World Map without 12 Countries

Oh no! Twelve countries have been removed from the World Map! Can you identify them all?

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Last updated: December 7, 2015

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First submitted	December 5, 2015
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Country

Bangladesh

Chile

Cyprus

Denmark

Country

Japan

Madagascar

New Zealand

Norway

Country

Somalia

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Turkey

+15

Level 75

Dec 5, 2015

Very clever!

Level 64

Dec 5, 2015

Same - but please adjust to Scroll Mode. :)

Level 75

Dec 5, 2015

done, but I don't really know what that does :D

Level 64

Dec 6, 2015

On a mobile device (such as a phone), you'll be able to see the whole map.

+14

Level 83

Dec 5, 2015

I think Vatican City is missing.

Level 82

Dec 8, 2015

It isn't. If you zoom in, there's a small dot.

Level 85

Dec 8, 2015

But it's hard to tell if there is yellow or blue inside the dot ;).

Level 65

Jan 21, 2016

And regardless, that dot shows San Marino instead of Vatican City.

Level 73

Mar 5, 2016

No, both Vatican City and San Marino are visible.

Level 65

Mar 24, 2016

No. Vatican city is not visible, nor is Monaco. Andorra, Liechtenstein, Singapore, and Malta are all visible too. Maybe you're confused?

Level 44

May 15, 2016

Vatican is definitely there. And so is San Marino. Some of the others you mentioned, however are not there

Level 45

Jan 27, 2017

its called san marino

Level 46

Apr 25, 2018

None of these are actually visible, but the border is adjusted to suggest that they are there.

Level 46

May 24, 2018

i can see vatican

Level 46

May 24, 2018

and matthew, i can see all the ones cosmokim saw as well.

Level 38

Jan 2, 2019

anyway, the quiz maker wouldn't make the quiztakers zoom in on a map to see a tiny dot

Level 41

Nov 22, 2020

In fact there are two dots if you zoom in on Italy

Level 43

Oct 11, 2022

Yeah, it's so small it is invisible to the naked eye.

Level 25

Mar 22, 2017

Countries that are too small won't be a "missing country".

+12

Level 81

May 26, 2017

I can't find Pittsburgh

Level 38

Jun 11, 2017

Pittsburg is a city in Pennsylvania, not a country

Level 32

Aug 9, 2018

I think he meant that he couldn't find Philadelphia

Level 77

Jan 11, 2021

But Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are completely different cities (albeit in the same state)

Level 77

Apr 8, 2021

@quizman5000 Pittsburgh*

Level 71

Apr 27, 2022

I can’t find Bielefeld either. Is it there, or isn’t it? Who knows?

+21

Level 63

Dec 6, 2015

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

Level 75

Dec 7, 2015

That's why the standard world map in New Zealand is this one.

Level 57

Feb 24, 2016

You forgot to edit out New Zealand.

Level 59

Dec 23, 2016

Is that actually the map they use or are you making a joke? I can't tell.

Level 35

Jan 17, 2018

Wow, you Kiwis really don't waste space on oceans ;)

Level 85

Dec 7, 2015

Thank you, Kiwirage, your link made my day. Unfortunately, Jerry's map made me feel faint.

Level 55

Jan 25, 2016

No kidding. That upside-down map just messed with my head.

Level 36

Feb 27, 2017

kiwirage, I guess you live in Auckland?

Level 70

Sep 17, 2018

r/mapswithoutnewzealand

Level 71

Apr 27, 2022

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…

Level 74

Dec 8, 2015

Cool quiz. I cant believe i missed Norway and Somalia. Could this be the beginning of a series?

Level 64

Dec 8, 2015

How'd you know? ;)

Level 82

Dec 8, 2015

Had so much fun with this quizz. Nice job :)

Level 73

Dec 10, 2015

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?

Level 77

Dec 10, 2015

I love this quiz, although Cyprus was a bit too hard for the visual impaired...

Level 75

Dec 10, 2015

You can click-in to zoom

Level 15

Dec 3, 2017

It would be evil if you put Vatican City.

Level 69

Oct 24, 2018

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.

Level 49

Jan 28, 2016

How'd I miss Chile?

Level 65

Feb 5, 2016

Chile is trickier than one might think..

