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Geography on a World Map

Can you name the geographic features highlighted on the world map below?
Some answers require the complete name (including "lake", "sea", etc.) as multiple geographic features can have the same or similar names
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Sources: Map from wikimedia.org, Waterfall icon from svgrepo.com
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Quiz by Joanie
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Last updated: April 21, 2023
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First submittedFebruary 20, 2022
Times taken46,567
Average score46.2%
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Mountain/Volcano
Aconcagua
Denali
Elbrus
Fuji
K2
Kangchenjunga
Kilimanjaro
Mont Blanc
Mount Everest
Mount Kenya
Mount Kosciuszko
Mount Logan
Pico de Orizaba
Puncak Jaya
Vesuvius
 
Capital
Addis Ababa
Algiers
Bogota
Cape Town
Dhaka
Dili
Guatemala City
Havana
Honiara
Lisbon
Luanda
Mogadishu
Santiago
Seoul
Stockholm
Taipei
Tashkent
Tbilisi
Warsaw
 
Body of Water
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Andaman Sea
Arabian Sea
Arafura Sea
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic
Baffin Bay
Baltic Sea
Banda Sea
Barents Sea
Bay of Bengal
Bay of Biscay
Beaufort Sea
Bering Sea
Bismarck Sea
Black Sea
Caribbean Sea
Celebes Sea
Chukchi Sea
Coral Sea
Davis Strait
East China Sea
East Siberian Sea
Great Australian Bight
Greenland Sea
Gulf of Aden
Gulf of Alaska
Gulf of California
Gulf of Carpentaria
Gulf of Guinea
Gulf of Maine
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Gulf of Thailand
Gulf of Tonkin
Hudson Bay
Indian Ocean
Ionian Sea
Java Sea
Kara Sea
Kattegat
Labrador Sea
Laccadive Sea
Laptev Sea
Makassar Strait
Malacca Strait
Mediterranean Sea
North Sea
Northwest Passage
Norwegian Sea
Pacific
Persian Gulf
Red Sea
Sea of Azov
Sea of Japan
Sea of Okhotsk
Skagerak
Solomon Sea
South China Sea
Sulu Sea
Tasman Sea
Timor Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
White Sea
Yellow Sea
Country
Albania
Austria
Belgium
Bhutan
Botswana
Chad
Costa Rica
Finland
Ghana
Guyana
Honduras
Jordan
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Malaysia
Mongolia
Paraguay
Peru
Romania
Senegal
Tanzania
Uruguay
City
Aleppo
Alexandria
Almaty
Auckland
Barcelona
Bergen
Cayenne
Colombo
Cordoba
Dubai
Edinburgh
Edmonton
Guadalajara
Guayaquil
Hamburg
Ho Chi Minh City
Hong Kong
Jeddah
Karachi
Lagos
Los Angeles
Manaus
Marrakesh
Mombasa
Montreal
Mumbai
Nuuk
Osaka
Perth
Salvador
Sao Paulo
Shanghai
Surabaya
Thessaloniki
Yakutsk
Yangon
River
Amazon
Amur
Colorado
Congo
Danube
Dnieper
Ganges
Huang He
Indus
Lena
Limpopo
Loire
Mekong
Mississippi
Missouri
Murray
Niger
Nile
Ob
Orange
Orinoco
Parana
Rhine
Tigris
Volga
Yangtze
Yenisei
Yukon
Zambezi
Peninsula
Anatolia
Baja California
Cape York
Iberian
Kamchatka
Kola
Shandong
Yucatan
 
Waterfall
Angel
Iguazu
Niagara
 
Mountain Range
Apennines
Appalachian
Atlas
Drakensberg
Great Dividing Range
Sierra Nevada
Ural
 
Desert
Atacama
Chihuahuan
Gobi
Great Sandy
Great Victorian
Kalahari
Karakum
Namib
Simpson
 
