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European Geography By Letter - D

Can you guess these European geographical answers that start with the letter D?
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Last updated: January 19, 2023
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First submittedNovember 21, 2013
Times taken89,623
Average score60.0%
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Clue
Answer
Longest river in the EU
Danube
Ireland's capital
Dublin
German city devastated
by Allied firebombing in 1945
Dresden
Scandinavian country
Denmark
Term for a levee in the Netherlands
Dike
City renamed Londonderry in 1613
Derry
Swiss ski town which hosts the
World Economic Forum
Davos
Kyiv's river
Dnieper
French city famous for mustard
Dijon
Town near the White Cliffs
Dover
German name for Germany
Deutschland
Clue
Answer
Historic region of southern Croatia
that gives its name to a breed of dog
Dalmatia
Scottish city on the Firth of Tay
Dundee
French site of British evacuation in WWII
Dunkirk
Walled city of southern Croatia
Dubrovnik
A person from France is French.
A person from the Netherlands is _____.
Dutch
Turkish strait formerly known
as the Hellespont
Dardanelles
Major city of the Rhine-Ruhr region
Düsseldorf /
Dortmund /
Duisburg
Capital of the Isle of Man
Douglas
River that flows to the sea at Porto
Douro
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Level 90
Mar 19, 2014
Always immensely happy at the end of the quiz to find that the only ones I missed are the ones I didn't know at all - none that I'd forgotten or were on the tip of my tongue, but only ones that I truly had never heard of.
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Level 50
Jun 1, 2014
I could not say it better :D
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Level 81
Nov 5, 2016
I agree - and even better when I find that, having got everything right, I had previously missed some. So, today, my memory was working properly!
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Level 86
Apr 9, 2014
I only miss british questions on these quizzes :p.
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Level 88
Apr 7, 2019
Not American centered enough!
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Level 41
Jun 1, 2014
I think that the spelling Duesseldorf should definitely be accepted, as "ue" is in German fully equivalent to "ü" and will be used by native speakers interchangeably.
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Level ∞
Nov 28, 2015
Okay
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Level 72
Jun 2, 2014
Two Croatia-themed questions in one quiz? Woohoo!
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Level 74
Aug 15, 2016
Have you seen the Z yet? :)
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Level 74
Jun 5, 2014
Dnepr should also be accepted for Dnieper.
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Level 77
Jul 24, 2015
I tried forever to get the spelling right with "Dniepr" and Dnepr" and "Djnepr", no way I could guess an "e" was required at the end too!
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Level 66
Sep 19, 2019
Yea Dnjepr
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Level ∞
Nov 28, 2015
Dnepr will work now
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Level 44
Mar 8, 2024
Also since it is in the context of flowing through Ukraine, surely it should appear as 'Dnipro' since that is the Ukrainian word. 'Dnieper' (and variations) are the Russian and Belarusian terms.

(I know Dnipro works, but it seems odd that it isn't the spelling shown as the right answer)

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Level 37
Aug 25, 2014
Now if you'd said a Swiss ski town or the smuggler from Game of Thrones I might have gotten it. :)
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Level 54
Jan 27, 2016
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Level 28
Dec 23, 2014
I'm being pedantic but how about Duisburg for the Rhine-Ruhr German city question (I tried that first)
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Level 77
Feb 5, 2015
Denmark is not Scandinavian country!!!
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Level ∞
Feb 5, 2015
If only there were some way to look it up!
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Level 54
Jan 27, 2016
LOL
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Level 77
Jul 24, 2015
Depends completely on how you understand "Scandinavia". There's a great youtubevideo explaining it all someplace.
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Level 56
Nov 5, 2016
It should be mandatory for all people to watch CGP Grey videos.
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Level 66
May 23, 2018
Denmark, Sweden and Norway are the 3 scandinavian nations.
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Level 79
Feb 11, 2020
It is.
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Level 28
Feb 19, 2016
Sorry, but Denmark is NOT part of Scandinavia. Only the peninsula with Sweden, Norway and Finland is Scandinavia.
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Level 47
Feb 19, 2016
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia
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Level 66
May 23, 2018
finland isn't in scandinavia.
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Level 66
Sep 19, 2019
You are thinking of fennoscandia
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Level 60
May 22, 2020
Denmark is historically considered part of Scandinavia, though it is not on the Scandinavian peninsula, while Finland is on the Scandinavian peninsula but not considered part of Scandinavia. This is similar to how Indonesia doesn't have land on the continent of Asia but is considered "Asian" because of its culture and proximity to Asia.
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Level 53
Nov 5, 2016
Wasn't Darmstadt another city that was firebombed in 1945? According to Wikipedia, "Following the main raid another diversionary raid by 4 Mosquitos was made on the night of 23/24 February 1945 to draw night fighters away from the main target of Pforzheim." I don't really know what Mosquitos are, but I think it should be accepted as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Darmstadt_in_World_War_II

