent.
If there are multiple languages, it is the most spoken language
Quiz by Luni
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Last updated: April 24, 2025
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First submittedNovember 11, 2020
Times taken17,890
Average score77.0%
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Africa
Angola
Angola
Bénin
Benin
Botswana
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Burundi
Cameroun
Cameroon
Cabo Verde
Cape Verde
Comores
Comoros
Côte d'Ivoire
Ivory Coast
eSwatini
Eswatini
Gambia
Gambia
Ghana
Ghana
Guinea Ecuatorial
Equatorial Guinea
Guiné-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
Guinée
Guinea
Jabuuti
Djibouti
Kenya
Kenya
Lesotho
Lesotho
Liberia
Liberia
Madagasikara
Madagascar
Malawi
Malawi
Mali
Mali
Moçambique
Mozambique
Moris
Mauritius
Namibia
Namibia
Niger
Niger
Nigeria
Nigeria
République
Centrafricaine
Central African
Republic
République
démocratique
du Congo
Democratic Republic
of the Congo
République du
Congo
Republic of the
Congo
Rwanda
Rwanda
São Tomé e
Príncipe
São Tomé and
Príncipe
Sénégal
Senegal
Sesel
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
Soomaaliya
Somalia
South Africa
South Africa
South Sudan
South Sudan
Gabon
Gabon
Tanzania
Tanzania
Togo
Togo
Uganda
Uganda
Zambia
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
الجزائر
Algeria
تشاد
Chad
مصر
Egypt
ኤርትራ
Eritrea
ኢትዮጵያ
Ethiopia
ليبيا
Libya
موريتانيا
Mauritania
المغرب
Morocco
السودان
Sudan
تونس
Tunisia
 
 
South America
Argentina
Argentina
Bolivia
Bolivia
Brasil
Brazil
Chile
Chile
Colombia
Colombia
Ecuador
Ecuador
Guyana
Guyana
Paraguay
Paraguay
Perú
Peru
Sranang
Suriname
Uruguay
Uruguay
Venezuela
Venezuela
Asia
Azərbaycan
Azerbaijan
Brunei
Brunei
Indonesia
Indonesia
Malaysia
Malaysia
Pilipinas
Philippines
Singapore
Singapore
Timor-Leste
East Timor
Türkiye
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Việt Nam
Vietnam
Қазақстан
Kazakhstan
Кыргызстан
Kyrgyzstan
Монгол Улс
Mongolia
Тоҷикистон
Tajikistan
Ўзбекистон
Uzbekistan
افغانستان
Afghanistan
البحرين
Bahrain
ایران
Iran
العراق
Iraq
الأردن
Jordan
دولة الكويت
Kuwait
لبنان
Lebanon
عُمان
Oman
پاکستان
Pakistan
قطر
Qatar
المملكة العربية السعودية
Saudi Arabia
سورية
Syria
الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة
United Arab
Emirates
اليمن
Yemen
বাংলাদেশ
Bangladesh
འབྲུག་ཡུལ
Bhutan
កម្ពុជា
Cambodia
中国
China
Κύπρος
Cyprus
საქართველო
Georgia
भारत
India
ישראל
Israel
ປະເທດລາວ
Laos
ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ
Maldives
조선인민주의
공화국
North Korea
日本
Japan
臺灣
Taiwan
မြန်မာ
Myanmar
Հայաստան
Armenia
नेपाल
Nepal
대한민국
South Korea
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව
Sri Lanka
ประเทศไทย
Thailand
 
 
Oceania
Aorōkin M̧ajeļ
Marshall Islands
Aotearoa
New Zealand
Australia
Australia
Belau
Palau
Federated States
of Micronesia
Federated States
of Micronesia
Kiribati
Kiribati
Naoero
Nauru
Papua New
Guinea
Papua New
Guinea
Sāmoa
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tonga
Tuvalu
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Viti
Fiji
Europe
Andorra
Andorra
België
Belgium
Bosna i
Hercegovina
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Česko
Czech Republic
Città del Vaticano
Vatican City
Danmark
Denmark
Deutschland
Germany
Eesti
Estonia
Éire
Ireland
España
Spain
France
France
Magyarország
Hungary
Hrvatska
Croatia
Ísland
Iceland
Italia
Italy
Kosova
Kosovo
Latvija
Latvia
Lëtzebuerg
Luxembourg
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein
Lietuva
Lithuania
Malta
Malta
Moldova
Moldova
Mu̍negu
Monaco
Nederland
Netherlands
Norge
Norway
Österreich
Austria
Polska
Poland
Portugal
Portugal
România
Romania
San Marino
San Marino
Schweiz
Switzerland
Shqipëria
Albania
Slovensko
Slovakia
Slovenija
Slovenia
Suomi
Finland
Sverige
Sweden
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Беларусь
Belarus
България
Bulgaria
Россия
Russia
Северна
Македонија
North Macedonia
Србија
Serbia
Україна
Ukraine
Црна Гора
Montenegro
Ελλάς
Greece
 
