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Welcome to the February 2025 edition of #fridaygeotrivia, our social media geotrivia contest. We normally play on the final Friday of every month, but due to some unavoidable travel on Feb 28th we will push things back by exactly one week.

The game will be played on Friday, March 7th, 2025, at 17:00 Berlin time, 4pm London time, 11am New York time.

See how to play below.

The February 2025 geotrivia question:

Name countries that are themselves not landlocked but border two or more landlocked countries.

Example: France 🇫🇷 borders Andorra 🇦🇩, Switzerland 🇨🇭, and Luxembourg 🇱🇺.

As always:

  • Only one answer per toot

  • You must include the hashtag #fridaygeotrivia and the emoji flag of relevant countries

Prizes

#fridaygeotrivia is a game with two prizes:

  1. the sheer joy of geographic knowledge and pedantry.

  2. the bragging rights of getting the answer first.

The #fridaygeotrivia Mastodon thread:

Post by @opencage@en.osm.town
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The winner

This month the emoji trophy went to Jocelyn

Second place to Jan-Willem Swane

This month’s geotrivia answer:

  • Albania - Serbia / Kosovo, North Macedonia
  • Algeria - Mali, Niger
  • Argentina - Bolivia, Paraguay
  • Benin - Burkina Faso, Niger
  • Brazil - Bolivia, Paraguay
  • Cameroun - Chad, CAR
  • China - Mongolia, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos
  • Croatia - Hungary, Serbia
  • DRC - CAR, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia
  • France - Andorra, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  • Germany - Austria, Czech Rep., Luxembourg, Switzerland
  • India - Nepal, Bhutan
  • Iran - Afghanistan, Armenia
  • Ivory Coast - Burkina Faso, Mali
  • Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan, Kyrgzstan
  • Kenya - Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia
  • Libya - Chad, Niger
  • Mozambique - Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • Nigeria - Niger, Chad
  • Poland - Belarus, Czech Rep, Slovakia
  • Russia - Belarus, Mongolia
  • Slovenia - Hungary, Austria
  • South Africa - Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Zimbabwe
  • Tanzania - Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia
  • Turkmenistan - Afghanistan, Uzbekistan
  • Ukraine - Belarus, Slovakia, Hungay, Moldova

How to play

Anyone can join in, you just need a Mastodon account.

  • Follow us on Mastodon, our account is @opencage@en.osm.town

  • When the game starts we will post the question here on the blog and on Mastodon, and will embed the Mastodon question here. We highly recommend using a mastodon client you feel comfortable with. We’ve made the switch to the Elk client and are loving it, but use whatever works for you.

  • Reply to the question thread on Mastodon (it will be embedded above) using the hashtag #fridaygeotrivia in your answer.

  • Only one answer per response (don’t stuff multiple answers into a single reply).

  • Our definition of “country” is usually (it depends on the question) any place with an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. Read more background about ISO and country codes in our guide.

  • To get full points for an answer it is good form not just to name the relevant country but (if possible) to include the emoji flags of the country.

  • While you can use a map, please do NOT use the internet to just search for an answer. That is cheating and will lead to seriously bad geokarma.

Some people have complained that the format is a bit chaotic and hard to follow. Yes. The mad chaos is part of the fun. Embrace it. The goal is just to have fun and learn. We win by playing

Thanks for playing,

Ed