Level 55

Feb 11, 2016

great quiz! only missed cyprus

Level 29

Feb 5, 2022

Somalia’s the one I missed

Level 71

Apr 27, 2022

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?

Level 47

Feb 17, 2016

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)

Level 44

Feb 20, 2016

Missed Cyprus because I was SO sure that speck south of Greece and Turkey was it...

Level 36

Feb 22, 2016

That speck is the island of Crete.

Third time's the charm!!

Level 49

Feb 24, 2016

Good quiz! Missed South Korea. Typed in some smaller countries such as Monaco and Liechtenstein as well (probably surprised by Cyprus).

Level 57

Feb 24, 2016

Imagine what the world and its history would be like if there would have been seas instead of these countries!

Level 62

Feb 24, 2016

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.

Level 64

Feb 25, 2016

And most definitely we'll be missing the high-tech cars and gadgets from Japan and Samsung from S. Korea!

Level 71

Feb 5, 2017

And the Beatles would have a song titled 'Wood'

Level 63

Feb 24, 2016

Really nice quiz, only missed Cyprus and I'm annoyed because I looked at that area first and thought everything looked dandy!

Level 42

Feb 24, 2016

Congratulations! This is the best quiz i ever played!

Level 75

Feb 24, 2016

The Turkish-Armenia border looks strangely straight - but then it pops back to normal if you guess Turkey!

Level 75

Feb 24, 2016

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!

Level 67

Feb 24, 2016

Whew; would have been almost impossible without the alphabetical order thing! Good quiz, though.

Level 56

Feb 24, 2016

Tried several spellings for Mauritius and Maldives before gave up on them

Level 63

Feb 24, 2016

I missed Japan. It's always a bit embarrassing when you miss the one that the most people get.

Level 73

Feb 24, 2016

Aren't the Maldives missing? I kept enlarging the map and couldn't find the chain of islands.

Level 65

Feb 24, 2016

Great quiz!

Level 46

Feb 24, 2016

I loved this quiz! I missed Bangladesh.

More like this one PLEASE!

Level 67

Feb 24, 2016

*Now* I read the directions saying I can zoom in on the map.

Level 46

Feb 24, 2016

New Zealand being left off world maps isn't even a novelty thing, it's just a fact of life

Level 64

Feb 24, 2016

Somalia is pretty big and less than half of you got it. I suppose that's representative of how much people would miss Somalia.

Level 73

Dec 30, 2020

It kinda follows the shape of Ethiopia, so it's a tricksy one to spot!

Level 12

Feb 27, 2016

More of these!!!

Level 54

Feb 28, 2016

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.

Level 48

Feb 28, 2016

I was afraid that I'd miss something obvious like Russia or Australia but I didn't :) Anyway a fun quiz. If it's possible, please do more these!

Level 37

Feb 28, 2016

Funny how I got Cyprus first

The islands are hard because when they're gone you assume there's nothing there anyway :/

Level 29

Feb 28, 2016

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!

Level 61

Nov 15, 2020

You can just type ROK (Republic of Korea; its official name)!

Level 45

Feb 28, 2016

Didn't realize that you could zoom in before I took, but I still managed to get them all. What a great quiz! Please make more

Level 12

Mar 5, 2016

Amazing quiz, please could i ask how you make ones like this with the map?

Level 73

Mar 5, 2016

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.

Level 31

Apr 23, 2016

got every one but cyprus :(

Level 35

May 16, 2016

What a fantastic and unique idea! I loved this!

Level 44

Jul 4, 2016

Whoa... am I the only one who noticed Cyprus before Turkey?

Level 20

Jul 20, 2016

So clever, am kicking myself for missing greenland (Denmark)

Level 68

Aug 22, 2016

Cyprus is near impossible to see on this map, I didn't even notice it was missing

Level 28

Aug 26, 2016

completed with 14 seconds to spare... that Cyprus got me into looking so close into the computer screen hahaha

Level 42

Sep 6, 2016

Stared at the lake in Africa for a whole minute and the last one was actually Norway... fml xD

Level 57

Nov 13, 2020

What Lake? Lake Victoria?

