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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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Quiz by scambigol
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Last updated: December 7, 2015
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First submittedDecember 5, 2015
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Country
Bangladesh
Chile
Cyprus
Denmark
Country
Japan
Madagascar
New Zealand
Norway
Country
Somalia
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Turkey
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Level 75
Dec 5, 2015
Very clever!
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Level 64
Dec 5, 2015
Same - but please adjust to Scroll Mode. :)
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Level 75
Dec 5, 2015
done, but I don't really know what that does :D
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Level 64
Dec 6, 2015
On a mobile device (such as a phone), you'll be able to see the whole map.
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Level 84
Dec 5, 2015
I think Vatican City is missing.
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Level 82
Dec 8, 2015
It isn't. If you zoom in, there's a small dot.
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Level 85
Dec 8, 2015
But it's hard to tell if there is yellow or blue inside the dot ;).
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Level 65
Jan 21, 2016
And regardless, that dot shows San Marino instead of Vatican City.
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Level 74
Mar 5, 2016
No, both Vatican City and San Marino are visible.
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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?
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Level 45
May 15, 2016
Vatican is definitely there. And so is San Marino. Some of the others you mentioned, however are not there
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Level 46
Jan 27, 2017
its called san marino
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Level 46
Apr 25, 2018
None of these are actually visible, but the border is adjusted to suggest that they are there.
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Level 45
May 24, 2018
i can see vatican
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Level 45
May 24, 2018
and matthew, i can see all the ones cosmokim saw as well.
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Level 37
Jan 2, 2019
anyway, the quiz maker wouldn't make the quiztakers zoom in on a map to see a tiny dot
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Level 42
Nov 22, 2020
In fact there are two dots if you zoom in on Italy
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Level 44
Oct 11, 2022
Yeah, it's so small it is invisible to the naked eye.
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Level 24
Mar 22, 2017
Countries that are too small won't be a "missing country".
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Level 81
May 26, 2017
I can't find Pittsburgh
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Level 37
Jun 11, 2017
Pittsburg is a city in Pennsylvania, not a country
+9
Level 31
Aug 9, 2018
I think he meant that he couldn't find Philadelphia
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Level 78
Jan 11, 2021
But Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are completely different cities (albeit in the same state)
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Level 78
Apr 8, 2021
@quizman5000 Pittsburgh*
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Level 71
Apr 27, 2022
I can’t find Bielefeld either. Is it there, or isn’t it? Who knows?
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Level 62
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
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Level 75
Dec 7, 2015
That's why the standard world map in New Zealand is this one.
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Level 56
Feb 24, 2016
You forgot to edit out New Zealand.
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Level 61
Dec 23, 2016
Is that actually the map they use or are you making a joke? I can't tell.
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Level 35
Jan 17, 2018
Wow, you Kiwis really don't waste space on oceans ;)
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Level 85
Dec 7, 2015
Thank you, Kiwirage, your link made my day. Unfortunately, Jerry's map made me feel faint.
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Level 55
Jan 25, 2016
No kidding. That upside-down map just messed with my head.
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Level 35
Feb 27, 2017
kiwirage, I guess you live in Auckland?
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Level 71
Sep 17, 2018
r/mapswithoutnewzealand
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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…
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Level 74
Dec 8, 2015
Cool quiz. I cant believe i missed Norway and Somalia. Could this be the beginning of a series?
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Level 64
Dec 8, 2015
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Level 81
Dec 8, 2015
Had so much fun with this quizz. Nice job :)
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Level 74
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?
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Level 78
Dec 10, 2015
I love this quiz, although Cyprus was a bit too hard for the visual impaired...
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Level 75
Dec 10, 2015
You can click-in to zoom
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Level 15
Dec 3, 2017
It would be evil if you put Vatican City.
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Level 70
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.

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Level 49
Jan 28, 2016
How'd I miss Chile?
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Level 65
Feb 5, 2016
Chile is trickier than one might think..
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Level 55
Feb 11, 2016
great quiz! only missed cyprus
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Level 32
Feb 5, 2022
Somalia’s the one I missed
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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?
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Level 46
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)
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Level 54
Feb 20, 2016
Missed Cyprus because I was SO sure that speck south of Greece and Turkey was it...
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Level 36
Feb 22, 2016
That speck is the island of Crete.

Third time's the charm!!

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Level 48
Feb 24, 2016
Good quiz! Missed South Korea. Typed in some smaller countries such as Monaco and Liechtenstein as well (probably surprised by Cyprus).
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Level 56
Feb 24, 2016
Imagine what the world and its history would be like if there would have been seas instead of these countries!
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Level 64
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.
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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!
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Level 71
Feb 5, 2017
And the Beatles would have a song titled 'Wood'
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Level 65
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!
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Level 42
Feb 24, 2016
Congratulations! This is the best quiz i ever played!
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Level 75
Feb 24, 2016
The Turkish-Armenia border looks strangely straight - but then it pops back to normal if you guess Turkey!
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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!
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Level 75
Feb 24, 2016
Whew; would have been almost impossible without the alphabetical order thing! Good quiz, though.
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Level 56
Feb 24, 2016
Tried several spellings for Mauritius and Maldives before gave up on them
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Level 63
Feb 24, 2016
I missed Japan. It's always a bit embarrassing when you miss the one that the most people get.
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Level 72
Feb 24, 2016
Aren't the Maldives missing? I kept enlarging the map and couldn't find the chain of islands.
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Level 65
Feb 24, 2016
Great quiz!
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Level 46
Feb 24, 2016
I loved this quiz! I missed Bangladesh.

