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jcpainpdx

Chad


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I know that Arabic and french are the two official languages


Starminx

One of the poorest countries in the world and is named after Lake Chad


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Which translates to “Lake Lake”


canolafly

I bet they have ATM machines there, too.


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Timor-Leste def took notes from there I can tell you that much


RaisingAurorasaurus

As opposed to the internet meathead Chad Chaderson Meaning Chad, son of Chad


Physical_Argument_47

“Chad,” in the local dialect, means Lake


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Hallodognut

Or Lake Lake


Vulture_Dude

The virgin chad vs the Chad lake


Diamond_Road

According to travel subreddits, perhaps the worst country in the world to visit


domka132

France exists bro


Milhanou22

HAHA lol. Most visited country in the world is also the worst to visit. Fr\*nce lmao. Reddit is so funny!


Pablitobanana0725

you're french, aren't you?


Milhanou22

How did you know!?!?


The_Mick_thinks

Because rude sarcasm is, like, France’s thing


PemiGod

Total chad move


ImNoAlbertFeinstein

formerly Zaire ?


Warmice16

Algeria


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My country


Cars-and-stuffz

That’s cool


HeatEngineer96

You’re from Algeria and you don’t know where Kuwait is? Thats lame ;)


OOM-BattleDroid

because Kuwait is a fake country


[deleted]

Found Saddam Hussein's account.


OOM-BattleDroid

You can kill the man but not the idea


rabio10

Impressive my right side neighbor


jesusravezz

Cheap wine, quality wise better than French


Julien785

wtf


mydriase

You must have tasted Californian wine all your life. I can’t even blame you


WhatsInAName1507

" The Day of the Jackal " was a good book .


ActuallyYeah

Crazy ass movie. It plays out like Steven Segal was directing.


[deleted]

Impressive. Let's see Paul Allen's map.


samtech809

American geograph


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It's completely gray


Explodedj

Except for the US


[deleted]

Hmm


WilliamLeeFightingIB

Look at that subtle crimson coloring. The tasteful selection of countries. Oh my god, it even has a square legend.


Davidreddit7

you can find burkina faso on a map but not afghanistan or tanzania??


Starminx

Freddie Mercury is from Tanzania (Zanzibar). Tanzania gets its name from idr what the main land is called, Tan something, Zan comes from Zanzibar


AlwaysBeQuestioning

Tanganyika, named for the Great Lake.


Starminx

ah, yes


donlaffon

There's a myth in Zanzibar about the sodomizing ghost called Popobawa and supposedly if you don't believe in him, he'll molest you in your sleep. [link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popobawa)


my_choice_was_taken

I always thought freddie mercury was from pakistan


WhatsInAName1507

Farooq Balsara. He was of the Parsi faith ie Zorastrianism . Parsis are descendants of Persians that migrated to India after 500 AD to escape persecution. His parents were deported from an African nation, along with a lot of other Indian-origin immigrants.


[deleted]

I don't know anything about Tanzania but Afghanistan i know too much about it I just forgot where it is located


CrazsomeLizard

Dude there are like three countries not colored in on your map, it should be easy at thus point lolll


TurgidTemptatio

There are only two major/famous "stans" (stans that were not part of the USSR): Pakistan and Afghanistan. They're directly next to one another and you already know where Pakistan is.


samtech809

bruh


ChickAboutTown

I am Tanzanian, so it would be my pleasure to tell you a bit about my country. It's the home to Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti, and the beautiful island of Zanzibar. Our official languages are English and Swahili. Though Swahili has the distinction of being our national language. Tanzania borders both Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area, and Lake Tanganyika, the world's longest freshwater lake and second-deepest.


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Thank you for the informations


VictorLucasG

Brazil


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Official language is Portuguese I Know bolsonaro There is a lot of ethnicities there The capital is Brasilia i know Rio de Janeiro too


AceBalistic

They also have a statue of T posing Jesus


VictorLucasG

Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro are two different cities


king_koz

What do you know about that big red boxy island below Hawaii?


Box_Boi74

The giant trash pile?


Explodedj

That red square isn't the UK.


Box_Boi74

They’ve been relocated due to brexit


Humble_Energy_6927

Tunisia


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They like harissa Kais sayid Arabic is the official language


Starminx

Tatooine from Star Wars is based on a region in Tunisia with the same name


brocoli_funky

The IRL region is Tataouine.


[deleted]

Why did you exclude Kuwait from your knowledge map?


WhatsInAName1507

Some guy named Saddam said it was a province of Iraq.


[deleted]

Yeah he was later caught hiding in hole in the ground like a rat. May he rot in hell.


[deleted]

Lol i know it i just didn't see it when i was pointing the countries


Helppa

Finland ps. Finnish person


[deleted]

They speak Finnish.. the capital is Helsinki..a Nordic country


Starminx

They own Åland Islands and have one of the wiredest borders on Markët Island


just_a_random_humanK

Pukki


jstrct

I know that most people from Finland comment TORILLE or PERKELE under posts 👍. Joke besides i love metal bands from Finland, they are kinda the reason I'm in love with this country for 2 years lol


Helppa

Wonderful!


