Countries by Borders, Bordering Sea, Capital Proximity, Official Language or Currency in 30 Seconds

Name each country by guessing either its name, capital, currency, official language, any country it borders, any capital within 1000 km of its capital, or any OCEAN or sea it DIRECTLY borders. You have 30 seconds.

For this quiz only, it has to DIRECTLY border an ocean or sea, not a marginal sea or sub-sea

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Country

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China

Colombia

Comoros

Costa Rica

Ivory Coast

Country

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

D. R. Congo

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Ethiopia

F. S. Micronesia

Fiji

Finland

France

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran

Country

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Kosovo

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

North Macedonia

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Country

Myanmar

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

North Korea

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Palau

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

Republic of the Congo

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and

the Grenadines

Samoa

San Marino

São Tomé and Príncipe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Country

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

South Korea

South Sudan

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Eswatini

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Vatican City

Venezuela

Vietnam

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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75 Comments

Level 67

Feb 20, 2018

Fun quiz!

Level 72

Apr 2, 2018

I got 175 :D

+10

Level 82

Dec 13, 2018

183 beats 99.7% of people. How do you complete this?!!!! Aaargh!!!! I will not be defeated.

Level 72

Jun 16, 2020

I checked the countries I missed initially. In most cases, their currency names are shorter than country names or language names. If you're missing Botswana, Ethiopia, South Korea, Cambodia - this is the trick. I now can complete this 6 out of 10 times.

Level 63

Apr 15, 2023

You can also use Sudan for Ethiopia (one letter longer), Laos for Cambodia (same length), and ROK for South Korea (same length).

Level 28

Jan 15, 2019

Aral Sea not included

Level 55

Sep 26, 2024

It shouldn't at this point, the poor lake has been destroyed. (Yes, I know this comment is 5 years late)

Level 83

Feb 5, 2020

Typing in Czechia doesn't highlight any of its neighbors

Level 35

Oct 12, 2023

It probably took Czech (the language) instead

Level 19

Sep 16, 2020

Hint: It's easiest to do it by official language.

Level 71

Mar 6, 2023

thanks for the hint--this helped a lot

+30

Level 69

Dec 9, 2020

Finally got all 196 countries! (0:26) Here are my type ins

English

French

Spanish

Portugese (u need it for Sao Tomé and East Timor)

Arabic

Atlantic

India

Indian

South China (For Malaysia and Taiwan)

Baltic

Roma

Kiev (Roma+Kiev covers pretty much rest europe)

Euro (For Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus)

Birr (Ethiopia)

Pula (Botswana)

Iran (For Turkey, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Afghanistan)

Japan (For Korea and Japan)

Russia (For Norway, Mongolia, Georgia, Azerbaijan)

Bangkok (For Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia)

Bishkek (For Kyrgyzstan, Tajikiztan and Uzbekistan)

Probably not the shortest way but it works with fast typing. :)

Level 68

Oct 22, 2021

legend

Level 70

Mar 12, 2022

Great method! I found that Belgrade gets all the countries that Rome and Kiev do. It's the same number of letters, but I prefer typing one word.

Level 98

Mar 6, 2023

You rock, thanks!

Level 92

Mar 7, 2023

5/5 indeed but its 195/196 because Israel is missing

Level 41

Apr 16, 2023

This is the list but its faster and includes israel:

English

French

Spanish

Portugese

Arabic

Atlantic

India

Indian

South China

Baltic

Belgrade

Euro

Birr

Pula

Iran

Japan

Russia

Bangkok

Bishkek

Shekel

Level 79

Dec 7, 2023

there we go! this one nails it

Level 49

Jan 21, 2022

nominated

Level 66

Mar 12, 2022

USA should be accepted for Caribbean as of Puerto Rico. Or else you should ad a caveat about overseas territories.

Super amazing quiz and concept, can’t imagine how much work it took. Nominated

Level 35

Apr 27, 2022

I think there were a couple limitations on this (Atlantic not counting for Panama but counting for Mexico), but overall I enjoyed it. I ran a program to find the lowest number of letters needed to complete the challenge and got 112 letters with 20 words. On lowest number of words, I found 19 words (113 letters).