Lake
Baikal
Balkhash
Caspian Sea
Erie
Great Bear
Great Slave
Huron
Ladoga
Malawi
Maracaibo
Michigan
Nicaragua
Onega
Ontario
Superior
Tanganyika
Titicaca
Victoria
Winnipeg
Island/Archipelago
Banks
Corse
Ellesmere
Falkland Islands
Guadeloupe
Hainan
Hispaniola
Honshu
Iceland
Sulawesi
Luzon
Madagascar
Madeira
Martinique
Mindanao
New Caledonia
Newfoundland
New Guinea
Puerto Rico
Sakhalin
Severny
Sicily
Socotra
Spitsbergen
Sri Lanka
Sumatra
Vancouver
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Level 77
Feb 21, 2022
Amazing quiz!! Could you please accept Carstensz Pyramid for Puncak Jaya and Great Victoria Desert for Great Victorian Desert (without that last n)? Keep up these awesome quizzes!
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Level 70
Feb 21, 2022
Glad you like it! Added the type-ins. The different spellings for Puncak Jaya should have worked before tho.
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Level 62
Feb 27, 2024
I just tried 'outback' for Great Victorian Desert lol
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Level 71
Feb 21, 2022
Awesome quiz! It really made me think, and I love both the illustrations and your use of the CSS fade-in effect. Nominated!
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Level 70
Feb 22, 2022
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it!
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Level 75
Feb 22, 2022
I need more spotlight awards! Definitely going to retake this one since missed a bunch of easy answers that were smaller. I'd add Skagerrak as a type-in, it the more common name I've seen, and also make Cape Town a star instead of a dot because it's one of the capitals.
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Level 70
Feb 22, 2022
Thanks for the comment! Fortunately someone else was so generous to spotlight. Updated Skagerrak and Cape Town, don't know how I could miss that.
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Level 57
Feb 27, 2022
Amazing quiz!
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Level 70
Mar 1, 2022
Thanks!
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Level 65
Feb 27, 2022
260/260!!! Wahoo, after the 3rd try though... Very good quiz!!! Nominated!
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Level 70
Mar 1, 2022
Impressive! And thanks!
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Level 75
Aug 24, 2022
I got 206 and 17% did better than that. I think that's pretty amazing. There were a few bodies of water that I knew but didn't pick up on the map. Probably my bad.
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Level 26
Sep 16, 2022
I got 259 because i forgot about lake nicaragua
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Level 70
Feb 27, 2022
Very nice quiz! I really liked the group of answers. Got 221, because I kinda ignore the Australian geography, so I do not know most of the icons there haha

I have a suggestion: considering "Kara Sea" is an answer, it would be better to remove "Karachi". It is better not to have two answers with the same initials - talking about me, I had no idea about Kara Sea before getting it lol. Maybe changing it to Lahore? :)

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Level 70
Mar 1, 2022
Thanks! Australia has some obscure ones.

Good eye with Karachi. I left it in since it resets the stats if I change an answer but I will make it necessary to write out Kara Sea.

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Level 82
Jul 25, 2022
Sorry to nit-pick in the opposite direction, but it's confusing that some bodies of water require the full name, while others don't. Kara Sea was one that I missed because it didn't come up when I just typed Kara, and by the time I figured out that some seas required the full name, I'd forgotten which I'd already tried.

There are so many answers that I wouldn't mind a couple of freebies, but I can understand wanting to avoid that. I'd just prefer that each type of answer be consistent in its requirements.

