358 Geography Trivia Questions and Answers
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Easy Geography Trivia Questions
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How many red-and-white stripes are on the U.S. flag?
13
The U.S. flag carries 13 alternating red and white stripes, one for each of the original colonies. From 1795 to 1818 it briefly had 15, after Vermont and Kentucky joined, before Congress fixed the count back at 13.
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Which three colors make up Germany's flag?
Black, red and gold
Germany's flag is three horizontal bands of black, red and gold. The colors go back to the 1848 revolutions, were dropped under the Empire and again under the Third Reich, and returned with the Federal Republic in 1949.
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Which color runs down the middle of Italy's flag?
White
Italy's flag runs green at the pole, white in the middle and red at the outer edge. The design dates from 1797, when Napoleon's Cispadane Republic adopted it.
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How many stars are on China's flag?
5
China's flag carries five yellow stars in the upper corner: one large star with four smaller ones curving beside it.
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How many stars are on the United States flag today?
50
The current U.S. flag has 50 stars, representing the 50 states.
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How many continents are there in the model taught in most English-speaking schools?
7
The seven-continent model lists Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Some countries teach six or five instead, by joining Europe to Asia or the two Americas to each other.
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Which of these makes maps?
A cartographer
A cartographer designs and draws maps, deciding what to show, what to leave out and how to project a curved Earth onto a flat sheet.
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On which continent does most of Egypt lie?
Africa
Most of Egypt lies in Africa, although the Sinai Peninsula is in Asia.
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Which continent is Botswana on?
Africa
Botswana is a landlocked country in southern Africa.
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Which continent is Kenya on?
Africa
Kenya is located in eastern Africa.
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Which continent is Madagascar on?
Africa
Madagascar is an island country off the southeastern coast of Africa.
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Which continent is Morocco on?
Africa
Morocco is in northwestern Africa.
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Which continent is Tunisia on?
Africa
Tunisia is located in northern Africa.
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On which continent are the Alps?
Europe
The range runs about 1,200 kilometers through eight countries, from France and Monaco in the west to Slovenia in the east, and rose from the slow collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates. Its highest point, Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border, reaches 4,808 meters.
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Into which ocean does the Amazon River drain?
Atlantic Ocean
The Amazon flows east across South America and enters the Atlantic Ocean.
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What is the capital of the Netherlands?
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the constitutional capital of the Netherlands.
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On which continent are the Andes Mountains?
South America
The Andes run about 7,000 km down the western edge of South America, through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. They are the longest continental mountain range in the world.
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In which country is Angel Falls?
Venezuela
Angel Falls is in southeastern Venezuela, within Canaima National Park.
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Which ocean is smallest by surface area?
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of the five oceans by surface area.
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In which U.S. state is the Grand Canyon?
Arizona
Grand Canyon National Park lies entirely within Arizona.
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On which continent does most of Turkey lie?
Asia
About 97% of Turkey's land is in Asia, on the Anatolian peninsula. The remaining sliver, East Thrace, sits in southeastern Europe, and the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles run between the two halves, splitting Istanbul down the middle.
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Which continent is Laos on?
Asia
Laos is a landlocked country in mainland Southeast Asia.
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Which continent is Mongolia on?
Asia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in east-central Asia.
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Which continent is Nepal on?
Asia
Nepal is a landlocked country in southern Asia.
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What is the capital of Greece?
Athens
The city takes its name from Athena, goddess of wisdom, and has been continuously inhabited for more than 3,000 years. The Parthenon, its best known landmark on the Acropolis, was completed in 438 BC.
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Which city is New Zealand's largest by population, though it is not the capital?
Auckland
Auckland sits on a narrow isthmus built across roughly 50 volcanic cones; the most recent, Rangitoto Island, erupted only about 600 years ago. The city holds roughly a third of the country's entire population.
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Which continent is smallest by land area?
Australia
Australia is the smallest of the seven continents by land area.
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Which country is the island of Tasmania part of?
Australia
Tasmania is an island state of Australia south of the mainland.
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What is the capital of Iraq?
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq.
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What is the capital of China?
Beijing
Beijing is the capital of China.
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What is the capital of Lebanon?
Beirut
Beirut is the capital of Lebanon.
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What is the capital of Germany?
Berlin
Berlin is the national capital of Germany.
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What is the capital of Switzerland?
Bern
Bern is Switzerland's federal city and de facto capital.
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Which city is Colombia's capital?
Bogotá
Bogotá is the capital of Colombia.
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What country is famously shaped like a boot?
Italy
Italy is famously shaped like a boot, with its peninsula extending into the Mediterranean Sea. The island of Sicily lies just off the “toe” of the boot.
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Which country does the Amazon River mainly flow through?
Brazil
Most of the Amazon River's course lies in Brazil.
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What is the capital of Belgium?
Brussels
Brussels is the national capital of Belgium.
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What is the capital of Romania?
Bucharest
Bucharest is Romania's capital and its largest city, out on the plain in the south of the country. Its centre is dominated by the Palace of the Parliament, the vast government building Nicolae Ceausescu raised in the 1980s.
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What is the capital of Hungary?
Budapest
Budapest is the national capital of Hungary.
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Which U.S. state contains the Golden Gate Bridge?
California
The Golden Gate Bridge connects San Francisco and Marin County in California.
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Which country does the island of Newfoundland belong to?
Canada
Newfoundland is part of Canada's province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Which canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea?
The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal crosses Egypt and provides a sea route between Europe and the Indian Ocean without sailing around Africa. It opened to navigation in 1869.
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What is the capital of Argentina?
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires stands on the western shore of the Rio de la Plata. It is one of South America's major cultural and economic centers.
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What is the capital city of Australia?
Canberra
Canberra was built to be the capital, chosen as a compromise between the rival claims of Sydney and Melbourne and laid out to a plan by the architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.
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What is the capital city of Brazil?
Brasília
Brasília has been Brazil's capital since 1960, when the capital moved inland from Rio de Janeiro.
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What is the capital city of Canada?
Ottawa
Ottawa sits in Ontario on the Ottawa River, across the water from Gatineau in Quebec. Queen Victoria picked it in 1857, partly because it stood on the line between English- and French-speaking Canada and far enough inland to be defensible.
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What is the capital city of Egypt?
Cairo
Cairo is Egypt's capital and largest metropolitan center, on the Nile.
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What is the capital of Iceland?
Reykjavik
Reykjavik is Iceland's coastal capital and the world's northernmost national capital. Geothermal energy supplies much of its heating.
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What is the capital of Kenya?
Nairobi
Nairobi is Kenya's capital and sits near the country's southern highlands. Nairobi National Park lies immediately south of the city.
