How many countries in Africa can you identify?

[Mathilda]

Then it's good that IglooDude didn't ask for the capitals (as you proposed in the other thread)

Yes, thankyou AVN.
Well done for 33

 

[GenMarshall]

Its been a while since I have taken Geography. I know I would do poorly namely because the majority of the African nations were former colonies of the European empires that have declared there independence and gone there seperate ways.

Also what makes it hard is that they are not as well establised as Egypt (Yes we all know of the Anceant Egyptians ) and are often in various civil wars.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Are the same people that can identify 80%-plus of African countries also able to identify all the Asian 'stan countries and the Carribbean/Central America?

The stans are easy as hell. There are only about half a dozen.

Now the string of islands in the Caribbean besides the main islands is trickier. I always mix up Martinique/Barbados.... and all those.

The Central American countries is pretty easy, as there really aren't that many of them.

 

[Renata]

32. Did pretty well with most of the continent, but completely mangled west Africa. I mistook Mali and Cote d'Ivoire for Niger and Nigeria (the two countries in that region that I know at least their relationship to one another, and their approximate sizes), and it went downhill from there. I had most of the countries at least in the right neighborhood, the glaring exceptions being Uganda, which I put in place of Botswana (and then I wondered why I was out of room in southern Africa for the latter); Mali, which I somehow had in place of Gabon; and Malawi, which is what I decided to rename Equatorial Guinea.

Not too bad, considering the last time I had formal instruction in African geography was half a dozen years before most of you young whippersnappers were born.

Renata

 

[Taliesin]

19. Man I suck.
About another twenty-five or so, I knew generally where they were, and perhaps switched them with an adjacent country or rotated three adjacent countries.
Still, embarrassing.

 

[Bluemofia]

Decent. Low 20s. Know where most countries are in all the other continents...

 

[Perfection]

I knew most of them. I got a few of the west African nations mixed up and swapped a couple sub-saharans but I did pretty well.

You should've asked me back when I was interested in the stuff. I could've told you thier names and capitals.

 

[Drewcifer]

I switched Benin and Togo, other than that I got them all. I have always been somewhat obsessed with maps, which is probably part of why Civilization appeals to me.

 

[Fetus4188]

36-40, i.e. more than I care to know about

 

[Steph]

All of them. But 20 of them are customers of my company, and we have commercial relationship with 6 more.

Beside, I work with maps everyday...

 

[LouLong]

All of them + 1 that is not on the map (Sao Tome and Principe, near the island part of Equatorial Guinea). French seem to do well.

And I have no interest (either personal or professional in Africa), I just know the map of the whole world.

 

[Yoda Power]

I can identify all countries in the world, except some small states in the pacific. So I don't even bother to try

 

[Mathilda]

I think this thread is a brilliant example of truth on the net and intelligence on OT.
Looking at the votes, less than half the people got more than half the names right, yet you'd never guess that from reading the posts.

Oh, and as well as not knowing which African country's where, I can't follow instructions either Forgot to count the seas and oceans (yes I did know them)

 

[bigfatron]

43

Got Togo and Benin the wrong way around, ditto Cameroon and Congo.

And the three Guineas, Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire and Gabon all got in a right tangle together!

Not too bad given I have no reason to access geographic knowledge with work, and schooldays are a long, long way behind me....

 

[AVN]

I can't follow instructions either

Hmm, let me guess ; you are a manager

(In my experience managers have in general problems in following instructions, they prefer to give them).

 

[Mathilda]

Hmm, let me guess ; you are a manager

(In my experience managers have in general problems in following instructions, they prefer to give them).

You're right.

 

[oagersnap]

I voted 51-53. I didn't take this test (the map is pretty bad, and my printer is out of ink), but my brother has something similar to this on his computer, and I got almost all of them right there (actually, I did get all of them right but that wasn't until after several tries.

Btw, did anyone notice that Ghana is very narrow on this map?

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Yes, it was a very poor map.

 

[Yom]

All of them, I'm Ethiopian.

I could probably get about 45 capitals right, but I've forgotten a lot, so maybe 35-40.

The quality of the map made it a little harder, since I remember the difference between Benin and Togo more by shape than the order.

I didn't look at the key, so I thought the Indian ocean one was supposed to be Seychelles, and the Atlantic one the Canary islands/Cape Verde and Sao Tomé & Principe (there were two in the ocean).

Edit: BTW, you shouldn't have told them which of the Congos was Zaire. Make it a little harder.

 

[rbis4rbb]

28. I got the east coast and the med. coast, and a few inner countries. I doubt 12 people got 53.