Country quiz
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How many countries there are in the world depends on who you ask. The most common number is 195, the 193 member states of the United Nations plus Vatican City and Palestine as observers.
Russia is the largest country by area, so big it spans eleven time zones. China and Russia have the most neighbours of any country, fourteen each.
A few countries are landlocked twice over. Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the only two countries in the world that don't just lack coastline themselves, they're also surrounded entirely by other landlocked countries.
The youngest country in the world is South Sudan, independent only since 2011. The country quiz shows how much geography is packed into a single name, the location, the neighbours, the history behind it.