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What is the capital city of Mongolia?
Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar lies in the Tuul River valley in north-central Mongolia. It is the country's political and economic center and one of the world's coldest capitals.
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What is the capital of Morocco?
Rabat
Rabat is Morocco's political capital on the Atlantic coast. Casablanca is larger and more commercially prominent, but it is not the national capital.
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What is the capital of New Zealand?
Wellington
Wellington stands at the southern tip of the North Island, on a harbour at the edge of Cook Strait. It took the capital from Auckland in 1865, largely because South Island settlers could actually reach it.
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What is the capital of Nigeria?
Abuja
Abuja is Nigeria's capital; Lagos remains its largest city and a major economic centre.
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What is the capital of Portugal?
Lisbon
Lisbon sits on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the Tagus River. It is one of western Europe's oldest capital cities.
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What is the capital of Thailand?
Bangkok
Bangkok lies on the Chao Phraya River near the Gulf of Thailand. Its official ceremonial name is one of the world's longest place names.
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What is the capital of Vietnam?
Hanoi
Hanoi is Vietnam's capital; Ho Chi Minh City is the country's largest city.
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What is the making and study of maps called?
Cartography
Cartography is the design and production of maps, from the choice of projection down to the symbols, colours and lettering. Topography describes the shape of the land itself, surveying is the on-the-ground measurement of land and boundaries, and geodesy is the precise measurement of the Earth's size and shape.
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What body of water separates Great Britain from northern France?
English Channel
The English Channel connects the Atlantic Ocean with the North Sea. Its narrowest section, the Strait of Dover, is about 34 kilometers wide.
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Which country does the Yangtze River, Asia's longest river, mainly flow through?
China
The Yangtze's entire main course lies within China.
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What shape encloses the center of South Korea's flag?
circle
The red-and-blue taegeuk emblem is circular.
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On which continent is the South Pole located?
Antarctica
Antarctica surrounds the South Pole and is covered by a vast ice sheet. The Arctic is a polar region centered on the North Pole, not a continent.
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On which continent is the Amazon rainforest primarily located?
South America
The Amazon rainforest spreads across several South American countries, with most of its area in Brazil. The Amazon River and its tributaries drain the region.
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What is the capital of Denmark?
Copenhagen
The city's name comes from Old Danish words meaning merchants' harbour, first written down in 1253. Since 2000 it has been linked to Sweden by the Oresund Bridge, a combined bridge and tunnel crossing.
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In which country are the pyramids of Giza located?
Egypt
The pyramids of Giza stand near Cairo on the west bank of the Nile. The Great Pyramid was built as a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu.
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Off the coast of which country is the Great Barrier Reef?
Australia
The Great Barrier Reef stretches along Queensland's northeastern coast in the Coral Sea. It is the world's largest coral reef system.
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In which country is Machu Picchu located?
Peru
Machu Picchu is an Inca citadel in Peru's Andes Mountains. Its stone terraces and buildings sit high above the Urubamba River valley.
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In which country is Mount Fuji?
Japan
Mount Fuji is Japan's highest mountain and an active stratovolcano on Honshu; its most recent eruption was in 1707. Its symmetrical cone has become a major symbol of the country.
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Mount Kilimanjaro is in which country?
Tanzania
Kilimanjaro rises in northeastern Tanzania, just south of the Kenyan border. At 5,895 metres it is Africa's highest mountain and the tallest free-standing mountain on Earth.
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In which country is the Atacama Desert primarily located?
Chile
The Atacama occupies a long strip of northern Chile between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes. Its extreme dryness is linked to cold offshore currents and rain-shadow effects.
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What symbol is centered on Switzerland's flag?
cross
Switzerland's flag places a white cross on a red field.
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What is the world's deepest freshwater lake?
Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal reaches about 1,642 meters deep in Siberia. It contains roughly 23 percent of the world's unfrozen surface freshwater and is home to many endemic species.
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What is the deepest ocean trench on Earth?
Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific. Its lowest known point, Challenger Deep, sits nearly 11 kilometres down, deep enough to swallow Mount Everest with more than two kilometres to spare.
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Which desert covers much of North Africa?
Sahara
The Sahara stretches across much of northern Africa from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea. It contains sand seas, rocky plateaus, mountains, and oases.
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What is the capital of Bangladesh?
Dhaka
Dhaka, on the Buriganga River, is the capital and by far the largest city of Bangladesh, and one of the most densely populated cities on Earth.
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What is the capital of Qatar?
Doha
Doha is the capital of Qatar.
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What is the capital of Ireland?
Dublin
Dublin is the national capital of Ireland.
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Iceland straddles two tectonic plates. Which continent is it conventionally counted as part of?
Europe
Iceland is conventionally classified as a European country.
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What is a fjord?
A sea-filled glacial valley
A fjord is a long, narrow sea inlet formed when a glacier-carved valley is flooded.
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What U.S. state is home to the Everglades?
Florida
The Everglades and Everglades National Park are in southern Florida.
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Which U.S. state is called the Sunshine State?
Florida
Sunshine State is Florida's official nickname.
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Which country does the island of Corsica belong to?
France
Corsica is a French island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Which U.S. state is known as the Peach State?
Georgia
Peach State is Georgia's well-known state nickname.
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In which country is Mount Olympus?
Greece
Mount Olympus is located in northern Greece.
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Which country is the island of Crete part of?
Greece
Crete is a Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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What does GMT stand for, in the time standard measured at London's Royal Observatory?
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, which sits on the prime meridian.
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What is Cuba's capital?
Havana
Spanish colonists founded the city in 1519, and by the 1600s its harbour had become one of the Caribbean's busiest shipbuilding centres. The well-preserved colonial core, Old Havana, was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982.
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What is the capital of Finland?
Helsinki
Helsinki is the national capital of Finland.
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Which mountain has the highest summit above sea level?
Mount Everest
Mount Everest rises 8,848.86 meters above sea level on the Nepal-China border. Mauna Kea is taller when measured from its underwater base, but not by elevation above sea level.
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Which elevated region has the highest mean elevation worldwide?
The Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau is widely recognized as the world's highest plateau. The other options are genuine plateaus but are substantially lower.
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Which country does the Ganges River mainly flow through?
India
The Ganges runs across northern India before entering Bangladesh.
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The island of Bali belongs to which country?
Indonesia
Bali is one of more than 17,000 islands that make up Indonesia, and the only Indonesian province with a Hindu majority, which is why its temples and festivals look so unlike the rest of the country.
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Through which ocean does the International Date Line mostly pass?
Pacific Ocean
The International Date Line mostly follows the 180th meridian across the Pacific, with deviations around countries and islands.
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What is the capital of Pakistan?
