Country name game

[rockabilly]

australia - the only country thats also a continent

[smc]

We're going to run out of countries soon if people keep picking ones that end in "a".

Here's my next one:

Afghanistan

[TracyCoxx]

How bout Norway

[rockabilly]

Yugoslavia - damn that one ends in "a" too most countries end in "a" thats eerie

[smc]

Yemen would have worked, too.

Perhaps we need to stipulate the rules of the game more clearly. Yugoslavia is no longer a country. The name for Yugoslavia is now Serbia & Macedonia. However, if we expand the rules to include all sovereign states, whether they still exist or not, the pool of available names will certainly be greater. For instance, Czechoslovakia would be available to use, whereas today there is no such country as Czechoslovakia (having divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia).

Anyhow, for now, here's my "A" country, unavoidably also ending in "A" until we change the rules:

Antigua & Barbuda

[ila]

Armenia

Another country ending in a

[smc]

Well, unless we change the rules (as I suggested), this game is going to be over very, very soon.

Albania

[Cyborg]

Originally Posted by smc

Yemen would have worked, too.

Perhaps we need to stipulate the rules of the game more clearly. Yugoslavia is no longer a country. The name for Yugoslavia is now Serbia & Macedonia. However, if we expand the rules to include all sovereign states, whether they still exist or not, the pool of available names will certainly be greater. For instance, Czechoslovakia would be available to use, whereas today there is no such country as Czechoslovakia (having divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia).

Anyhow, for now, here's my "A" country, unavoidably also ending in "A" until we change the rules:

Antigua & Barbuda

It was Serbia & Montenegro (not Macedonia) but this state exists no longer as well since Montenegro´s independence from June 3rd, 2006.

My contribution: Andorra.

[TGirl lover]

How about: Algeria

Sorry about another A

[smc]

Originally Posted by Cyborg

It was Serbia & Montenegro (not Macedonia) but this state exists no longer as well since Montenegro´s independence from June 3rd, 2006.

My contribution: Andorra.

You are absolutely correct: Montenegro. It's funny how multitasking can mess with the things you know. I know Macedonia is wrong, probably knew it when I typed it, and yet the fact that I had just completed a discussion with a Greek colleague arguing about the Greeks and their obsession with calling Macedonia "Skopje" put my mind in a place where I just typed the wrong thing.

In any case, the game is screwed by the recycling of countries beginning and ending in A.