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Welcome to the May 2026 edition of #fridaygeotrivia, our social media geotrivia contest.

As per tradition we play on the final Friday of the month, which this month is Friday, 29th of May, 2026, at 17:00 Berlin time, 4pm London time, 11AM New York time.

See how to play below.

The May 2026 geotrivia question:

Name countries with more than one commonly used English name.

For example: the 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast is also commonly referred to as Côte d’Ivoire (and indeed the government refuses to recognize the use of “Ivory Coast”).

As always:

  • Only one answer per toot

  • You must include the hashtag #fridaygeotrivia and the emoji flag of the 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
View on Mastodon

The winner

Once again the title was claimed by Ciarán Ferrie, with second place going to Pablo M.U.. Well done!

This month’s geotrivia answer:

  • Australia / Oz
  • Bosnia / Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Burma / Myanmar
  • Czech Republic / Czechia
  • East Timor / Timor Leste
  • Ireland / Eire
  • Macedonia / North Macedonia / FYROM
  • the Netherlands / Holland
  • New Zealand / Aotearoa
  • Papua New Guinea / NewGuinea / PNG
  • Republic of Congo / Congo-Brazzaville
  • Sahrawi Republic / Western Sahara
  • South Korea / Republic of Korea
  • Surinam / Dutch Guiana
  • Swaziland / Eswatini
  • Taiwan/Chinese Taipei
  • The DRC / Congo
  • Trinidad / Trinidad and Tobago
  • Turkey / TĂĽrkiye
  • UAE / The Emirates
  • United Kingdom / Great Britain
  • United State / America / US / USA

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