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[OC] How often can people find each country on a world map? 85,000 guesses from a geography game
Data: 84,845 guesses from borderline.world, a daily game I made where you find countries on a 3D globe. It covers 166 countries, minimum 184 attempts each, 12 June to 5 July 2026. Microstates and small island nations aren't in the game because they're too small to tap reliably on a globe so no Vatican, Monaco or Maldives here.
Method: a guess counts as correct when the tap lands inside the country's borders. Wrong answers aren't mis-clicks: the median wrong tap lands over 600 km from the target and 87% of them land inside a different country entirely, so the map is measuring where people genuinely think countries are.
Results: the five hardest are Timor-Leste (25%), Liberia (28%), Sierra Leone (31%), Burkina Faso (31%) and Senegal (32%), and West Africa is the hardest region as a block. The easiest are Brazil and Russia (98%), Australia and France (96%) and Canada (95%). One that surprised me Switzerland (63%) is far harder to place than Sweden (85%) even though the name mix-up famously runs both ways.
Tool: d3-geo with a Natural Earth projection, rendered to canvas.
Play it or poke at the data source: borderline.world