Georgaphy Test for Middle East and North Africa - can you pass it??

[The Sushi Bandit]

This will put you to the test, this is modern geography, not the geography when we went to school. It includes all the current political Hot Spots.

If you enjoyed it, vote of it. We all need to stay as smart as we can on where everyone is!

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. I missed Bahrain

[UTUSN]

15. Me, too!!1 There was no empty space at the end. Plus

did it with several hit/misses, no time limit.

[proud2BlibKansan]

39. Yes where does it go?

It was left over and I couldn't find a spot for it.

[Lilith Velkor]

51. Persian Gulf, just north of Qatar n/t

[LeftHander]

47. Dubya missed Bahrain too....nt

[lonestarnot]

64. Microscopic dot.

[AX10]

2. I got them all correct!

[TahitiNut]

21. So did I ... finally.

Got about 80% without difficulty, but got turned around a bit on sub-saharan Africa and the 'stans.

[Tesha]

29. Same here. (NT)

[liberal N proud]

3. The African Nations were tough for me

Others surprisingly enough were easy.

[Jed Dilligan]

10. You found it easy to hit Bahrain?

Damn, you must have a great mouse!

[liberal N proud]

43. There was a military base there at one time and my brother

was stationed there, so it made it easy

[Jed Dilligan]

45. I know where Bahrain is...

...used to work in export and invoice them every week. I just found it very hard to hit it with my crappy mouse. It's teensy weensy!

[etherealtruth]

14. For me as well ....

I whipped through the ME w/out error ... then Came Northern Africa; I missed 5 :(

[Daphne08]

16. Same here. n/t

[mod mom]

me too

[redqueen]

4. Thanks, that was fun.

:)

[The Deacon]

5. I Missed

The new 'Stans (Tajikistan, Turkmenostan, etc) - knew the area where the four of them were located, just not which country was in which location. And not having Somalia in there threw me for a bit in North Africa - I always start at the Horn & work north & west.

[TAPat]

6. That was both fun AND educational - Thanks!

K & R too!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. I got the "Stans" mixed up

but otherwise, I knew all the others.

All those years of studying National Geographic maps and planning fantasy trips when I was a kid obviously did some good.

[malmapus]

60. Yeah, had to think on the "Stans" myself

Was so much easier when it was all just the "U.S.S.R."

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Did OK on the Middle East, but had a couple of problems with Africa.

I think they change African names every other year.

[NMDemDist2]

55. me too! n/t

[bdamomma]

9. well if I was timed I would have flunked.

great test though.

the "stans" were fun to get.

[malaise]

25. Ditto

but I got it done :D

[ComerPerro]

11. I openly admit that, on first tries, I only got about 50%

got most of ME and part of Africa on first try

[Bill McBlueState]

12. that was fun

I got them all, but I had to think pretty hard about the stans.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. That was fun.

I got all of the "important" ones right.
;)

No, seriously. I feel kind of dumb. I didn't even know "Western Sahara" was a country.

But at least I can admit that.

:evilgrin:

[Tesha]

28. You probably felt better once you learned it was...

You probably felt better once you learned it was The Country
Formerly Known as Morocco.

Tesha

[cool user name]

67. Isn't it occupied by Morroco, illegally?

I know Algeria objects to the occupation of Western Sahara.

[ananda]

17. Thank you!

I took it as a learning experience.

I kept trying till I got them all in place.

This is a good thing to know.

[Nimrod2005]

18. Not fair...Many are newer countries! I missed a couple in the former

Soviet Union...

[TahitiNut]

22. When I went to school, many were labeled "this way there be dragons."

:dunce:

[skids]

57. lol n/t

[bvar22]

19. Good Post!

The ME was a snap, but the stans and Central Africa gave me trouble.

I also had trouble with this one:

[MamaBear]

20. Thanks. K&R.

Got some, missed some, found out what I don't know yet.

[annabanana]

23. That took me WAY longer than it should have...

dumb "franistan"

As penance, I shall do it over and over...

[Bill McBlueState]

24. someone should post this at Freeperville

Someone who can should post this at Freeperville. Watch them argue about how it's not important to know where brown people live.

[bdamomma]

27. they wouldn't have the patience to do it.

[Tesha]

32. Well, there's "Framistan", and "Abdulastan", and... (NT)

[Leopolds Ghost]

76. ...and don't forget Poland! n/t

[OregonDem]

36. They would probably argue that all them Muslim countries should be nuked

and made into made into one nation called Reaganland cause then you wouldn't have to remember all those nations with funny names, besides they all live on top of our oil and Halliburton needs it.

