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5-Letter Geography Chain #2

For each hint, enter a 5-letter word. The last letter of this word will be the first letter of the next word.
Based partly on this quiz from manchesterutd10
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Last updated: December 14, 2019
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First submittedSeptember 16, 2015
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Hint
Answer
NYC nickname: The Big ____
Apple
Place to see pyramids
Egypt
"The Lone Star State"
Texas
Portugal's neighbor
Spain
Himalayan country
Nepal
Center-right political party in Israel
Likud
City with the world's tallest building
Dubai
Indigenous group of the Arctic
Inuit
Former country once led by a Lama
Tibet
Revealing Brazilian swimwear
Thong
Soviet prison camp
Gulag
Language that goes from alpha
to omega
Greek
1/100th of a ruble
Kopek
Traditional boat of Alaska natives
Kayak
Hint
Answer
Language of Cambodia
Khmer
Person from the Eternal City
Roman
Bedouin or Mongolian, traditionally
Nomad
Language of the Netherlands
Dutch
Capital of Vietnam
Hanoi
Citizen of Basra or Fallujah
Iraqi
Third biggest city in Turkey; formerly
called Smyrna
Izmir
Capital of Morocco
Rabat
Language of southern India and Sri Lanka
Tamil
Major city in Yorkshire
Leeds
2014 Winter Olympics site
Sochi
Term for a small island
Islet
Forest biome that spans Canada and Russia
Taiga
Capital of Nigeria
Abuja
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Level 75
Dec 11, 2015
Must have tried at least ten different spellings for "likud" - just not the right one!
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Level 62
Dec 11, 2015
Please, accept Thong original name in portuguese: "Tanga"
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Level 84
Dec 11, 2015
But then it doesn't fit into the word chain...
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Level 67
Dec 14, 2015
Tanga is Tagalog for "stupid" (go ahead, google translate it...you know you want to)...also, "mirho" is Portuguese for "banana sling", so probably should accept that as well.

I keed, I keed.

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Level 67
Jul 20, 2018
Mirho is not a Portuguese word. Portuguese simply doesn't have words with "rh".
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Level 37
Mar 20, 2017
DUH
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Level 65
Dec 16, 2018
yea I tried tanga aswell. and not from portugal.. I thought a thong was only underwear not swimwear. (that is also what you get when you google it only images of the underwear and no swimwear. Not disputing that the word thong is indeed used for swimwear though, but apparently definately not the way it is most known.) and I thought speedo was what people called the tiny swimwear (I know, it is a brand, but like aspirin some brands become the name for the product.)
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Level 37
Mar 18, 2019
A "Speedo" is a man's bathing suit (similar to a bikini).
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Level 76
Apr 8, 2020
And it has six letters.
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Level 62
Apr 24, 2021
@divantilya Speedo is a swimwear brand that makes men's and women's swimsuits, and other products
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Level 66
Dec 11, 2015
Not very geographical.
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Level 83
Jul 15, 2016
Having studied geography, I can safely say that pretty much everything can be counted as geography if you squint.
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Level 58
Dec 11, 2015
i thought it said llama
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Level 63
Aug 16, 2016
Me too. It all makes sense now.
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Level 46
Mar 20, 2017
hahaha me too
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Level 61
Dec 13, 2015
In Sudan are pyramids too
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Level 61
Oct 14, 2016
Does Sudan begin with an E?
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Level 60
Sep 26, 2021
Yeah I forgot it was a chain! I saw Sudan has 5-letters and is the country with the most pyramids, but then I checked the description.
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Level 60
Oct 12, 2023
... and this time, I tried Cairo because it's usually lumped with Giza.
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Level 44
Dec 14, 2015
absolutely loved this ,got it with 3min remaining .More please
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Level 72
Dec 14, 2015
Too Russia-centric.
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Level 77
Dec 17, 2015
Wouldn't take kopeck for me.
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Level 82
Jan 8, 2016
How very odd.. I wonder why.!
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Level 60
Sep 26, 2021
Ah yes, my favorite 5-letter word.
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Level 65
Dec 9, 2022
Neighbors. Er wait. Those were the Klopeks.
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Level 65
Jan 16, 2022
In Russia they say “kopeyka”, so kopek or kopeck is something weird.
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Level 60
Feb 15, 2016
Traditional Alaskan boats are also known as "umiak"
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Level 75
Jul 20, 2018
Which do not start with a k.
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Level 88
Sep 6, 2018
Apparently 1/100th of a ruble is a kopeu.
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Level 76
Apr 8, 2020
I was wondering anyway why the answer is specific to Alaska. I thought it was widely used by the indigenous group of the Arctic.
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Level 46
Mar 6, 2016
hard
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Level 60
Apr 3, 2016
The mentioning of Tamil as the language of south India is worth a protest . There are a lot of languages spoken in south India . I myself a Keralite speaks Malayalam .
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Level 60
Apr 3, 2016
It is better to refer to as a south Indian language.
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Level 48
Sep 10, 2016
eh. None of the other major south Indian/Dravidian languages of India(Kannada, Malayalam or Telugu) or Sinhalese for that matter are 5 letters long. Neither does the question suggest that it is the *sole* language of the part of the world.
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Level 29
May 18, 2020
Hindi
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Level 70
Mar 26, 2021
I think it would make more sense to specify that it is one language in southern India just to clarify that it isn't the only one.
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Level 49
Jul 20, 2018
Tamil is the only language spoken in southern India as well as Sri Lanka. It's a fair question.
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Level 70
Sep 19, 2022
A lot of folks apparently don't know what quiz they were taking. Tamil may not be the only language is southern India, but it's the language that fits this quiz.
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Level 58
Jan 1, 2017
Thought it said Emerald City until I took a second look.
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Level 83
Jul 20, 2018
"Centre-right": next joke..
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Level 61
Jul 20, 2018
Knew Taiga from the good old Minecraft days.
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Level 80
Jul 22, 2018
Chould nhot thhink ohf the "h" ihn Khmer.
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Level 28
Sep 6, 2018
"Revealing Brazilian swimwear"