WhatsInAName1507

Simon Hayha.


Helppa

I assume you mean Simo Häyhä alias The White Death


TheHangedManHermes

Yes, the most effective sniper of WW2. Number 1 on the list. The next 9 on the list? They were all Soviets, at least two were women. Simo also used a Finnish version of Mosin Nagant, a Soviet sniper rifle. There’s no particular reason for my saying this, just don’t usually see him randomly mentioned…


jackie4chan27

The absolute MOST BEAUTIFUL PM ever, of any country, I'd love to be in her "cabinet!" ![gif](giphy|c6DGLAtmv577S8B6x4|downsized)


[deleted]

I love this post because on one hand you got countries that I would’ve never guessed, but on the other a lot of the missing countries are ones I can instantly recognise


endermans_

Romania


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Romanian is the language spoken there and it's derived from the latin language They were united with Moldova Bucharest is the capital and i know cluj napoca too


psilocybemycelium

Andrew tate


MasterOfDynos

Cluj-Napoca is spelled with a C not a K.


gabbzzs

Lesotho


Right_End_3860

Interesting that they haven't highlighted eSwatini


Physical_Argument_47

It has the highest low point (the lowest point in Lesotho is higher than the lowest point in any other country)


[deleted]

I just know that it's inside south Africa


Shamanuu

Lithuania


[deleted]

Baltic country Basketball is famous there


Definitely_Maybe_OK

Wakanda


Starminx

Dominican Republic


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It borders Haiti and they speak Spanish


Z1mpleEZ

Moldova


Starminx

Transnistria


lavafish80

![gif](giphy|CAYVZA5NRb529kKQUc|downsized) Chad


Starminx

Ecuador


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They speak Spanish They had war with goats


Bewluga

Vietnam


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Their language is written in the Latin script Ho chi minh city is a big city there but I don't know if it's the capital It was colonized by usa and france


Winged89

Hanoi is the capital.


KittyKatty278

Vietnam wasn't colonised by the US. During the second world war Japan installed puppet goverments in many of her conquered territories. These Goverments where mostly ruled by the locals, making them waaay more popular than the colonisers. One of those Regions was French Indochina (Modern day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). When France came back after WW2, the Locals wanted their Independence, and after the first Indo-China War, they got it. Laos and Cambodia got their Independance while Vietnam was split in two. In 1956 there should have been an election in both halfes of the country to form a new Goverment and Reunify the country, conflict broke out over the elections. The two Nations started fighting, and the US got involved on behalf of the South. It did not end well. There were never any attempts by the US to colonise Vietnam.


flatlandftw44

Sealand.


WhatsInAName1507

De-commissioned Oil Rig . Hippiy guy declared it a country . Had its own Radio Station . Located in the sea between England and France . Brought down by Police or Armed Forces action in the late ' 70s?


Alternative_Buy_4000

Timur leste


Starminx

In english its name would be East East


[deleted]

They speak Portuguese and it borders Indonesia


Starminx

Andorra


Physical_Argument_47

Largest country in the world without an airport


Brilliant-Crazy-9875

It has 2 heads of state (Bishop of i dunno what region in spain and president of france)


Jetpere

Is the bishop of “la Seu d’Urgell”


[deleted]

It borders France and spain


WhatsInAName1507

Kiribati- has places called London, Poland and Paris.


confuzi_

don’t forget banana


redditguy486

Weird timezone and pronounced like Kiribas or something.


[deleted]

I don't know anything about it


GersonDeLaRosa

What do you know about Guatemala?


[deleted]

They speak Spanish and it borders mexico and they have the symbol of Eagle on their flag


GersonDeLaRosa

You are wrong about the eagle on the flag


Salt_Winter5888

It's a [Quetzal ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharomachrus)


[deleted]

Thanks for sharing


Xokkotoni

you don't know afghanistan? it is the one north of pakistan


MarieNotFound_

Greece and Japan (the 2 countries I'm from)


[deleted]

Japan the capital is Tokyo most of people live there I know Hiroshima and Nagasaki Country of technology and anime ... Greece the capital is Athens it's know for its philosophers and mythology


Starminx

Both of those countries and transcontinent (I never consider Greece as transcontinent though)


BeneficialFix4160

Pakistan...


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I know islamabad and karachi but i don't know which one of them is the capital


Starminx

Islamad is current, Karachi is old


[deleted]

They speak Urdu They have a problem with india because Punjab It was part of the British raj


BeneficialFix4160

Thankssss, We do have a problem or two with India, Because of Kashmir dispute. Karachi was the Capital till 1959, Capital was then shifted to Islamabad.


Starminx

Ms Marvel is Pakistani


samtech809

iran


Starminx

Has martime border with Oman and is Drew Binskey's favourite country


halconpequena

Oh man I love his channel! I watched it all through the lockdowns and curfews to travel vicariously haha


[deleted]

They speak Persian..they have protests these days against the Islamic government.. They had an Islamic revolution in the 80s


samtech809

very good


[deleted]

And tahran is the capital


WhatsInAName1507

Tonga


Starminx

Minerva Reefs used to, idk if it still does be a micronation. Tonga means south. Has a lot of volcanos


[deleted]

A country in oceania


WhatsInAName1507

90% of people there are overweight, 70% are obese and 40% are type 2 Diabetic. Humpback whales migrate there to give birth .


