Countries with the Largest Exclusive Economic Zone

You can assume its a bunch of overseas territories like French Polynesia or New Caledonia

*Hides in American.*

yea thats like france slapping a claim on the baltic sea near st petersburg

@tshalla France got on this list because colonialism

Now at least. If it said "excludes", then I'd struggle understanding Denmark.

You're telling me if I tell someone outside of the US that I'm an American, they're going to next ask me which country I'm from? I don't think so, Jerry. The continents are North America and South America. My Canadian friends do not want to be called American but North American is fine with them, and my cousin from Panama prefers to be called a Panamanian. People from Australia aren't called Commonwealth of Australians. I don't understand why people don't get this.

Ander, in almost every language and culture outside of the english-speaking world, it is a single continent - America. That is how they are taught. Panama is Panamanian and also American, just as France is French and also European. In fact, in Spanish they have a word specifically for people from the US, because to them, the whole continent is American. Maybe do some fact-checking before you tell someone they're wrong:)

Actually, just weighing in for Mandarin, it's called měiguó; mei is transcription for "America" and guo just means country. This is, the USA. There are other words for the continents. And, I should also note, on the Chinese Wikipedia, North and South America are displayed separately on a map of the continents. But, in any case, being an English language site, do these other languages matter? I can't weigh in anywhere else, but in Australia, everybody assumes USA when you say American or America; I've never come across anyone with different usage.

It's a bit silly to be lectured on this by people who think Europe is a continent.

I guess that this argument arises from the fact that the country and the continents have the same name.

"people who think Europe is a continent", so, basically everyone?

Hard to think of a definition of continent that works for Europe. It's on the same tectonic plate as Asia and besides, using tectonic definitions, Japan's partially in N America. There's no particular divide between it and Asia, whereas very little land joins Asia to Africa or the two Americas (and there are now canals there). The Urals and Caucasus are generally given as divides, but if they are sufficient to divide continents, why is South Asia considered a part of Asia at all? The Indian subcontinent is more properly divided from Asia than Europe and it's well over half the size of our current smallest continent with more people living on it than any continent apart from Asia itself. Which brings us to human-based definitions of continents. If I go from north to south Georgia or west to east Russia, have I really witnessed more cultural change than going from Jerusalem to Ulaanbaatar? What about if I'm in Istanbul and cross the Bosporus? More than going from Vladivostok to Seoul?

I've had some all-night world problem solving debates on this subject. I've independently polled many Europeans, Asians, and Africans (not enough to make a real claim) and they all have said that if you say "I'm American" they assume you are from the U.S. and would not ask a follow up question. Many times in Italy people see me drinking a huge beer and they say "Deutsche?", I say "no," and then they say "Americano?" and I say "yes." When I have polled South Americans (mostly from Argentina) they take the view that anyone from North or South America is an American.

SNIX IS JOKING!!!!

According to Alexa, there are considerably more daily visitors to JetPunk from the UK than the US.

* 57% occurs outside AMERICA.

The problem here is that the United States is dumb and chose a name that causes endless confusion over its ambiguity by naming itself after the entire continent. Compare to the United States of Brazil or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea aka North Korea, which both refer unequivocally to a single geographic entity (Korean dispute notwithstanding). The solution here is not to call it either America or the United States, but something else like... the United States of Yellowstone (e.g.) or some other non-ambiguous name that refers exclusively to that country, thereby enabling us to not have to refer to the government. (Yes, there are two Congos, but that's a different situation.)

It is not because we call people American that we can call the country America.

And basically we don't.

America existed before the country.

@mahble The name is "(the) United States of America" so it's not our fault that people call the US "America"

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Missed Papua New Guinea again!

He should have said "Eh oui" though.

That has a very interesting map! Cool to see it represented (I guess it cant be used on this quiz, cause then you basicly see what you need to guess, but nice to have it visualized :))

Actually, just to be accurate: In terms of international law, EEZs do not count as a state's sovereign territory (as opposed to its terrirorial waters, which do count).

Bouvet's a territory of Norway, not France.

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