- Hi, it's Matt.
In my last video, I tried to name
47 European countries on a map.
This time I'm taking it one step further.
Can I name all 197 countries in the world?
Let's find out.
(fanfare)
If you want to play along too,
the link is in the description below.
Comment with how well you did
and how well you think I'm gonna do.
I think I'll do it all right
in the Northern hemisphere.
In the Southern hemisphere
is where I'm gonna have the issues.
Yes.
Suppose I better get on with it, then.
Let's play the quiz in three,
two,
one.
Go, okay, I've got 15 minutes.
Let's start with Europe.
UK,
Ireland, Iceland, France,
Andorra, Monaco,
Spain,
Portugal.
Figure if I start with the ones that I got in the video
I did the other day I should do...
All right start.
So I'm aiming for 47 here.
Belgium.
The Netherlands,
Luxembourg, (sighs)
Germany,
Austria,
Italy.
San Marino,
Vatican,
Malta.
Okie doke, let's go further along a bit.
We need to do Norway,
Sweden,
Finland.
Fin-land. (sighs)
Denmark,
Russia,
Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania.
I'm trying to do it kind of in an order
of countries that border each other
so then it's harder for me to miss them out.
Poland,
Bela-Belarus,
Ukraine,
Czechia,
Slovakia,
Hungary,
Slovenia,
Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(groans) Right.
Bulgaria. (laughs)
Moldova.
Okay, Balkans, here we go.
What can I get right?
Montenegro,
Serbia,
Kosovo,
Albania,
North Macedonia,
Greece,
Turkey,
Cyprus.
Switzer... (sighs)
(keyboard clacks)
So there's two little question marks there below Hungary,
wondering what they were.
Okay, I've missed something obvious,
have I done Romania?
Okay.
47, okay, that's Europe done!
Okay, USA, Canada, Mexico.
Oh, this is where it gets harder.
Cuba,
Jamaica.
(groans)
(laughs)
Honduras,
Venezuela.
(groans)
Cambodia.
Ecuador.
Cambodia's over there, oops.
(sighs) Central America I'm not so good at.
I'm trying to think of one of the bloody Caribbean ones,
the ones that are owned by the U.K.
or the U.S. that I can think of.
'Cause I think, yeah, there's only British
and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Fine, let's go for Africa.
Morocco.
(groans)
Egypt. (sighs)
Libya.
(groans)
Oh, I know this.
Why am I doing so...
Fine, let's go to the Middle East.
Syria,
Jordan,
Lebanon,
Iraq,
Iran,
Azerbaijan,
Georgia,
Armenia.
(groans)
Israel.
Kuwait.
(keyboard clacks)
Yay, Bahrain,
Oman,
UAE,
Yemen, Saudi Arabia.
Ooh, there's something in there that I've forgotten.
Is the fact that I forgotten one of the countries
in that region gonna start a war? (laughs)
In the comments? (laughs)
Oh, well, there's something else
near the UAE as well that I've forgotten.
It's not another city-state.
Oh well, Tajik...
Kaz (groans)
Kazak...
Aye, okay, this is where it becomes a spelling contest
as well, Uzbekistan.
In the comments of my last video, I noticed a lot
of you were playing the quiz, which is in English,
it's the English names of all the countries,
but you don't speak English,
so you did bloody well, considering.
Turkmenistan,
Pakistan,
Afghanistan.
How are we, at 80 out of 190, less than half.
And the Bangladesh,
Nepal,
I've remembered Peru.
It's nowhere near it, but I'm gonna put Peru down,
Brazil,
Paraguay.
Uru...
Okay, so Paraguay and Uruguay are there
and I can't remember how to spell either of them.
(keyboard clacks)
I thought that Uruguay was a country
and it is not spelled the same as Para...
Fine.
Chile.
Argentina.
Guyana.
French Guyana.
Oh, that classifies as France, doesn't it?
Africa, Ivory Coast.
Mali,
Ghana,
Namibia.
Sudan,
South Sudan.
(groans)
(vocalises)
South Africa.
Oh, there's one inside South Africa,
'cause I've seen it when I've played GeoGuessr.
It begins with an L.
Lesotho?
Madagascar looks like it's labelled there.
Australia,
New Zealand,
China,
Mongolia,
Japan.
What's that one in the middle?
Have I missed a -stan?
Thailand,
Laos.
(groans)
Is Myanmar a country or a place?
It's a country, Singapore,
Indonesia.
