Countries of the World in 1914 with a Map

How many countries before World War One can you name?

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First submitted	January 15, 2019
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Average score	71.3%
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Europe
Albania	Montenegro
Andorra	Netherlands
Austria-Hungary	Northern Epirus
Belgium	Norway
Bulgaria	Portugal
Denmark	Romania
France	Russia
Germany	San Marino
Greece	Serbia
Italy	Spain
Liechtenstein	Sweden
Luxembourg	Switzerland
Monaco	United Kingdom

Asia
Afghanistan	Mongolia
Anaza	Najran
Asir	Nejd
Beda	Nepal
Bhutan	Oman
China	Ottoman Empire
Hamum	Persia
Jabal	Siam
Japan	Tamim
Kathiri	Tibet
Landak

Africa

Al-Hiba

Aussa

Dervish

Ethiopia

Liberia

Mbunda

South Africa

Zaian

North America

Canada

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras

Mexico

Newfoundland

Nicaragua

Panama

United States

South America

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

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103 Recent Comments

Level 44

Mar 28, 2019

I find this map so depressing.

Level 44

May 7, 2024

why?

Level 27

Jun 18, 2024

Cus so much of it is occupied by European countries

Level 47

Jul 10, 2024

bruh

Level 49

May 20, 2019

Just a nitpicky thing, but Lesotho and eSwatini should not be included as South Africa, since they were protectorates of the UK in their own right.

Level 55

Aug 27, 2019

Fixed

Level 24

May 21, 2019

Amazing quiz bro. Love it

Level 27

Aug 14, 2019

That moment when you forget Russia...

Level 65

May 3, 2024

Please.

Level 77

Sep 5, 2019

A little fix is required on the map - Djibouti stays yellow even if you guess all answer

Level 55

Sep 5, 2019

Fixed

Level 70

Sep 6, 2019

Easier than I expected. No small countries outside of Europe I've never heard about or trying to guess which Oceanian countries were already independent etc.

Level 76

Nov 9, 2019

It was indeed much easier than I expected.

Level 28

Dec 15, 2019

was the middle of arabian peninsula still not inhabited by anyone at this time

Level 81

Dec 27, 2019

No. The only uninhabited place is in the southeastern corner of the grey area on the map and known as the Empty Quarter still to this day. Most of the unfilled area on the map in 1914 was controlled by the Rashid clan of the oasis and trading city of Ha'il in northern Arabia. Their state is also known as the Emirate of Ha'il, the Rashid (or Rashidi) Emirate, the Rashidi Dynasty, or the Emirate of Jabal Shammar. Their absence from the quiz and map is odd, except insofar as since living in Saudi Arabia I've noticed that Westerners knowledge of the history of this region seems to be something like a black hole.

The Emirate was eventually overrun by King Abdulaziz of the House of Saud, who returned from exile in Kuwait to conquer first Riyadh, and then most of the peninsula, in the 1920s. The Rashid clan is still sore about this.

Level 81

Jul 28, 2021

It seems as though Ha'il (Jabar) and the 2nd Saudi state (Emirate of Nejd) were added to the map with the last update ... though... I'm a little confused about Nejd being on here because I thought they had been overrun by the Rashidis (Ha'il/Jabar) by 1914. Was there an interim Nejdi state between the 2nd and 3rd Saudi kingdoms?

Level 55

Jul 28, 2021

Nejd was overrun in 1891 but regained independence in 1902.

Level 49

Jan 7, 2020

Why are Iran and Thailand accepted?

Level 64

Feb 10, 2022

Because then people would get angry if they weren't

Level 30

Mar 4, 2020

Tibet gained their independence in 1913

Level 68

Apr 1, 2020

I guessed Newfoundland when Europe failed. Surprised it worked.

Level 46

Apr 28, 2020

Luxembourg doesn't turn green for me.

Otherwise a great quiz with a great map.

Level 55

Apr 30, 2020

Fixed.

Level 47

Apr 29, 2020

I was really out of place. I din't even remember the european microstates until like the very end. And also I learnt that Newfoundland was independent. Overall, nice quiz. :)

Level 41

Jun 9, 2020

British raj did not own Bhutan and Afghanistan.

Level 53

Jun 10, 2020

Liked it!

Level 55

Aug 6, 2020

Probably my favorite quiz!

Level 32

Aug 9, 2020

cool! I am a kid but answer correctly all.

Level 53

May 6, 2022

ok?

