Countries by area
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Order these countries by land area, smallest to largest. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Countries by area
Order these countries by land area, smallest to largest. You place all 32 cards in the right order, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
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3
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How to play the country size ranking game
Big countries go head to head in this deck, ranked by area in square kilometers, smallest first. One country starts on the line with its area showing. For every new card, choose whether it sits above or below the countries already placed. If you're right, the area is revealed; if you're wrong, the country still moves to its true spot and costs one of your three lives.
The deck leans toward large countries, so the real test is telling big from very big. Flat world maps stretch places near the poles and shrink those near the equator, which fools almost everyone. Countries covered in desert or rainforest are often larger than they look, and the top of the line is a close race among a handful of giants.
How players are doing
This deck has been played 138 times. An average run places 5.1 cards, and 63% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Chad missed 62% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Libya missed 59% of the time, usually by a single place
- Peru missed 58% of the time, usually by about 2 places
The safest card is Russia, placed right every time it has come up.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 32 cards you might be dealt, with 4 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Russia
- Canada
- United States
- China
- Brazil
- Australia
- India
- Kazakhstan
- Algeria
- DR Congo
- Saudi Arabia
- Mexico
- Indonesia
- Sudan
- Iran
- Mongolia
- Peru
- Chad
- South Africa
- Colombia
- Ethiopia
- Egypt
- Nigeria
- Turkey
- France
- Kenya
- Japan
- Germany
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