 
North America
Ayiti
Haiti
Antigua and
Barbuda
Antigua and
Barbuda
Bahamas
Bahamas
Barbados
Barbados
Belize
Belize
Canada
Canada
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Cuba
Cuba
Dominica
Dominica
El Salvador
El Salvador
Grenada
Grenada
Guatemala
Guatemala
Honduras
Honduras
Jamaica
Jamaica
México
Mexico
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Panamá
Panama
República
Dominicana
Dominican
Republic
Saint Kitts and
Nevis
Saint Kitts and
Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
United States
78 Comments
+5
Level 78
Nov 11, 2020
Great quiz! Nominated.
+2
Level 86
Jun 4, 2021
Nice job Liam! This might just be your best quiz. :)
+10
Level 48
Jun 14, 2021
Wouldn't the "São Tomé and Príncipe" one be "São Tomé E Príncipe"?
+1
Level 66
Aug 20, 2021
Great quiz! I think Luxembourg should be Lëtzebuerg, not Lëtezebuerg
+6
Level 72
Aug 20, 2021
Great quiz! Small nitpick, the kind of Chinese used in Taiwan is traditional Chinese, so it should be 臺灣 instead of the simplified version of 台湾.
+1
Level 69
Nov 25, 2023
Actually in Taiwan the 臺 is usually also simplified to 台, but the 灣 is kept the same.
+1
Level 69
Jul 27, 2024
The official name is Republic of China 中華民國
+7
Level 64
Aug 20, 2021
The main language of Somalia is Somali, written in Latin script.

The Armenian language uses the Armenian script.

+4
Level 83
Aug 21, 2021
I was really confused about Armenia. I kept scrolling to look for the proper alphabet and it wasn't there.
+3
Level 63
Aug 20, 2021
Philippines: In Filipino (one of the official languages): Pilipinas
+5
Level 70
Aug 20, 2021
Great quiz! I admit it wasn't as hard once I figured out that the arabic (or other scripts) names were still alphabetized as they would be in latin.
+2
Level 70
Aug 21, 2021
Sri Lanka's language looks like its just a 4 year old's drawing
+7
Level 73
Jul 3, 2022
amogus
+2
Level 32
Dec 7, 2024
sus
+10
Level 73
Jul 3, 2022
bro it's actually may be offensive for them
+1
Level 63
Aug 12, 2024
I'm Sri Lankan and I agree with you lol.
+1
Level 91
Jul 3, 2022
Yes exactly. My own child's better at inventing language than the Sri Lankans.
+8
Level 63
Jul 22, 2024
the unprovoked anti Sinhala hate is crazy rude
+1
Level 40
May 6, 2023
It would be better than yours. (I'm not sri lankan)
+1
Level 59
Jun 21, 2025
The entire Asian section looks like 4 year old's drawing.
+7
Level 72
Jul 3, 2022
Yeahhhhhhhh this would be a better quiz if it excluded all the ones that are exactly the same. There's no point to those! Just grey box them and make them filled in from the start.
+2
Level 68
Oct 28, 2022
My mum would say that would be just being lazy.
+3
Level 67
Jul 3, 2022
Shouldn't Vatican City be in Latin?
+1
Level 85
Jul 22, 2024
No, only Italian is in official use in *Vatican city*. Latin is used by the Holy See (Catholic church)
+7
Level 60
Jul 5, 2022
Bit nitpicky, but shouldn't the scripts be consistent? I see some languages like Dhivehi and Tamazight being written in Latin, despite having their own scripts used

I do think this is a cool idea though, good job!

+7
Level 72
Oct 28, 2022
Great quiz! Nominated.

However, I was a little confused by Algeria not appearing in Arabic or at least in a more traditional transliteration like al-Jazair...

+1
Level 85
Jul 22, 2024
Berber is also official but do they not use another script?
+1
Level 73
Sep 12, 2024
Djibouti was also written in the Latin alphabet. :S
+1
Level 68
Oct 28, 2022
Enjoyable quiz thanks, although I ran out of time.
+1
Level 22
Dec 8, 2022
Would never expect Brunei to be arab??

بروني

+3
Level 89
Dec 9, 2022
Good point, I don't know why I did that

That's one of the easier ones for me to find out is just probably straight up wrong, slowly working on the others though

+4
Level 71
Nov 25, 2023
It's not Arabic, it's Jawi script which is an Arabic script used to write Malay languages and recognised in Brunei.
+2
Level 63
Apr 19, 2023
What language is India in?
+7
Level 71
Apr 19, 2023
It appears to be Gujarati
+6
Level 63
May 6, 2024
modi payed bro
+5
Level 79
Apr 19, 2023
Great quiz. But I would like to suggest a few corrections. Seychelles for example should be Sesel in Creole Seychellois.

