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Started by Josquius, November 18, 2009, 10:56:51 AM

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Viking

Quote from: Tyr on November 20, 2009, 05:42:48 AM
I can now spell Philippines right :)

Philllipines BITCH!
Phillipines BITCH!
Phillippines BITCH!
fuck that
Indonesia :w00t:
Singapore :w00t:

I missed fucking The Philippines and Madagascar for fucks sake... Being a Rugby player I know my south pacific islands. Pirates! taught me the Caribbean islands.
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Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2009, 05:31:20 AM
half those countries outpopulate my (and legbiters) own!

not on Languish, obviously.
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Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on November 20, 2009, 05:14:09 AM
This site is really addictive. Thanks to it I can now name St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua, Comoros, Seychelles, Sao Tome and Principe, and many other tiny shitty island countries.

So how did our resident Byzanteens do on the roman emperors quizzes?

It was curious to me that they showed close ups for things like Europe and West Africa but didn't have one for Micronesia and the like.
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Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on November 19, 2009, 09:05:29 PM
18. Started with former parts of the Ottoman Empire, then went through the various EU countries, then other major immigrant destinations, then various neighbors and Turkic countries. Should've gotten 19, but I didn't think of Afghanistan. Would never have thought of Belarus.

I tried mine with much the same logic as you did, only I typed in all the war-torn shitholes I knew of, first, so I got Afghanistan.  I missed Uzbekistan, though.
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derspiess

Got all the countries bordering Russia with just 20 seconds to spare.  Took me a little thinking to get the last one that only has a 19km border :D
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derspiess

Ouch.  Only got 40 of 53 African countries.  Africa has always sort of been my blind spot.
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sbr

Quote from: derspiess on November 22, 2009, 03:58:25 PM
Ouch.  Only got 40 of 53 African countries.  Africa has always sort of been my blind spot.

Not surprising; with all of the coups and revolutions those countries change their names every couple of years.

Rhodesia, I weep for thee.

DGuller

Agreed.  Africa needs to blob up a little.  Why the holes in South Africa, why the balkanization on the west coast?

HisMajestyBOB

Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, the Vatican, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg all need to be annexed into the French/English/Spanish/whatever empire. Same for all those pissy little island countries.
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Quote from: DGuller on November 22, 2009, 11:11:37 PM
Agreed.  Africa needs to blob up a little.  Why the holes in South Africa, why the balkanization on the west coast?

Well, South Africa's holes are a holdover from the Apartheid-era Homelands policy.
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