Islamabad
Islamabad was purpose-built in the 1960s to take over as capital from Karachi, and sits next to the much older city of Rawalpindi.
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Which large island nation lies off the southeastern coast of Africa, east of Mozambique?
Madagascar
Madagascar is the world's fourth-largest island and is separated from mainland Africa by the Mozambique Channel. Its long isolation produced many species found nowhere else.
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What is Turkey's most populous city?
Istanbul
Istanbul is Turkey’s most populous city. It lies on both sides of the Bosphorus, spanning Europe and Asia.
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What is an isthmus?
A narrow land bridge
An isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas and separating two bodies of water.
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Which Italian city is built on a group of islands in a lagoon?
Venice
Venice was built across numerous small islands in a lagoon on Italy's Adriatic coast. Its historic center is connected by canals and hundreds of bridges.
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In which country is Mount Vesuvius?
Italy
Mount Vesuvius rises near Naples in southern Italy.
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Which country does the island of Sardinia belong to?
Italy
Sardinia is an autonomous region of Italy and the second-largest island in the Mediterranean, sitting just south of French Corsica.
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What is the capital of Afghanistan?
Kabul
Kabul sits in a narrow valley in eastern Afghanistan, high in the Hindu Kush. It replaced Kandahar as the capital in 1776.
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What is the capital of Nepal?
Kathmandu
Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal.
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Which lake is shared by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya?
Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by surface area and is a major source region for the White Nile. Its shoreline is divided among the three named countries.
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Which small country lies in the Pyrenees between France and Spain?
Andorra
Andorra is a landlocked country in the Pyrenees.
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Which continent is the largest by land area?
Asia
Asia covers roughly 44.6 million square kilometers, about one-third of Earth's total land area. It also contains more than half of the world's human population.
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Which country has the largest total area?
Russia
Russia spans eastern Europe and northern Asia, crossing 11 time zones. Its territory includes tundra, forests, steppes, and many mountain ranges.
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Which lake is the world's largest freshwater lake by surface area?
Lake Superior
Lake Superior covers about 82,000 square kilometers along the United States-Canada border. By total surface area, the saltwater Caspian Sea is larger, but it is not a freshwater lake.
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What is the world's largest island, excluding landmasses classified as continents?
Greenland
Greenland is the largest island and is geographically part of North America. About four-fifths of its surface is covered by an ice sheet.
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Which ocean is the largest by surface area?
The Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean covers more area than all of Earth's land combined and spans the greatest area of the global ocean.
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Which country has the largest population?
India
India passed China in 2023 to become the world's most populous country, with more than 1.4 billion people. China's population has started to fall while India's is still growing.
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What is the capital of the United Kingdom?
London
London is the national capital of the United Kingdom.
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What is the world's longest continental mountain range?
The Andes
The Andes stretch for more than 7,000 kilometers along the western edge of South America. They pass through or along seven countries, including Chile, Peru, and Argentina.
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Which pair of countries shares the world's longest land border by total length?
Canada-United States
The Canada-United States boundary is about 8,893 kilometers long, including the Alaska-Canada section. Much of it is not marked by a physical wall or fence.
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What is the longest river in Europe?
The Volga
The Volga flows entirely through Russia for about 3,530 kilometers before emptying into the Caspian Sea. It is also Europe's largest river by discharge.
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Which river is South America's longest?
Amazon River
The Amazon is South America's longest river and carries more water than any other river in the world.
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What is the capital of Spain?
Madrid
Madrid is the national capital of Spain.
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What is the capital of the Philippines?
Manila
Manila is the capital of the Philippines.
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What do contour lines on a topographic map connect?
Points of equal elevation
A contour line joins points at the same elevation, allowing terrain shape and slope to be read from a map.
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Mesopotamia was the land between which two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
The name Mesopotamia means "land between rivers" and refers to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates. Its fertile floodplains supported some of the world's earliest cities.
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What is a monsoon?
A seasonal wind reversal
A monsoon is a seasonal reversal in wind direction caused mainly by differences in how land and water heat and cool. In South Asia, the summer monsoon brings moist air from the ocean and much of the region’s annual rainfall.
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What is the capital of The Bahamas?
Nassau
Nassau is the capital of The Bahamas.
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Which country has Everest’s southern face and standard base-camp route?
Nepal
Everest lies on the Nepal–China border, but its southern face and standard base-camp route are in Nepal.
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What is the capital of India?
New Delhi
New Delhi is India's capital, a planned city laid out alongside old Delhi under British rule and formally inaugurated in 1931. Mumbai is larger and is the country's financial centre, and Kolkata served as the capital of British India until 1911.
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Which U.S. state includes Niagara Falls' American side?
New York
The American side of Niagara Falls is in New York.
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Into which sea does the Nile flow?
Mediterranean Sea
The Nile flows north for some 6,650 km out of east Africa and ends in a broad fan-shaped delta on Egypt's northern coast, emptying into the Mediterranean between Alexandria and Port Said.
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Which continent is Mexico on?
North America
Mexico occupies the southern part of North America.
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Which ocean lies east of Africa?
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean borders Africa to the east and extends toward South Asia and Australia. It is the warmest of the major oceans on average.
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Which continent is Fiji on?
Oceania
Fiji is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean and Oceania.
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What is the capital of Norway?
Oslo
Oslo is the national capital of Norway.
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What is the capital of France?
Paris
Paris is the national capital of France.
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What is the capital of Czechia?
Prague
Prague is the national capital of Czechia.
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Through which London district does the Prime Meridian pass?
Greenwich
The internationally recognized Prime Meridian passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.
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What is the capital of North Korea?
Pyongyang
Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.
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What is Ecuador's capital?
Quito
Quito is the capital of Ecuador.
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What pair of colors dominates Spain's flag?
red and yellow
Spain's flag is dominated by red and yellow bands.
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What color is the circle at the center of Japan's flag?
red
Japan's flag has a red disk centered on a white field.
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Which river forms much of the border between Texas and Mexico?
Rio Grande
The Rio Grande runs from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico and forms a long section of the US-Mexico border. In Mexico it is called the Rio Bravo del Norte.
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Which river flows through Budapest?
Danube
The Danube divides Budapest into the historic districts of Buda and Pest. It is Europe's second-longest river and passes through more national capitals than any other river.
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Which major river flows through Egypt?
Nile
The Nile flows north through Egypt before reaching the Mediterranean. Its annual flooding historically supported dense settlement and ancient Egyptian civilization.
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Which river flows through London?
The River Thames
The Thames flows through central London before reaching the North Sea through its broad estuary. It has been an important route for the city's trade and settlement since Roman times.
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Which river flows through Paris?
