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Countries of the World in 1882 with a Map

With the help of a map, can you name all the countries of the world in 1882?
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Includes several de facto independent and unrecognized states.
Quiz by Dekkie
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Last updated: November 21, 2023
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First submittedFebruary 13, 2021
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Countries
Abemama
Abeokuta
Abuja
Aceh
Adrar
Afghanistan
Agaie
Agangnionjo
Agbor
Aïr
Ajasse
Akure
Akwa Akpa
Akyem
Alada
Alawi
Anaza
Andorra
Ankole
Aqrabi
Argentina
Aro
Ashanti
Audhali
Aussa
Austria-Hungary
Babungo
Bade
Badibu
Baghirmi
Bakkara
Bali
Bamun
Bangassou
Banggai
Banjar
Barotseland
Bauchi
Bawlake
Beihan
Belgium
Bemba
Bemihisatra
Benin
Bhutan
Bibemi
Bilanga
Biu
Bolivia
Bonny
Bono-Tekyiman
Bora Bora
Borgu
Bornu
Brakna
Brazil
Brunei
Buganda
Bulgaria
Bundu
Bunyoro
Burma
Burundi
Buton
Canada
Chile
China
Chitral
Colombia
Costa Rica
Chokwe
Countries
Cruzoob
Dagomba
Dahomey
Đại Nam
Damagaram
Dar Al-Kuti
Dathina
Daura
Dawro
Dendi
Denmark
Dhala
Dir
Dominican Republic
Donggala
Dosso
Dutse
Easter Island
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Etiki
Ethiopia
Fada N'Gourma
Fadhli
Fika
Fingoland
France
Futa Djallon
Futa Toro
Gaza
Gcalekaland
Geledi
Gera
Germany
Gliji
Gombe
Gomma
Goshen
Greece
Guatemala
Gumel
Gumma
Gurma
Gwanara
Gwandu
Gwiriko
Hadejia
Ha'il
Haiti
Haushabi
Hawaii
Hobyo
Honduras
Huahine
Igala
Ijebu
Ilé-Ifé
Ilorin
International Congo Society
Irma
Irqa
Italy
Jamaare
Jambi
Jandol
Janjero
Japan
Jema'a
Countries
Jimma
Johor
Joseon
Jugu
Kaffa
Kafiristan
Kakongo
Kalabari
Kalukembe
Kantarawadi
Karagwe
Kasanje
Katagum
Kathiri
Katsina
Kazaure
Kazembe
Kebbi
Keffi
Kel Ahaggar
Kénédougou
Kika
Koena
Kom
Konawe
Kong
Kontagora
Koya
Kuala
Kuba
Kulawi
Kunduz
Kuwait
Kwara
Kyebogyi
Lafia
Lafiagi
Lahej
Lanao Confederation
Lanfang
Lapai
Lete
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Limmu-Ennarea
Liptako
Loango
Lower Aulaqi
Lower Yafa
Luba
Lunda
Luwu
Luxembourg
Ma'an
Madagascar
Magba
Mahra
Maflahi
Maguindanao
Majeerteen
Maldives
Mandar Federation
Mandara
Maradi
Maravi
Mboum
Mbunda
Mexico
Misau
Monaco
Countries
Montenegro
Morocco
Mpondoland
Mthwakazi
Muri
Muscat and Oman
Mwali
Najran
Namekan
Naungpale
Nauru
Ndzuwani
Nejd
Nembe
Nepal
Netherlands
Ngazidja
Ngoyo
Ngwaketse
Ngwato
Nicaragua
Niue-Fekai
Niumi
Norway
Nri
Ntem
Nungu
Nyamwezi
Ogwashi-Uku
Okrika
Ondo
Onilahy
Onitsha
Opobo
Orange Free State
Osogbo
Ottoman Empire
Ouaddai
Owo
Oyo
Pahang
Palu
Paraguay
Paraku
Pategi
Persia
Peru
Phuan
Piela
Porto-Novo
Portugal
Potiskum
Qu'aiti
Rabih's Empire
Rafai
Raiatea
Rarotonga
Rehoboth
Rey Bouba
Rimatara
Rizim
Romania
Rozvi
Rurutu
Russia
Rwanda
Sabon
Sama
Samoa
San Marino
Countries
Sarawak
Serbia
Sha'ib
Sheberghan
Siam
Sigave
Sigi
Sokoto
Spain
Stellaland
Swat
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Tadjourah
Tado
Tagant
Tamrash
Tashqurghan
Tawaeli
Tawana
Teke
Tekna
Tenkodogo
Tera
Thembuland
Tonga
Toraja
Torro
Toucouleur
Transvaal
Tshibiri
Tu'a
United Kingdom
United States
Upper Aulaqi
Upper Yafa
Urambo
Uruguay
Utetera
Uvea
Venezuela
Viye
Wahidi Azzan
Wahidi Balhaf
Wahidi Bir Ali
Wahidi Haban
Wajo
Wambu
Warri
Warsangali
Wase
Wassoulou
Welayta
Witu
Wogodogo
Wukari
Xiani
Yaka
Yao
Yashikira
Yatenga
Yauri
Yeke
Zafimanely
Zamfara
Zanzibar
Zaria
Zemio
Zululand
67 Comments
+11
Level 68
Feb 13, 2021
Great quiz, as with all of your quizzes Dekkie!
+10
Level 55
Feb 13, 2021
Thanks! This one was definitely a lot of hard work.
+8
Level 42
Feb 13, 2021
Great quiz
+5
Level 55
Feb 13, 2021
Thanks!
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Level 60
Feb 13, 2021
I love your quizzes Dekkie! This is probably the best one!
+6
Level 55
Feb 13, 2021
Thanks! That means a lot.
+5
Level 51
Feb 13, 2021
Gudtz
+5
Level 51
Feb 13, 2021
Güdtz
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Level 55
Feb 13, 2021
Thanks!
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Level 60
Feb 13, 2021
Nice! Could you remove the zoomable-circle class from the circles? Because if you zoom in, it's impossible to see the orange part
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Level 55
Feb 13, 2021
Thanks. That should be fixed now.
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Level 66
Jun 14, 2021
I thought Austria-Hungary didnt have bosnia till 1908
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Level 55
Jun 14, 2021
It was occupied in 1878 along with Sandžak, although Bosnia was only actually annexed by 1908 while Sandžak was returned to the Ottomans.
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Level 55
Aug 24, 2021
I have no idea how you managed to name map all of the microstates, it is very impressive, and thank you for doing it!
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Level 55
Aug 24, 2021
Thanks! I did manage to find some but very few sources for a lot of smaller states and I can't say it was very easy.
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Level 77
Dec 5, 2024
What a project! Well done!
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Level 64
Nov 3, 2021
This quiz was very helpful, I needed validation that at least one reputable QM counts Cruzoob as a legitimate country. Great quiz!
+3
Level 55
Nov 3, 2021
Haha, thanks.
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Level 51
Feb 17, 2022
Great quiz and I am absolutely fascinated by Egypt's territorial claims there/then
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Level 55
Feb 17, 2022
Thank you! The Khedivate of Egypt was essentially only a nominal part of the Ottoman Empire at this point and did a lot of conquests of their own, reaching as far as modern-day Uganda and Somalia.
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Level 66
Feb 22, 2022
Why does Bhutan have some random dots in Tibet?
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Level 55
Feb 22, 2022
Lesser known fact: Bhutan had exclaves in Tibet that they gained in a war in 1684 and kept until 1959.
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Level 38
Mar 2, 2022
Why is the Holy Roman Empire in Africa 😂😂😂😂
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Level 57
Mar 20, 2022
https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/article/file%20attachment/afr1800.gif some africa tribes that you can use for answers (only some so like ~10)
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Level 57
Dec 26, 2022
Naughty naughty younger me
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Level 37
Sep 1, 2022
I have HRE vibes of Nigeria…
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Level 62
Nov 9, 2022
I typed Gã and I am really trying to find where it is lol.
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Level 55
Nov 9, 2022
It was a small kingdom along the coast of modern-day Ghana.
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Level 63
Nov 18, 2022
Why does Mexico randomly dissapear
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Level 32
Apr 13, 2023
Out of curiousity — what was "Sigi"? I can't find it when I look it up because the word is also a stock profile and the OECD's "Social Institutions and Gender Index" ... if any of y'all history buffs could help me out I'd be very grateful lol
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Level 80
May 20, 2023
From a bit of searching:

