Brilliant idea. I almost didn't get my own country, New Zealand, but that's probably because I'm so accustomed to it not existing on many maps: see worldmapswithout.nz
This often happens to Wales as well, they were very often left off maps by EU bodies. I could never help but wonder if that wasn’t a tiny bit on purpose…
I don't know if it was a problem with my computer but after I zoomed in and zoomed back out the entire map was no longer showing. I lost the entire top. Is there a some special way to adjust that properly?
This is a bad answer. If users have to zoom in, it's really not a country that should be included.
Perhaps a "Fiendish Word Map Without 12 Countries" is in order where countries like East Timor, San Marino, or St Kitts and Nevis are answers.
What's also interesting is that these are all island or coastal countries. Landlocked countries could simply lose their boarders as though they were part of a neighboring country.
I nearly missed Madagascar, only get it with a few seconds to spare. These guys really need to do something about their profile to really put Madagascar ‘on the map.’ Perhaps some kind of Hollywood film?
Mauritius and some other islands seem to be missing as well, hard to know what's just too small to show on the map (Mauritius, I assume) and what's a missing country (Cyprus)
I was just thinking about that same thing! We sure would be shortchanged on some classic Earth scenery as well, especially without New Zealand, Greenland, and Madagascar.
I believe that's because the original shapefile has some country shapes that aren't done in an exact way since they are hidden by other countries anyway (eg Nepal if I remember correctly) so when you remove the 'covering' country this becomes evident!
Simultaneously fantastic and embarrassing. Notice South Korea, correctly guessed without zooming that either Malta or Cyprus would be missing, someone missed New Zealand, Chile and the fact that Greenland wasn't there.
Pretty cool idea! For the last minute I wondered what was missing... then it hit me! South Korea! But there was only 2 seconds left and couldn't type it fast enough... Oh well. Do more like these!
Awesome! Got them all. I scanned the coastlines and was always very surprised when I noticed what wasn't there--even Denmark didn't register immediately. I got Turkey first.
Amazing quiz. Funny how odd the normal outlines look when you are looking for missing pieces. "Is the black sea normally that big? Aren't there more islands in the pacific?"
I love this quiz because I've never stared so long at a blank space, convinced there is supposed to be a country there, but cannot work out what it is. Then I finish the quiz and realise that I'm going insane because there's never been a country there. Like some kind of Mandela Effect.
Would be nice if the quiz stated that none of the missing countries is smaller than (a given area), so people won't try to look for some small islands. Like Maldives, I'm pretty sure that Maldives aren't there.
I like how this quiz doesn't have countries missing where it would look like the world map is definitely wrong. Meaning that only experienced map-readers such as us JetPunkers would know where the world map looks slightly awry... the other quizzes like this one have, like, the US missing from the map, and it looks so weird
I came back to it a year later, and still super-easy. Especially once you realize most of the missing countries are either islands or touching the ocean.
It's funny how many people forget about New Zealand (not specifically targeting this quiz), plus, with the Mercator Map Projections, New Zealand appears larger than it really should be.
Cool quiz. Had everything correct except cyprus. I already thought i wasn't seeing something in africa or middle america, and din't pay attention to the mediterian sea
Perhaps a "Fiendish Word Map Without 12 Countries" is in order where countries like East Timor, San Marino, or St Kitts and Nevis are answers.
What's also interesting is that these are all island or coastal countries. Landlocked countries could simply lose their boarders as though they were part of a neighboring country.
Third time's the charm!!
More like this one PLEASE!
The islands are hard because when they're gone you assume there's nothing there anyway :/
Sincerely, Sweden.
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Cannot believe the two I missed were Chile and Denmark but somehow I got Cyprus. LOL.
my own country Denmark was the first I fund missing
All countries visible at full zoom.
12/12 with 1:30 left, by the way :)
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Poor New Zealand :(