Seine
The Seine runs through the heart of Paris and passes landmarks including Notre-Dame and the Louvre. It eventually empties into the English Channel.
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Which river flows through Rome?
The Tiber
Rome grew along the Tiber, which flows south through central Italy into the Tyrrhenian Sea. The river's island, Isola Tiberina, sits in the historic heart of the city.
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Which river carries the greatest volume of water into the ocean?
The Amazon
The Amazon has the world's largest river discharge, releasing more water than the next several largest rivers combined. Its enormous basin spans much of northern South America.
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What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Riyadh
Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia.
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What is the capital of Italy?
Rome
Vatican City, an independent state in its own right, sits entirely enclosed within Rome's city limits. Rome's founding is traditionally dated to 753 BC, though it only became Italy's capital in 1871, after the peninsula's unification.
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Which country does the Volga River mainly flow through?
Russia
The Volga rises and reaches the Caspian Sea within Russia.
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Which city is Brazil's largest by population, though it is not the capital?
São Paulo
São Paulo is Brazil's largest city, with over 11 million people in the city proper and more than 20 million across its metropolitan area, roughly double Rio de Janeiro. The capital, Brasília, is a far smaller purpose-built city, planned from nothing and opened in 1960.
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What is Costa Rica's capital?
San José
San José is the capital of Costa Rica.
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Which sea lies between southern Europe and northern Africa?
The Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean is connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar. It has been a major corridor for trade and cultural exchange for thousands of years.
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Which country has the smallest total area?
Vatican City
Vatican City is an independent enclave within Rome and covers less than half a square kilometer. It is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.
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What is the capital of Bulgaria?
Sofia
Sofia is the national capital of Bulgaria.
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Which continent is Peru on?
South America
Peru is located on the western side of South America.
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Which U.S. state contains Mount Rushmore?
South Dakota
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is located in South Dakota's Black Hills.
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Which ocean carries the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the only current that circles the globe unbroken?
Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean encircles Antarctica and links the southern parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
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What is the capital of Sweden?
Stockholm
Stockholm is the national capital of Sweden.
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Which strait separates the European and Asian sides of Istanbul?
Bosporus
The Bosporus connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara and runs through Istanbul. It is one of the world's important maritime chokepoints.
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What named waterway separates southern Spain from northern Morocco?
Strait of Gibraltar
The Strait of Gibraltar separates southern Spain from northern Morocco and connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea. At its narrowest point, it is about 14 kilometers wide.
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Which Australian city has the largest population by greater capital city area?
Sydney
The 2021 Census counted just over 5.23 million people in Greater Sydney against about 4.92 million in Greater Melbourne, a gap of roughly 300,000. Melbourne has historically grown faster and had been forecast to overtake Sydney by the mid-2020s, though Sydney still led as of the last census.
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What is the capital of Iran?
Tehran
Tehran is the capital of Iran.
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Which U.S. state is known as the Lone Star State?
Texas
Lone Star State is the official nickname of Texas.
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What is the capital of Japan?
Tokyo
Tokyo is the capital of Japan.
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Which Canadian city had the largest population in the 2021 Census?
Toronto
Toronto's current boundaries date to 1998, when Ontario merged the old City of Toronto with five neighbouring municipalities, including North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke, into a single 'megacity' government. The 2021 Census counted 2,794,356 residents inside those limits.
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Transylvania is a region of which country?
Romania
Transylvania is a historical region in central Romania.
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Which country’s flag has 50 stars and 13 red-and-white stripes?
United States
The flag of the United States has 50 stars representing its states and 13 stripes representing the original colonies.
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In which country is Denali, North America's tallest peak?
United States
Long called Mount McKinley after a president who never visited Alaska, the peak's official name reverted to Denali, its Koyukon Athabascan name meaning 'the tall one', in 2015.
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What is the capital of Austria?
Vienna
Vienna is the national capital of Austria.
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Which volcano overlooks the Italian city of Naples?
Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius is famous for its AD 79 eruption, which buried Roman settlements around the Bay of Naples. It remains an active volcano.
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What is the capital of Poland?
Warsaw
Warsaw is the national capital of Poland.
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Which city is the federal capital of the United States?
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., is the federal capital of the United States.
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Which U.S. state is home to the Space Needle?
Washington
The Space Needle stands at Seattle Center in Washington.
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Measured from its most distant source, which river is conventionally listed as the world's longest?
The Nile
Its remotest headstream lies in Burundi, feeding the Kagera River before it reaches Lake Victoria and continues north to the Mediterranean, a path put at roughly 6,650 kilometres in most atlases. A 2007 study traced a new source and channel for the Amazon and got a longer figure, which is why geographers still argue about which river is really longer.
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Which U.S. state contains most of Yellowstone National Park?
Wyoming
Approximately 96 percent of Yellowstone National Park lies in Wyoming.
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What color is the cross on Sweden's flag?
yellow
Sweden's flag has a yellow Nordic cross on a blue field.
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What color is the diamond on Brazil's flag?
yellow
A yellow diamond sits behind the blue globe on Brazil's green field.
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What is the capital of Croatia?
Zagreb
Zagreb is the national capital of Croatia.
Medium Geography Trivia Questions
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On Ireland's flag, which color sits closest to the flagpole?
Green
The Irish tricolor flies green at the pole, white in the middle and orange at the outer edge. Green stands for the Gaelic tradition, orange for the followers of William of Orange, and the white between them for peace.
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How many stars are on Australia's flag?
6
Australia's flag carries six stars: the large Commonwealth Star beneath the Union Jack, plus the five stars of the Southern Cross.
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Which bird appears on Mexico's flag, perched on a cactus?
A golden eagle
The eagle eating a snake on a cactus is the Aztec sign that marked where Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, was to be founded.
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Which animal appears holding a sword on the flag of Sri Lanka?
A lion
The lion represents the Sinhalese people, whose name comes from the Sinhala word for lion, while the sword the lion holds stands for sovereignty. The four bo leaves in the corners represent Buddhism's virtues of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
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Which creature appears on the flag of Wales?
A red dragon
Y Ddraig Goch, the red dragon, has been linked to Wales since at least the 9th century and was added to the flag in its modern form in 1959.
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What is the capital of Jordan?
Amman
The city was once called Philadelphia after the Macedonian Greek ruler of Egypt, Ptolemy II, who took control of it around 255 BC. A Roman theatre built into a hillside in the 2nd century AD still stands and seated some six thousand spectators in its day.
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What is the capital of Samoa?
Apia
Apia is Samoa's capital on the island of Upolu.
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In which country is Aconcagua?
Argentina
Aconcagua is located in Argentina's Andes mountain range.
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On which continent does most of Kazakhstan lie?
