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How many countries can you place and name accurately? Cities? Continents? Mountains?

How many countries can you place and name accurately? Cities? Continents? Mountains?
Ummm.. never counted. Anyways, for this there is a thing called Atlas. It's not how much you know, but whether or not you know where to look :)

How many countries can you place and name accurately? Cities? Continents? Mountains?




Do you mean "blank" as in, completely blank and devoid of ANY detail, or do you mean a map of the world without political boundries or topographical details? There's a big difference...

My geography teacher made me learn every single country on earth with their capitol city. It was in 1999 though.

On my own? Not very many. England, Ireland... Wales if I thought about it... Scotland by elimination... Cuba (not because I'm a dirty commie, in fact, but because of the book I read that theorised that the Cuba was the original site of Atlantis... *very* interesting book). Italy. America, and maybe even Florida if I, you know, the individual state shapes where outlined. Australia and New Zealand (comes from living in Aus).

If I'm allowed and Atlas, well, it depends how much time you give me. Given a really *detailed* Atlas (or god forbid, a global street directory), after a few days I'd still be trying to fill in every name of every street in England (Anglophile here :D)

But then again, if you took me two blocks from my house (to the south, not to the train line), I'd have about a 50% chance of getting lost.

Oh, and I can't even place cities in my own country, let alone the world :p

Why don't we take a blank map (if anyone can find one), edit it in Paint programs on our computer, and then compare how we did?

well...no atlas....

map only consists of black border of coastlines of all the continents, north side on the top of the map and south on the bottom. east side on the right and west side on the left. map centred over europe and africa.

I remember the most difficult was Brunei. Its capital is : Bandar Seri Begawan (I will remember it all my life).

well...no atlas....

map only consists of black border of coastlines of all the continents, north side on the top of the map and south on the bottom. east side on the right and west side on the left. map centred over europe and africa.




So...Can you post a pic of it up here so people can save it to their harddrives and work on it in Paint?

My grade was C in geography. That should answer your question. I could pick out a few countries, cities would be much harder. It's one thing to know what province/state/region has a city, but to actually have to pinpoint it on a map is nearly impossible (for me at least).

-Typo, I know. It's 7:50AM. Shush. :p-

One way to find out: http://www.geosense.net/

One way to find out: http://www.geosense.net/



That site was garbage, I tried every setting on Internet Explorer, and it still said I had my fu*king pop-ups disabled.

Oh. Works for me. Of course, I don't use that crappy Explorer. No problems with Netscape.

Oh. Works for me. Of course, I don't use that crappy Explorer. No problems with Netscape.



Thanks for teasing me. Now find a site that will work with Explorer.

Here you are, with all the borders, just to make it easier:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/worldmap1.jpg

NO CHEATING!

Cool. I'll do that, but I just found out I have Netscape on my comp, so I'm gonna check out Geosence...

I don't know what to say Samarika... I just tried it with Explorer and it works just fine. Maybe it's your firewall or summink. It's really worth a try. Very addictive (no teasing intended). :)

How many countries can you place and name accurately? Cities? Continents? Mountains?

Countries? Most of Europe I can place and name pretty well, the Mid-East and Asia too, but not the Far East, Some of Africa, North America.
Cities? I can name some capitals, can't place most of them.
Continents? No problem.
Mountains? Wow, now you're asking too much.

I could name all of the countries, except for certain island nations like Micronesia, the Maldives, and St. Kitts and Nevis.
I could do most of the capitals, many cities, all of the continents, but only a few mountains.

Let's just say mountain ranges - easier. And rivers, anyone?

Let's just say mountain ranges - easier. And rivers, anyone?

Eh... I know there's a mountain range between Italy, Germany and Switzerland... I think. And in Nepal, too. Apart from that... :confused:
No rivers.

geosense is cruel... How can you locate a city without missing at least 50km in such a map?
I missed my home in about 100km because Israel is so tiny :/

YAY!!!

I love geography..

I can name probably 90% of the countries, all the major rivers in the world (By major I mean really major.. Nile, Amazon, Mississippi, Tigris and Euphrates, Danube and company, and the three great Chinese rivers).

