All Modern-Day Countries Ever Controlled by Prussia

With the help of a map, can you guess all modern day countries that were at one point under Prussian rule between 1525 (foundation of the Duchy of Prussia) up to 1867 (formation of the North German Confederation)?

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Includes colonies controlled during the time of the personal union between Brandenburg and Prussia

Not including Whydah and the short-lived occupation of Tortola.

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Countries

Belarus

Belgium

Czech Republic

Denmark

Germany

Ghana

Lithuania

Mauritania

Netherlands

Poland

Russia

Switzerland

United States (Puerto Rico / Virgin Islands)

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68 Comments

+22

Level 60

Feb 7, 2021

Nice.

+15

Level 55

Feb 7, 2021

Thank you!

Level 75

May 31, 2021

No, they're just pockets of land under full or partial political control of Prussia and occupied by Prussian settlers.

Level 55

Jul 22, 2021

The map shows all modern day countries controlled by prussia between 1525 and 1867. I believe Prussia only got colonies after the Conference of Berlin in 1884, so countries like Namibia and Prussia's various holdings in the Pacific aren't applicable.

Level 34

Aug 17, 2024

This was never Prussia, it was already the German empire since 1871.

Level 53

Mar 15, 2023

Nice wasn't part of Prussia; it is a French city and was part of the Kingdom of Sardinia for a time. Just joking, it is a Nice quiz.

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Level 56

Feb 7, 2021

Great quiz

+10

Level 55

Feb 8, 2021

Thanks!

+27

Level 77

Feb 20, 2021

I read the title as "Russia" first and was very confused when I saw the map.

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Level 55

Feb 20, 2021

Tends to be confusing, yes. Blame the English language for that one, haha.

Level 68

Mar 30, 2023

I did the same but for a big history book about Prussia. I haven't read it yet, because I thought it was about Russia.

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Level 85

Feb 20, 2021

I guess I'm just not familiar enough with fragments of coastlines to have known what in the world those smaller boxes represented. I figured we were no longer looking at Europe, but that's about all I could discern.

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Level 55

Feb 20, 2021

Yeah, it's pretty difficult. The colonies were rather small so depicting them properly would've proven rather difficult unless if I'd rework the entire map.

Level 68

Feb 21, 2021

I didn't think Dakar and Cape Verde were too hard to see

+11

Level 55

Feb 21, 2021

Yeah, I updated the African portion of the map a bit so it's a bit more clear.

Level 66

Feb 21, 2021

I only recognised it as Africa because I saw something that vaguely looks like the Gambia in there.

Level 66

Feb 21, 2021

I was also able to guess the USA because I didn't recognize it as any country, so I assumed it was a territory. Whenever there is a territory in a quiz, just type UK, France, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark and USA. It works almost all of the time. A few other countries also have territories but they rarely show up on Jetpunk quizzes.

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Level 59

Feb 20, 2021

Congratulations on your feature 🎉🎉

Ghana and Mauritania is rather difficult to understand though perhaps I'm just not very much experienced with the coastlines

Level 55

Feb 20, 2021

Thanks! I'm aware that it can be a bit difficult, but I personally see it as part of the challenge.

Level 66

Mar 18, 2021

Agreed! I cant believe I did not recognize West Africa. Well done Dekkie :D

Level 55

Mar 18, 2021

Thanks!

+10

Level 71

Feb 21, 2021

Cool quiz! I never knew that Prussia controlled land in Mauritania and Ghana. They may have just been small trading post, but that's still pretty cool!

Level 55

Feb 21, 2021

Thanks!

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Level 73

Feb 21, 2021

The three coastlines are very very hard to get. Is there no way you can expand the pictures or give some sort of hint as to where they are. At the minute it is pretty much pot luck.

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Level 81

Feb 21, 2021

Or if you know the answers...

Level 55

Feb 21, 2021

I'm working on making the African answers a bit easier to guess at the moment.

Level 43

Mar 18, 2021

Honestly, I disagree that they should change it, this quiz is supposed to test whether or not you know which countries were controlled by Prussia, but I feel like one of the main issues I have with jetpunk is that most quizzes simply come down to "can you name the countries that are shown in the map?" Of course, if the map was a bit more clear I could guess those as well, but I could guess any option from a map regardless of whether I actually know the answers or not.

Level 72

Feb 21, 2021

The map for Puerto Rico and American VI islands is wrong.

Level 55

Feb 21, 2021

No it's not?

