Test your Geography..bored at work?

[tonym]

• The States
  
• Europe
  
• South America
  
• Asia
  
• Africa
  
• Middle East
  

States: 88% correct, 435 secs and ave error of 29miles (my first guess was Iowa! )

Check back later with some more results

Middle East: 13/17, 76%, ave error 174 miles

S. America 19/20 (Belize), 95%, ave error 43 miles

Asia: 24/32, 75%, 153 miles

Edited December 1, 2005 by tonym

[tonym]

Africa: 37/52, 70%, ave error 543 miles

by the way, don't open the browser window first then come back to it because you'll get some wierd times in your results!

Europe: 99%, 44/45, ave error 45 miles (Liechtenstein )

[king ubu]

Whoah, whole lotta countries in Africa, aren't there? Anyway, at least 70%... 94% in Near East/Middle East, and something similar in Europe (mistplaced Vatican slighty and released Netherlands without wanting to... that's the drawback of that touchpad-mouse). I will keep quiet about USA and have forgotten about Asia and Latin America, but both were not better than 70% or so...

[catesta]

That was fun and challenging.

U.S. = 86% correct, 22 mi avg in 222 seconds.

I'll try the others later.

[RDK]

Sloppiness did me in. I actually "missed" Texas because i just dropped it to the area but didn't line up the borders just right. And heck, the cursor was bigger than Delaware!

[catesta]

Yeah, not much room for error.

[Quincy]

That was fun!

US 96% 5 miles (Darn that Iowa. I even grew up next to it!)

Europe 87% 68 miles error (Oh those wee places.)

South America 85% 74 miles error (I misplaced Bolivia too far north. )

Asia 94% 36 miles error (I was going to put Georgia in the right place but thought the map was already colored. Oh well.)

Africa 79% avg error 331 miles (I had a course on African geography 20 years ago. The names keep changing.)

Middle east 94% 18 miles (Off a bit on Jordan)

[Alexander Hawkins]

Fun!

I like the politics of it (not quite as good as Eurovision though)...For example, I think Mexico fell through a crack between North and Central America...

[catesta]

South America = 80% 221 miles avg. error in 187 secs.

[gslade]

states

94% 345 seconds 5mile ave error

[Joe G]

States: 92%, 15 mile error, 368 seconds. The rest will be much more difficult for me.

[Alexander]

The one I did worst on was Asia. All those tiny little islands and former Soviet Republics. Don't remember what I got, but it was somewhere near 50%. The one I did best on was the Middle East - 94% (I got the Golan Heights wrong). I did okay on the U.S. and South America (both near 90%). Africa was rough (71%). Europe I did okay on when it came to Eastern Europe and great when it came to Western Europe and Scandinavia. The thing that tripped me up with Europe was all those tiny little principalities and duchies (?) like Luxembourg and Monaco. I could approximate their locations, but I always ended up a few miles off course (obviously it gets easier as the map gets filled in...

[Big Deal]

States 92% 11 Miles Darn! I was sure that VA. said KY!

Middle East 94% 15 Miles

Africa 75% 295 Miles

Aisa 71% 111 Miles

South America 90 % 146 Miles Doggone Belize anyway!

Europe 77% 110 Miles

This was fun and it looks like I should do it once a month.

[Claude]

The thing that tripped me up with Europe was all those tiny little principalities and duchies (?) like Luxembourg and Monaco. I could approximate their locations, but I always ended up a few miles off course (obviously it gets easier as the map gets filled in...

Please! Luxembourg is a Grand-Duchy !

I had only 95% in Europe, because of Andorra, San Marino, Vatican and Liechtenstein, but also Poland (placed it too much to the south)

Edited December 2, 2005 by Claude

[tonym]

That was fun!

US 96% 5 miles (Darn that Iowa. I even grew up next to it!)

yeah, does anyone actually live in Iowa? What's there of note?

At least now though, I know what the Oklahoma Pan Handle looks like.