I know this makes me super nerdy, but I LOVE www.sporcle.com ...particularly the geography section. I consider myself a fairly intelligent person, but have always been not-so-great with geography. Recently I decided to teach myself all the countries in each continent via sporcle.
The first one I did was South America. It certainly wasn't hard since there's only 12 countries and I already knew like 11 before I started.
Then I did North America (including Central America and the Caribbean). That ended up including 23 countries...all of which I had at least heard of besides St. Kitts & Nevis.
Next I moved on to Asia. I'm not sure why I decided to do Asia before Europe, because I definitely knew more of Europe before going into this. With its 48 countries, I expected Asia to be pretty difficult. Surprisingly, it wasn't. The hardest part of it was learning to spell everything.
Following Asia, I did Europe. Western Europe was easy but there was quite a bit of Eastern Europe that I had to work on. My most commonly missed out of the 47 countries were the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and San Marino...and I had to learn how to spell Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Oceana was next. Right off the bat I knew Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Micronesia. The Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Tonga, and Somoa were easy but it took a little while for me to learn Nauru, Palau, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
My newest Challenge is Africa. This is definitely going to be the hardest by far. There are 53 to learn and right now...I know like 17. Looks like I've got my work cut out for me!
Yes, I am a huge nerd.
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