Level 70

Feb 21, 2021

The map is not showing the main island of Puerto Rico or St. Croix; it's showing Vieques, Culebra, & St. Thomas/St. John (& St. Thomas & St. John appear to be one island on the map, but they are not). https://www.google.com/maps/place/U.S.+Virgin+Islands/@18.065968,-65.3005315,10z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8c051065f2daacb9:0xf91d891d1bc51c05!8m2!3d18.335765!4d-64.896335

Level 55

Feb 21, 2021

They're not shown because Prussia never controlled more than the two different islands shown on the map. The other islands are completely irrelevant to this quiz. The reason why they're listed as "Puerto Rico / Virgin Islands" is because those are part of those specific "unincorporated territories" of the United States.

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Level 74

Feb 22, 2021

Jesus, blizzrd, now you made me Upvote a quiz I wouldn't otherwise have.

This quiz is about knowing what territories Prussia held, not about recognizing islands on a map.

Level 71

Feb 21, 2021

Ah, so THAT's why you can get such great Schnitzels in Mauritania!

Level 51

Feb 21, 2021

🌟

Level 72

Feb 22, 2021

Nice quiz.

Level 55

Feb 22, 2021

Thanks!

Level 70

Feb 22, 2021

Technically, there is a difference between owning and controlling. But maybe I just played too much EU4. ;-)

Level 60

Feb 28, 2021

Great work!

Level 75

Mar 18, 2021

I didn't get the African or Caribbean ones, so I didn't get 5/5 on my first go. I demand the quiz be changed and my account be credited 1000 bonus points as compensation for this injustice.

Seriously though, great quiz! Bit of geography, bit of history, and provokes extra investigation 5*

Level 55

Mar 18, 2021

Haha, thanks!

Level 64

Mar 18, 2021

I never Knew Prussia had overseas colonies lol

Level 55

Mar 18, 2021

They did, albeit mostly short-lived.

Level 68

Mar 18, 2021

The map really did not help for the last one, haha.

Level 64

Mar 18, 2021

For the record, the yellow island on the left is Vieques (formerly "Crab Island," German "Krabbeninsel"), one of the so-called Spanish Virgin Islands, politically part of Puerto Rico. The one on the right is St. Thomas, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Level 48

Mar 20, 2021

Puerto Rico is part of the United States

Level 53

Mar 18, 2021

i was literally guessing every island in the carribean EXCEPT the U.S virgin islands or puerto rico

even british virgin islands

Level 46

Mar 18, 2021

"F".

Level 65

Mar 20, 2021

Wow! How you create this map?

Level 55

Mar 20, 2021

This SVG was made in Inkscape. There's a SVG guide you can find on this website.

Level 43

Mar 20, 2021

Amazing quiz, got all but Ghana!

Level 55

Mar 20, 2021

Thanks!

Level 22

Mar 20, 2021

Make one about confederacy and states

Level 64

Apr 6, 2021

Can I get a source for their overseas colonies I can't find anything except maps in German

Level 60

Apr 17, 2021

Awesome map

Level 54

Jun 9, 2021

Wow, I forgot Russia haha

Level 59

Jun 20, 2021

Love your quizzes! Keep up the good work!

Level 55

Jun 20, 2021

Thanks!

Level 58

Jun 30, 2021

I think this is the first quiz in the history of quizzes that the U.S. is the least guessed answer.

Level 54

Oct 13, 2021

what about france and when purssia invaded them

Level 56

Jan 14, 2022

Why did Prussia own the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico?

Level 37

Aug 21, 2022

Why are Gold Coast Colonies always in Ghana and never cote d Ivore, Togo, benin and Liberia?

Level 72

May 17, 2024

Ghana's coastline is the Gold Coast. Go further west, you're in the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) or the Pepper Coast (Liberia). Go East, and you're in the Slave Coast (Togo/Benin/Nigeria). Yikes.

I couldn't imagine being lessened to no more than resources of a land, human or material. Colonisation was brutal.

Level 40

Feb 13, 2024

From 1815-1818, Prussia occupied some parts of northern France (Normandy and the area to the North of Paris.

Level 68

May 17, 2024

Imagine Germany held onto Puerto Rico and San Juan is Neu-Potsdam or something and artist like Luis Fonsi are called Sebastian Maier and sing German Latino music

Level 22

Aug 26, 2024

Hello, first Thing i would like to say, i love your Quizzes. Youre doing so good work and your Quizzes are great! I would like to ask, if i can translate all your featured Quizzes with a map that arent available in german right now. I already translated the 1870 one (got a feature) and the before WW2 one. Would be cool, if we can play them in german

Level 22

Aug 27, 2024

Or im doing a comment under every quiz i translate, so you can see it but i dont have to wait for the answer and can translate directly. So like a cooperation

Level 55

Aug 27, 2024

No problem.

Level 22

Aug 27, 2024

Thank you soo much. I (and my „online“ friends) love your quizzes. Thx for allowing that

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