More like this one PLEASE!

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Level 67
Feb 24, 2016
*Now* I read the directions saying I can zoom in on the map.
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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
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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.
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Level 74
Dec 30, 2020
It kinda follows the shape of Ethiopia, so it's a tricksy one to spot!
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Level 12
Feb 27, 2016
More of these!!!
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Level 56
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.
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Level 47
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!
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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 :/

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Level 28
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!
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Level 62
Nov 15, 2020
You can just type ROK (Republic of Korea; its official name)!
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Level 44
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
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Level 12
Mar 5, 2016
Amazing quiz, please could i ask how you make ones like this with the map?
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Level 74
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.
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Level 31
Apr 23, 2016
got every one but cyprus :(
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Level 34
May 16, 2016
What a fantastic and unique idea! I loved this!
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Level 44
Jul 4, 2016
Whoa... am I the only one who noticed Cyprus before Turkey?
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Level 20
Jul 20, 2016
So clever, am kicking myself for missing greenland (Denmark)
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Level 68
Aug 22, 2016
Cyprus is near impossible to see on this map, I didn't even notice it was missing
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Level 28
Aug 26, 2016
completed with 14 seconds to spare... that Cyprus got me into looking so close into the computer screen hahaha
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Level 42
Sep 6, 2016
Stared at the lake in Africa for a whole minute and the last one was actually Norway... fml xD
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Level 61
Nov 13, 2020
What Lake? Lake Victoria?
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Level 40
Oct 14, 2016
I was staring at Crete saying to myself, "Well, it isn't Cyprus, Cyprus is right there..." :/
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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 :-)
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Level 32
Dec 17, 2016
madagascar got me
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Level 10
Dec 19, 2016
Chile was the first one I saw that is a very good quiz I loved it
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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....?
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Level 26
Aug 14, 2019
Greenland is a danish territory
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Level 44
Jan 9, 2017
Fun quiz! You should make one like this for states!!!
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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?"
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Level 66
Jan 18, 2017
Even at zoom I don't see Seychelles or Maldives.
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Level 64
Jan 21, 2017
Looks like North Korea got what they wanted.
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Level 44
Feb 5, 2017
Hahaha
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Level 32
Jan 22, 2017
was i the only one to guess svalbard
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Level 61
Nov 13, 2020
Svalbard? (laughs)
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Level 30
Feb 6, 2017
2:56 left at first try!
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Level 46
Feb 6, 2017
Sorry Denmark, didn't see that you were missing.

Sincerely, Sweden.

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Level 47
Feb 7, 2017
quizzes like this that make me feel dumb!
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Level 53
Feb 23, 2017
Where is Maldives???
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Level 71
Feb 26, 2017
I also thought I was on a winner with Maldives, looks like it went AWOL on its own.
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Level 77
Feb 27, 2017
Wanna make this more difficult? Take out Nauru.
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Level 21
Mar 15, 2017
i missed chile (somehow) bangladesh and cyprus
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Level 24
Mar 22, 2017
I'm surprised not many people get Cyprus on these types of quizzes.
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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

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Level 36
Jun 11, 2017
I think that was a exercise in eyesight more than quizzing, still got them all!
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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.

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Level 58
Aug 1, 2017
good quiz only missed madagascar and bangladesh.... i feel blind?
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Level 57
Aug 2, 2017
Interesting quiz, not hard.
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Level 57
Aug 5, 2017
I misses Somalia and Sri Lanka

my own country Denmark was the first I fund missing

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Level 64
Aug 5, 2017
Maldives is not displayed on the map but also not listed as a country that was removed. It threw me off.
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Level 5
Aug 6, 2017
I kept typing in Greenland, because I knew it was missing, but it was under Denmark which I forgot -_-
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Level 35
Feb 10, 2018
Armenia, you sneaky fellow, trying to steal some of soggy Turkey!
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Level 44
Feb 25, 2018
I missed Turkey, and am embarassed.. also madagascar and denmark.. I should be taken out back and shot ;)
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Level 38
Mar 3, 2018
I like this quiz. Unique.
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Level 43
Mar 31, 2018
To reduce confusion you could at this to the notes:

All countries visible at full zoom.

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Level 54
Apr 13, 2018
Cool idea! :)
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Level 49
May 24, 2018
Finished first try with 2:06 to go. Nice quizzes though, great series!
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Level 17
Jul 24, 2018
did it
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Level 73
Jul 31, 2018
Heehee! Scandinavia without Norway looks rather rude!
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Level 31
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.
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Level 18
Sep 26, 2018
1:03, first try, not so bad.
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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 :)

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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?