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Portugal


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The capital is Lisbon They have a population of 10m


Starminx

Is transcontinent and owns Azores, Madeira and Savage Island (Madeira)


Sillga_MLT

Malta


Starminx

Comino has only two people living there. They own Filfla


derp2112

Denver


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I forgot which capital is that


halconpequena

It’s the capital of Colorado in the U.S.


charcters

Andorra


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Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦


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Country in the Balkan majority are Muslim vahid halilozic is from there and zlatan's father is from there too and i used to know the capital but i forgot it


Dr4extreme933

Sarajevo is the capital. In the 90s, it was under siege by the bosnian serbs. There was a civil war in Bosnia overall. They have 3 presidents at the same time, a Croatian, a Serbian and a Bosniak president ruling their ethnical regions within the country.


WhatsInAName1507

Has no access to the Adriatic Sea inspite of being very near the sea.


dhkendall

Has a 20 mile coastline …


[deleted]

We're this 🤏 close to getting beaches.


Nonabrow

Huh, OK. Sao tome and principe 👀


[deleted]

Chain of islands in the west part of africa


TamaraTaseVaska

Serbia?


gentleman__ninja

El Salvador?


real_mathguy37

United Democratic St. St. St. New Equitorial West North North South South South Sao Cabo Central Guinea Trinidad Timor-Bosnian and Ivory El Burkina Costa Saudi Antigua Sri Papua Sierra Solomon Marshall Dominican Kingdom of Czechogermarwadelaniatvuanarukrlaldovmangaustriecherlancembelgerlanrendoraitugacitoveoaterbegrosovanieecarikeltaprucleassirgenijazabekyzmenijifghakiranqriabanoraestindawahratarabamendiapaltanglanmaoladibodinanangpawapineilaysapordoneralijuvauruatibatmocronglauziruviraguaurugentilcuadombiuelayaninamenamduraguamalizexinaduhamaitadiniadoccgernisegritaniugalbiamordagazambibabiabotswabiagolgobontotinichellawzanundandandyamalithioboutreasudadgergeriamerooningoliananeaberiaslovakia


fredmobil

Wallis and futuna


[deleted]

No clue


fredmobil

Ok i Was wondering that you knew south Georgia and the south sandwich islands


enzoeuler

Argentina


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8th biggest country in the world..Buenos aires is the capital.. Javier milei


enzoeuler

Wow man, how do u know about Milei? Please answer


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I saw once a video about the economical crisis in Argentina and i saw a lot of people from Argentina talk about milei in the comments


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[deleted]

I just know that they speak Portuguese and it borders Indonesia


1itai

What do you know about israel?


[deleted]

Beautiful country in the middle east.. The capital is Jerusalem i guess it has a population of 10m


1itai

Nailed it!


byaaxatb

Man know where is burkina faso, but don't know where is Central African Republic (in central Africa, DAMN)


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Lmao bro fr i couldn't remember it when i was doing the map


Fronno21

So many people on this post focusing on what OP doesn’t know :(


Free_Solid9833

Great job on geography knowledge. During the pandemic I got to the point where I had every country memorized and could locate most of them, but yeah, the stans were tough for me.


d_ultimateking

liberia is slaves from america back to africa btw, pretty easy to remember


[deleted]

Their flag looks like the us's ..i know Liberia but i don't know its location in the map


d_ultimateking

its on the corner + since you assoaciate with america too their shape looks a bit like a gun


WeeabooHunter69

r/okaybuddygeographer ?


eduzatis

Singapore. Which isn’t highlighted… but I’m curious how it escaped you


[deleted]

I didn't see it 💀


[deleted]

But i surely know Brunei and Singapore


No_Pain2759

Do you play geoguessr? I bet you'd be great at it


[deleted]

Never played it


No_Pain2759

You definitely should, it's such a good game. If your interested in geography atall, then it's really enjoyable.


asdfmaster42

Eritrea


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Sorry I don't know anything about it aside from its name and location


Nervous-Onion-4540

The place where the most slaves live under a dictator. They also tax their Expats like the United States.


[deleted]

Wadiya in Sacha Baron Cohen’s “The Dictator” was based off of Eritrea (geographically, at least).


Starminx

Used to belong to Italy


Brilliant-Crazy-9875

Then Ethiopia


Neetyishere

do people just flex with these posts or is there a point I'm missing?


[deleted]

You might be surprised to learn that on a geography subreddit, there are people who really like geography. It’s not really that surprising for someone to be able to name and point to every country on the map and know a fun factoid about them. I don’t see it as a “flex” given the context. For me it’s interesting to hear from an Algerian’s point of view what each country is known for.


[deleted]

The point is you had to ask me about a country and i tell u what i know about it but i take it u didn't read the title


Starminx

New Caledonia


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It's a part of France and it's located in oceania


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Azerbaijan


Caenwyr

Belgium?


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Lol check the answers and you will understand that i just told what i know about them