Here's my list with the shortest characters:

China

India

Atlantic

Indian

Japan

SouthChina

Euro

Franc

Som

Pula

English

Spanish

Portugese (misspelled but still works :P)

Arabic

Riga

Bangkok

Baku

Juba

Sofia

Bern

Let me know if you find anything shorter! (I initially found a smaller # but it contained words like Thailand and Indian which require Thai and India to also be typed)

Level 35

Apr 27, 2022

The shorter word list (but one more character) is here:

China

India

Brunei

Atlantic

Indian

Euro

Franc

Som

Birr

Pula

English

Spanish

Portugese

Arabic

EastChina

Bangkok

Baku

Berlin

Chisinau

Level 79

Apr 28, 2022

wow, impressive work!

you could type NDIAN then go back to the start, add I so that by typing 6 characters (plus home to go to the start of the word would make it 7 I guess) you get all India and Indian answers.

Typing them separately requires 11 characters.

Level 63

Jun 12, 2022

Yes! I always use tricks like this but no one else ever does.

Level 61

Mar 9, 2023

PRC works for China

Level 55

Jul 28, 2023

This list worked for me, but I had to add Israel.

Level 79

Dec 7, 2023

are you forgetting israel on purpose? several other comment lists also forgot israel. Strange

Level 79

Dec 8, 2023

it's because previously Arabic was considered an official language of Israel in the Official Languages of the World quiz

Level 63

Jun 12, 2022

Great quiz! Can you accept KSA? It would be great and shouldn't be too hard.

Level 63

Jul 5, 2022

I did it with 19 words :D

English

Spanish

Arabic

French

Portuguese

Som

Euro

Pula

China

Kenya

Baku

Bangkok

Bucharest

Copenhagen

South China

Atlantic

Bengal

Japan

Indian

Level 66

Jul 12, 2022

I didn't do it the smartest way, but I did it. 4 seconds left. Literally spent an hour on this because I am too stubborn to change my method majorly

Level 76

Jul 20, 2022

While far from perfect, the list I formulated was:

English

Spanish

French

Portuguese

Dutch

Arabic

Malay

Euro

Budapest

Bangkok

Russia

USA

India

East China

Uzbek

Uzbekistan

Turkey

Baltic

Iceland

Ethiopia

Tswana

Mauritius

Maldives

Australia

Level 44

Jul 23, 2022

193!!!

Level 26

Aug 13, 2022

Some answers that will help you:

English

French

Brazil

Spanish

Spain

China

Russia

Dollar

Lao

Arabic

Level 40

Sep 14, 2022

BTW - DPRK doesn't mark off South Korea

also, 196 as the counter was turning to 30 :D i now hate botswana

Level 61

Mar 9, 2023

DPRK Is North Korea.

ROK is South Korea

Level 63

Sep 14, 2024

but they border

Level 54

Oct 22, 2022

SO FUN!! 5 stars + nominated :D

Level 54

Oct 31, 2022

JUST got 100% with 2 seconds left!! :D

Level 64

Dec 13, 2022

Could you accept KSA for Saudi Arabia?

Level 49

Jan 9, 2023

I wasted at least 4 seconds being puzzled by why usa and Australia weren't highlighted when I typed 'English'... This is really hard.

Level 87

Mar 6, 2023

USA has no official language. Not sure about Australia.

Level 49

May 21, 2023

Aus doesn’t either

Level 63

Feb 9, 2023

I've been looking for this quiz for so long!

Level 78

Mar 6, 2023

Holy Hell!

Level 63

Mar 6, 2023

Why was this featured 3x?

Level 49

May 21, 2023

It deserves to be

Level 83

Mar 6, 2023

Red Sea doesn't work for Egypt

Level 72

Apr 15, 2023

Nor does Mediterranean.

Level 85

Mar 6, 2023

AWESOME Quiz!

Level 91

Mar 7, 2023

Really needs a 'show missing countries' button. Countries such as Andorra are invisible on the map

Level 69

Mar 7, 2023

Name every ocean = approximately half your score, plus Russia, Arabic, and euro.

Level 77

Mar 20, 2023

Got it in 19 seconds! Spent way too much time figuring out how to optimize my type-ins.

English

Dollar

Spanish

Franc

Euro

Russia

China

India

Indian

Atlantic

Sofia

Baltic

Rome

Laos

Indonesia

Iran

Red

Uzbek

Tswana

Guinea

Birr

Japan

Level 77

Mar 22, 2023

you need to say china before Laos, otherwise it will fill in Lao before you can finish typing Laos

Level 63

Mar 21, 2023

Not a fast typer, the best I could manage was 157/196 using official languages.

Level 44

Apr 15, 2023

Why does Egypt not highlight when red or Mediterranean are entered? It lies on both

Level 79

Apr 19, 2023

should be fixed now, thanks

Level 73

Apr 15, 2023

Why does West Africa not border the Atlantic Ocean?