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Level 66
Feb 27, 2022
Thanks for the challenge. Got 137 including all the capitals and countries. Missed some obvious cities among other things.
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Level 88
Feb 27, 2022
Excellent quiz but it does need a little bit more time with so many answers and things to find on the map.
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Level 70
Mar 1, 2022
Thanks! Added more time since this quiz is not primarily about time anyway.
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Level 83
Feb 28, 2022
Very fun and challenging quiz, got 257 on my first try. Nominated!
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Level 70
Mar 1, 2022
Thanks a lot!
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Level 61
Feb 28, 2022
Great quiz! What a challenge, got aa good score on the first try. The seas were kind of hard, and so were the mountains.
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Level 35
Mar 1, 2022
Hope you make another one
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Level 73
Mar 4, 2022
I know it's not exactly the same, but I always put Cantabrian Sea for the Bay of Biscay.
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Level 75
May 1, 2022
Another spotlight is coming your way. Maybe this quiz can work it's way to the top of the nomination leaderboards!
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Level 70
May 2, 2022
Really appreciate it mate. Hope I find the time to get some new ones done in the future
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Level 90
May 6, 2022
Yes please, you are a great quiz maker.
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Level 68
May 6, 2022
Love this quiz, am improving my geography all the time, got over 200 now. Thanks!
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Level 68
May 6, 2022
Great quiz! Mind accepting Svalbard for Spitsbergen? Also, Yakutsk is due west of the River Lena.
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Level 75
May 7, 2022
Svalbard is the term for the entire archipelago, while Spitsbergen is the highlighted island.
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Level 70
May 13, 2022
You're right with the location of Yakutsk. I struggled with Russian rivers as the map is heavily distorted in northern Russia. Will try to fix this.
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Level 72
Jun 15, 2022
Great quiz! Spitzbergen could be added as Type-In
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Level 70
Jun 22, 2022
Thanks! Added.
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Level 76
May 13, 2022
Excellent! About type-ins: maybe accept anything containing 'falkland' (in case someone types west falkland for example) and don't require 'sea' to be typed (eg beaufort gets you the answer but kara doesn't)
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Level 76
May 16, 2022
Hi,

how did you make this map? I am trying to make something similar with both seas and country borders, maybe adding rivers etc. Can I use your map to make some quizzes?

Thanks

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Level 70
May 22, 2022
Hey, I've used inkscape. Hardest part is to keep the file size under the limit but there are a few tricks for that. And sure, you can just use my map. The more quizzes like this the better.
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Level 76
May 23, 2022
so you drew rivers and moutain ranges by hand?
+5
Level 70
May 24, 2022
I did. With a reference underneath.
+4
Level 76
May 25, 2022
wow
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Level 80
Jun 19, 2022
Fantastic quiz! more of the same :)

Thanks for your effort.

Nominated a while ago. Must be featured!

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Level 72
Jul 25, 2022
A few notes:

If you're going to do the Gulf of Maine, could you at least accept the Bay of Fundy as a type-in for it? Although imo it's weird to have it at all when you don't have the Philippine Sea, the Bass Strait, or the Persian Gulf, for example.

Also, is it possible to make the red bit of volcanoes also go green once you've guessed them? It's a bit annoying especially when a volcano is overlapping another thing.

I also kind of second the comment about Svalbard. I get that you're only looking for Spitsbergen, but you did do the Falklands and Guadeloupe, so it's a bit inconsistent.

For type-ins, could you accept literally anything shorter than Great Dividing Range and Great Australian Bight? And also Heilongjiang for the Amur would be nice.

I love the way you did cities here. If I went, "well, it can't be a capital and it's around here so the most likely city is [x]", that was the correct answer every single time. Felt like it was my fault if I didn't know the answer.

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Level 75
Jul 25, 2022
The Bay of Fundy is a separate body of water, I agree with the volcanoes, the map highlights only Spitsbergen while all of the Falklands and Guadeloupe, and the type-ins are up to you. Congrats on another spotlight btw! (not me this time)
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Level 72
Jul 25, 2022
The entirety of the Bay of Fundy is highlighted, so it isn't *that* separate. Also you miss the point about it being a weird inclusion in the first place (largely due to its borders being defined by underwater basins, rather than neighboring land/islands).

Also you are thinking about Spitsbergen only from one direction: if you typed Falklands, Guadeloupe, then Svalbard rather than Spitsbergen. But what about if you typed Spitsbergen, then went to type Basse-Terre, for example? Because there is no way to know that the quiz wants the Falklands and Guadeloupe combined until you type the individual islands.

That's why the inconsistency is awkward. It isn't quiz-breaking, because there's plenty of time to try again with the other name, but avoiding awkwardness is good when possible. It would also work to allow Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre as type-ins for Guadeloupe, to solve the problem from the other angle.