Minor native kingdom in Sulawesi, now part of Indonesia, formed by the Kaili ethnic group. Apparently has existed since the 1200s. Didn't do much historically; their animist religion seems cool though. Converted to Islam sometime in the 1600s. Incorporated into the Dutch East Indies sometime between 1900 and 1915, though they were allowed to keep their royal family and borders until the 1930s.

Now all that remains is Sigi Regency in Central Sulawesi and their former capital Biromaru (at least, I think it was their capital).

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Level 65
Nov 20, 2023
Could you maybe accept Vrystaat for Orange free state?
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Level 41
Nov 21, 2023
Amazing quiz! 120/351. I memorized a bunch of those little kingdoms in Africa a while back and I still have some of them in the back of my head.

(Please accept Fouta Tooro for Futa Toro.)

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Level 55
Nov 21, 2023
Thanks!
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Level 62
Nov 29, 2023
Stellar job. Oparo managed to miss the quiz by 1 year.
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Level 31
Jun 6, 2024
Wow, love it! Nominated, hope it will get featured soon!
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Level 55
Jun 6, 2024
Thanks!
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Level 28
Jun 24, 2024
can you accept german empire as that was the name back then
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Level 62
Jul 10, 2024
Great Britain and Prussia, the Empire of Russia, Two Sicilies, Sulu, Siam. The Papal States, Zululand, Persian Empire and Jolof, Kaabu and Bhutan...
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Level 33
Jul 16, 2024
Add "Nederlands" as a type-in for Netherlands.
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Level 27
Jul 20, 2024
Took me 38 minutes and 11 seconds to get all of them correct. Heh. As a geographer i consider this as a win.
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Level 44
Sep 23, 2024
Got 126/351
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Level 49
Nov 24, 2024
So many forgotten nations...
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Level 59
Nov 25, 2024
Amazing quiz!