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Level ∞
Nov 5, 2016
Bonus points for creativity, but no, we are looking for the common sense answer.
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Level 56
Nov 5, 2016
I only gained 1 point from improving on this quiz and BANG! I'm suddenly level 55 with 38 points past the lower mark. What happened?
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Level 47
Nov 5, 2016
The quizmaster has updated the stats. Before the stats for each quiz only looked at the last 3000 times it was taken. Now it looks at its entire history. The result is average scores have fallen so you probably have a few new points.
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Level 82
Nov 5, 2016
A buddy of mine with the State Department was stationed in Dubrovnik. Should have gotten that one...
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Level 71
Nov 5, 2016
Me: "Davon? It can't be Davos because that's a Game of Thrones character. It's not Davon? Then I don't know."

Gaaaaaaaah, so frustrating!

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Level 75
Nov 6, 2016
Thank you, Diana Xarissa (Aunt Bessie mysteries) for giving me Douglas.
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Level 80
Nov 7, 2016
It's nice to see a featured quiz with more than one answer about Croatia.
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Level 67
Jan 2, 2017
Dubrovnik, Dijon, I knew it and I'm annoyed.
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Level 49
May 6, 2018
How do I miss the obvious? Dusseldorf and Dardanelles!
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Level 40
Aug 11, 2019
I think “Deutsch” should count as Deutschland.
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Level 66
Sep 19, 2019
And you call england eng?
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Level 83
Feb 11, 2020
No, that would mean "German" not "Germany". Think the clue is fairly clear.
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Level 50
Feb 11, 2020
Massive brain fart I skipped Over rirelands capital
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Level 78
Feb 11, 2020
Unless I misunderstand what "major city" means, the populations of Dortmund and Duisburg are only slightly lower compared to Düsseldorf.
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Level ∞
Feb 11, 2020
Those answers were accepted as type-ins. They are now added to the display as well.
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Level 78
Feb 12, 2020
I'm very sorry, must've forget to check that.
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Level 61
Feb 11, 2020
Bummed I missed Dubrovnik...it's King's Landing, and I've heard that name a hundred times watching behind the scenes stuff for GoT. I missed other stuff, but that was the one I knew once I saw it.
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Level 60
Feb 15, 2020
Could you please accept another spelling for the river : Dnjepr?
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Level 78
Feb 17, 2020
This spelling makes no sense in English.
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Level 62
Apr 8, 2020
Hmm... Got only 10 out of 20. I don't seem to know a whole lot of European geography, being a New Zealander. I did get the German questions though.
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Level 54
Sep 21, 2020
Tried "Dillon." Yikes.
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Level 65
Jan 31, 2021
Really liked this quiz as it had a good mix of questions.
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Level 74
Mar 17, 2022
Great quiz, good to see some actually challenging questions instead of more from the same set of answers that appear throughout the site.
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Level 47
Sep 12, 2022
Very happy there is a question about the Isle of Man. 🇮🇲
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Level 40
Mar 10, 2023
Finished with 2 seconds left - that was close!