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Level 75
Jul 26, 2022
Good point with the Bay of Fundy. For the islands it is strange inconsistency but you can still see all of Guadeloupe (both Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) are highlighted as well as both East and West Falkland for the Falkland Islands, while only Spitsbergen is highlighted in Svalbard, not any other islands.
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Level 70
Aug 11, 2022
Thanks both for bringing these points up.

Volcanos light up entirely green now.

I included gulf of Maine while other seas/straits might be more prominent cause theres not much going on in that area in terms of bodies of water while in southeast Asia/Oceania theres already loads of answers.

I feel like Bay of Fundy is too small of a subset for a type-in.

Added Heilong River as type-in.

I can see how it seems inconsistent with the islands but also nowhere in the quiz a group of islands is highlighted that requires its individual islands as answers. I added Archipelago in the category designation to make it clearer.

Thanks again for the feedback!!

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Level 61
Jun 12, 2023
Another thing is that New Caledonia is an archipelago, but I only see the island of Grande Terre, or as the locals call it, "Le Caillou".
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Level 72
Aug 24, 2022
I got the vast majority of them and couldn't for the life of me find out why "Bay of Fundy" wasn't working. The entire area known as the Bay of Fundy is highlighted, so I can't contemplate why it wouldn't be an acceptable answer. I've heard it referred to it only this way and not the Gulf of Maine. Even Google Maps doesn't reference the latter.
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Level 70
Sep 1, 2022
The area highlighted clearly stretches way beyond the Bay of Fundy which itself is a part of the Gulf of Maine. So accepting Bay of Fundy would simply be wrong. Gulf of Maine is a commonly used designation.
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Level 75
Aug 1, 2022
Didn't notice that I had to type in the bodies of water until the quiz ended and everything turned red :(
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Level 44
Aug 9, 2022
Missed Hispaniola because I thought it was asking for both countries...and then I spent the last 2 minutes trying to figure out what it could possibly be
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Level 90
Aug 22, 2022
Excellent. I enjoyed this very much, and look forward to eventually meeting the challenge!
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Level 84
Aug 22, 2022
Got 147. Average score is 146. Not impressive, but I guess I can live in Lake Wobegone now.
+3
Level 65
Aug 23, 2022
Not a very colorblind friendly quiz, but it was a fun idea. Id welcome "show missing" button so I can see what I missed.
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Level 70
Aug 29, 2022
Sorry for that. Which colours are an issue? Maybe I can try to fix it although there is limited room for change considering how many different colours are needed.

Adding missing dots requires adding the position data of every dot. Maybe I get to it at some point but its a lot of work with that many answers.

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Level 79
Aug 23, 2022
I think a good strategy is to ignore the watery ones until you run out of what you can identify on land. Non-blue water can be confusing at times especially before you turn it all green.
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Level 68
Aug 24, 2022
i didnt even realize that the oceans were in play
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Level 66
Aug 24, 2022
The quiz we all waited for... Thanks!
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Level 70
Aug 24, 2022
Why is Svalbard not accepted for Spitzbergen?

Anyway, one of the best quiz on Jetpunk, I really enjoyed it.