How long, I've got six minutes left,
I've got 97 countries to get, fuckin' hell.
Ah, crap. (laughs)
Yay, Uruguay!
(laughs) I remembered the spelling I hadn't done yet.
Oh, God!
(keyboard clacks)
Malaysia,
Brunei.
Oh, there are...
It's annoying knowing things, but not knowing them.
Tuvalu is a country.
Turks and Caicos.
I'm pretty sure, I thought that was a country.
(groans)
(mumbles)
Oh, what's the one that China thinks they've got,
but they haven't got?
What have they got, who knows?
Taiwan?
I'm gonna recognise Taiwan. (laughs)
What's next, the Koreas!
North Korea, South Korea.
(mumbles)
Yes, I think.
The Indian Ocean, I have no idea.
My mind has gone blank on Africa.
Oh crap, four minutes to go.
Columbia is the one I was thinking of when I said Cambodia.
What else is in the middle there?
Barbados.
(keyboard clacks)
Oh, Dominic, oh!
Dominica?
Ah, there's a something in the something. (laughs)
Oh, shit.
Kenya.
Is Swaziland a country?
That is a country
Eswatini, okay, I knew it had changed,
I was pretty sure it had changed its name.
I'm glad it was being nice to me.
(stammers) There's...
Western Sahara.
I thought that was one.
I thought there's a country like that
that says exactly what it is, that's part of its name.
I've played this game in the past
and I did so much better in Africa.
I've just forgotten them.
It's not like I've practised for this,
I've come into this from nothing
other than doing the European quiz.
So I'm at 122.
- That's a country, Suriname.
Couldn't tell you where it was.
It's in South America, apparently.
What's the bloody obvious one I'm missing
in the middle of bloody South America?
I've watched Ewan McGregor and Charlie Whatcha-ma-call-it's
Long Way Up, recently, as well,
and I've bloody driven through that.
Honduras, oh, I've already got it.
Oh, a minute and a half.
Papua New.
Yeah.
Vietnam.
Oh, the one north of Namibia,
I can't remember its name.
I was looking at it,
'cause I was considering flying through it to get somewhere.
It's been so long since I've looked at travel
and therefore looked at maps
that there are so many bloody gaps in my head.
'Cause it's not like I've been allowed
to go anywhere in over a year.
It's not like I have any intention
of going anywhere anytime soon.
125. Am I gonna get anything in the last 10 seconds?
I don't think I am.
I think that's it.
That's my 15 minutes.
Wow, there's a lot of countries here.
Okay, Central African Republic.
That's the one I was thinking of
that just says where it is. (laughs)
Let's see.
Camaros, which I have never heard of.
Palestine, yes, I probably did start a war
in the comments by forgetting that one. (laughs)
Oh, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, I know of those.
Vanuatu I've heard of, but I couldn't possibly spell it.
Micronesia? Forgot that was a thing.
I do remember now.
The Philippines, that was the obvious one in there.
Bhutan is the one near Nepal.
Kyrgyzstan, yes, I have missed a -stan.
Bolivia.
That was the obvious one.
The -ans I was talking about, Antigua and Barbuda
was the one I was thinking of, Trinidad and Tobago.
Haiti, Bahamas, Kitts and Nevis.
Guatemala was on the tip of my tongue
and I didn't quite get it.
Oh, Panama, obviously.
Nigeria, Niger, Algeria, all the -gers. (laughs)
I am disappointed with how I did.
How did you do compared to me?
I think even if I did that again, right this second,
which I'm not gonna do, because fuck that. (laughs)
I don't think I could get too many more,
probably, by the time I got to it.
So 125 out of 197, that is 63.
Apparently the average score is 68%.
I'm gonna assume that average is slightly weighted
by the kind of people that do this kind of quiz
rather than the average person in the world.
So I think I've done better than average for Brits.
From what I know about U.S. Americans is, in general,
they know nothing outside of their own country.
So I assume I've done better
than the average U.S. American. (laughs)
But if I'm wrong, let me know.
I'm interested to see how you did,
so if you've played along too, then stick it
in the comments below, I'll have a read through.
I might play this game again sometime
in the future and see if I've remembered
a few more of them.
If you want to watch me play any more geography quizzes,
then let me know what in the comments below.
I've got a few requests for U.S. states,
so I might play that next.
Until then, I'm @MattGrayYes on all the socials,
so yeah, follow me there.
(laughs)