Can somebody explain me how this is counted as geography?

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Level 75
Apr 17, 2020
It's got the name of a country in it.
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Level 78
Mar 17, 2021
A clue was needed to get between Tibet and Gulag. I never thought I would type 'Tibet' 'Thong' and 'Gulag' consecutively.
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Level 70
Sep 19, 2022
One could probably make a case for it, but it really doesn't belong here. There a few sections that probably should have been rewritten both for content as well as for letter variety (eg Kopek --> Kayak)
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Level 68
Oct 10, 2023
If it's located in a place on Earth, originates from a place on Earth, or happens in a place on Earth, it's geography.
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Level 65
Dec 16, 2018
anyone else tried tundra for taiga? And I got roman by a total guess! I thought hmm a person starting with an r and ending with and n... roman, thought eternal city must be something in asia, so surely that is not it, but tried it anyway. In shock that it was right !!
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Level 60
Jul 11, 2020
Eternal city is VERY famous nickname for Rome. Like REALLY, REALLY famous.
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Level 37
Feb 17, 2021
I tried tundra so many times, it seemed to fit so well...
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Level 78
Mar 17, 2021
Tundras don't have trees.
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Level 70
Mar 26, 2021
That's not always true. Some tundra does have some tress just not very many and if they do have them they're usually quite small.
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Level 47
May 18, 2020
lmao i got gulag from playing call of duty warzone
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Level 65
Mar 17, 2021
smart guy
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Level 60
Jun 20, 2020
Didn’t get Egypt because I thought it was the specific location.
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Level 84
Mar 17, 2021
Ahh, so that's why they call them bengal taigas.
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Level 42
Sep 16, 2021
In 2nd question i think sudan should also be accepted, its also 5 letters and they have about 2 times more pyramids than egypt.
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Level 63
Oct 4, 2021
"For each hint, enter a 5-letter word. The last letter of this word will be the first letter of the next word."
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Level 16
Feb 24, 2022
Ah yes, Sudan, my favorite country that starts with E.
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Level 29
Oct 18, 2021
Really lama????
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Level 90
Oct 19, 2021
Only on JetPunk could you have Thong and Gulag as back-to-back answers. I believe I got whiplash on that one!
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Level 53
Feb 10, 2023
did anyone try suomi for the olympics question, i got leeds and islet
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Level 60
Oct 12, 2023
I have no clue where I managed to get Sochi from and Kopek was a random guess.
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Level 81
Jan 12, 2024
Took me awhile on Likud - I struggle to see them as "center right" at this point
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Level 42
Mar 9, 2024
thong is my favourite geography concept