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Level 62
Aug 24, 2022
Svalbard is the whole archipelago, while Spitsbergen is the name of the one island that's highlighted.
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Level 74
Aug 24, 2022
Now that was a really good quiz.
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Level 28
Aug 24, 2022
A great quiz! It's hard to guess some of the names in English when I know them only in my mother tongue :)
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Level 65
Aug 24, 2022
Wow, this must have taken some work! Well done! Great quiz.
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Level 62
Aug 24, 2022
Wow I love this quiz. It's clear that my geography knowledge of the Americas and Oceania is the worst. Could you please accept the Northwestern Passages? That's how I've always heard it being called, Wikipedia also considers it a correct name and it's the name Google Maps uses.
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Level 70
Aug 29, 2022
Thanks! Northwestern Passages works now.
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Level 40
Aug 24, 2022
Absolutely love this quiz. Wish there were more like this. Granted, I know barely any of these, but it's great. Got 55 before I gave up.
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Level 75
Aug 24, 2022
Amazing quiz, you put a great deal of work to this!
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Level 56
Aug 24, 2022
Congrats on the feature!
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Level 84
Aug 26, 2022
Tour de force. On my list of all-time favorites. Thanks for all the work that went into this!
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Level 31
Aug 27, 2022
Jesus christ!
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Level 43
Aug 27, 2022
amazing quiz!!
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Level 65
Aug 30, 2022
This quiz is great! Love all the different features and the mix of easy and obscure geography.
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Level 84
Sep 1, 2022
Amazing quiz! Thanks for making it!
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Level 44
Sep 6, 2022
More people got Kilimanjaro than Atlantic Ocean (66 %). It seems that many didn't notice that the quiz included bodies of water. Including me.
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Level 70
Sep 6, 2022
There is a body of water category with over 60 answers and visible lines that divide oceans/seas in the map.
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Level 90
Sep 7, 2022
Get into the habit of looking at the answer grid before you give up on a quiz.
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Level 80
Sep 12, 2022
This type of quiz is outstanding!
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Level 92
Sep 14, 2022
New Foundland should really be Newfoundland.
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Level 70
Sep 15, 2022
Fixed
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Level 75
Sep 15, 2022
I would love a touch of leniency on the spelling of Kosciuszco. To be fair I did forget the exact spelling of the last name of my favorite Polish-American revolutionary hero, but I think knowing that there's a mountain named after him should be good enough without also remembering which order some of the consonants go in.
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Level 73
Dec 12, 2022
Yeah same lol, I was consistently a couple of letters off – but eventually got it. Seemed a bit more stringent than the JetPunk standard. This is a fabulous quiz of course!
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Level 78
Nov 24, 2022
This is a great quiz! I got 211, mainly because I really need to brush up on bodies of water. I almost didn't even notice that bodies of water was an answer category until I happened to type "Japan" instead of "Honshu." That's not to say you need to make it more obvious that it's a category, just sharing an anecdote.
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Level 53
Nov 27, 2022
I got Gulf of Carpentaria but forgot the Amazon River lol
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Level 59
Dec 18, 2022
Amazing quiz, I got 244/260 on the first try
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Level 78
Jan 3, 2023
Wow, what a marathon of a quiz. Epic effort.
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Level 73
Feb 24, 2023
Sea of Cortez/Cortés should be allowed instead of Gulf of California.
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Level 72
Apr 14, 2023
And Vermillion Sea.
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Level 70
Apr 21, 2023
Added both
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Level 26
Apr 21, 2023
The quiz accepts Colombo as the capital of Sri Lanka, yet it's only the commercial and economic capital of Sri Lanka.

The official capital of Sri Lanka is:

Sri jayawardenpura-kotte.

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Level 70
Apr 21, 2023
Colombo is categorised as a regular city.
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Level 60
Jun 28, 2023
The Capitals were should as stars. Colombo is just shown as a city.
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Level 45
May 23, 2023
Great quiz! nominated!
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Level 63
Jun 14, 2023
I loved that one. Got 204, but would have had about 6 more if I spelled them right.
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Level 60
Jun 28, 2023
I got 198/260, but there was at least another 10 i should have got. Good quiz though.
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Level 55
Sep 20, 2023
I just spent 5 minutes of my life attempting to spell Mt Koscuziolkfdsajko only to decide its impossible and move on.
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Level 74
Dec 23, 2023
Please accept Citlaltépetl for Pico de Orizaba
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Level 22
Jan 26, 2024
Very good quiz! i got 139. im not great at this, especially russian geography. but i applaud this!
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Level 41
Feb 2, 2024
bro its actually humanly impossible but anyways, great job!
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Level 61
Feb 4, 2024
Nice quiz! My lowest was Kanchenjunga but I did know Pico de Orizaba. I just couldn't spell it :(
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Level 52
Feb 23, 2024
Finished with 242/260 :)
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Level 52
Feb 27, 2024
I named them all. 260/260. This is the best thing I've ever accomplished in life and nothing will ever beat it. 10/10 quiz