Asia
Most of Kazakhstan lies in Asia, with a small western section in Europe.
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What is the capital of Kazakhstan?
Astana
The city became Kazakhstan's capital in 1997. It was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019 to honor former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, then renamed back to Astana in 2022 after his political influence waned.
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What is Paraguay's capital?
Asunción
Asunción is the capital of Paraguay.
-
What is the capital of Azerbaijan?
Baku
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan.
-
What is the capital of The Gambia?
Banjul
Banjul is the capital of The Gambia.
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What is the capital of Serbia?
Belgrade
Belgrade is the national capital of Serbia.
-
What is Belize's capital?
Belmopan
Belmopan is the capital of Belize.
-
What is the capital of Kyrgyzstan?
Bishkek
Bishkek is the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
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In which country is Salar de Uyuni?
Bolivia
Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat and lies in Bolivia.
-
Which waters does the Bosporus connect?
Black Sea and Sea of Marmara
The Bosporus runs through Istanbul and connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara.
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In which country is the Okavango Delta?
Botswana
The Okavango forms a large inland delta in northern Botswana.
-
What is the capital of the Republic of the Congo?
Brazzaville
Brazzaville is the capital of the Republic of the Congo.
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Which city is Barbados's capital?
Bridgetown
It is the only place outside the United States that George Washington is known to have visited: he arrived in November 1751 with his ailing half-brother Lawrence, hoping Barbados's climate would ease Lawrence's tuberculosis.
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Measure a jagged shore with a shorter ruler and the total keeps growing. What is that effect called?
The coastline paradox
Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot studied this in a 1967 paper, showing that coastlines are statistically self-similar: each zoomed-in section shows about as many wiggles as the whole. A coarser ruler skips small bays and headlands that a finer one follows, so there is no single true length.
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What does the world time standard UTC stand for in English?
Coordinated Universal Time
English speakers wanted CUT and French speakers wanted TUC, so UTC was adopted as a compromise that favours neither language.
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In which country is the famous Geirangerfjord?
Norway
Geirangerfjord is a deep, narrow fjord in western Norway known for steep cliffs and waterfalls. It was carved by glaciers during repeated ice ages.
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Victoria Falls lies on the border of which two countries?
Zimbabwe and Zambia
Victoria Falls is on the Zambezi at the Zimbabwe-Zambia border.
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Which country surrounds The Gambia on three sides?
Senegal
Senegal surrounds The Gambia on three sides, while The Gambia has a short Atlantic coast.
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Which country completely surrounds Lesotho?
South Africa
Lesotho is an independent, landlocked enclave inside South Africa. Its high elevation has earned it the nickname Kingdom in the Sky.
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How many national crosses are combined in the Union Flag?
Three
The Union Flag layers three crosses: the upright red cross of St George for England, the white diagonal of St Andrew for Scotland and the red diagonal of St Patrick for Ireland. Wales has never been represented on it.
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What is the capital of Tanzania?
Dodoma
In 1973 Tanzania's ruling party voted to move the seat of government from Dar es Salaam to the more centrally located Dodoma, though the shift took decades. Parliament didn't arrive until 1996, and most ministries only followed from 2016. Dar es Salaam remains the country's largest city and commercial hub.
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Which three languages are official in Belgium?
Dutch, French and German
Dutch is spoken in Flanders, French in Wallonia, and German by a small community near the eastern border.
-
Which Russian port city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Vladivostok
The Trans-Siberian Railway links Moscow with Vladivostok on Russia's Pacific coast. The main route crosses Siberia and the Ural Mountains.
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Which country governs the Galápagos Islands?
Ecuador
The Galápagos Islands form an Ecuadorian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.
-
Which European river flows through or borders the most countries?
The Danube
The Danube flows through or borders ten countries before reaching the Black Sea. Its route includes major cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, and Bucharest.
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Which two languages are official in Finland?
Finnish and Swedish
Sweden ruled Finland for some six hundred years. Swedish speakers are now about five per cent of the population but the language remains official.
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How many official languages does Switzerland have?
Four
German, French, Italian and Romansh. Romansh is spoken by well under one per cent of the population.
-
What is the capital of Botswana?
Gaborone
Gaborone is the capital of Botswana.
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Which country contains the longest stretch of the Rhine?
Germany
The Rhine runs about 1,230 km from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, and roughly 700 km of that is German, more than half the river. It rises in Switzerland, forms part of the French border along the Alsace plain, and splits into a delta of branches once it reaches the Netherlands.
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Which island is home to Kīlauea volcano?
Hawaiʻi
Kīlauea is located on the Island of Hawaiʻi.
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Which city is the world's highest administrative capital?
La Paz
La Paz sits at roughly 3,640 meters above sea level in a deep canyon in Bolivia. Sucre is Bolivia's constitutional capital, while La Paz is the seat of government.
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Which country is the island of Honshu part of?
Japan
Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan.
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Flights from New York to London are usually quicker than the return trip because of which high-altitude wind?
Jet stream
Jet streams are narrow ribbons of fast wind near the top of the troposphere that blow west to east, giving eastbound flights a push and holding westbound ones back.
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What is the capital of South Sudan?
Juba
The city sits on the White Nile and had already served as a regional capital for decades before South Sudan's 2011 independence made it a national one. Plans to relocate the capital to the more centrally located Ramciel have been announced repeatedly but never completed.
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What is the capital of Uganda?
Kampala
The name comes from a Luganda phrase meaning 'hill of the impala,' after the antelope that once grazed here on land used as a royal hunting ground by the Buganda kingdom. Like Rome, the city is built across a series of hills.
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Which U.S. state is called the Bluegrass State?
Kentucky
Bluegrass State is Kentucky's traditional nickname.
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What is the capital of Rwanda?
Kigali
Kigali is the capital of Rwanda.
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What is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Kinshasa
Kinshasa is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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In which country is Lake Baikal?
Russia
Lake Baikal lies in southern Siberia in Russia and is a globally notable deep freshwater lake.
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Which is the world's largest desert by area?
Antarctica
A desert is defined by very low precipitation, not by heat, so Antarctica qualifies as a polar desert. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert.
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What is the capital of Slovenia?
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the national capital of Slovenia.
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What is the capital of Angola?
Luanda
Luanda is the capital of Angola.
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What is the capital of Zambia?
Lusaka
Lusaka is the capital of Zambia.
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What is the capital of the Maldives?
Malé
Malé is the capital of the Maldives. Roughly a quarter of the country's population lives there, packed onto a single island of about two square kilometres, which makes it one of the most densely populated cities on Earth.
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What is Nicaragua's capital?
Managua
Managua is the capital of Nicaragua.
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What is the capital of Bahrain?