Mountain ranges?.. Urals, Rockies, Alps, Himilayas, Andes... and a few others..


[EDIT] - Oh, and capitols.. I can name and place most of the capitols of the counties I know.

Heh. It's indeed cruel. But if you just want to test your knowledge and not compete, it does the trick.

you missed alot of island nations on your map.

Like Cape Verde , thats next to Africa. , I will not list them all
would not want to ruin things for those taking your test.

good luck and NO CHEATING , your little brother is watching you
do you want to teach him to cheat ? :p

I'll do that (without cheating) and I'll get back to you. If you tell me any sovereign country in the world I'll be able to tell you where it is (either precisely, or in what "corner" of a continent), but filling in a blank map is a tad harder... Let's see...

[Edit: I can't switch my bl***y printer on. I'll try round at my parents' this evening.]

[Edit2: Do we get extra points for putting in countries so small they don't appear on the blank map? Like Tuvalu? ;)]

Ok, it took me a while, but I was able to label every single country, city, AND street! Check this out everyone.

http://www.imagepilot.com/img.dll?x=20040917_9:20:00_worldmap1.jpg

I could name every nation, including the obscure ones, almost every capital city, most major cities, and any well-known physical features (for instance, I could tell you where the Sahara or Gobi Deserts are, but not the Taklimkan Desert).

How many countries can you place and name accurately? Cities? Continents?
Uuum...I dunno. Alot.

Here you are, with all the borders, just to make it easier:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/worldmap1.jpg

NO CHEATING!

Poland is definitely the wrong shape on that map - the Czech Republic, Austria and Croatia are all subsumed into it.

Lookie. See here. I didn't draw the map, yes? It's what America's Truman Library gives teachers as classroom material. Yes, that's the kind of map geography they teach you in America.

Lookie. See here. I didn't draw the map, yes? It's what America's Truman Library gives teachers as classroom material. Yes, that's the kind of map geography they teach you in America.

I never said you were responsible, I just pointed out an error. There also seems to be some confusion going on with the map as to whether dark blobs indicate lakes or microstates or whatever.

I think I would do pretty well except for the many islands in the Pacific.

i could name all the continents, all the countries in north america, most in central and south america, western europe for sure, bits and pieces of eastern europe, northern africa and bits in the middle, some of oceana, some of asia, and i could draw in a number of the mountain ranges... and well, name some caiptals... and some other assorted cities in a couple countries.

it's when the small countries are around that i have problems...

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

Post your score..

For each region you test...

On my own? Not very many. England, Ireland... Wales if I thought about it... Scotland by elimination... Cuba (not because I'm a dirty commie, in fact, but because of the book I read that theorised that the Cuba was the original site of Atlantis... *very* interesting book). Italy. America, and maybe even Florida if I, you know, the individual state shapes where outlined. Australia and New Zealand (comes from living in Aus).

If I'm allowed and Atlas, well, it depends how much time you give me. Given a really *detailed* Atlas (or god forbid, a global street directory), after a few days I'd still be trying to fill in every name of every street in England (Anglophile here :D)

But then again, if you took me two blocks from my house (to the south, not to the train line), I'd have about a 50% chance of getting lost.

Oh, and I can't even place cities in my own country, let alone the world :p

I'm afraid not, Atlantis is most commonly thought to be an island off of Greece. It had more advanced structures than any other Greek city until recently and was buried/blown up by a volcano in the middle. The map of the city there they found matches Atlantis exactly in the description.

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

Post your score..

For each region you test...

Europe 100%
SAm. 100%
Asia 26/28
Canada 12/13
Aussie 6/8
Africa 42/49
USA 38/50 !!!!

Damn those provinces in Canada and whatchamacallem in Aussie were tricky.
Nothing compared to the states in US though. I still can't believe i misplaced Tennessee! :(
I may have to work on my geography now...

Here you are, with all the borders, just to make it easier:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/worldmap1.jpg

NO CHEATING!

heh. i started to sing the animaniacs countries of the world song in my head at that one. :D

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

Post your score..

For each region you test...
Europe: 100/111 (Not too hot with the former Soviet countries)
Middle East: 80/87

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

Post your score..