Mauritius (my country) could be written as Moris (Mauritian Creole), however you could use Maurice or Mauritius as well. This is because Mauritius does not have an official language. But Mauritian Creole is our lingua franca, and both French and English are very widely used in our day to day life.

Nominated.

+2
Level 55
Nov 25, 2023
great quiz! Would be cool if it included multiple names for countries with multiple official languages.

Edit: just found out Bolivia has 37 official languages, so that might be a reason why.

+1
Level 74
Nov 27, 2023
Great quiz. Quite a challenge. Nominated
+1
Level 20
Feb 18, 2024
You scored 139/196 = 71%

This beats or equals 20.1% of test takers

The average score is 158

Your high score is 139

+1
Level 20
Feb 18, 2024
Nominated
+1
Level 20
Feb 18, 2024
I'm the first in 2024
+1
Level 56
Aug 28, 2024
Cool.
+1
Level 81
Apr 15, 2024
East Timor is misspelled - It should be Timor-Leste (no r on Lester)
+1
Level 89
Apr 15, 2024
Whoops lol, got it
+1
Level 66
Apr 15, 2024
Nice quiz! 196 with 10 secs to go, nominated ;)
+2
Level 51
Apr 15, 2024
North Korea would be 조선인민주의 공화국 not 조선 as 조선 is a name of the first dynasty of Korea. For South Korea, it would be more appropriate to put 대한민국 instead of 한국 as the word given in the quiz is an abbreviation of the official name.
+2
Level 89
Apr 15, 2024
You know, I'll just trust you on this one, thanks
+2
Level 71
Apr 17, 2024
But the quiz isn't about official names, otherwise all the answers would be much longer (like People's Republic of China - 中华人民共和国, or Arab Republic of Egypt - جمهورية مصر العربية ). Therefore I don't think it should be changed.
+3
Level 72
Jul 26, 2024
Wrong. North Korea calls itself "조선(Joseon)" informally. They call 조선 dynasty as "리씨 조선李氏朝鮮/리조李朝", which means 조선 dynasty ruled by House of Yi(Lee/Li). And North Korea formally calls itself "조선민주주의인민공화국". "대한민국" or "한국" is right, though.
+2
Level 23
May 15, 2024
While people in Bosnia and Herzegovina use both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, most people use Latin in every day life. In fact, the official script of the Federation of BIH is indeed Latin. The use of the alphabets depends mostly on ethnicity, with ethnic Serbs using Cyrillic most often. Writing the country's name in Cyrillic in this quiz could be seen as an offensive political statement.

Please use its official name written in the Latin alphabet - Bosna i Hercegovina.

+4
Level 92
Jul 24, 2024
I agree that official name of the country is 'Bosna i Hercegovina' and should be stated as such in this quiz. However, stating that writing the name of country in cyrillic alphabet (which is one of the official alphabets in the country used by one of 3 constitutive nations that live in Bosnia), 'could be seen as an offensive political statement' is such ludacris statement.

The reason that maker of this quizz in previous version may put the name of the country in cyrillic alphabet is probably to make it harder to guess, not to create 'offensive political statement'. Take a chill pill. :)

+1
Level 60
Jun 14, 2024
Lovely quiz! I made one just like it in March :)

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1658196/names-of-countries-in-their-native-language

+1
Level 52
Jul 7, 2024
i love how Asia is so easy until you get below Kazakhstan
+7
Level 63
Jul 22, 2024
the caveat says if there are multiple it uses the most spoken, so why is India in Gujarati? I’m fine with it being Gujarati but the caveat should be changed to say one has been selected or smth. Hindi, Bengali, Marathi all have more native speakers I think
+2
Level 75
Aug 3, 2024
I second this.

I first thought the languages were chosen among the official languages or by including the number of people speaking the language as second language as I went through a bunch of African nations written in European languages.

Then I found Gujarati India, when Gujarati is neither the most popular language nor an official (national level) language in the country.

Would be nice if we could know what were the rationale for the choice.

+3
Level 75
Aug 3, 2024
Also noticed Eire and Aoatearoa. Neither Irish or Maori are the most spoken languages of either Ireland or New Zealand.

Someone thankfully pointed that out for me in my quiz similar to this one.

+2
Level 55
Jul 22, 2024
The single word "e" in São Tomé should be lowercase, "São Tomé e Príncipe"
+1
Level 85
Jul 22, 2024
Arabic is much more widely spoken in Algeria.
+1
Level 86
Jul 23, 2024
Collecting world coins comes in handy again.

