Test your Mid-East/North Africa geography

That was entertaining. I only missed a few. I had never in my life heard of "Western Sahara."

At least the name made it a pretty obvious pick though.

I got it by process of elimination, but i still considered it a part of Morroco (which was the parenthetical reference on that map). My big problem was with the "-stans," placing them precisely. I also mixed up Qatar and Bahrain.

I am weak in geography. It was a good exercise for me.

I started out pretty good but failed badly in sub-mediteranean Afric and the 'Stans.

I did ok except for

- screwing up the drop at least four times, including putting something back in the blue band with the others and putting jordan by mistake into the mediterranean sea.

- having a hell of a time placing the western sahara, which I'd never heard of.

- got most of the stans but flubbed up on uzbekistan

- flubbed up on morocco when I knew better, tried to stuff it into algeria.

- messed up with qatar

Now to take it again to fortify the learning curve...

who stole MESOPOTAMIA ? i want it back !
hbg

OK, all right that time.

I suppose, since it's more or less our neighbiurhood, I wasn't bad at all. (Though we use here the term 'Near East' for the "Middle East" ...)

I only knew 9 for sure. I probably got another 10 or so on the 2nd try, but I knew the general area. The rest were all trial and error....I need some work.

I have even more trouble with central and southern Africa. I gave up when Zanzibar and Tanganyika morphed into Tanzania.

Well, one was German East Africa, the other .... okay, there has been the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty ...

if i try , i can probably get most of the former german "colonies" together (mainly from the stamps in my collection ; as a matter of interest , germany had it's own post-offices in such countries as turkey and marocco from about 1870 until 1914 - and until 1919 in spanish marocco ) .
but don't ask me which streets to drive to get to our house ... ...
hbg

[I always liked the Ger,an post office in KleinPopo, Togo.]

I did worse than expected (I expected a perfect score).

Mixed Niger and Chad.
Mixed Turkmenistan and Tajikistan
Mised Bahrein and Oman (that was unforgivable)

As for the Western Sahara, I guess the US does not recognize the legitimate government of the Frente Polisario (Popular Liberation Front of Sahara-Río de Oro) or the Saharauí Arab Democratic Republic.
I think all Spanish speaking countries do. Their embassy is a few blocks from my house.
It is recognized by 45 countries, and it had or has a wall dividing the (truly independent) South and the North (occupied by Morocco).
Río de Oro was a Spanish colony until 1975. After their independence, Morocco and Mauritania invaded it. In 1979 Mauritania retreated.
The territory is inhabited by 380,000 Saharauis and 160,000 Moroccan soldiers. Of the 380,000 Saharauis, 270,000 inhabit the part controlled by Morocco.
The RASD has two official languages: Arab and Spanish.

I have just two words on that topic (OK, well, maybe three . . . )

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

I couldn't find Koreastan.

I did okay until I got to those eastern --'istan' countries, other than Afghanistan and Pakistan, and it took some trial and error to place those correctly.

I did what you expected..

The French too know about the Polisario..

I even remember Villa Cisneros..