Countries and dependent territories - hard

Definetly a challenge! Great job! As a suggestion: You should allow some wrong spelling and abbreviations such as st for saint. Overall is an amazing quiz!

It is annoying you don't allow 'st' and 'drc' as every other quiz on this site does. Or Eswatini and Nagorno-Karabakh and SADR. But why does Palmyra figure and none of the other unpopulated US minor outlying islands? Either all or none! Why San Andres but not Jan Meyen? Why South Georgia and the South Sandwich islands but not Bouvet Island, Heard and Macdonald and French Southern and Antarctic lands? Why split up the territory of St Helena/Ascension/Tristan da Cunha and Akrotiri and Dekhelia yet not San Andres and Providencia? Puntland is no more a separate territory than Kurdistan. Why the unpopulated Coral Sea Islands and not Ashmore and Cartier? Republic of Congo simply doesn't have that name anywhere else - it is either Congo or Congolese Republic or Republic of the Congo. These contradictions and inconsistencies make this quiz both irritating and impossible to do first time. You need to iron these out and be consistent - personally I would stick to whole territory names only.

You need to change Swaziland and Macedonia to Eswatini and North Macedonia respectively.

I don’t have to type islands a 100 times on other quizzes like I do on this one. Very annoying

Palmyra, Wake, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the British Indian Ocean Territory should all be excluded/deleted as they have no permanent civilian population. Puntland should be excluded as it does not claim independence from Somalia. Eswatini, North Macedonia and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic or SADR should replace Swaziland, Macedonia and Western Sahara respectively.

Why won't you include the rest of US Minor Outlying Islands such as Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, and Midway Atoll in the Pacific and also Navassa Island in the Caribbean? And what about Serranilla Bank and Bajo Nuevo Bank?

And what about French Southern and Antarctic Lands which consists of several major islands in the Indian ocean near Antarctica and five uninhabited scattered islands around Madagascar?

If you include Puntland (Somalia) here, why not Galmudug as well?

What about Jan Mayen, Bouvet Island, Peter I Island, Queen Maud Land (all Norway)? Ashmore and Cartier Islands (Australia)? Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Australia)? Clipperton Island (France)?

And for unrecognized/partially recognized sovereign states, why not include Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic (both in Ukraine) as well?

And why won't you include the regions of Antarctica as well?

And some of the country names here need to be updated, such as Swaziland to Eswatini.

Why are Azores, Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and Madeira listed separately while Socotra isn't? The more one looks at this quiz the more silly contradictions and inconsistencies one finds