Manama
Manama is the capital of Bahrain.
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What is the capital of Mozambique?
Maputo
Maputo is the capital of Mozambique.
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What is the capital of Somalia?
Mogadishu
Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia.
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What is Uruguay's capital?
Montevideo
Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay.
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Which mountain chain runs down most of Australia's east coast?
Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range runs roughly 3,500 km from the tip of Queensland down through New South Wales into Victoria. It walls off the wet coastal strip from the dry interior, and almost every river on the eastern side of the continent starts in it.
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What is the capital of Oman?
Muscat
Portuguese forces held the city as a fortified naval base from the early 1500s until Omani troops recaptured it in 1650, ending more than a century of occupation. Strict building codes still keep the city's structures low-rise and sand-coloured.
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Which U.S. state is known as the Granite State?
New Hampshire
Granite State is New Hampshire's official nickname.
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In which country are the Waitomo Glowworm Caves?
New Zealand
The Waitomo cave system is in New Zealand's Waikato region.
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What is the capital of Cyprus?
Nicosia
Nicosia has been the capital of Cyprus since the 10th century and is the last divided capital in Europe: a United Nations buffer zone known as the Green Line cuts through the middle of the city, separating the Republic of Cyprus from the Turkish-held north.
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Which continent is Papua New Guinea on?
Oceania
Papua New Guinea is an island country in Oceania.
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Which U.S. state is called the Sooner State?
Oklahoma
The nickname recalls the Land Run of April 22, 1889, when settlers rushed to claim the newly opened Unassigned Lands at a set starting signal. Those who sneaked in early and staked claims beforehand were branded 'sooners'.
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What is the capital of Burkina Faso?
Ouagadougou
According to tradition, the Mossi warrior Wubri renamed this settlement Wogdgo, meaning roughly 'come and be honored,' after conquering it in 1441. French colonizers later spelled that name Ouagadougou.
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Which country does the Indus River mainly flow through?
Pakistan
After rising in the Tibetan Plateau, the Indus runs mainly through Pakistan.
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Which city is Suriname's capital?
Paramaribo
Paramaribo is the capital of Suriname.
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What is the capital of Cambodia?
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia.
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What is the capital of Papua New Guinea?
Port Moresby
Port Moresby is Papua New Guinea's capital on the Gulf of Papua.
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What is Trinidad and Tobago's capital?
Port of Spain
On the Gulf of Paria, on Trinidad's northwest coast, this capital is only the country's third most populous municipality, trailing Chaguanas and San Fernando. Its English name is a direct translation of the Spanish colonial name used before the British captured Trinidad from Spain in 1797.
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In which country is Mount Elbrus?
Russia
Mount Elbrus is located in Russia's Caucasus Mountains.
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What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo is the capital of the Dominican Republic.
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What is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Sarajevo
Sarajevo is the national capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Which sea is unusual because it has no land boundary and is defined by ocean currents?
Sargasso Sea
The Sargasso Sea lies in the North Atlantic and is defined by surrounding ocean currents rather than by land.
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What is the capital of North Macedonia?
Skopje
Skopje is the national capital of North Macedonia.
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Which continent is Suriname on?
South America
Suriname is located on the northeastern coast of South America.
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The Basque Country straddles which two countries?
Spain and France
The Basque Country spans the western Pyrenees, covering part of northern Spain and a smaller area of southwestern France.
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What is the capital of Fiji?
Suva
Suva is Fiji's capital on the island of Viti Levu.
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Which mountain is tallest when measured from its ocean-floor base to its summit?
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea rises more than 10,200 meters from the Pacific Ocean floor, although only about 4,207 meters is above sea level. This measurement makes it taller from base to peak than Everest.
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Which country is home to Serengeti National Park?
Tanzania
The Serengeti lies in northern Tanzania. Its wildebeest migration crosses into Kenya's Maasai Mara, which is why the two are often confused.
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What is the capital of the country of Georgia?
Tbilisi
Tbilisi sits in a narrow valley on the Kura River. Its name comes from the old Georgian word for warm, after the hot sulphur springs the city grew up around, and domed bathhouses still stand over them in the Abanotubani district.
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Which city is Honduras's capital?
Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras.
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Which region lies between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea?
The Caucasus
The Caucasus covers Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and southern Russia. Its highest summit, Mount Elbrus, is usually counted as Europe's tallest peak.
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What is the capital of Bhutan?
Thimphu
Thimphu is the capital of Bhutan.
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What is the capital of Albania?
Tirana
Tirana is the national capital of Albania.
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Which ocean trench contains Challenger Deep?
The Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench is a crescent-shaped depression in the western Pacific Ocean. Challenger Deep is its deepest section and the lowest known point in the oceans.
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Which country contains the ancient ruins of Carthage?
Tunisia
Carthage, Rome's great rival in the Punic Wars, stood on the coast just outside modern Tunis.
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In which country are the Pamukkale travertines?
Turkey
Pamukkale's white mineral terraces are in southwestern Turkey.
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In which country is Mount Ararat?
Turkey
Mount Ararat is located in eastern Turkey.
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What is the capital of Liechtenstein?
Vaduz
Vaduz is the national capital of Liechtenstein.
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What is the capital of Seychelles?
Victoria
Victoria is the capital of Seychelles.
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What is the capital of Laos?
Vientiane
Vientiane is the capital of Laos.
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Which city is Myanmar's largest by population, though it is not the capital?
Yangon
Myanmar's national census records Yangon as substantially more populous than the capital and other major cities.
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What is the capital of Armenia?
Yerevan
Yerevan is the capital of Armenia.
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Which of the world's major mountain ranges is the youngest?
The Himalayas
The Himalayas began forming when the Indian plate ploughed into Eurasia around 50 million years ago, and that collision has not stopped. The range is still being pushed upward by roughly five millimetres a year.
Hard Geography Trivia Questions
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Which creature appears on Russia's coat of arms?
A double-headed eagle
The double-headed eagle was inherited from the Byzantine Empire and restored as Russia's emblem in 1993.
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Which city is Côte d'Ivoire's largest by population, though it is not the capital?
Abidjan
Côte d'Ivoire's 2021 population census identifies Abidjan as the country's largest urban centre.
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What is the most populous city in Kazakhstan?
Almaty
Almaty is the most populous city in Kazakhstan and was the country’s capital until 1997. It sits at the northern foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains.
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What is the capital of Niue?
Alofi
Niue is a self-governing island nation in free association with New Zealand, with a total population of only about 1,800 people. Alofi itself is home to just a few hundred residents, split between two small villages, Alofi North and Alofi South.
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What is the capital of Eritrea?
