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as always you can find the rules, prizes and (after we finish playing) the answer(s) and winner over on the corresponding #fridaygeotrivia blog post: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-september-2023

An early #fridaygeotrivia lead goes to @AtanasE who notes Bulgaria , Greece

Technically correct, but hard to see that lead holding up

Past #fridaygeotrivia winner @ccferrie goes for 5! Well done! (though we have to note, there are two Congos)

South Africa (12) Botswana (8) Namibia (7) Angola (6) Congo (5)

Brilliant use of tiny Chad by @ryankas to go for 6! #fridaygeotrivia

Democratic Republic of Congo Central african republic South Sudan Ethiopia Sudan Chad

And now the response by @ccferrie who puts up seven! Also ending at Chad

Very nice!

Democratic Republic of Congo (28) Central African Republic (24) Republic of Congo (17) Cameroon (8) Nigeria (7) Niger (5) Chad (4) #fridaygeotrivia

But @ryankas comes rightback with an alternate path to seven!

#fridaygeotrivia Democratic Republic of Congo Central african republic South Sudan Ethiopia Eritrea Sudan Chad

Oh! @matt_travis join the #fridaygeotrivia battle and goes achingly close to getting eight !

Democratic Republic of the Congo > Central African Republic > South Sudan > Ethiopia > Djibouti > Eritrea > Sudan > Chad

BUT ... Ethiopia and Djibouti are both 8 characters long. So cruel

Please note: we will accept abbreviations as the name if (and only if) they are in common everyday use. For example UAE (3) #fridaygeotrivia

5 more minutes to submit your #fridaygeotriva answers

Absolute #fridaygeotriva masterstroke by @SK53 to build on the work of @ccferrie and discover the elusive 8!

Kingdom of the Netherlands (26)
German Federal Republic (23)
Czech Republic (14)
Slovakia (8)
Ukraine (7)
Russia (6)
China (5)
Laos (4)

And with that this month's #fridaygeotrivia is over.

Well done to @ccferrie and @SK53 who share the title and take home the emoji trophy

Well played, everyone. You have now earned the weekend!

The answer and winners' names will be up on the blog shortly

https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-september-2023

@ryankas of course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands

@gunchleoc @SK53 @ccferrie test yourself on the past questions:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/fridaygeotrivia

and see you next month! #fridaygeotrivia

@opencage @gunchleoc @SK53 @ccferrie Kingdom of the Netherlands, who knew!

@matt_travis @gunchleoc @SK53 @ccferrie come on man, are you not following our #geoweirdness threads:
https://en.osm.town/@opencage/110485247551659771

Help us to help you

@SK53 @ccferrie it's never easy #fridaygeotrivia

@opencage @SK53 @ccferrie Hack: Use a monospace font. Plain text editors usually have those. No idea how easy is to work that on a phone though.

@ccferrie feels like a local maximum for latin america

@Efri good effort, but you need hashtag and emoji!

@Efri very good, sadly this chain was already discovered. Seven is currently the lead #fridaygeotrivia

@gunchleoc good effort to find a local maxima #fridaygeotrivia

@opencage And a somewhat unexpected one (also too short to win):

Czech Republic (14)
Germany (7)
France (6)
Spain (5)
UK (2)

@ccferrie Nice, will award a half point for working Laos in #fridaygeotrivia

@ccferrie @opencage and possibly United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (lots) as Wikipedia lists a land border with . #fridaygeotrivia

@SK53 @ccferrie what land border?

@opencage @ccferrie Wikipedia is a bit unhelpful on this score https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_the_United_Kingdom (but I would assume somewhere in the Caribbean)

@SK53 @ccferrie NO. There is a land border with France in the Caribbean

see: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/110485247551659771

@opencage @ccferrie Well-known of course that Wikipedia is an unreliable source

@SK53 @ccferrie We leave a formal land survey of the border as an exercise for the reader

@simonvarwell from the tiny acorn the mighty oak grows #fridaygeotrivia

@opencage indeed!

@atlefren has to be in English, otherwise how do we deal with languages like Arabic, etc?

@opencage fair enough for this purpose, but I hope your geocoder handles native names as well? ;)

@atlefren oh my god!! that is genius. We could support other languages! this is going to be huge...

@opencage :D

@IIVQ yes, totally valid, see the winning answer!