Level 40

Oct 14, 2016

I was staring at Crete saying to myself, "Well, it isn't Cyprus, Cyprus is right there..." :/

Level 58

Oct 27, 2016

Love it! admit it, cyprus was very tricky to spot (and do not start with the usual Europe/Asia debate :-)

Level 28

Dec 17, 2016

madagascar got me

Level 10

Dec 19, 2016

Chile was the first one I saw that is a very good quiz I loved it

Level 34

Dec 23, 2016

Perhaps my computer is playing up, but the country on this quiz that is labelled 'Denmark' is actually 'Greenland', isn't it....?

Level 26

Aug 14, 2019

Greenland is a danish territory

Level 44

Jan 9, 2017

Fun quiz! You should make one like this for states!!!

Level 65

Jan 15, 2017

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?"

Level 66

Jan 18, 2017

Even at zoom I don't see Seychelles or Maldives.

Level 62

Jan 21, 2017

Looks like North Korea got what they wanted.

Level 44

Feb 5, 2017

Hahaha

Level 32

Jan 22, 2017

was i the only one to guess svalbard

Level 57

Nov 13, 2020

Svalbard? (laughs)

Level 30

Feb 6, 2017

2:56 left at first try!

Level 46

Feb 6, 2017

Sorry Denmark, didn't see that you were missing.

Sincerely, Sweden.

Level 47

Feb 7, 2017

quizzes like this that make me feel dumb!

Level 53

Feb 23, 2017

Where is Maldives???

Level 71

Feb 26, 2017

I also thought I was on a winner with Maldives, looks like it went AWOL on its own.

Level 76

Feb 27, 2017

Wanna make this more difficult? Take out Nauru.

Level 21

Mar 15, 2017

i missed chile (somehow) bangladesh and cyprus

Level 25

Mar 22, 2017

I'm surprised not many people get Cyprus on these types of quizzes.

Level 26

May 26, 2017

Awesome Quiz! The first one i actually completed on time 0:47

also, shameless plug to www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ

Level 36

Jun 11, 2017

I think that was a exercise in eyesight more than quizzing, still got them all!

Level 73

Jun 21, 2017

What a fun and creative quiz, I loved it.

Cannot believe the two I missed were Chile and Denmark but somehow I got Cyprus. LOL.

Level 57

Aug 1, 2017

good quiz only missed madagascar and bangladesh.... i feel blind?

Level 57

Aug 2, 2017

Interesting quiz, not hard.

Level 58

Aug 5, 2017

I misses Somalia and Sri Lanka

my own country Denmark was the first I fund missing

Level 65

Aug 5, 2017

Maldives is not displayed on the map but also not listed as a country that was removed. It threw me off.

Level 5

Aug 6, 2017

I kept typing in Greenland, because I knew it was missing, but it was under Denmark which I forgot -_-

Level 36

Feb 10, 2018

Armenia, you sneaky fellow, trying to steal some of soggy Turkey!

Level 44

Feb 25, 2018

I missed Turkey, and am embarassed.. also madagascar and denmark.. I should be taken out back and shot ;)

Level 39

Mar 3, 2018

I like this quiz. Unique.

Level 43

Mar 31, 2018

To reduce confusion you could at this to the notes:

All countries visible at full zoom.

Level 54

Apr 13, 2018

Cool idea! :)

Level 49

May 24, 2018

Finished first try with 2:06 to go. Nice quizzes though, great series!

Level 17

Jul 24, 2018

did it

Level 74

Jul 31, 2018

Heehee! Scandinavia without Norway looks rather rude!

Level 32

Aug 9, 2018

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.

Level 18

Sep 26, 2018

1:03, first try, not so bad.

Level 36

Oct 16, 2018

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.

12/12 with 1:30 left, by the way :)

Level 18

Oct 24, 2018

You scored 12/12 = 100%.

This beats or equals 100% of test takers

The average score is 9

Your high score is 12

Your best time is 3:16 remaining

anyone beat me?

Level 67

Jan 11, 2021

Scoring

You scored 15/12 = 125%

This beats or equals 102% of test takers

The average score is 9

Your high score is 88

Your fastest time is 0:47

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Level 53

Nov 13, 2018

Clever and well done but I also suggest maybe making smaller ones there to give a bit of a challenge. ;)

Level 50

Dec 22, 2018

Got Cyprus pretty much by fluke. Just knew I was missing something starting with C or D.