Level 62

Jun 26, 2024

Unfortunately you can’t grammar good

Level 65

Aug 11, 2020

Before this quiz, I just took a quiz that was of the countries of the world in 1400. Imagine the immense satisfaction that I had that I didn't even zoom in. The map was just so CLEAN.

Level 64

Aug 18, 2020

Awesome quiz!

Level 49

Oct 11, 2020

crazy and quite sad to see just three independent countries in Africa

Level 69

Oct 12, 2020

Had no idea Newfoundland was ever an independent country!

Level 44

Oct 16, 2020

Cool quiz! Really interesting to see how things have change from that time.

Level 42

Oct 30, 2020

Kinda funny that there were only three independent countries in Africa at the time.

Level 29

Feb 10, 2021

what on earth is newfoundland? like how lazy is the guy that came up with the name?

Level 15

Apr 4, 2021

Mongolia wasn't part of Chinese during these periods, I would like you to fix that, and add Mongolia as a independent country.

Level 64

Apr 14, 2021

Accept Cape Colony for South Africa

Level 53

May 6, 2022

its name wasnt that south africa was the name and also cape colony and south africa are basically the same amount of letters.

Level 44

Apr 17, 2021

I was wondering if Neutral Moresnet was considered an independent country as well?

Level 59

Apr 27, 2021

Wasn't Somaliland British?

Level 64

Feb 10, 2022

The Northern half of Somaliland was British

Level 70

May 29, 2021

That is one helluva a knowledge precipice. Goes from about 2 out of 3 of people knowing down to 1 out of 10.

Level 76

May 29, 2021

Amazing quiz, but I can't find any mention of Anaza on Wikipedia. What can you tell us about that country?

Level 55

May 30, 2021

There's not a lot of information on Anaza, unfortunately. It was a sheikhdom that existed from around the mid-19th century until its annexation by the Sauds in the 1920s (likely 1922).

Level 61

Jun 7, 2021

Nejd - 69%

Jabal - 11%

Wow... that's a giant gap!

Level 53

Sep 22, 2021

I didn't type in Nejd. It must have accepted an alternative answer for that one, hence the giant gap.

Level 61

Nov 3, 2021

Neither did I. It accepts 'Saudi'.

(Also, the percentages are now 56% and 6%.)

Level 45

Jun 10, 2021

sad ecuador and bolivia

Level 80

Jul 28, 2021

I guessed Epirus but it wasn't accepted for Northern Epirus.

Level 73

Jul 28, 2021

Portuguese- and French-controlled territories on the Indian subcontinent are missing. Also, Tibet is looking rather different. The country of Tibet roughly corresponded to the current "autonomous region" of Tibet.

Level 55

Jul 28, 2021

Portuguese/French-Controlled territories in India are to small to be shown on the map. This is the source that I used for Tibet.

Level 55

Jul 28, 2021

Actually, Tibet's (and Mongolia's) borders were constantly changing due to the ungoing Chinese Civil War.

Level 68

Jul 28, 2021

I think that this is the first time that I could type ‘Dominican Republic’ without getting ‘Dominica’.

Level 51

Jul 28, 2021

Epirus should be an acceptable answer for Northern Epirus.

Level 44

Jul 28, 2021

The percentage drop, though...

Level 68

Jul 28, 2021

Tonga never relinquished its sovereignty. It is the only Pacific Island nation to remain independent throughout the colonial era.

The UK looked after its foreign affairs but it remained independent and was at least as independent as NZ Australia Canada etc

Level 45

Jul 31, 2021

Wasn't Russia known as the Soviet Union in 1914?

Level 75

Aug 1, 2021

1922–1991

- The knowledge panel on that one wiki article

Level 21

Aug 2, 2021

One of the best quizez i have ever done! thank you.

Level 63

Aug 2, 2021

Awesome quiz! :) I see I missed all the same mysteriously-named forgotten countries as everybody else.

Level 29

Aug 4, 2021

I didn't Get Northern Epirus Because It Didn't Accept Just 'Epirus'

Level 56

Aug 9, 2021

I made a typo when I was trying to type Haiti, and I ended up with... Jabal?

Level 53

Sep 22, 2021

A disappointing lack of 'dots' for the European microstates which most map quizzes feature meant I missed out on four relatively easy ones.

Level 55

Sep 22, 2021

It also means you missed out on the very obvious "Show Missing Countries" option.

Level 30

Nov 18, 2021

nice quiz

Level 35

Dec 7, 2021

the percentage drop from Monaco to Jabal lol

Level 47

Dec 30, 2021

British raj should be an answer, even Hoi4 considers it a "country" just like Canada or Australia

Level 64

Feb 10, 2022

HOI4 starts in 1936, 22 years after this. Different time.

