http://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/countries-of-asia-quiz.php

Clock starts when the page loads.

Tip: Island nations are also included

Scored 39/48

Enjoy!

Cyprus? Really? Its in the sodding Med. How is it a part of Asia?!

40 of 48. I started plugging three countries in I know are considered part of Europe and they worked. Weird.

Yeah, I agree some answers are a bit off on what we consider "Asia". I'm pretty sure this is geographic and not a political map, and in this case Cyprus is closest to Asia. Then again this doesn't really explain the absence of Russia...

31/48

I don't know my Asia very well...

I missed all the Middle East and CIS countries! Only 23/48

Suppose I have a habit of thinking only in terms of their commercial markets, which are part of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa).

Fun quiz; however, I wonder why nations like Georgia, Kazakhstan and Cyprus would be considered part of Asia, for example, but not the rest of the CIS (Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, etc)?

And why aren't Russia and Turkey! Doesn't make any sense at all. But maybe I'm just annoyed because I only got 28. Though in my defence, I missed a (small) handful because I didn't know the English spelling.

After a minute or so I got 31% and gave up.

I have a terrible memory and never even bothered learning this stuff anyway. But since when is Russia not in Asia? 0____0

Turkey was up there.

69%, what?
I don't even know how I named 20% of them. Might be because my knowledge is relatively fresh, but still, I wasn't sure I knew about half of these.

Yeah, Israel. Really?

Personally I like this site more so I like the quiz more

http://m.sporcle.com/games/g/asia

It also gives a visual aid

Yeah you're right, I must have made some massive spelling error somehow.

Of course Israel, where else would you put it?

Yemen ?! [censored] I thought that was Africa.

Also I cant spell some of these for [censored], but knew them. Bleh whatever.

21/48

I also can't spell. Kept trying "Uzebeckistan" and "Uzebekistan". Never just thought it to make it Uzbekistan.

35/48, not too bad.
I spent 30 seconds trying to spell Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan properly.
...and only remembered 30 seconds before the end that the Middle East was in Asia

Boy, I had a hard time trying to spell Kyrgyzstan. Scored 38/48. My geography has got rusty.

41/48. I can name many countries in a short time, but I forgot Laos and six others.

It's in central Europe, obviously.

And as for the quiz itself: You scored 39/48 = 81%. To my defense I'm not very sharp today. I forgot about Lebanon and Bahrain as far as the near East is concerned, and remembered that there were a couple more -stan but couldn't recall them. I also did better than I thought I would when it comes to south-east Asia, but managed to forget a couple I think I'd normally remember.

Er, Asia does extend to the Mediterranean. I'm more perplexed as to why Asia has gradually become almost synonymous with China and Japan in some quarters.

Edit: that sounded a bit snotty. Sorry, it wasn't meant to be.

I suppose it has to do with commerce.

When you work in a company with offices around the world, the emerging markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (including Russia/CIS) are often grouped together under one division, while the Asia-Pacific region is separate.

I was just talking about this with my other half and she thought it was perhaps because the Middle East is often seen as its own thing: even though it's no more a separate continent than, say, Scandinavia, sometimes it can seem somewhat disconnected, especially for those people who tend to associate Asia with its eastern bits--that was something that took me a while to get used to, that in the US, "Asian" would generally mean someone or something from Japan, China etc, whereas here in Britain it's more synonymous with India and Pakistan, the more far eastern bit described as, well, the Far East!

The commerce bit also makes sense, though it's a bit of a curious one since it seems to encompass a bunch of disparate markets to my layman's view, and wasn't a term I'd heard until the mid-to-late '90s.

Edit: darn typos.

27. Bah. I know all of them, I just can't name them off the top of my head. Missed a lot of the southeast asian ones like Cambodia.

Also, how does Taiwan count, but Palestine doesn't?

It doesn't have settled borders? It currently has two governments?

I'm generally terrible with names, but county names has always been a problem for me. Got 8 of 48 ′Seriosuly can't figure out any more of them...