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What is the largest island in the Indian Ocean?
Madagascar
Who was the first European explorer to sail from Europe to India?
Vasco da Gama
What gulf borders Iraq, Iran, and Qatar?
Persian Gulf
What fictional Arabian sailor sailed the Seven Seas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans?
Sinbad
What sea borders India, Oman, and Pakistan?
Arabian Sea
What river flows through Bangladesh on its way to the Indian Ocean?
Ganges / Brahmaputra
What is the most populous Australia city on the Indian Ocean?
Perth
What bay separates India from Myanmar?
Bay of Bengal
What Tanzanian island, starting with Z, was once an important trading center?
Zanzibar
What island was formerly known as Ceylon?
Sri Lanka
Two cities with a metro population over 15 million border the Indian Ocean. What are they?
Mumbai
Karachi
What canal connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean?
Suez Canal
What city has a building, under construction, that is planned to be the tallest in the world?
Jeddah
What country is the island of Socotra part of?
Yemen
What is Kenya's largest city on the Indian Ocean?
Mombasa
What bird onced live on the island of Mauritius, but famously went extinct in the 1600s?
Dodo
What language, starting with S, is a lingua franca of Kenya and Tanzania?
Swahili
What country controls the island of Réunion?
France
25% of the world's goods travel through the Strait of Malacca - which connects the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Name one of the two largest cities on that strait.
This nonsense started very recently. Look at any old Arab map from more than a couple decades ago and the body of water is identified as the Persian Gulf
Can you accept "Jamuna," "Padma," and "Meghna" for the question about Bangladesh? Bangladeshis usually use these terms to refer to the three major tributaries/offshoots of the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system.
*What city has a building[,] under construction, that is planned to be the tallest in the world? (I'm not 100% percent sure about this one, but I think that comma shouldn't be there)
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*What city has a building[,] under construction, that is planned to be the tallest in the world? (I'm not 100% percent sure about this one, but I think that comma shouldn't be there)