Statistics for Asian Geography by Letter - P

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Manila is its capital	Philippines	99%
Gulf on which Qatar sits	{Persian} Gulf	92%
Capital of North Korea	Pyongyang	92%
European country that colonized Macao	Portugal	91%
Country that has nuclear weapons	Pakistan	88%
U.N. observer state composed of Gaza and the West Bank	Palestine	87%
Former English spelling of Beijing	Peking	86%
Capital of Cambodia	Phnom Penh	77%
Kuala Lumpur towers; The world's tallest buildings from 1998–2004	{Petronas} Towers	69%
"Lost city" in Jordan cut from stone	Petra	65%
Thailand's largest island; a major tourist destination	Phuket	56%
Main ethnic group of Afghanistan	Pashtun	50%
Region of five rivers shared by India and Pakistan	Punjab	41%
Term for a tiered tower of East Asia	Pagoda	39%
Major Chinese river that meets the sea near Hong Kong	Pearl	32%
City of 7 million just 120 km away from Mumbai	Pune	32%
Ancient capital of Persia, 550–330 BC	Persepolis	29%
Volcano in the above that lowered global temperatures when it erupted in 1991	Pinatubo	26%
Fifth-largest island of the Philippines which juts toward Malaysia	Palawan	16%
Skyscraper district of Shanghai	Pudong	16%