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Flags of the Middle East

Name the Middle Eastern country that uses each selected flag.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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First submittedSeptember 24, 2017
Times taken58,528
Average score87.5%
Rating4.71
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60 Comments
nichster
+11
Level 56
Sep 24, 2017
Great quiz! This is definitely a quiz that should be featured!
Gassu
+2
Level 70
Sep 24, 2017
It is now. Congrats!
KoljiVriVoda
+2
Level 78
Sep 24, 2017
+1
Underneath
+3
Level 21
Sep 25, 2017
Thanks!
tschutzer
+9
Level 93
Sep 25, 2017
There's too much time on the clock. You don't really need to know which flag belongs to which country, you just need to know all the countries in the middle east and type quickly.
Underneath
+3
Level 21
Sep 25, 2017
See what the Quizmaster thinks. Should this quiz have less time?
Quizmaster
+52
Level ∞
Sep 25, 2017
Doesn't matter. It's all in the name of fun.
Yakk
+2
Level 45
Dec 31, 2017
^agreed, especially since there are barely 10 flags
kalbahamut
+27
Level 81
Dec 1, 2017
That feeling when you pick out a flag for your country, then show up at the UN only to see that there are six other countries there wearing the same thing.
Sulps
+23
Level 56
Dec 1, 2017
What? No! Their red is slightly darker than our red!
lilpeepot
+2
Level 47
Dec 1, 2017
Where's Afghanistan?
Mattissy23
+21
Level 70
Dec 1, 2017
It's in Central Asia.
Maladroit
+12
Level 51
Dec 1, 2017
And so it begins. How long until Cyprus comes up? What about Egypt, or Turkey? What, really, is the Middle East? I imagine the inclusion of some countries (and the exclusion of others) will irritate quite a few people. And maybe even the lack of Palestine will get some people up in arms. Such is the way of the world.
Malbaby
+6
Level 70
Dec 2, 2017
What about Burma?
dr02
+6
Level 65
Dec 3, 2017
You mean Myanmar?
Levisek27
+1
Level 55
Nov 3, 2024
How on earth Afghanistan could be in the Middle East?
Nick16
+2
Level 55
Dec 1, 2017
Isn't Egypt technically in Africa? Or does owning the Sinai make it in the Middle East as well?
kalbahamut
+25
Level 81
Dec 1, 2017
So what if it's in Africa? The Middle East isn't a continent.
Levisek27
+1
Level 55
Nov 3, 2024
Damascus is the capital city of Syria, so they can't be part of the Middle East.
bks961
+4
Level 75
Dec 2, 2017
I've never thought of Turkey or Cyprus as Middle Eastern, but what about Libya?
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Dec 2, 2017
Libya is farther away from the traditional core of the Middle East than either of those two.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Dec 2, 2017
Though placing Turkey in the "Middle" East does raise an interesting question about where the Near East is.
leontodon
+3
Level 71
Nov 4, 2024
Apparently they're synonymous now!

"According to National Geographic, the terms Near East and Middle East denote the same territories and are "generally accepted as comprising the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Syria, and Turkey" with Afghanistan often included."