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Level 68
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

more stats >>

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Level 52
Nov 13, 2018
Clever and well done but I also suggest maybe making smaller ones there to give a bit of a challenge. ;)
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Level 50
Dec 22, 2018
Got Cyprus pretty much by fluke. Just knew I was missing something starting with C or D.
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Level 48
Jan 7, 2019
Isn't New Zealand usually missing anyways?
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Level 20
Jan 23, 2019
Cyprus was way harder than the others, 11/12
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Level 76
Mar 21, 2020
Indeed. 11/12, remaining time: 2+ min. 12/12 (Cyprus), remaining time: 0:01. Oof!
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Level 43
Jan 30, 2019
This needs to be a series! Such a clever idea.
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Level 26
Feb 1, 2019
suprised only 78% noticed the biggest islands in the world was missing
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Level 68
Mar 8, 2019
I tried Atlantis so many times but it didn't work :'(
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Level 52
Mar 9, 2019
If he wanted to be really evil he would remove Tonga, Antigua, Maldives, Monaco, Barbados, Fiji, Malta, and the Vatican.
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Level 44
May 26, 2019
Should put a disclaimer about smaller islands. Maldives, Mauritius and Seychelles are missing.
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Level 32
Jun 7, 2019
yeah
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Level 70
Jun 28, 2019
Lemon squeezy.
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Level 28
Jul 18, 2019
I tried putting "Greenland" but it wouldn't accept it
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Level 48
Aug 15, 2019
Not a country; it's part of Denmark.
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Level 63
Jul 29, 2019
This would be sweet if you can make it so the answers change every time.
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Level 41
Aug 11, 2019
3:47 left to go. I couldn't found one country Cyprus until now! :)
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Level 70
Oct 22, 2019
I'd love to see this randomized/different every time!
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Level 22
Jan 19, 2021
I found one https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/139806/world-map-without-20-random-countries
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Level 44
Apr 1, 2020
Somalia was the only one I missed. Its hard to see :D
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Level 62
Apr 6, 2020
2:45 left
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Level 25
May 5, 2020
I forgot all the islands...
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Level 55
May 8, 2020
I loved how the map looked without Erdoganistan!
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Level 45
Sep 5, 2020
I got the least guessed one, Cyprus first, but then missed Japan, the most obvious one! Ugh
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Level 58
Oct 27, 2020
I love this quiz!!!
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Level 50
Nov 10, 2020
poor New Zealand
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Level 66
Nov 16, 2020
Congrats on your innovation! Lets see some with just continents, or maybe one with U.S. States.
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Level 36
Nov 24, 2020
Cyprus... can you consider changing that because you cant even see Cyprus. But I still got it :)
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Level 52
Jan 11, 2021
Not seeing Cyprus is kinda the point.
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Level 38
Dec 2, 2020
you can, it is the Island south of turkey, but you already knew that
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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
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Level 25
Jan 12, 2021
first try, completed with 0:34 time left
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Level 63
Jan 12, 2021
How hard can it be to miss Chile .. ? And JAPAN ?

Thanks !

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Level 22
Jan 19, 2021
Noooo I missed New Zealand and Sri Lanka
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Level 40
Feb 17, 2021
i couldve sworn i saw cyprus
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Level 38
Apr 13, 2021
sri lanka, new guinea, sumatra, new zealand, then borneo and vietnam
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Level 37
Jul 12, 2021
Almost missed Chile. Great quiz!
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Level 53
Nov 12, 2021
Has to be randomized at least in some fashion. Otherwise it's uselessly easy on retake.
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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.
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Level 56
Feb 3, 2022
Denmark was missing, meaning Greenland was missing. I really am unobservant.
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Level 31
Jul 25, 2022
10/12 God, I feel like an idiot. I missed Denmark and Turkey. Turkey! And I got Cyprus!!!!
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Level 46
Aug 5, 2022
Turkey is gone, we finally have world peace
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Level 26
Oct 1, 2022
12/12 second try. Bad but good.
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Level 48
Oct 15, 2022
Got all first try with 2:54 left. Love this quiz :)
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Level 44
Oct 22, 2022
First try with 3:12 left, Im kinda good at finding missing things
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Level 36
Dec 8, 2022
I forgot chile and cyprus :'), i feel dumb. But nice quiz 👍
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Level 34
Dec 22, 2022
Found cyprus with 10 secs left 🇨🇾. Great quiz i loved it :))
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Level 25
Apr 2, 2023
same. i was so dumb to not realize cyprus was a country
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Level 56
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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Level 19
Apr 28, 2023
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
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Level 26
Jun 3, 2023
i xant believe i forgot Madagascar...
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Level 42
Jun 30, 2023
Barely got Sri Lanka before the time ran out!
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Level 47
Aug 23, 2023
Missed Sri Lanka
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Level 25
Sep 14, 2023
how the heck did i forget somalia