Name a Valid First-Level Subdivision for Every Country
There are 3637 permanently inhabited subdivisions in the world. Can you name at least one for every country?
A first-level subdivision is a portion of a country delineated for the purpose of administration, which is included within no other subdivision of the said country.
I am so proud to submit this quiz that took hours and hours of work to create. There are countless thousands of type-ins, but some are probably missing : don't hesitate to suggest modifications if you spot any mistake! Special thanks to IAB who made this so much easier for me, make sure to check out his subdivisions per continent series (link in the caveats). Have fun!
Nominates, but honestly, I think this quiz would be a lot more fun if capitals weren't accepted as answers. Lots of the difficult questions become really easy thanks to their capitals.
That'd be too hard to pique people's interest I believe. I will probably do a hard version of this excluding capitals and cardinal directions, but this quiz will remain as it is
I just got 56% and I had no idea what I was doing, I randomly used capital cities, areas, river names, regions etc. I still don't know what I was supposed to be naming (at first I thought it was regions of countries such as 'Counties' but that did not work, some capitals did....... others did not) .........
It varies. .. US/Brazilian/Mexican/Austrian states, Canadian provinces/territories, Croatian/Hungarian counties, French/Italian regions, Russian federal subjects etc. Some smaller ones don't have regions as official administrative division, so in Slovenia municipalities are first level divisions etc etc
You can find them all here. I couldn't provide the list in the answers as it is simply too long. It was also easier for me to work with type-ins directly instead of answers (for practical purposes).
I'm loving all these subdivisions quizzes - since mastering countries of the world, learning subdivisions has been my new goal, and I'm pretty sure I'll never run out of new ones to learn, unlike countries. A lot of these you can get with capitals, or a few generic directions, but others are a lot tougher and a few had me stumped.
Awesome quiz! Is it possible that I could have a list of all the type-ins? It would really help me in my quest to complete the ‘Every Sub-division in x continent’ quizzes
Copy the URL, go to Create/Edit quiz, click "Copy a featured quiz", then go to Step 2 - Answers, "Advanced", "Export Answers". Copy and paste that in a tab ;)
WHAT is this quiz asking for? - it might be helpful to give an explanation or an example. I quit the second I started, just to see what you're asking for, and STILL have no idea what this is about.
The flag of Catalonia is here as an example. But well, what is a subdivision? Well, let me quote this comment by Djilas : "It varies. .. US/Brazilian/Mexican/Austrian states, Canadian provinces/territories, Croatian/Hungarian counties, French/Italian regions, Russian federal subjects etc. Some smaller ones don't have regions as official administrative division, so in Slovenia municipalities are first level divisions etc etc"
Really fun, but I'm disappointed that there isn't a way to see the possible answers for the ones you missed (outside of exporting answers). It means you can't really learn past what you already know.
This quiz is a work of art. I particularly like it because it's not so off-puttingly enormous as most similar ones I've seen. I have still done really rubbishly though :-S
I know Jetpunk kind of doesn't care, but England is not a subdivision of the UK by the definition you give – it doesn't have any administrative existence at all, just as Leinster, Munster and Connacht aren't first-level subdivisions in Ireland.
The subdivisions of the UK are Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and then Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, Hampshire etc. etc. Very messy I'm afraid.
Netherland or Nederland should be accepted. It is a constituaning country in the kingdom of the The Netherlands. The others constituening countries are Curaçao, Aruba, and Saint Martin. They should count too. And yes I am sure cause I am Dutch myself.
There's a handful of missing type-ins for Greece. The type-in string for Greece, specifically "Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian", is ^(THE)?PEL+[AEIO]P+[AEION]+S(E|OU]+S|[AEI]+N). Because the OU]+S is missing an opening bracket, type-ins like Peloponnesos don't work even though they likely should. This is of minor consequence because West works for the same subdivision, but it's still worth noting.
Good fun quiz (had to do untimed tho, no way do I have the time time to do it all in one go!). I must try the harder version soon. Can I be really picky and tell you the provinces of Poland are usually called ‘voivodeships?’ It’s a little different to the subdivisions of Czech Republic as we use ‘regions’ as the English translation of ‘Kraje.’ The term ‘voivodeship’ is, unlike ‘kraje,’ an English word and is the better translation of the Polish ‘województwa.’
The Kingdom of Denmark has three constituent countries of equal status; Mainland Denmark's five regions are second-level subdivisions and shouldn't be part of this quiz (it's very similar to the Kingdom of the Netherlands in that respect).
Now, quizzers, there are 194 countries represented here but 196 on the Countries of the World quiz. Which two are missing (because they don't have any first-level subdivisions)?
if you mean that the statistical regions of slovenia are the first level subdivisions, they have no administrative function and no government. same applies to north macedonia, and slovenia is still divided into municipalities
In the "pro version", the following type-ins have been removed :
- North, South, East, West, Central, Mid, Inner, Outer, Upper, Lower, Lesser, Greater and derived type-ins
- Capital, Federal District, ... and capital names
- Anything that contains the country's name itself.
Have fun!
I LITERALLY CANT EVEN REMEMBER THE CAPITAL
just what I meant
I know Jetpunk kind of doesn't care, but England is not a subdivision of the UK by the definition you give – it doesn't have any administrative existence at all, just as Leinster, Munster and Connacht aren't first-level subdivisions in Ireland.
The subdivisions of the UK are Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and then Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, Hampshire etc. etc. Very messy I'm afraid.
To be honest, I got like 75% of the answers from typing either world capitals or cardinal directions.
> Has "2 islands"
> 78% didn't get
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