[Tesha]

52. You know, a radioactive slag heap named "Reaganland" actually seems...

You know, a radioactive slag heap named "Reaganland" actually seems
sort of accurate, no?

Tesha

[juajen]

26. Perhaps you should take a spelling test!

Geography. I'm much better at spelling than geography. Oh, well.

[The Sushi Bandit]

33. That is some tongue-in-cheek spelling

George... aka "Shrub"
could he get any of them right??

[teriyaki jones]

30. Way Cool!

Didn't get them all on the first try, but I learned something!

Recommend everyone give it a try! K&R

[The Sushi Bandit]

77. glad you liked it!

[OregonDem]

31. I got the X four times.... @$%# Kyrgyzstan

n/t

[Tesha]

34. I always just figured that was where this guy comes from...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kurgan

:)

Tesha

[OregonDem]

48. Isn't that the country where Snozzwangers, Hornswogglers,

Whangdoodles and Vermicious knids come from? Those certainly look like vernacious knid skulls on his armor.

[The Sushi Bandit]

69. i love Willie Wonka quotes!

[mom cat]

44. Me too, but most of it was rather easy. I had Chad and Mali mixed up

and the Stans were tricky. This was fun I am definately going to reccommend it.

[hyphenate]

35. Where the hell does Bahrain go?

Help!!!!

Other than that, a lot of misses, but I eventually found every place else. The 'stans were actually easy, and of course, Egypt was the first one I put down, so I had to remember how that area looked around Egypt.

[OregonDem]

38. Its an island above Qatar

n/t

[hyphenate]

40. Thank you!

It looked colored in on my monitor--I thought it was part of Qatar. :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. I switched some...

Bahrain vs. Qatar
Mali vs. Niger
Armenia vs. Azerbaijan
Oman vs. Yemen

Other that that, got them all.

[IA_Seth]

41. If you REALLY want to feel ignorant....

Check out this map site and its map games. I double dog dare you to do the Africa one in it's entirety.

http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF#

[RiDuvessa]

71. Wow!

That was tough. I need to do some more studying.

[The Sushi Bandit]

79. Me too!

[treestar]

42. Thanks, that was interesting!

Got most of it except Western Africa being a little tricky and of course those that were once just part of the USSR, so when I was in school they were all just lumped together and now I cannot keep them straight.

[LeftHander]

46. Don't forget Dumbfuckistan....

Marked in red...

[IronLionZion]

49. Damn, those 4 stan countries from the USSR

I got the rest though, even Bahrain. No, actually I messed up Azerbaijan, but I got Armenia after that.

[Throd]

50. I got 'em all right, but can't find my car keys.

[Lilith Velkor]

53. I got them all on the first tries

That was fun, thanks for posting. :bounce:

[Lasher]

54. Mee too

I wouldn't kid you or anything.

[Lilith Velkor]

56. heh

Why would you?

[Lasher]

59. It might have worked if I had spelled 'me' correctly.

I wish I would have finished grade school.

[Pacifist Patriot]

58. The four former Soviet Republic "--stans" gave me fits.

Otherwise I did pretty darned well. Surprised myself.

[malmapus]

61. I had a total brain fart on Syria

Kept trying to force it in Jordan lol, wasn't really paying attention. Started it off just throwing names of countries I was certain of, and it was one of them lol.

[Mutley]

62. I did remember a lot of it from World Geography class

but probably missed about 25% of them.

[elehhhhna]

63. 7 minutes.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

65. That was fun!

Got some of the 'stans mixed up and had the same problem with Bahrain, but did pretty good.

[cool user name]

66. Bahrain has no where to go!

And a couple of the 'stans always have fucked me up.

[Tesha]

68. Look more closely... (NT)

[Cleita]

72. It's there in the Persian Gulf. Look more closely in that area.

eom

[RiDuvessa]

70. Same as most

Had no problem with the Middle East and Africa, couldn't figure out the 'stans

[Cleita]

73. Tre neato. Someone needs to post this at the freeper website.

n/t

[LynzM]

74. Only after a LOT of guesswork...

Better get my act together about that...

[zonkers]

75. At least this map did not have a time limit like the U.S. map someone

(you?) posted a few days ago. I sent it to my niece. Boy did she love it.

[The Sushi Bandit]

78. It is fun to try it back-wards

from the end of the alphabet.