This challenge holds all 48 countries in Asia, and you have to type every one of them from memory, with no clues and nothing to pick from.
Every Asian state, from the eastern Mediterranean to the Pacific rim. The challenge is complete at 48 out of 48.
GeoMemory counts 196 countries: the 193 UN member states plus Vatican City, Palestine and Taiwan. Dependencies and overseas territories are excluded, so Greenland, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong and New Caledonia are never answers. Microstates are included in full, which means San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra, Nauru, Tuvalu and Palau each count for one. Every country sits in exactly one continent, and that is what gives the totals of 54 for Africa, 48 for Asia, 45 for Europe, 23 for North America, 12 for South America and 14 for Oceania. The capitals challenges run on the same list, one capital per country. Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are counted as Asian, while Russia and Cyprus are counted as European. Taiwan and Palestine are both in the set.
Asia hides its answers in clusters: the Gulf, Central Asia and Southeast Asia each hold half a dozen names that are easy to leave incomplete. Recall is the whole game: nothing on screen reminds you of a name you have not typed yet.
GeoMemory is free recall, not recognition. There is no list of options, no map to click and no first letter given away: you type a name and it either belongs to the set or it does not. Spelling is forgiving (one wrong character is accepted, accents and punctuation are ignored), a timer runs while you play, and the run ends with a completion percentage you can share. A multiple choice quiz asks whether you recognise the right answer among four. A map click quiz asks whether you can point at it. This one asks whether you can produce it.
48. You need all 48 for a complete run, and your percentage is counted against that number.
Yes, up to a point. One missing, extra, swapped or transposed character is accepted, and accents, punctuation, capitals and spaces are ignored. Two mistakes in the same word are not accepted.
It is free and there is no account, no sign up and no install. Your best time for each challenge is kept in your own browser.
These are the answers that decide a run. The five names ending in stan are usually only half remembered: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan. Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan sit in Asia here, so they will not count on the Europe challenge. The small Gulf states get skipped after the big neighbours: Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait.