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Test your knowledge with the World Countries Population Sorting Challenge Quiz. Sort countries by population and see how well you can rank them from largest to smallest.

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World Countries Population Sorting Challenge

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You begin with two countries shown in the grid. Upon starting, your job is to sort the countries in order from largest to smallest by total population. The order is represented by the ‘1st’ thru ’16th’ in each box. You can click on a country to move it to a higher position in the list – simply click once and it will turn red, then clicked another higher-ranked country to position the first country before it. Click submit to check your answers…if they are in order you will get a new country added to the end which needs to be positioned correctly, and so on until you either get one wrong or complete all 15 levels.

Population includes dependent territories.

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Fenorikis

1 year ago

China shows bigger population as India?

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to Fenorikis

I’ve bumped India in front of China now – when I made this quiz China was a tiny bit bigger (estimated).

Klinkhamer

2 years ago

I got one with Gabon, Solomon Islands, San Marino, Vanuatu, Monaco,Tuvalu

Life is brutal sometimes

uefa81glory

2 years ago

Love this!