Asmara
Its compact center is filled with Futurist, Art Deco and Rationalist buildings put up during Italian colonial rule in the 1930s. More than 4,000 of them survive, and UNESCO listed the city as a World Heritage Site in 2017.
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In which country is the Bungle Bungle Range?
Australia
The Bungle Bungle Range is the distinctive sandstone landscape of Australia's Purnululu National Park.
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What is the capital of the Cook Islands?
Avarua
Avarua is the Cook Islands' capital on Rarotonga.
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What is the capital of Brunei?
Bandar Seri Begawan
Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital of Brunei.
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What is the capital of the Central African Republic?
Bangui
Bangui is the capital of the Central African Republic.
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What is Saint Kitts and Nevis's capital?
Basseterre
Basseterre is the capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
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In which country is the Great Blue Hole?
Belize
The Great Blue Hole lies within Belize's Lighthouse Reef Atoll.
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Which is the only country in Central America with English as its official language?
Belize
Belize was British Honduras until 1973, which is why it is the odd one out in a region otherwise colonised by Spain.
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Which city is the capital of the small West African country wedged between Senegal and Guinea?
Bissau
Bissau is the capital and largest city of Guinea-Bissau, sitting on the Geba estuary where the river meets the Atlantic. The country was Portuguese Guinea until it won independence in the 1970s, and Portuguese is still its official language.
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In which country are the Lençóis Maranhenses?
Brazil
Lençóis Maranhenses is a landscape of dunes and seasonal lagoons in Brazil.
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Which country is divided into two parts by Malaysia?
Brunei
Brunei sits on the north coast of Borneo in two separate pieces, split by a strip of the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
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What is the capital of Saint Lucia?
Castries
Castries sits around a deep natural harbour on Saint Lucia's northwest coast and is the island's main port, taking the cruise ships that dock beside the city centre.
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In which country are the Ounianga Lakes?
Chad
The Ounianga Lakes form a desert lake system in northeastern Chad.
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What is the capital of Moldova?
Chisinau
Long known by its Russian name Kishinev, the city sits on the Bic River. Wartime bombing and a major 1940 earthquake destroyed most of its old buildings, and the postwar rebuild gave it wide Soviet-style boulevards.
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In which country is the Torres del Paine massif?
Chile
The Torres del Paine massif rises in Chilean Patagonia.
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In which Chinese province is the Jiuzhaigou Valley?
Sichuan
Jiuzhaigou lies in northern Sichuan, on the edge of the Tibetan plateau, where a staircase of turquoise lakes and waterfalls has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1992.
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Porto-Novo is Benin's official capital, but which larger city is the seat of government and the country's economic hub?
Cotonou
Cotonou is Benin's largest city, its main port and the home of the presidency and most ministries, even though Porto-Novo remains the constitutional capital.
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In which country are the Plitvice Lakes?
Croatia
Plitvice Lakes National Park is located in central Croatia.
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What is the name of the deepest known point in the world's oceans?
Challenger Deep
Challenger Deep lies nearly 11,000 meters below sea level in the Mariana Trench. It is a specific basin within the trench, rather than the name of the entire trench.
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Iceland sits astride which type of tectonic plate boundary?
Divergent boundary
Iceland is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge above sea level: the North American and Eurasian plates pull apart beneath it, and new crust fills the gap.
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What is Cameroon's largest city by population?
Douala
Douala is Cameroon's largest city by population. It is also the country's main seaport and commercial hub, located along the Wouri River.
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What is the capital of Tajikistan?
Dushanbe
Dushanbe is the capital of Tajikistan.
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Which country contains the archaeological site of Joya de Cerén?
El Salvador
Often called the Pompeii of the Americas, Joya de Cerén in El Salvador is a Maya farming village buried by volcanic ash with its everyday life left intact.
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Which is the only African country with Spanish as an official language?
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea was a Spanish colony until 1968. French and Portuguese are also official there.
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In which country is the Dallol hydrothermal field?
Ethiopia
Dallol lies in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression.
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What is the capital of Tuvalu?
Funafuti
Funafuti is Tuvalu's capital atoll and main population center.
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Which city is Guyana's capital?
Georgetown
Georgetown is the capital of Guyana.
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What is Burundi's political capital?
Gitega
Gitega is Burundi's political capital.
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Paraguay is unusual in the Americas for having an indigenous language spoken by most of the population. Which one?
Guarani
Guarani is co-official with Spanish and is spoken by a majority of Paraguayans, including many with no indigenous ancestry.
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Which atmospheric optical phenomenon is caused by ice crystals in high clouds?
Halo
Ice crystals in thin, high cirrostratus bend sunlight or moonlight into a ring about 22 degrees wide. That cloud often runs ahead of a warm front, which is why folklore treats a ring round the moon as a sign of rain.
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Which waterfall is the highest in Africa?
Tugela Falls
Tugela Falls drops about 948 meters in a series of cascades from South Africa's Drakensberg escarpment. It is not one single uninterrupted plunge.
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What is the capital of Solomon Islands?
Honiara
Honiara is the capital of Solomon Islands on Guadalcanal.
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In which country is Vatnajökull?
Iceland
Vatnajökull is Iceland's largest ice cap.
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The autonomous Kurdistan Region, governed from Erbil, lies within which country?
Iraq
The Kurdistan Region is the autonomous region of northern Iraq, with its own parliament and security forces and its seat of government at Erbil.
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Maltese is unique among the European Union's official languages. Why?
It is the only one with Semitic roots
Maltese descends from Arabic, carries heavy Italian and English borrowing, and is the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet.
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In which country is Wadi Rum?
Jordan
Wadi Rum is a protected desert landscape in southern Jordan.
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Which city is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' capital?
Kingstown
Kingstown is the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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What is the capital of Gabon?
Libreville
Libreville is the capital of Gabon.
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Which country contains the archaeological site of Leptis Magna?
Libya
Leptis Magna is one of the best-preserved Roman cities anywhere, on Libya's Mediterranean coast. The emperor Septimius Severus was born there and rebuilt it lavishly.
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What is the capital of Malawi?
Lilongwe
Zomba served as the capital until 1975, when the government relocated to the purpose-built Lilongwe. Blantyre remains the country's largest city and commercial hub.
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In which country is Tsingy de Bemaraha?
Madagascar
Tsingy de Bemaraha's sharp limestone pinnacles are in western Madagascar.
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What is the capital of the Marshall Islands?
Majuro
Majuro is the capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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What is the capital of Equatorial Guinea?
Malabo
Malabo is the capital of Equatorial Guinea.
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The Niger River's inland delta and its great northern bend past Timbuktu lie in which country?