For each region you test...

These people don't know the difference between Great Britain (the landmass comprised of Scotland, Wales & England) and the United Kingdom...

33/39 for south america, i accidently skipped a question though.. damn double clickage.

39/39 for canada (obviously)

100/150 for the u.s. rhode island fucked me up twice

96/111 for europe.

67/147 for africa...

72/84 for asia

Europe: 111/111 - yeah, I´m a good European, hehehe.
World: 33/33 - that was really easy, though
South America: 39/39 - lucky
Middle East: 87/87
Asia: 84/84 - yes
Africa: 135/147 - not as bad as I expected - though the exclusion method works especially with the tiny onces - you remember where you where.
Well, I once tried to learn for fun the names of the 190 countries (today they are more I know) and their capitals. I couldn´t recall that, but I obviously didn´t forget everything.
Port Moresby as capital for Papua-New Guinea and Nuku´alofa (sp?)for Tonga I still remember though.
We also went through all 50 US states, but that is too long ago. And Canada I don´t know anything else except Quebec and Ontario.

Australia: 24/24
Africa: 131/147
South America: 39/39
USA: Will do later on
Canada: 39/39
Europe: 110/111
Asia: 84/84
Middle East: 87/87 << Obviously ;)

OH, and the bastards FORGOT BAHRAIN!!!!!!!

OH, and the bastards FORGOT BAHRAIN!!!!!!!
Too small I asume. A country needs to be big enough to click on it. Singapore, Brunei for Asia and Lichtenstein, Andorra and the Vaticans are missing for Europe.

USA 141 of 150
Asia 78 of 84
Africa 104 of 147
Australia 23 of 24
Canada 35 of 39
Carribean 11 of 72
Central America 41 of 42
Europe 110 of 111
Middle east 84 of 87
South America 34 of 39
World (oceans and continents) 33 of 33

Damned Carribean! :(

And once upon a time I could fill in a map of Asia, including all the states of India; all the provinces, autonomous regions, and national municipalities of the PRC; and the major rivers mountains, etc. with enough accuracy to satisfy my extra hard ass geography prof. well enough to get 90% on that test (which more than half the class bombed). I couldn't do it today, but enough stuck with me. Too bad the USSR broke up though. I can get Kazakhstan, but the samller stans always get me mixed up.

How many countries can you place and name accurately? Cities? Continents? Mountains?
Almost all countries, the larger or well-known cities, all continents (who can't?), some mountains.

All the continents, nearly every country and major mountain and city. If given a list of all the countries I think I could get them all.

all continents (who can't?)


It all depends how you define continents: I was taught that there were 6:
Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia & Antarctica - such is the tradition over here.

Some people count South America and North America as two separate continents, while some combine Europe and Asia into Eurasia, and so different totals or lists are possible and acceptable.

It all depends how you define continents: I was taught that there were 6:
Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia & Antarctica - such is the tradition over here.
Some people count South America and North America as two separate continents, while some combine Europe and Asia into Eurasia, and so different totals or lists are possible and acceptable.
No, Europe and Asia are too continents. Read the bible: there are only three: Asia, Africa and Europe.

It all depends how you define continents: I was taught that there were 6:
Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia & Antarctica - such is the tradition over here.

Some people count South America and North America as two separate continents, while some combine Europe and Asia into Eurasia, and so different totals or lists are possible and acceptable.

Interesting! That's the first I've heard of lumping North and South America together. (I always learned the definition was completely surrounded by water, thus making the Americas separate but not Eurasia.)

while some combine Europe and Asia into Eurasia, and so different totals or lists are possible and acceptable.
In Asia the sun goes up and in Europe it goes down. Azu - sunrise - erep - sunset, as the old Greece used to say.
Guess why Europe is more pessimistic. We are the "evening land" and since the christianisation the "christian evening land".

(I always learned the definition was completely surrounded by water, thus making the Americas separate but not Eurasia.)

That in itself is not sufficient, obviously, because then Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, etc. would all be continents. The problem is that there isn't really an agreed upon definition as to what does or doesn't constitute a continent.

Surely by your definition the Americas would be one continent (prior to varuious canal building activities...)?