Level 54

Apr 15, 2023

most of west africa doesn't enter when you type "atlantic"

taiwan and china don't work when you type "pacific"

yemen, oman don't appear with "indian"

norway doesn't appear with "arctic"

"mediterranean" doesn't trigger italy, france, albania, turkey, egypt, etc.

"bay of bengal" doesn't trigger thailand or malaysia

"south china sea" doesn't trigger...china??

"southern ocean" doesn't trigger anything

Level 63

Apr 15, 2023

Gulf of Guinea. Arabian Sea. North Sea.

Level 79

Apr 19, 2023

This is the quiz used as reference for sea borders: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/134157/countries-of-the-world-by-bordering-sea-in-90-seconds

So except south china-china and mediterranean-egypt that should now be fixed, the others aren't considered borders.

Thanks

Level 68

Apr 15, 2023

I didn't understand this from the instruction. I thought we had to guess a single specific country by narrowing it down.

Level 66

Apr 16, 2023

Exactly! The quiz instructions clearly say "Guess a country", not "give me all 196 countries". Perhaps the instructions should be edited?

Level 69

Apr 15, 2023

This is a fun and challenging quiz, well done. I want to keep playing it, trying different combinations to see what works best.

Level 85

May 1, 2023

finally got 196 after 103 attempts! breathing helps! perhaps my favorite JetPunk Quiz!

Level 33

May 15, 2023

Me and @puzzlerusher spent hours on this and came up with a 120-character solution. Then, assisted by the comments here we got:

-1 from Portuguese --> Portugese

-3 from Lao, Laos, Malay, Dollar --> South China, Dutch

down to 116. Our solution is:

English

Spanish

Portugese

French

Arabic

Dutch

Japan

Russia

India

Iran

Krona

Rupee

Birr

Pula

Som

Euro

Vienna

Ankara

Male

Kabul

SouthChina

Level 67

Sep 22, 2023

185/196

Level 61

Apr 6, 2024

Zimbabwe is changing its currency to the "Gold": https://apnews.com/article/zimbabwe-new-currency-inflation-us-dollar-06a656260462d9651112e394e125c5e6

Level 38

Jun 26, 2024

Can someone explain how Japan gets me N and S Korea? I just typed the name so I figure it's due to a 'border' but I'm not sure how that's possible. I'm not being persnickity, I'm genuinely wondering where my ignorance lies.

Level 64

Jul 4, 2024

must be from the sea of japan, i also used this one in my method

Level 64

Jul 4, 2024

definitely not as good as some other word lists here but after like 50 attempts and many method changes i finallyyy got it with

english

spanish

china

south china

atlantic

indian

brussels

mediterran (don't know why this works)

riga

budapest

guinea

chad

mali

dili

bangkok

japan

iran

ksa

uzbek

georgia

rwanda

botswana

ethiopia

bahrain

Level 23

Oct 1, 2024

mine

Red

India

Indian

China

Russia

Atlantic

Pacific

Dollar

Euro

Mali

English

Spanish

French

Bangkok

Persian

Roma

Romania

Brunei

Syria

Germany

Iran

Libya

easttimor

Sudan

Sweden

Uzbek

Japan

Sao tome

Zambia

Level 68

Dec 17, 2024

I tried a few times, my best was 190. I'll probalbly come back to this when I'm not sick (Literally had 39.7*c yesterday xD), but I think it's a fairly good score anyway

Level 43

Feb 24, 2025

Sao Tome isn't placed as touching the Atlantic Ocean, dispite Equatorial Guinea, which touches the same part of the Atlantic, being placed in the Atlantic. The Gulf of Guinea is part of the Atlantic Ocean anyway. Please consider changing this.

Level 43

Feb 27, 2025

english 7, 56 = 8

french 6, 24 = 4

arabic 6, 18 = 3

belgrade 8, 22 = 2.8

spanish 7, 19 = 2.7

euro 4, 9 = 2.3

iran 4, 6 = 1.5

india 5, 6 = 1.2

russia 6, 7 = 1.2

atlantic 8, 6 = 0.8

indian 6, 4 = 0.7

bangkok 7, 4 = 0.6

bishkek 7, 3 = 0.4

japan 5, 2 = 0.4

baltic 7, 2 = 0.3

southchina 11, 3 = 0.3

birr 4, 1 = 0.3

pula 4, 1 = 0.3

portugese 9, 2 = 0.2

egypt 5, 1 = 0.2

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