Mali
The Niger rises in the highlands of Guinea and swings north-east into Mali, where it spreads into the vast Inner Niger Delta and reaches its northernmost point near Timbuktu on the edge of the Sahara before curving back south-east towards Niger and Nigeria.
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What is the capital of Lesotho?
Maseru
Maseru is the capital of Lesotho.
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What is Eswatini's administrative capital?
Mbabane
Eswatini splits its capital role in two: Mbabane holds the executive government while Lobamba, seat of parliament and the royal palace, serves as the legislative and royal capital.
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On which map projection does Greenland appear about as large as Africa?
Mercator
Mercator keeps compass bearings straight, which made it a navigator's map, but it stretches land more and more toward the poles. Africa is really about 14 times the size of Greenland.
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In which country is the Cave of the Crystals at Naica?
Mexico
The Cave of the Crystals is in the Naica Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Transnistria is internationally recognized as part of which country?
Moldova
Transnistria is a narrow breakaway strip along the Dniester. It runs its own government, but almost every country still counts it as Moldovan territory.
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What is the capital of Comoros?
Moroni
Moroni is the capital of Comoros.
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Which country is home to the ancient city of Bagan?
Myanmar
Bagan sits on a bend of the Irrawaddy in central Myanmar, where thousands of Buddhist temples and pagodas cover the plain.
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What is the capital of Chad?
N'Djamena
N'Djamena is the capital of Chad.
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In which country is Fish River Canyon?
Namibia
Fish River Canyon is in southern Namibia.
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What is the capital of Myanmar?
Naypyidaw
Naypyidaw has been Myanmar's capital since 2006, when the military government moved the seat of power there from Yangon with almost no warning. It is a purpose-built city of twenty-lane boulevards and ministry compounds, spread over an area many times what its population needs.
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In which country is the Tongariro volcanic landscape?
New Zealand
Tongariro National Park protects the volcanic landscape of New Zealand's North Island.
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What is the capital of Palau?
Ngerulmud
Ngerulmud, in Melekeok State on the island of Babeldaob, became Palau's capital in 2006 when the government moved out of Koror. Only a few hundred people live there, making it one of the least populated national capitals in the world.
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What is the capital of Mauritania?
Nouakchott
Nouakchott is the capital of Mauritania.
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What is the capital of Tonga?
Nuku'alofa
Nuku'alofa is Tonga's capital on the island of Tongatapu.
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Which European microstate traditionally claims the world's oldest surviving republic?
San Marino
San Marino traces its foundation to 301 CE on Mount Titano in the Italian Apennines. It is surrounded by Italy and is one of Europe's smallest countries.
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Which country contains the ancient city of Taxila?
Pakistan
Taxila, a centre of Gandharan learning and trade, lies northwest of modern Islamabad in Pakistan's Punjab province.
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Which country has more languages spoken within it than any other, at over 800?
Papua New Guinea
Rugged terrain kept communities isolated for millennia, producing more than 800 living languages in a country of around ten million people.
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Which country contains the archaeological site of Chan Chan?
Peru
Chan Chan, near Trujillo on Peru's northern coast, was the vast adobe capital of the Chimú kingdom before the Inca absorbed it.
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What is the capital of Montenegro?
Podgorica
Podgorica is the national capital of Montenegro.
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What is the capital of Mauritius?
Port Louis
Port Louis is the capital of Mauritius.
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What is the capital of Cabo Verde?
Praia
Praia is the capital of Cabo Verde.
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Switzerland's fourth official language is spoken by fewer than one per cent of Swiss people. What is it?
Romansh
Romansh descends from the Latin spoken in the Roman province of Raetia, and survives in the mountains of Graubunden.
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Which city is Dominica's capital?
Roseau
Roseau is the capital of Dominica.
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In which country is Vredefort Dome?
South Africa
The dome is the eroded core of an impact structure that struck about 2.02 billion years ago, one of the oldest impact sites known on Earth. Erosion has stripped away the original crater rim, leaving only the central granite uplift, which UNESCO listed as a World Heritage Site in 2005.
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What is Kiribati's national capital?
South Tarawa
South Tarawa is Kiribati's administrative capital on Tarawa Atoll.
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Which city is Grenada's capital?
St. George's
St. George's is the capital of Grenada.
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What city serves as Antigua and Barbuda's capital?
St. John's
St. John's is the capital of Antigua and Barbuda.
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Which city is Bolivia's constitutional capital?
Sucre
Sucre has been Bolivia's constitutional capital since 1839 and still houses the Supreme Court. After the civil war of 1899 the presidency and congress moved to La Paz, so the country is governed from one city while its capital is legally another.
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Which is the only country in South America where Dutch is the official language?
Suriname
Known as Dutch Guiana until independence in 1975, Suriname became an associate member of the Dutch Language Union in 2004, alongside the Netherlands and Belgium's Flanders region. Most people actually speak Sranan Tongo, an English-based creole, as a shared everyday language, even though Dutch remains the language used in government and schools.
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In which country is Lake Natron?
Tanzania
Lake Natron is an alkaline lake in northern Tanzania.
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Which country contains the ancient city of Ephesus?
Turkey
Ephesus was a Greek and later Roman city on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, in what is now western Turkey.
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Which country contains the archaeological site of Hattusa?
Turkey
Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire. Its walls and lion gate stand on the Anatolian plateau of central Turkey.
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Which country contains the ancient city of Merv?
Turkmenistan
Merv was a great oasis city on the Silk Roads, in what is now southeastern Turkmenistan, until the Mongols destroyed it in the 13th century.
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Which country does the Dnieper River mainly flow through?
Ukraine
The Dnieper crosses most of Ukraine before reaching the Black Sea.
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Which three countries share the Fergana Valley?
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
The fertile Fergana Valley is carved up between Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, leaving a tangle of borders and enclaves across Central Asia's most densely populated region.
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Which country contains the ancient city of Samarkand?
Uzbekistan
Samarkand was one of the great Silk Road cities and Timur's capital. It lies in present-day Uzbekistan.
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In which Swiss canton is the Aletsch Glacier?
Valais
The Aletsch Glacier is located in the Swiss canton of Valais.
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What is the official capital of Cote d'Ivoire?
Yamoussoukro
The move from Abidjan became official in 1983, chosen because Yamoussoukro was the birthplace of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny; most government functions never actually relocated there. He also built the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace there, consecrated in 1990 and ranked by Guinness World Records as the largest church in the world.
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What is the capital of Cameroon?
Yaoundé
Yaoundé is the capital of Cameroon.
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Which place serves as Nauru's de facto government seat?
Yaren
Nauru has no official capital, but its government offices are concentrated in Yaren District.
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In which country is the Socotra Archipelago?
Yemen
The Socotra Archipelago belongs to Yemen and lies in the Arabian Sea.
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