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Category Elimination - Asian Geography #3

In each group, name any answer which matches the first category to reveal the second category, then name any answer which applies to both categories to reveal a third, and so on.
# = the number of answers possible. Answer must correspond to the highlighted yellow box.
All data as of February 2022. In this quiz, population refers to urban populations. More info.
We consider Russia to be European for this quiz. See the European Geography quizzes for those with Russia.
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: February 22, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 22, 2022
Times taken44,119
Average score80.0%
Rating4.89
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Green Categories
48
Countries of Asia
29
... with an area of more than 100,000 km²
9
... which is landlocked
5
... whose population is smaller than 10 million
1
... with less than 10 people per km²
Mongolia
 
Orange Categories
48
Capital Cities of Asia
7
... which are more than one word
4
... containing the letter U
2
... with fewer than 2.5 million people
1
... and which starts and ends in a vowel
Abu Dhabi
Blue Categories
48
Countries of Asia (by Flag)
16
... which have blue on them
3
... which don't have red on them
2
... which don't have green on them
1
... and doesn't have a stripe
Kazakhstan
 
Purple Categories
96
Countries or Capitals of Asia
23
... with at least 25 million people
19
... which are only one word
7
... which contain the letter T
1
... and which are east of Hong Kong
Tokyo
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Level 77
Feb 22, 2022
Why is Ulaan Baatar not a valid answer to the orange category?
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Level 68
Feb 22, 2022
Ulaanbaatar is one word on JetPunk, as well as on Wikipedia
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Level 77
Feb 23, 2022
How am I just now painfully realizing this? When the heck did this change?
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Level 68
Feb 23, 2022
As long as I can remember it has been one word, which extends to at least 2016 :)

Here is a link to the world capitals quiz in July 2018 which shows Ulaanbaatar as a single word answer, for example.

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Level 75
Feb 23, 2022
I remember learning it as Ulan Bator, and in Spanish it's still written like that.

Nice quiz - it seemed easier than some others in the series but maybe I just got lucky :)

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Level 69
Feb 24, 2022
Then why do other Jet Punk puzzles accept Ulan Baatar?
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Level 68
Feb 24, 2022
We generally accept some common old names on quizzes as "type-ins", this way users can get credit for them. However, inherently with category elimination you can't accept old (and now incorrect) spellings when the original doesn't work.

For example, Macedonia is still accepted for North Macedonia, and Astana is still accepted for Nur-Sultan, but you can't have Nur-Sultan as a valid answer to "starts with A", because that's factually incorrect.

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Level 68
Feb 24, 2022
Due to the confusion some have had, I have changed the final clue in Orange so that the old spelling of "Ulan Bator" no longer works as an answer.
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Level 70
Apr 21, 2022
jetpunk doesn't care about spacing, so "democraticrepublicofthecongo" would be accepted as well as "d e m o c r a t i c r e p u b l i c o f t h e c o n g o"
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Level 67
Jul 17, 2023
That's just regex ignoring spaces.
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Level 84
Feb 24, 2022
I tried every possible spelling for Ulaan Baatar! It's only one word now? Looked it up: previously anglicized as Ulan Bator.
+2
Level 68
Jun 21, 2022
I still thought it was two, too!
+3
Level 85
Feb 28, 2022
I couldn't think why Kuwait City wasn't working until I checked it and... Sure enough! 3 million people. I had no idea it was that big.
+2
Level 50
Mar 29, 2022
Why always Mongolia tf
+1
Level 62
Apr 21, 2022
Palau should also work in blue category
+9
Level 68
Apr 21, 2022
This is Asia, Palau is in Oceania
+1
Level 60
May 22, 2022
Funny thing is I had the exact same thought but I caught myself. I was also thinking about Somalia.
+4
Level 59
May 7, 2022
Randomly guessed Kazakhstan in the last two seconds... I think I'm out of luck for the day now
+4
Level 74
Jun 21, 2022
I just guessed Kazakhstan all the way through on the flag one because it is my favorite flag.
+2
Level 71
Jun 21, 2022
In other quizzes Ulan Bator is an acceptable answer. So, it should be for this quiz too.
+1
Level 50
Jun 21, 2022
Is this consider cheating? I search up the capital of UAE because I forgot what’s it name, I was putting ahu dubai
+2
Level 77
Jun 21, 2022
Yes, it’s cheating. Pay penance by giving yourself 7 lashes, one for each deadly sin.
+1
Level 50
Jun 21, 2022
Uh, rather not
+1
Level 72
Jun 21, 2022
1 in 96 chance of picking the right answer for the last one and managed to pick Tokyo straight off the bat! I think that’s the first time I’ve done that on one of these!
+1
Level 39
Jun 22, 2022
think tokyo/beijing are the ones that immediately come to most peoples' minds when thinking of asian capitals.
+1
Level 66
Jul 15, 2022
Why is Kuala Lumpur not working for the Orange Category UN says 1.7 and Wikipedia says 1.9 Million citizen

Edit: *considering the fewer than 2.5 million people

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Level 68
Jul 15, 2022
Because we use urban populations, in which KL has over 7m. See here Capitals by Population
+1
Level 40
Jul 16, 2022
I wrote abu zabi instead of abu dhabi ;(
+1
Level 26
Aug 11, 2022
Last I checked Russia was an Asian country with blue on its flag
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Level 68
Aug 11, 2022
See the caveat.
+2
Level 65
Sep 19, 2022
Kazakhstan reverted the name of its capital back to Astana earlier this week. Nur-Sultan was short-lived and no longer official.
+2
Level 37
Sep 27, 2022
HOLY S*** I randomly guessed both Mongolia and Tokyo as my first guesses and Kazakhstan as the second as soon as I saw blue, wtf is this luck
+1
Level 69
Nov 25, 2022
Orange should not accept Nur Sultan anymore as it has been renamed to Astana
+1
Level 68
Nov 25, 2022
fixed thanks
+1
Level 67
Jun 11, 2023
Missed Abu Dhabi and Kazakhstan
+1
Level 32
Aug 12, 2023
me too
+1
Level 32
Aug 12, 2023
the 2 countries that their capital has fewer than 2.5 milion people with 2 words and contain the letter u from asia are abu dhabi(the corrct answer) and sri jardenyapura kotte(the one that i picked)