Level 48

Jan 7, 2019

Isn't New Zealand usually missing anyways?

Level 20

Jan 23, 2019

Cyprus was way harder than the others, 11/12

Level 75

Mar 21, 2020

Indeed. 11/12, remaining time: 2+ min. 12/12 (Cyprus), remaining time: 0:01. Oof!

Level 43

Jan 30, 2019

This needs to be a series! Such a clever idea.

Level 27

Feb 1, 2019

suprised only 78% noticed the biggest islands in the world was missing

Level 68

Mar 8, 2019

I tried Atlantis so many times but it didn't work :'(

Level 51

Mar 9, 2019

If he wanted to be really evil he would remove Tonga, Antigua, Maldives, Monaco, Barbados, Fiji, Malta, and the Vatican.

Level 43

May 26, 2019

Should put a disclaimer about smaller islands. Maldives, Mauritius and Seychelles are missing.

Level 32

Jun 7, 2019

yeah

Level 70

Jun 28, 2019

Lemon squeezy.

Level 28

Jul 18, 2019

I tried putting "Greenland" but it wouldn't accept it

Level 48

Aug 15, 2019

Not a country; it's part of Denmark.

Level 62

Jul 29, 2019

This would be sweet if you can make it so the answers change every time.

Level 42

Aug 11, 2019

3:47 left to go. I couldn't found one country Cyprus until now! :)

Level 69

Oct 22, 2019

I'd love to see this randomized/different every time!

Level 22

Jan 19, 2021

I found one https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/139806/world-map-without-20-random-countries

Level 44

Apr 1, 2020

Somalia was the only one I missed. Its hard to see :D

Level 62

Apr 6, 2020

2:45 left

Level 26

May 5, 2020

I forgot all the islands...

Level 55

May 8, 2020

I loved how the map looked without Erdoganistan!

Level 45

Sep 5, 2020

I got the least guessed one, Cyprus first, but then missed Japan, the most obvious one! Ugh

Level 58

Oct 27, 2020

I love this quiz!!!

Level 50

Nov 10, 2020

poor New Zealand

Level 65

Nov 16, 2020

Congrats on your innovation! Lets see some with just continents, or maybe one with U.S. States.

Level 36

Nov 24, 2020

Cyprus... can you consider changing that because you cant even see Cyprus. But I still got it :)

Level 52

Jan 11, 2021

Not seeing Cyprus is kinda the point.

Level 39

Dec 2, 2020

you can, it is the Island south of turkey, but you already knew that

Level 56

Jan 11, 2021

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

Level 25

Jan 12, 2021

first try, completed with 0:34 time left

Level 63

Jan 12, 2021

How hard can it be to miss Chile .. ? And JAPAN ?

Thanks !

Level 22

Jan 19, 2021

Noooo I missed New Zealand and Sri Lanka

Level 40

Feb 17, 2021

i couldve sworn i saw cyprus

Level 39

Apr 13, 2021

sri lanka, new guinea, sumatra, new zealand, then borneo and vietnam

Level 37

Jul 12, 2021

Almost missed Chile. Great quiz!

Level 53

Nov 12, 2021

Has to be randomized at least in some fashion. Otherwise it's uselessly easy on retake.

Level 53

Aug 4, 2022

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.

Level 56

Feb 3, 2022

Denmark was missing, meaning Greenland was missing. I really am unobservant.

Level 31

Jul 25, 2022

10/12 God, I feel like an idiot. I missed Denmark and Turkey. Turkey! And I got Cyprus!!!!

Level 45

Aug 5, 2022

Turkey is gone, we finally have world peace

Level 26

Oct 1, 2022

12/12 second try. Bad but good.

Level 48

Oct 15, 2022

Got all first try with 2:54 left. Love this quiz :)

Level 44

Oct 22, 2022

First try with 3:12 left, Im kinda good at finding missing things

Level 36

Dec 8, 2022

I forgot chile and cyprus :'), i feel dumb. But nice quiz 👍

Level 33

Dec 22, 2022

Found cyprus with 10 secs left 🇨🇾. Great quiz i loved it :))

Level 51

Mar 7, 2023

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.

Poor New Zealand :(

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