Countries Word Scramble #1 — Answers

Answers for Countries Word Scramble Set 1, with a geography note on each nation, including which one borders nine others.

#1easy

Island nation of roughly fourteen thousand islands.

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AnswerJAPAN

Only about four hundred and thirty of its islands are inhabited.

#2easy

Flamenco, tapas, and a capital in the exact middle.

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AnswerSPAIN

Madrid sits almost precisely at the geographic centre of the country.

#3medium

Sixteen states, and a capital divided until 1989.

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AnswerGERMANY

It shares a land border with nine countries, more than any other in Europe.

#4medium

The only South East Asian country never colonised by a European power.

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AnswerTHAILAND

Its name means land of the free, which reflects exactly that history.

#5hard

Huge island off the east coast of Africa.

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AnswerMADAGASCAR

Around ninety per cent of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth.

#6hard

Four official languages and a great many mountains.

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AnswerSWITZERLAND

It has not fought a foreign war since 1815, and its neutrality is written into law.