25% of players find Timor-Leste on their first tap of a blank globe, which makes it the 1st hardest country to place of the 166 in the game. It is in South-Eastern Asia, sharing its only land border with Indonesia, and its capital is Dili.
Timor-Leste has exactly one land neighbour: Indonesia, which accounts for its entire land border.
| Neighbour | Share of land border | Can players find it? |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 100% | 67% find it |
Shares are measured from Natural Earth 1:50m country outlines, so treat them as proportions rather than surveyed distances. The find rates come from our own play data.
25% of players put their first tap on Timor-Leste when the game asks for it. The median player hovers for 9 seconds before daring a guess.
First guesses land an average of 544 km to the north-west of where Timor-Leste really is. The world's mental map has it drifting.
Those numbers come from over a quarter of a million real guesses in Borderline, a daily game where everyone gets the same five countries to find on a 3D globe.
Find today's five countriesfree, no signup, ~2 minutesTimor-Leste is in South-Eastern Asia, part of Asia. Its capital is Dili, and it shares a land border with Indonesia.
Just one: Indonesia, which surrounds Timor-Leste's entire land boundary.
No. Timor-Leste has a coastline as well as 1 land border.
Dili.
25% of players put their first tap inside Timor-Leste when asked to find it on a blank globe, and the median player waits 9 seconds before committing. That puts it among the countries most people genuinely cannot place.
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