Relatively Speaking Trivia Quiz

Answer: Italy

In descending order of size: Chile (292,257 sq mi), Spain (195,364), Germany (137,846), Italy (116,324), and Greece (50,949). (Note: All figures were obtained from "Encyclopedia Britannica.")

Answer: Vietnam

Peru (496,225), Sweden (173,732), Japan (145,883), Vietnam (127,816), and Belgium (11,787). Have you ever noticed how often things are said to be "about the size of Belgium?"

Answer: Sudan

Canada (3,851,808), China (3,696,100), Brazil (3,284,426), India (1,222,559), and Sudan (966,757). Though more populous, India doesn't compare to countries like Canada and Brazil in size.

Answer: Iceland

Laos (91,429), Iceland (40,000), Sri Lanka (25,232), Rwanda (9,757), and Qatar (4,412). Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India.

Answer: Suriname

Cambodia (69,898), Suriname (63,251), Bangladesh (55,126), Czech Republic (30,450), and the Netherlands (16,033). Suriname is in northern South America.

Answer: Honduras

Turkey (300,948), Honduras (43,277), Togo (21,925), Djibouti (8,880), and Bahrain (225). All of these countries are much smaller than Turkey. However, there are countries that make even these seem large.

Answer: Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan (33,400), United Arab Emirates (32,280), Lithuania (25,213), Estonia (17,413), and Albania (11,000). The United Arab Emirates borders Saudi Arabia.

Answer: Myanmar

Mali (482,077), Myanmar (261,789), Yemen (203,849), Oman (119,500), and Syria (71,498). Even though they border each other, it is still difficult to see that Yemen is nearly twice the size of Oman.

Answer: South Africa

Mongolia (604,800), South Africa (470,689), Bolivia (424,162), Norway (125,050), and Cuba (42,804). Bolivia is the largest landlocked country in the Western Hemisphere. Mongolia is the second largest landlocked country in the Eastern Hemisphere after Kazakhstan.

Answer: Slovenia

Eritrea (45,405), Slovakia (18,933), Lesotho (11,720), Slovenia (7,821), and Qatar (4,412). Lesotho is located in the middle of South Africa.

Answer: Turkey

Democratic Republic of the Congo (905,356), Pakistan (307,374), Turkey (300,948), Chile (292,257), and Paraguay (157,043). Because of Pakistani border disputes, notify me if that number fluctuates.

Answer: Thailand

Thailand (198,115), Cameroon (183,591), Ecuador (105,039), Uganda (93,070), and Tajikistan (55,300). Cameroon tends to show up in a fair number of trivia questions.

Answer: Mexico

Argentina (1,072,156), Saudi Arabia (865,000), Mexico (756,066), Iran (634,562), and Iraq (167,975). It tends to be harder to compare sizes across the hemispheres.

Answer: Guinea-Bissau

Papua New Guinea (178,704), Guyana (83,044), French Guiana (33,399), Guinea-Bissau (13,948), and Equatorial Guinea (10,831). Believe it or not, all of these are actual countries. They even span several continents including Africa and South America!

Answer: Belgium

Sierra Leone (27,699), Croatia (21,829), Switzerland (15,940), Belgium (11,787), and Macedonia (9,928). "Sierra Leone" translates into "Lion Mountain." Macedonia is "about the size of Belgium."

Answer: Ukraine

Egypt (386,900), Ukraine (233,100), Kenya (224,961), France (210,026), and Romania (91,699).

Answer: Belize

Burkina Faso (105,869), Senegal (75,955), Nicaragua (50,464), Latvia (24,946), and Belize (8,867). Do you remember Gilderoy Lockhart in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" mentioning Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital?

Answer: Cote d'Ivoire

Venezuela (352,144), Uzbekistan (172,700), Cote d'Ivoire (124,504), Jordan (34,342), and Armenia (11,500). "Cote d'Ivoire" translates to "Ivory Coast," another name for the country.

Answer: Chad

Chad (495,752), Colombia (440,762), Pakistan (307,374), Poland (120,728), and Cyprus (3,572). Colombia contains the northernmost point in South America.

Answer: Belarus

Somalia (246,000), Madagascar (226,658), Finland (130,559), Belarus (80,154), and Panama (29,157). Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. If you thought it was smaller than Finland, recall the amount of distortion on a map near the poles.

Answer: Burundi

Philippines (115,651), Benin (43,483), Armenia (11,500), Burundi (10,759), and El Salvador (8,260). Burundi is located in southern Africa.

Answer: Turkmenistan

Kazakhstan (1,052,100), Mongolia (604,800), Tanzania (364,881), Turkmenistan (188,500), and Uruguay (68,037). Tanzania is another African country frequently mentioned in trivia questions.

Answer: Japan

Ethiopia (437,794), Namibia (318,580), Zimbabwe (150,873), Japan (145,883), and Greece (50,949).

Answer: Nepal

Kyrgyzstan (76,600), Nepal (54,362), Dominican Republic (18,657), Bhutan (16,000), and Moldova (13,000). The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Neither are very large.

Answer: San Marino

Luxembourg (998), Andorra (180), Liechtenstein (62), San Marino (24), and Monaco (0.73). These are some of the world's smallest countries. Although Monaco is less than a square mile, over 32,000 people call it home, giving it the highest population density of any country in the world.