Countries by trivia

The only nation to successfully land a probe on Venus

In the Ewe language, its name means "behind the river"

Most of the Lucayan Archipelago belongs to this country

Its full official name is the longest in the world with 56 characters

Often described as Europe's last dictatorship

Seven-time winners of the Eurovision Song Contest

Its English name comes from the Venetian language. In its own language, it is called Crna Gora

Scores an average of 3.5 points per letter in Scrabble scoring, the highest of any country

A desert irrigation project at Al-Kufrah is easily visible from space

Its capital city has the world's highest concentration of Art Nouveau architecture

Both this country and the country that it shares a border with are named after rivers

This nation contains some of the highest mountains in the world, but mountaineering above 6,000m is banned

Colonised successively by Spain, Japan and the United States, this nation became independent in 1981, rejecting membership of a federation with a neighbouring nation

Shares its etymology with a district of West London which has several canals

Both the women's and the men's world record for the marathon are held by athletes from this country

Administered as two largely separate entities, neither of which corresponds to the two regions in the country's name

The largest landlocked country in the world

Only country in the world named after a mountain range

Ruled between 1967 and 2023 by a family whose surname is almost an anagram of the country's name

If someone's surname ends in "shvili", they or their forebears almost certainly come from this country