Prompt 5 of 7
Name a country that celebrates an independence day
166 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- East Timor— Restored its independence on May 20, 2002, the century's first new nation.
85 ptsDeep Cut78 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Benin
- Brunei
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon— Independence came January 1, 1960, and National Day is May 20.
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Croatia
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Grenada
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Iraq
- Ivory Coast
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liechtenstein— National Day on August 15 doubles as its 1866 sovereignty holiday.
- Lithuania
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands— Constitution Day, May 1, 1979, began self-government from US trusteeship.
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Montenegro
- Nauru
- Niger
- North Macedonia
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Qatar
- Republic of the Congo
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tonga— Emancipation Day covers the 1970 end of British protection.
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
60 ptsRare56 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium— Leopold I took the oath on July 21, 1831, after the Dutch split.
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ecuador
- Fiji
- Finland
- Guyana
- Iceland
- Italy— March 17, 1861 is Italy's unification anniversary, counted here.
- Jamaica
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- North Korea
- Norway— Union Dissolution Day, June 7, 1905, counts alongside Constitution Day.
- Palestine— Its 1988 declaration of independence was read in Algiers on November 15.
- Paraguay
- Portugal— Restoration of Independence Day celebrates ending Spanish rule in 1640.
- Romania— May 10, 1877 proclaimed independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- Russia— Russia Day marks its 1990 declaration of state sovereignty.
- Rwanda
- Serbia— Statehood Day recalls the 1804 uprising against Ottoman rule.
- Singapore
- Somalia
- South Korea— Liberation Day, August 15, marks the 1945 end of Japanese rule.
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden— June 6 recalls Gustav Vasa ending the Kalmar Union in 1523.
- Switzerland— Swiss National Day recalls the 1291 charter that founded the confederation.
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Uruguay
- Vatican City— Lateran Treaty Day, February 11, 1929, made it sovereign.
- Yemen
30 ptsSchooler28 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Argentina
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Canada— Canada Day marks the 1867 Confederation that made it a self-governing dominion.
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Israel
- Kenya
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Ukraine
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- India
- Mexico
- United States