Geography quiz!

[dreamer_easy]

I received this JPG in email:



Eighteen nations are named on the map. How many are "Arab lands"?

Only nine of the eighteen countries named are Arab nations: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen. None of the others identify themselves as Arab nations, belong to the Arab League, or have a majority Arab population.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

Yay me, I got it right! (helps to have worked with a few Persians...)

[barrington.livejournal.com]

I think you made a slight mistake; Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen makes nine countries, not eight. Did you include an extra one, or are there really nine?

Incidentally, this reminds of something I learned recently: Turkey was the only country in an international survey where a higher percentage of the population rejected evolution than in the United States. This fact helped explain why the only person to ever tell me Darwin was evil was Turkish.

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

The good ol' muslim=arab conflation. Meh.

[almostwitty]

Looks like someone just assumed any country with a ...stan was Arab... which I'm sure comes as a surprise to the people there.

You'd have thought someone with a genuine interest in "ending unjust Jewish occupation" would generally *know* that Pakistan is not an Arab country...

[laputain.livejournal.com]

The most repulsive attitude of the Zionist regime is that Arab=Arab=Arab, and if they occupy Gaza that's okay because the native people can go live in Egypt or Jordan or wherever. (Until the Likudniks decide that Eretz Israel needs to be even larger, but never mind that.)

It's like if China occupied Sydney, and sarcastically said to 4 million refugees "OH BOO HOO HOO! THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF AUSTRALIA, YA CRYBABIES!" Never mind that the various forms of Arabic are near-to mutually unintelligble.

[hexacontium.livejournal.com]

Just an utterly and completely random note: I'll move to Qatar later this year :)