Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Fun with maps
Think you know your geography? Try your hand at this game.
I did pretty well, other than the sub-Saharan countries. Not being as smart as Joe Wilson, I had a hard time sorting Niger from Chad and Mauritania.
8 Comments:
By 
Anthony, at
Wed Dec 03, 01:04:00 PM:
Aced it, though I had to stop and think about the various -stans in Central Asia.
Also, their map shows Qatar as an island. Oops. :)
By TigerHawk, at
Wed Dec 03, 01:55:00 PM:
The Qatar gaffe is very disappointing.
By SR, at
Wed Dec 03, 02:36:00 PM:
Ha, I didn't think it was an island either, but it was the only area in the Persian gulf unassigned and Qatar was not taken so............
By JamesEJ, at
Wed Dec 03, 03:34:00 PM:
Mali and Mauritania screwed me up. Knowing that Chad deals with Darfur spillover made that an easy one among sub-Saharan countries. In fact, knowing about such conflict spillover issues helped with many of the -stans as well.
By GreenmanTim, at
Wed Dec 03, 08:09:00 PM:
No comments about the Palestinian territory? How about Western Sahara? Neither has full state status.
By Justin, at
Wed Dec 03, 08:52:00 PM:
Seems I know the Middle East and the African coast, but the rest of it...
By TigerHawk, at
Wed Dec 03, 09:28:00 PM:
No comments about the Palestinian territory? How about Western Sahara? Neither has full state status.
It seems to me that you have to call those areas something. "Palestinian territory" is not offensive to our traditional allies, so I'm all for it.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Thu Dec 04, 09:50:00 PM:
I switched Turkmenistan and Tajikstan, which is more embarrassing because I have made that same mistake before. I can't seem to get that to stick.
I hesitated over a lot of the others, but got them.
The main site is appalling, however.
