Countries that Beat South Africa

For each selected category, name any of the countries that ranks higher than South Africa.

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Rank	Category	Countries
6	Most populous African country	Nigeria \| Ethiopia \| Egypt \| D. R. Congo \| Tanzania
9	Largest country in Africa by area	Algeria \| D. R. Congo \| Sudan \| Libya \| Chad \| Niger \| Angola \| Mali
8	Great number of wild elephants	Botswana \| Zimbabwe \| Tanzania \| India \| Kenya \| Namibia \| Zambia
5	Southernmost country * Excluding European possessions	Chile \| Argentina \| Australia \| New Zealand
2	Most people of Dutch ancestry outside of the Netherlands	United States
4	Greatest number of official languages	Bolivia \| Zimbabwe \| Mali
4	African country with the longest coastline	Madagascar \| Mozambique \| Egypt
2	Country containing the largest urban area whose name starts with J	Indonesia
4 (t)	Greatest number of oceans bordered * excluding overseas territories	Canada \| Russia \| United States
2 (t)	Most top 3 finishes in the Rugby World Cup	New Zealand
2	Greatest number of other countries whose territory it completely surrounds	Italy
5	Earliest legalization of same sex marriage	Netherlands \| Belgium \| Spain \| Canada
5	Most murders (2022)	Brazil \| Nigeria \| India \| Mexico
8 (t)	Most gold produced (2022)	China \| Australia \| Russia \| Canada \| United States \| Mexico \| Kazakhstan
9	Highest GDP per capita in Africa (PPP, 2024)	Seychelles \| Mauritius \| Libya \| Botswana \| Gabon \| Equatorial Guinea \| Egypt \| Algeria
3	Most area within the Kalahari Desert	Botswana \| Namibia

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36 Comments

Level 75

May 3, 2020

Don't forget to try the rest of our Countries that Beat quizzes and all the ones in the Countries that Beat tag!

Level 68

May 3, 2020

Easier than expected

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Level 72

May 4, 2020

Man at one point for some of these questions I had started to think the answer needed to be an African country.. I need sleep

Level 89

May 4, 2020

Same here. Probably on both counts.

Level 79

Oct 16, 2024

4 years after them: it took me a good while to conclude that there’s no way there are multiple countries further south than South Africa in Africa.

Level 83

May 6, 2020

Curious about your source for the language question. I had thought India had 20+ official languages.

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Level 73

May 7, 2020

I think there are only two official languages at national level in India but in total 22 scheduled languages (some of which are officially recognised in individual states but not the nation as a whole)

Level 76

Sep 3, 2020

And what about Switzerland?

Level 73

Sep 3, 2020

What about it?

Level 75

Sep 3, 2020

Switzerland only has four official languages (French, German, Italian, Romansch). South Africa has eleven.

Level 60

Jun 29, 2023

Doesn't Singapore have 4 official languages? English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil.

Level 56

Jun 1, 2020

South Africa isn't #2 but tied #1 with Italy for countries inside its territory. 2 in South Africa (Eswatini and Lesotho) and 2 in Italy (Vatican and San Marino - Monaco is inside France though it's only a few kilometers from Italian border).

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Level 75

Jun 1, 2020

Here are the problems with that:

Eswatini also borders Mozambique

Though Monaco only borders France, Monaco is on the Mediterranean Sea, making it not count

Level 58

Jun 6, 2020

somalia has the longest coastline in africa

Level 57

Jun 30, 2020

After Madagascar, obvs. Yes, I'm surprised it's not on the list. I suppose it depends what authority you're using. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_length_of_coastline it has either the longest or second-longest coastline on the continent itself.

Level 75

Sep 3, 2020

We use this quiz as the source

Level 70

Sep 3, 2020

I've got conditioned by previous answers and the questions regarding murder rate and same sex marriage made me though about these items in Africa only

Level 67

Sep 4, 2020

I'm a little confused about the oceans bordering question. I'm assuming that, as far as this quiz is concerned, South Africa borders the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. What about the Southern Ocean though? I'm not sure whether South Africa technically borders it, but if it does, none of the answers given have more, and if it doesn't, Australia should be accepted.

Level 75

Sep 4, 2020

Neither South Africa nor Australia border the Southern Ocean. It is generally considered to be bounded by the Antarctic Circle, the 60th parallel south, the southern circulation, or the Antarctic Convergence, but some definitions are a bit looser. None of the mainstream definitions, and very few other definitions consider the Southern Ocean to border the mainland of any continent besides Antarctica, and those only border Chile and Argentina. So you could make a case that Chile borders three oceans, but I am pretty sure that those definitions also mean that Chile does not border the Atlantic Ocean. And besides, these very loose definitions are rare and not commonly accepted.

Level 46

Sep 13, 2020

Good quiz but what do you mean by most official languages?

Level 61

Sep 26, 2023

The largest amount of official languages? There's not really any other way to word it.

Level 62

Jun 6, 2021

I'm confused as to how Australia doesn't border the same number of oceans as South Africa? Either it's 3 and South Africa does qualify for bordering the Southern Ocean in which case so does Australia or it's 2 and they're still both there.

Level 61

Sep 26, 2023

I don't see the issue. The quiz is countries that beat South Africa, not those that tie with them. (And HinesBrothers has said above that neither are counted for the Southern Ocean.)

Level 70

May 1, 2022

Doesn't Papua New Guinea also have 3 official languages?

Level 68

Aug 25, 2022

south africa has 11

Level 62

Dec 14, 2022

Qatar needs to be added for the World Cup question

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Dec 14, 2022

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Level 72

Jun 2, 2023

You should probably add a caveat excluding territories. Otherwise, the UK and France are also valid answers for the oceans bordered question.

Level 61

Sep 26, 2023

Alternatively, just accept UK and France for the oceans question.

Level 50

Feb 13, 2024

Mali now has 13 official languages

Level 50

May 1, 2024

17/17 :3

Level 34

May 25, 2024

I surely can’t be the only one that thought png would beat South Africa on the language question but i guess alive languages aren’t the same as official languages

Level 85

Sep 23, 2024

Shouldn't "Great number of elephants" be "Greatest"?

Level 79

Oct 16, 2024

Are you saying that having numerous elephants isn’t great? Do you hate elephants?

Level 67

Sep 25, 2024

Full marks for The Robbster.

Level 56

Oct 16, 2024

"Country containing the largest urban area whose name starts with J"

I definitely read this as it looking for a country that starts with a J and not an urban area that starts with a J. Was very confused when Japan didn't populate.