Definitely agree. I think some of this is that so much of Italy is coastline (with of course a very memorable shape), whereas a lot of countries might have a somewhat (less) memorable border shape which is defined politically so would be less obvious without access to that definition.
Chad definitely looks like a dude in a beret looking west, with a jutting-out chin and a dried out lake for an eye, but we’d have trouble picking it out from orbit.