Didn't get Myanmar. Not sure what this (6 boxes on my screen) was supposed to be > မြန်မာ

+4
Level 88
Jul 23, 2024
South America - Literally one single letter different from the English across the entire continent (two if you count accent marks)

North America - One that might make you think for a second, but otherwise pretty foolproof

Oceania - Two or three thinkers now, but overall much like the Americas

Africa - Pretty easy for the Latin scripts, and few enough of the non-Latin scripts that you can fill in by process of elimination

Europe - Similar to Africa, but with a few Latin-script countries whose names are entirely unlike their English ones

Asia - Looooooooooooooots of random guessing

+5
Level 74
Jul 24, 2024
Why is New Zealand "Aotearoa" when the caveat clearly states "most spoken language"?
+2
Level 85
Aug 9, 2024
English is not technically an official language by law, so I'm assuming that's why
+1
Level 62
Jul 24, 2024
Suriname in Surinames is "Sranang" not Suriname, Suriname is Dutch which is the official language but the description says "its own language" which would be Surinames aka sranang tongo, not Dutch.
+1
Level 73
Jul 27, 2024
For Thailand, "เมืองไทย" (Muang Thai) is partially correct because it's not commonly used in general context, for me "ประเทศไทย" (Prathet Thai) fits more for the countries name quiz.

- ประเทศไทย (Prathet Thai), "Prathet" means "country" or "nation"

- เมืองไทย (Muang Thai) is commonly used in casual context, "Muang" means "city" or "town"

- ราชอาณาจักรไทย (Ratcha-anachak Thai) meaning the "Kingdom of Thailand" which is the official name

While commenting, I got curious why we use "Mueng" to refer to a country - historically, Southeast Asia often consisted of city-states and dependency, so back then a city was their entire country, hence the modern usage of "Muang" to casually refer to a country. (disclaimer, this is just a summary from what I found on the internet)

But this is not applicable to all countries, other case that I saw is using "Muang Cheen" to refer to China (the People's Republic of) or "Muang Lao" to refer to Laos (while valid, people often use just "Lao")

+1
Level 40
Jul 28, 2024
Amazing quiz! I had a similar idea, but reversed. Couldn’t get past the first few, though.

(Also, France is “France” in French?!)

+2
Level 76
Jul 29, 2024
Seriously? Hindi is no more official language of India?
+3
Level 55
Aug 3, 2024
Why is Gujarati used for the India entry when this is not the most spoken language in the country? It needs to be Hindi in line with the instructions for the whole quiz (likewise for New Zealand, which should have the English name).
+1
Level 65
Aug 3, 2024
This is fantastic! Thank you!
+2
Level 79
Aug 3, 2024
Hindi and English are the only two nationally official languages in India, so it should really be भारत. Gujarati is a very odd choice.

Chad and Algeria should really be تشاد and الجزائر in Arabic although I admit Berber is co-official, Eritrea should absolutely be ኤርትራ in Tigrinya

+4
Level 45
Aug 3, 2024
Algeria’s official languages are Arabic and Tamazight. None of these are written in latin alphabet. It should be الجزاير not Dzayer.
+5
Level 41
Aug 3, 2024
Shouldn't India be भारत??
+3
Level 55
Aug 3, 2024
Fun quiz :) A couple notes (some that others have mentioned):

- India should probably be in Hindi not in Gujarati

- For Gabon, you can just say "Gabon", "republique gabonaise" is the longer official name which you're not using for most other countries

- Eritrea and Algeria should probably be in their native scripts

- Arabic is not really spoken that much in the Comoros, Comorian or French would be better

+5
Level 53
Aug 4, 2024
Where have you got "Monaca" from? I can find no reference of this literally anywhere on the internet that relates to Monaco itself. It's "Monaco" in French or "Munegu" in the Monégasque dialect
+1
Level 57
Aug 6, 2024
why is algeria in berber while morocco in arabic? either country could be argued to be in either script i'd say, but morocco has a higher percentage of berber than algeria so if you choose berber for algeria you definitely gotta have it for morocco. they also have their own script not latin
+1
Level 50
Oct 10, 2024
no way i just missed "jabuuti"
+1
Level 55
Nov 3, 2024
india is wrong script, it should look like this भारत
+2
Level 67
Jan 1, 2025
Nice quiz! However, I noticed a couple of issues that could be improved:

What language is "Monaca"? It appears to be an error, as the country is called "Monaco" in both Italian and French, "Mu̍negu" in Monegasque, and "Mónego" in Ligurian.

The naming conventions for countries seem inconsistent. For instance, some countries are spelled out with their full official names (e.g., "République gabonaise"), while others use shorter forms (e.g., "Česko"). I believe the quiz would be improved by consistently using each country's official name throughout.

I hope these suggestions help make the quiz even better!

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Level 69
Apr 24, 2025
Why is India in Gujarati? The caveat at the top of the quiz says that if there are multiple languages, the most spoken one is chosen, which would be Hindi.