Name a Valid Country #3

It’s not yellow, it’s gold

Wow. I'm German and I'm aware that we call it "Schwarz-Rot-Gold", but to argue that it's not yellow must be some sort of record, even for this page.

you're right but fun fact: it's supposed to be gold instead of yellow. they couldn't make it gold because producing golden textile hasn't been possible apparently BUT when the flag is specifically described as black-red-gold in documents/samples or whatever they actually do put up a flag with something that looks like gold instead of yellow.

Isn't gold just a specific shade of yellow?

The Netherlands definitely have orange on their flag...

Ben82192: Not on the national flag it doesn't. The Official Dutch flag is horizontal Red, White and Blue (as opposed to France, which is vertical Red, White and Blue). The Dutch Royal Standard has orange in it because the royal family is known as the House of "Oranje Nassau".

The Netherlands used to have orange color in their flag but because of the orange dye that had faded a lot on flag fabrics and looked like a light red color, they decided to change the flag and replace the orange bar to the red one. It was long time ago and nowadays they could easily use more durable orange dye but the red remains.

I'm with Henning and Danny on this one. Sure, we all see a yellowy-orange kind of color looking at it, but if *Armenia* thinks and says it's orange – and most importantly, the stripe has a symbolic meaning that depends on it being orange – isn't that actually the most important criteria? I'm sure you've come across that seemingly odd (to us) socio-linguistic phenomena where different cultures have different perceptions of color classifications, like the languages that don't even have different words for, and therefore don't really differentiate between, say, blue and green. I therefore throw my support behind Orangemenia! 🇦🇲 (N.B. Oh, hey – it looks pretty darn orange on the flag emoji, actually…)

Thanks, Josh! Hopefully Quizmaster will agree to agree ;-)

I'd agree, it's at least close enough

Okay, I argued for Armenia, but I can't for Cyprus. The color country shape on Cyprus' flag is stated to symbolize the rich natural resource of copper on the island, so to me, that pretty clearly indicates they meant the color to be "copper", which is not the same as orange. Flags are all about symbolic meaning, so I think what should be paramount here, as I said in my previous comment, is how the countries themselves describe their flags. That's my 2¢ (in copper pennies)!

Nice to see that I'm not the only blind person who read 'old' instead of 'cold' :D

Pretty sure South Africa has orange on the flag...it has a lot of colors

for capital city colder than moscow i wrote "ulan bator" instead of mongolia

I tried many cities, starting with Oslo, Reykjavik, Ulan Bator and gave up when I couldn't find the answer.

I realised my stupidity when I saw the actual answers.

It would be nice to see stats of the share of countries that are guessed for each category.

Didn't get the Danube river one, cuz I only know that river as Donau.

It's red.

Do heliports not count as airports?

According to the WHO 2019 statistics as quoted by Wikipedia, both Italy and Australia have a life expectancy of at least 83, and are ahead of some of the countries given in the answer.

Vanuatu also doesn't have an airport

You're not counting Ecuador (Spanish for Equator) as a country with some form of Equator in its name?

Actually, not. It is the misconception that the territories/dependencies of the UK and US are parts of the countries, but no. They are legally not integral parts of those countries.

France via new Caledonia also borders the coral sea, New Caledonia is considered to be France

Cyprus has orange on its flag

I almost missed colder than Moscow because I read it as "older"