How well do you know you african nations

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51 out of 53 average error 28 miles (beat that gareth)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

35/53 311 miles. That was horrible.

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

44/53. Avg error 103 miles

― robster (robster), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

FIFTY-THREE OUT OF FIFTY-THREE!

It also says 'average error 0 miles' but that cannot be true, my Burkina Faso was further out than some of the US states which got marked inaccurate on the other one.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

42/53 Average error 189 miles.

At least I was in the right vicinity with those errors.

I am so ashamed that I mixed up Swaziland and Lesotho considering I have been to both. :-(

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

i cannot beat it ed!

48/53

average error 48 miles.

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

37/53. this sucks. Alex, i'm going to come up there and kick your arse.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

51/53, avg err 17 miles or something. Missed Burundi (which I got as the first one) and Mali.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

45/53, average error 163 miles

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

For Gawd's sake, I only know ONE.

― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

47/53, 147 miles. The mileage is down to being 4000 miles out on the Comoros.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 22 April 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

29/53. I basically only know some of the larger ones (Nigeria, Egypt, Madagascar, Algeria, Congo, etc.) and was able to fill in a lot by puzzle.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 22 April 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

53/53, 0 miles (I look at maps quite a lot) - but the program adjusted a couple of positions after I released early on, so they are obviously disregarding errors up to some limit.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm not gonna say, 'cos I accidentally dropped one of 'em on the wrong side of the continent.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

'One of 'em'?

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

yes, mine wasn't perfect either, mauritania particularly foxed me...

i only got 40/44 on the european one (FYR Macedonia, Monaco, Malta and Vatican City (i knew it was in italy, but put it a bit too far north))

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

I thought I'd do better on the Europe one, but it was a bit difficult to place some of the smaller ones without the larger countries to guide me.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

45/53, 85%, 228 miles. i was waaay off on a lot of these.

― g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

44/53 282 miles

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

39/53, 276. argh.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 22 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

91%, 83 miles, surprising actually.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 22 April 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

41/53

77%

194

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 April 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

47/53, average error 51 miles

― andyjack (andyjack), Friday, 22 April 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

'One of 'em'?

Yes, only one of them, thankfully.

Sorry about that, Niger.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Friday, 22 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

51/53
average error: 7 miles
96%

i was a little off on ethiopia, i left a lil too much room for eritrea...
and rwanda i was kinda more off . oh well!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

48/53, 22 miles avg. error, 353 secs. For some reason they considered Sudan off even though on other counrties I got correct I was further away than that. I messed up Zambia and Zimbabwe because I'm so used seeing this very outdated map in my American Government classroom reporting them as Northern and Southern Rhodesia, and so I thought Zambia was further away from where it actually was because I forgot that it's the new name of Northern Rhodesia, and I couldn't remember how close Zimbabwe was to the Indian Ocean, as I thought it was further inland. I was just slightly off on Benin and Sao Tome & Principe.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

45/53
271 miles

apparently the seychelles are in the indian ocean, not tha atlanitc?!?!?!

god i am such an idiot

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

That's why the average isn't too meaningful: there are a few places you could be insanely far out on, and you get one of those wrong and it looks like you are lousy at it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Ambrose, that was my problem w/ the Comoros.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

30/53, 427 miles, 329 seconds

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 23 April 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

40/53, 254 miles

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 23 April 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

Racists.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

50 out of 53, 13 miles. I can live with that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

49/53. 38 miles out. Not bad considering I got all the wee, coastlineless, countries first, so had a bit of guesswork to do.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32724083

Burundi general just led a coup ( I looked up where that southeastern African nation is located)

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:26 (ten years ago)

Read that some folks are glad for the coup because they thought the Prez there was going to give himself a dictatorial third term.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 22:03 (ten years ago)

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