Despite being Greek, I had never heard about Tamrash, but turns out it did exist for a short period of time from 1878 to 1886. Never recognised, but still de-facto existed

But I think Eastern Rumelia should have counted. At the time of the map it was as autonomous as Bulgaria, so I'm not sure

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Level 55
Nov 25, 2024
Thanks! It's complicated, but sources seem to suggest Eastern Rumelia was an autonomous Ottoman province at the time whilst Bulgaria was a nominal vassal state.

Eastern Rumelia did de facto cease to exist after it entered into a personal union and unified with Bulgaria in 1885. This status of legal fiction only officially ended after Bulgaria declared independence in 1908.

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Level 59
Nov 25, 2024
Yes, you're right, wikipedia indeed does call Eastern Rumelia as a province/vilayet, more than an actually autonomous vassal like Bulgaria, or Romania and Serbia, before the Russo-Turkish war of 1878.
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Level 76
Nov 25, 2024
Looking up the Wikipedia articles for all these places would be a great way to pass 30 hours
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Level 79
Dec 2, 2024
50 hours
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Level 69
Nov 30, 2024
Sultanate of Baidah maybe? idk
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Level 86
Dec 2, 2024
Was Austria-Hungary not two sovereign countries with a shared monarch?
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Level 55
Dec 2, 2024
Austria-Hungary is a case of a real union coming into existence from a political union. While Hungary was autonomous, it really wouldn't be correct to call Austria and Hungary separate countries.
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Level 84
Dec 2, 2024
no, they shared quite a bit more, and Hungary certainly didn't consider itself independent since 1876
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Level 79
Dec 2, 2024
Can't believe I forgot the Mandar Federation
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Level 84
Dec 2, 2024
Reunion is marked as British
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Level 55
Dec 2, 2024
Gonna have to fix that at some point, lol. Thanks for letting me know though.
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Level 44
Dec 2, 2024
Shout out to HOI4 for me getting Aussa
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Level 48
Dec 2, 2024
Fantastic map, the detail is especially great in Africa, but I have a couple nitpicks with a few missing small countries.

The Principality of Samos is missing, it was an Ottoman vassal but still a separate state, and Sikkim was independent as well, as a protectorate of the British Raj with a similar relation to that which Bhutan had as laid out in the 1861 protectorate treaty.

the Lao states of Luang Phrabang and Champasak are also similar, Siamese vassals, but still separate states, as are Kedah and Kelantan. There may also be some other Malay sultanates that were vassals to but separate from Siam, but I can't recall them at the moment.

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Level 55
Dec 3, 2024
Thanks! I'm however less inclined to add non-Ottoman vassals, since Ottoman authority had grown very weak over its vassals (e. g. Bulgaria, Egypt, etc.), whilst I can't really consider the Siamese vassals "independent" countries.

I'm a bit on the fence about Samos; its semi-independent nature where the governing prince was appointed by the Ottoman sultan makes me lean towards not adding it.

Sikkim is definitely getting added along with some other forgotten small kingdoms (e. g. Talamanca, Baidah, etc.) in the next update though, haha.

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Level 69
Dec 2, 2024
Amazing map, I really can't imagine how much work it took to make this map!

I do believe the Sultanate of Sulu is missing in the southern Philippines.

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Level 55
Dec 3, 2024
Thanks! Sulu had already fallen under Spanish suzerainity in 1878 (de jure in 1851).
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Level 58
Dec 3, 2024
I typed Urundi, which is what I thought Burundi was before it was Rwanda-Urundi, but didn't know that it was also Burundi before that................
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Level 53
Dec 3, 2024
What is the source of the map please ?
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Level 77
Dec 5, 2024
Surely there were many sources.
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Level 71
Dec 3, 2024
Got Kuala because I started guessing city names. But after that I couldnt find it on the map (because I looked through Southeast Asia, hovering over all the green bits). Tried to google it, but couldnt find it. Then restarted the quiz and only typed Kuala. Turns out it's in Africa. Tried Googling that afterwards: Kuala former country in Africa (and all its variations). Still no results that have any connection to this former country.

Long story short, I have some big admiration for all the research that went into this.

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Level 33
Dec 4, 2024
I saw some of the answers and I started going insane when I say "Futa Djallon" and "Futa Toro"- turns out its fouta
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Level 42
Jan 9, 2025
Must've taken a very long time to mark that map! Great quiz!
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Level 22
Jan 18, 2025
Why is norway independent in 1882