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Test your knowledge of world countries and territories with this challenging CIA World Factbook quiz. Can you identify each country based on its background description?

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World Country/Territory By CIA World Factbook Description

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Name the country or dependent territory given the CIA World Factbook ‘Background’ section for that country/territory. You can type ‘.’ at any time during an answer to clear the answer box (to save time backspacing an incorrect guess). Countries/territories chosen at random from over 250 total. Points based on time to answer. You are given up to 25 total countries/territories, and a max of 45 seconds for each.

The word (country) will replace any country-related words that would give away the country name in the description.

Some background sections won’t entirely fit in the box but the vast majority will be shown.

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greenalder

1 year ago

As with all quizzes on this site, the time is just too short. I want to read the whole blurb and can’t even do that before it flips to the next country.

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to greenalder

I’ll up it a little on this one.

stawnawff

2 years ago

wallis and futuna is left uncenscored

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to stawnawff

this has been fixed – you’ll need to refresh and hold CTRL to make sure you aren’t getting a cached copy

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darin

2 years ago

guys – i had to reset the scores – the scoring system was off and not based solely on time.

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darin

2 years ago

if there are any descriptions with the country’s full or partial name in it, let me know and i will edit the description to replace that with (country) and delete the comment.

DK34

1 year ago

Reply to darin

The description for Somalia has “Somali” and “Somaliland” all over it although given Somaliland used to be a separate entity, perhaps this is intentional.

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to DK34

I’ll edit those