Level 85

Jan 8, 2022

68 for first time, not bed?

Level 78

Jan 19, 2022

Bizarre. I got 64 the first time I took this and got 3/5. When I retook it, I got 66 and got 5/5?? The statistics on this one are very strange.

Level 65

Jan 27, 2022

"This beats 94.9% of test takers..."

-I was so close, yet so far to that all important 5th point.

Level 59

May 11, 2022

Out of curiosity, why did Britain control most of coastal Oman while the state known as "Oman" only controlled some inner areas? As far as I know, Muscat is a coastal city

Level 56

May 13, 2022

Australia, Canada, and New Zealand shouldn't be listed as independent from the UK. They only became independent in 1986, 1982, and 1986 respectively.

Level 55

Jun 21, 2022

The Worldmap is really more beautiful with Tibet in it!!

Level 37

Aug 17, 2022

South america wasnt different ar this time

Level 62

Sep 14, 2022

Only at little bit

Level 37

Aug 18, 2022

It was exact the Same expect for british and Dutch guyana

Level 64

Sep 5, 2022

Why are Nepal and Bhutan listed as independent but Bahrain, for example, is not?

Level 62

Sep 14, 2022

How did I even get Northern Epirus?

Level 82

Oct 3, 2022

I tried Epirus and it didn't work. Never thought to try adding the "Northern". Would it be possible to accept Epirus just as Macedonia is accepted in Countries of the World for today even though the country is North Macedonia officially? Unlike, say, Korea, there's no need to distinguish in this case.

Level 63

Dec 9, 2022

Had no idea Newfoundland was once a country. The more you know...

Level 51

Dec 24, 2022

I got 67 it doesn't accept epirus it's first time ever i hear northern öne it could be 68

Level 51

Dec 24, 2022

Damn protocol of corfu

Level 75

Mar 10, 2023

Can you accept Rumania? I think it was the spelling at the time.

Level 46

Mar 26, 2023

Can anyone tell me what is Landak,I couldn't find any history regarding the place and how it was independent.

Level 65

May 20, 2023

Hello, I am currently doing some research to make my own quiz and I am using this quiz as a source and I saw your comment. When you search 'Landak' it gives you some sort of hedgehog but if you search 'Landak Tribe' it gives you the 'Kendayan people'. But there is nothing about them being a country or nation or sultanate or whatever. I know I didn't really answer your question but maybe if you dig deeper you can find something.

Have a nice day :)

Level 67

May 28, 2023

Only HOI4 players will know what Aussa is right away

Level 28

May 30, 2023

61/80 .... didn't knew those ones in mid-east

Level 66

Sep 11, 2023

lol love the thumbnail. Back in 1914 when the world was black and white.

Level 52

Sep 17, 2023

South America is mostly the same

Level 61

Oct 16, 2023

I think it'd be cool to do an "Every Country Since x year" quiz. Might not be able to have a map but it'd be interesting.

Level 72

Dec 4, 2023

There's one for Europe: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1298084/every-country-of-europe-since-1815

Level 47

Dec 6, 2023

you should accept "Shammar" / "Shamar" for "Jabal" because the name of the tribe/nation was called "Jabal Shammar" in arabic, and "Sabal" in arabic simply means a mountain so technically Shammar is more accurate! great quiz btw

Level 23

Mar 31, 2024

Great quiz. I feel like Tonga should be included though. Yes it was a protectorate of Britain but it did not give up its sovereignty, and seems to have been at least as independent as Canada, Australia, Newfoundland etc at that time

Level 26

Apr 10, 2024

accept ussr

Level 69

Apr 13, 2024

Not in 1914

Level 66

Apr 19, 2024

I feel pretty good about my result. I got all the possible ones, basically (66/80) - and none of the other ones had I ever, ever heard of. Like literally ever. And apparently I'm not the only one who feels this way, because the drop-off from Monaco to Jabal is massive.

Level 53

Jun 18, 2024

lol, looks like I got the same ones as everyone else, that's a pretty sharp drop from 50% down to 6% there.

Level 66

Jul 23, 2024

Apparently did this 2 years ago an got 61 which is 2/5 points. Did this again and got 66 which is 5/5 points

Level 50

Oct 4, 2024

This quizz is simply incorrect on many points : many of those "countries" did not exist at the same time and some not even in 1914.

1 star for this...

Level 55

Oct 4, 2024

"Incorrect on many points"

Proceeds not to explain what specifically is incorrect. If you're gonna comment something negative like this, then at least elaborate.

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