Conservatopia
+3
Level 31
Apr 3, 2018
France.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Aug 28, 2020
I know there's about a 40% chance that you're joking, but, historically, Anatolia was called Asia Minor as well as the Near East. Japan, Korea, and China were the Far East. And then eventually "Middle East" was coined to refer to the area around Iran and Afghanistan.... though over time the concept most had of this socially constructed region would shift slowly westward until becoming anchored somewhere in the north of the Arabian peninsula.
camus
+2
Level 79
Aug 28, 2020
Wikipedia tells me that Middle East replaced the word Near East in usage at some point. In German it's still called Near East, so no problems there with including Turkey.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Aug 28, 2020
camus: yes, after, like I said, the concept of where the Middle East was shifted from central Asia to the Arabian peninsula, and then Turkey and Egypt started getting roped in to it. The term Near East eventually faded from popular usage.
Mertiy
+6
Level 38
Sep 8, 2019
At this point Turkey is neither Europe, Asia, Middle East, Balkans or Caucasus. I wouldn't be surprised if someone argues it is Martian
kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
Aug 28, 2020
Turkey is a European, Asian, and (sometimes) Middle Eastern country all at the same time.
maur85
+8
Level 72
Aug 28, 2020
Until you open the box, Turkey is both Asian and European
DonOmar
+15
Level 19
Nov 25, 2019
Where is Palestine ???
Jacktheguy
+11
Level 91
Aug 28, 2020
In the Middle East.
lucaswe
+10
Level 58
Aug 28, 2020
It's not a real country
stromae
+1
Level 71
Nov 7, 2024
ew
RealDad12
+6
Level 67
Aug 28, 2020
It's part of Israel.
tshalla
+15
Level 77
Aug 30, 2020
no.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 91
Jul 2, 2021
It is Israel.
Veron86
+1
Level 33
Nov 8, 2024
ew
Scaro88
+5
Level 78
Aug 28, 2020
It’s really weird, I got all of them, with the flags of the middle east there’s a few where if you asked me to describe them I probably wouldn’t be able to but when I see them something just clicks and I know what they are. It’s kinda the same with the pan African ones
RealDad12
+3
Level 67
Aug 28, 2020
Knowing with absolute certainty the first nine flags helped. Then it was a question of testing each remaining country with each remaining flag.
eddyNOS
+1
Level 16
Sep 25, 2020
only missed oman LOL great quiz 😃
MujtabaSC10
+12
Level 28
Jan 11, 2021
Palestine?
SirPhilippines
+5
Level 70
Apr 21, 2021
According to JetPunk, Palestine is not a country.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 91
Jul 2, 2021
I think most wars in the Middle East are started when someone fires on the wrong flag.
boiboiboi
+10
Level 25
Sep 26, 2021
You missed Palestine and have a fake flag there
Genioso
+4
Level 30
Jan 12, 2022
Thats what I was thinking when I did this quiz. Where's Palestine 🇵🇸? It's so weird that Jetpunk would make that mistake.
Levisek27
+3
Level 55
Nov 3, 2024
Don't you know the owner of JetPunk is American? Knowing it, it should be logical why Palestine ain't a JetPunk's country, but Taiwan and Kosovo are.
TheodoreE45
+2
Level 93
Nov 3, 2024
Palestine is not a country any more than Catalonia, Quebec or Somaliland are.
Hadi123
+1
Level 18
Dec 12, 2021
Bahrain and Qatar are like Austria and Latvia.
beqirn
+7
Level 27
Mar 5, 2022
where the hell is PALESTINE
aloepottt
+5
Level 48
Nov 24, 2022
The middle east probably.
Izaak
+1
Level 21
Mar 5, 2022
Ez
Gllombfek
+2
Level 53
Apr 9, 2022
Right. The "Middle East" is a term used to describe (I quote from the Wikipedia article) the Levant, Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq, like this quiz includes.

The so-called "Greater Middle East" is what some commenters are talking about, which includes the Middle East mentioned here, along with North Africa, Mauritania, Djibouti, Somalia, the Caucasus countries, and the -stan countries.

So this quiz is correct, there are 16 to 18 countries in the Middle East, and 34 to 41 countries in the Greater Middle East.

To all the commenters saying Israel should not be here, I would say that while even if Palestine was included, Israel should be too, as Palestine does not claim all of Israel, rather the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

WilliamMRock
+1
Level 32
Sep 1, 2022
100% in 19 seconds first try. Honestly this quiz should be 30 seconds or something
wkrpnyc
+2
Level 82
Nov 2, 2024
WANA is another acronym that is less Eurocentric.

Scholars and institutions of the area are preferring this acronym of "Western Asia and Northern Africa" because Middle East (as well as Far East & Near East) is only from the perspective of Europeans.

https://wanainstitute.org/en/why-wana

PesuKonehh
+1
Level 53
Nov 2, 2024
very easy
Hutchiebros
+1
Level 46
Nov 3, 2024
The only one I didn't get was the one that Chandler Bing 'moved' to!
InterAlia
+1
Level 78
Nov 16, 2024
Arabs are REALLY not into blue.
EpicBunny3
+1
Level 61
Jan 1, 2025
I think Syria's flag has been changed
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 1, 2025
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