Countries that Beat Egypt

Why isn't Libya accepted as a Mediterranean country?

Great quiz! Strange that Nigeria has the second most violent persecution of Christians considering half the country is Christian.

I was really surprised about that too, I guess it just depends on the region of Nigeria

Northern Nigeria is under Sharia law. Sadly, targeted mass killings of Christians there don't seem to get the attention in the west that they should. Boko Haram is a serious problem. Read more if you can stomach it: https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/2020/04/13/Nigeria-Is-A-Killing-Field-Of-Defenseless-Christians

JetPunk is a Western site. YouTube is a Western site. Facebook and most other social media websites are Western sites. Kinda hard to avoid Western sites on the internet.

And, like it or not, persecution of minorities is a very real problem in conservative Muslim countries. Does Shariah law say anything about persecuting Christians? I honestly don't know enough to answer that. I do know that conservative Muslim societies tend both to follow Shariah law strictly and persecute Christians, so even if it isn't causation, it is correlation.

Yeah, I thought that was strange but I suppose if you focus on the northern, Muslim-majority part of Nigeria that might make sense. What confuses me more that the source says Colombia, a country where Catholicism is dominant, is the 6th most violent country for Christians. I'm guessing that maybe it has something to do with Protestants being persecuted? But I also know nothing about religion in Colombia so if anyone has an explanation please let me know.

As far as I can tell it's not sectarian. It's criminal groups who don't like christian messages which oppose their criminal activities.

Somehow I got stuck thinking all the answers needed to be an african country. I did get unstuck, but nearly got stuck again. Wasted too much time by then. Still managed to get all but 4 but could have done better.

Edit: all of which btw did have atleast one african answer, but had lost too much time allready. Not the first time this happened in a quiz like this, getting stuck thinking it has to meet certain extra requirements it actually doesn't.

Good quiz

I typed "India" for "Whose capital has the highest urban area population" and it wasn't taken

India didn't work as a type-in for me either.

Yes, me too.

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What about 'Number of pyramids' for this quiz?

Found a few links.

https://www.sciencealert.com/sorry-egypt-but-sudan-is-the-pyramid-capital-of-the-world

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/africa/sudan-pyramids-twice-number-egypt-meroe-soleb-prudhoe-lions-tours-a7579141.html

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Thx!

ARGH! I thought the Libya flag was under 33% black because the middle section has the Islamic moon and star, but the area of the middle is slightly larger than other flags.

there is nothing called "Islamic moon". There is a huge misconception that the star and moon are related by any means to Islam and that totally wrong. Yes, most of flag that has moon and star are from Muslim countries but in fact it's not related to Islam. There is nothing mentioned in Islam or Islamic scriptures regarding taking the moon as a holy symbol. Saudi Arabia "Hijaz region" which is the region of the birthplace of Islam, they do not have any moon in their flag, also all countries of Arabian peninsula. North African countries developed the moon and star taken from the ottoman "Turkish" when they were colonized by them because the Ottomans developed the moon and star as they national symbol.

I feel like "Country with the most pyramids" (beaten by Sudan) would be an interesting question for this. :P

I refuse to believe:

-Beijing is Smaller than Cairo

-North Korea & "Taliban occupied Afghanistan" does not prosecute Christians

Although the first one probably has sources...

For ‘Greatest amount of land in the Nile River Basin’ Egypt is rank 3 but beaten by 3 other countries. Should it be rank 4?

Why did Christianity Today crash my computer?

i tried like every single muslim country and country neaar a muslim country for the christian persecution question except pakistan and nigeria oh my god

what did we ever do to you man

You may want to change 'micronations' to 'microstates'. A micronation is a self-proclaimed, unrecognized & unorganized state probably in the middle of another country, while a 'microstate' is a recognized country that just happens to be very small (e.g. Monaco or San Marino).