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Geography A-Z #1

Can you identify these geographical answers, starting with each letter A to Z?
Quiz by kiwirage
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Last updated: January 3, 2019
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First submittedJanuary 5, 2015
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Average score73.1%
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Hint
Answer
A
Term for an island chain
Archipelago
B
Belmopan is its capital
Belize
C
Study and construction of maps
Cartography
D
A hill of sand
Dune
E
Where a river meets the sea
Estuary
F
Viti Levu is its largest island
Fiji
G
Slow moving river of ice
Glacier
H
One of the Great Lakes
Huron
I
Kópavogur is its second largest city
Iceland
J
Largest of the Channel Islands
Jersey
K
The "Savage Mountain"
K2
L
Latitude's partner
Longitude
M
Canadian prairie province
Manitoba
 
Hint
Answer
N
Holland is one of its regions
Netherlands
O
Opposite of occidental
Oriental
P
Largest ocean
Pacific
Q
Eastern Australian state
Queensland
R
Undersea growth of coral
Reef
S
Largest branch of Islam
Sunni
T
Capricorn or Cancer, e.g.
Tropic
U
U.S. state
Utah
V
Low place between mountains
Valley
W
New Zealand capital
Wellington
X
Greek city "of one thousand colours"
Xanthi
Y
Sea west of South Korea
Yellow
Z
Former name of the D.R. Congo
Zaire
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Level 72
Jun 10, 2015
Brilliant qiuz, i like it very much!
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Level 72
Oct 27, 2015
Aaargh! I tried about 10 different spellings of Huron except the right one.

Maybe accept Xanti for Xanthi? (Got it anyway, just a suggestion to help out others.)

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Level 58
Jan 22, 2017
Hyuron, Hurin, Hyurin, Hyurion, Hurion, Huroin, Hyuroin, Hureon, Huroen, Hurueon, then Huron!
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Level 66
Mar 6, 2017
Hurueon?
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Level 76
Feb 26, 2018
I'm surprised you didn't try Heroin!
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Level 71
Jul 15, 2019
It's not located in Korea. ;)
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Level 75
May 27, 2021
I had a very similar experience with the Greek city.
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Level 38
Mar 20, 2019
I just had no idea how to spell it. Not sure if I really got it.
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Level 65
Jan 3, 2016
Only missed Xanthi and Fiji...
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Level 76
Jan 4, 2016
Nice! I thought Akureyri was Iceland's second largest city but perhaps that's only if you consider urban area
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Level 9
Jan 10, 2016
us state you chose Utah what a ripoff
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Level 84
Aug 5, 2016
They needed a U, what did you expect?
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Level 43
Dec 2, 2016
Uruguay or Uzbekistan, that's what I expected.
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Level 84
Feb 21, 2019
Fair enough. :-)
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Level 65
Jan 20, 2021
Uluru?
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Level 62
Jan 20, 2021
Do y'all see the big #1 up there at the end of the title? What might that imply?
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Level 86
Jan 3, 2019
You're right, U Nork would have been a much better choice.
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Level 80
Sep 21, 2016
I tried Xanthe, then gave up on that one.
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Level 60
Mar 20, 2019
same
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Level 58
Dec 26, 2016
Am I the only one that guessed Kilimanjaro from the KSI song, because KSI thinks he's savage?
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Level 65
Jul 29, 2020
what a banger of a song
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Level 55
Jul 21, 2017
I thought I was going to get 100% until I reached x
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Level 66
Sep 22, 2017
Accept longtitude please
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Level 50
Mar 20, 2019
Why? It's wrong
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Level 67
Jan 29, 2018
i lived in Xanthi for a while, never heard anybody call it "of one thousand colours".
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Level 82
Feb 25, 2018
Never been there and not even sure how I guessed it, but I did.
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Level 77
Jan 3, 2019
I was thinking of anything Greek sounding with an X. I would've tried Xanthia, but didn't need the A at the end. No idea why. Got lucky.
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Level 90
Jan 3, 2019
Not sure how a religion question made its way into a geography quiz.
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Level 92
Jan 3, 2019
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Level 86
Jan 3, 2019
Steve, maybe you should try to make your perspective on geography a little more . . . diverse.
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Level 34
Feb 22, 2019
Uh...
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Level 34
Feb 22, 2019
uh...
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Level 34
Feb 22, 2019
uh...
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Level 34
Feb 22, 2019
Uzbekistan?
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Level 79
Mar 20, 2019
The largest island in the English Channel is the Isle of Wight
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Level 62
Mar 20, 2019
The term "Channel Islands" refers specifically to the archipelago off the coast of Normandy. The Isle of Wight is an island in the English channel, but not a Channel Island.
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Level 50
Mar 20, 2019
Technically it's Great Britain
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Level 64
Mar 21, 2020
TangoMike: It's not part of Great Britain it's its own island
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Level 77
Mar 20, 2019
I put End for where the river meets the sea. It did not work.

NOTE: This is a joke

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Level 56
Mar 22, 2019
I tried "end" too, after apparently misspelling estuary, which was my first answer. I mean... "end" could definitely answer the question, yeah?
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Level 41
Jun 18, 2020
I thought the answer for T was Taurus LOL :D
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Level 54
Oct 25, 2020
I don't get how I don't get any questions below 50% and missing a few while still finishing substantially above average.
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Level 52
Feb 23, 2021
some people really dont know there greek cities
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Level 23
Apr 9, 2021
And others aren't great at grammar, we all have our weaknesses.
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Level 82
Mar 28, 2021
Got a bit of a theme going with Pacific, Queensland and Reef one after the other.
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Level 65
Apr 13, 2021
cool quiz!!
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Level 36
Apr 20, 2021
How is the Sunni question related to geography?
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Level 75
May 27, 2021
Human geography - it means anything to do with people or places (so everything basically) is OK for a geography quiz...

This one was good, though; it felt a lot less like a general knowledge quiz than many other geography quizzes.

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Level 71
Nov 8, 2021
Human geography doesn't mean "anything to do with people OR places." It's a study of many aspects of humanity and the world through people's relationship with places or location.

It's a bit of a stretch to say the question has anything to do with any kind of geography, human geography or not. Not that I think it's much of an issue. But the question could be made more excellent by asking the branch of Islam most popular in , for example.

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Level 63
Jul 30, 2021
I love getting lucky guesses. I tried Xerxes, Xanadu, and Xanthippe.
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Level 84
Sep 15, 2021
Bit of a drop off for X.
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Level 36
Oct 26, 2021
i legit wrote cartiologist and got stuck fml
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Level 72
Dec 22, 2021
Cute quiz, I liked it a lot. Only got Xanthi cos of Neighbours but whatever!
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Level 58
Jun 20, 2022
thought they were talking about California's channel islands.. never even heard of the others
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Level 70
Dec 12, 2023
Ditto. I was like "I don't know of any islands in the park that start with j"
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Level 47
Apr 26, 2023
xanthi first try get at me
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Level 43
Feb 24, 2024
I missed out on K2 because I was extremely focused on Kilimanjaro for some reason and couldn't think of another tall mountain. I keep forgetting K2 exists, but I should probably be trying to remember countries for CotW instead of mountains lol.