Ooh: found this - a four continent system - "America, Australia (Oceania), Antarctica, Eurafrasia."

1. The map is to small, you cant type or abreviate names of nations.
2. Make the map a little bigger, and at least provide a numbers list.

I can list or name most or all nations of Europe, Latin America, North America,
Australia, North Africa, Africa and Asia and the Pacific, Africa and Asia and the Pacific would be the hardest for me, but I think I can find most or some of them.

List of Europe, t necessarily in order : 1 Andorra 2 Albania 3. Austria
4 Belgium 5 Bulgaria 6 Czech Republic 7 Denmark 8 Estonia 9 Finland
10 France 11 Germany 12 Greece 13 Hungary 14 Iceland 15 Ireland 16 Italy
17 Latvia 18 Lithuania 19 Luxemburg 20 Malta 21 Monaco 22 The Netherlands
23 Norway 24 Poland 25 Portugal 26 Romania 27 Russia 28 Sweeden
29 Switzerland 30 Turkey European Part. Thats the way I learned them,

31 Belarus 32 Liechestein 33 Bosnia and Herzegovina 34 Croatia 35 Macedonia
36 Moldova 37 Serbia and 38 Montenegro 39 San Marino 40 Slovakia
41 Slovenia 42 Spain 43 Ukraine

44 Georgia 45 Azerbaijan 46 Kazakhstan, European Part, according to
World Book Encyclopedia at least.

Vatican City is an official religious territorial entity.

Europe also has European Dependencies.

I have not learned to incorporate alot of the new ones in alphabetical order
on my computer brain. I am having fun with this thread, I love it.

Question for Europeans should Georgia and or Armenia be considered
culturally and ethnicaly European and therefore should be included in the Eu?.

I think or know I can find all the EU nations on a blank world map.

I am looking for better maps, its going to take time, I will telegram you,
so we work toghether on that ok.

I am working on a Superstate Unions thread with some intresting statistics
that will cover most of the world.

List of Europe, not necessarily in order : 1 Andorra ... 46 Kazakhstan, European Part, according to World Book Encyclopedia at least.


United Kingdom?

Here you are, with all the borders, just to make it easier:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/worldmap1.jpg

NO CHEATING!

You need to blow up a few of the areas so you can right all the small nations
like in Europe. Possibly the Middle East and Latin America and the Caribbean

South America : 37/39
Caribbean : 34/72
Central America: 42/42 Perfect Score!! :p
Africa: 116/147
Asia: 82/84
Europe: 103/111
Australia: 24/24 (Perfect Score)
Canada: 27/39
USA: 72/150
Middle East: 82/87
World: 33/33 (Perfect Score)

(There were a number of countries missing - and nothing on the Pacific nations :( )

I know that, Great Britain, The United Kingdom

England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland ,

and some so-callded British Dependencies, Sorry for the omission,

There are so many of them.

I know that, Great Britain, The United Kingdom

England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland ,

and some so-callded British Dependencies, Sorry for the omission,

There are so many of them.

I could probably do 50% of the countries, 5% of the capitals, and 100% of the mountains (my goal is to climb Everest, and then ski down. So far I'm 10% of the way there, monetarily, so wish me luck!) :D

Post reply 58 was meant for Bodies Without Organs.

Thanks Bodies Without Organs for pointing that omission out.

I have 3 Nations, Santa-Nita, Havaii, and Heck Hell.

The Republic of Santa- Nita.
The Kingdom of Havaii, thats Hawaii pronounced Havaii as that name was
taken by 2 republics.
The Republic of Heck Hell, motto What The Heck, was going to name it
What The Hell, didnt really like that and What The Heck sounded like a good
motto so I combined it Heck Hell. I use Heck Hell, What The Heck to play
the Issues game, the other 2 I care about the rankings.

How many countries can you place and name accurately? Cities? Continents? Mountains?

Definately couldn't do all of it, but I could probably get a fair bit.

Post reply 58 was meant for Bodies Without Organs.

Thanks Bodies Without Organs for pointing that omission out.

Hey, you did better than I would have done without resorting to reference materials: the Balkans still remain something of an enigma to me.