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Geography by First Three Letters #1

Guess these geographical answers based on the category and their first three letters.
For each one, guess the most prominent answer for the category
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Last updated: December 13, 2019
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First submittedMarch 4, 2017
Times taken35,055
Average score81.0%
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Letters
Category
Answer
FRA
Country
France
OTT
Capital
Ottawa
DAN
River
Danube
PER
Country
Peru
KRA
World City
Krakow
SUM
Island
Sumatra
MAR
US State
Maryland
Letters
Category
Answer
KAS
Region
Kashmir
FUJ
Mountain
Fuji
CAR
Sea
Caribbean
SAH
Desert
Sahara
MEL
World City
Melbourne
YAN
River
Yangtze
KOR
Peninsula
Korean
Letters
Category
Answer
DIN
Currency
Dinar
ORL
US City
Orlando
SIN
Peninsula
Sinai
TAJ
Landmark
Taj Mahal
ATL
Ocean
Atlantic
BRU
Country
Brunei
MOJ
Desert
Mojave
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Level 53
Mar 7, 2017
KRA - Krasnodar :)
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Level 65
Mar 7, 2017
Most prominent one is Krakow :)
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Level 84
Apr 23, 2017
Krasnoyarsk has a higher population than Krakow though. Came to mind for me first, took me a while to get Krakow.
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Level 77
Dec 5, 2019
I too thought Krasnoyarsk first and it is still not accepted 2.5 years after GreenFriday pointed it out.
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Level 70
Nov 20, 2022
krasnodar and krasnoyarsk both have higher populations than kraków now
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Level 56
Mar 4, 2023
I'm polish and I also taught Krasnodar/Krasnoyarsk
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Level 77
Mar 15, 2017
PER - Perlez, village where I grew up. For me it is a country :P
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Level 61
Mar 21, 2017
How sweet!
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Level 58
May 24, 2021
Did not know you were from Serbia!
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Level 93
Apr 23, 2017
I thought it was a country Krakozia!!!
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Level 62
Aug 13, 2019
I thought it was Krakatoa 🌋
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2019
Didnt think it was krakatoa but it indeed was the first thing that came to mind.
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Level 76
Mar 15, 2017
Great idea, and fun! I tried Krasnoyarsk, which is about the same size as Krakow, first. I guess which one counts as the more "prominent" city of those two depends on where you live.
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Level 65
Mar 15, 2017
Krakow is above 80% so people jump to it first. That can define prominence as well :)
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Level 76
Apr 27, 2017
That's 80% who guessed it at all. How do you know how many of those tried it first? I guessed it second, after you-know-what.
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Level 93
Aug 22, 2018
A better way would be by economic output (as even population does not necessarily equate to being a world city unless they do something in the world). It is hard to find GDP figures by city area, but it appears Krasnoyarsk is about 1/20th of Russia's GDP (a source I found said it and 9 other cities were 1/2 of Russian output) putting it's GDP at 64Bn USD. Krakow is somewhere over 13Bn but less than 100Bn by the vague info I found. Possibly a better way is by S&P credit rating, which gives Krakow as BBB+ and Krasnoyarsk as BB i.e. more risky. Krasnodar is not rated. By some kind of historic measure Krakow has been around for approximately 700 years longer. One thing Krasnoyarsk has going for it which might lean this objective (Non-polish/non-russian) quizzer is its apparent strategic position on a trans-siberian railway. But actually my initial idea of a world city before reading the comments was a destination to visit; not sure I'd take a trip to Siberia unless I had to.
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2019
I dont think well known equates with doing well economically. Some small poor places in the world are wellknown ( because they have a famous landmark, resident, or something that occured there) and other very big wealthy places are hardly known at all.
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Level 76
Mar 16, 2017
I've never even heard of Krasnoyarsk. Krakow is a pretty famous tourist destination though for the salt mines, old architecture and Auschwitz.
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Level 59
Apr 23, 2017
Krakow is a famous destination for Auschwitz?
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Level 65
Apr 25, 2017
Yes
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Level 56
Sep 1, 2019
But Auschwitz was in Oswiecim.
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Level 59
Apr 24, 2017
World City is a bit misleading though - I'd hardly have put Krakow into that bracket (to me, a world city is the likes of NY, Paris, London, Tokyo, not the second city of Poland).
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Level 75
Apr 24, 2017
I'm one who is terrible at quizzes on world capitals and cities, but I got this one. I never heard of that other one, but if your first answer didn't work surely Krakow would be the next one guessed.(Although I sheepishly admit Krakatoa was the first thing that came to my mind.)
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Level 37
Apr 25, 2017
It is a world city when one considers how many innocents lost their lives in Auschwitz, which is why we even know about Krakow.
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Level 16
Jun 1, 2017
Krakow is a major polish city. It's a tourist destination, which fits into the term 'world city' for me.
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Level 16
May 11, 2017
Nah, it said "world city" so my mind jumped to destination cities, then Krakow came easily from there.
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2019
@jerry more prominent (well known etc) Usually means known in places far away with no direct ties to it. Otherwise most known city would always be the city the person itself lives in. most known countries would be the neighbouring ones. So you have to go the amount of "distance" that direct influence doesnt play a role.

More examples, most famous person would be peoples moms,

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Level 74
Mar 16, 2017
Aarrghh. I can't believe I missed Sinai. Been there - 2-3 times.
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Level 77
Mar 16, 2017
Krakow as a world city is a bit of a stretch. It is certainly famous, and the most famous starting with KRA, but not exactly in the same league as New York, Tokyo or Paris . . . Perhaps a different clue?
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Level 65
Mar 18, 2017
But which other city would one guess? The most prominent one is Krakow and 85% have got the answer and I'm sure 90-95% have heard of it.
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2019
Perhaps people would complain less if you just call it a city, or wellknown or similar adjectives. Personally I didnt even stop to think about the description, I saw city and went with the first city that came to mind starting kra (after getting rid of krakatoa which wanted the spotlight..)
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Level 74
Apr 25, 2017
Is it a city? Is it in the world? Given the answers to those two questions, I'd struggle to think of it as anything but a world city
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2019
Well in that case everything is a world city... that is pushing it a bit far. Other the world is not really dependant on krakow( 's economy/influence) so I wouldnt call it a world city, but world renown yes.

People might no 100% agree on the prerequisites of being a world city, but just being a city, in the world, is definitely not the sole factor ;)

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Level 70
Mar 28, 2017
Fantastic quiz!! Make more please!!
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Level 65
Mar 28, 2017
We have made more! Try #2 here! :)
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Level 71
Apr 23, 2017
Good quiz, nice mixture of questions A+
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Level 47
Apr 23, 2017
Love this quiz!
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Level 67
Apr 23, 2017
Got em all, but Kashmir was the hardest.
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Level 75
Apr 23, 2017
Right. "Region" is a tough category, since it can mean a portion of a country (e.g. Ogaden), a portion of multiple countries (Patagonia), or a collection of countries (Scandinavia). When you combine this with the existence of "US State" as a category, rightly or wrongly it put me off a region that is largely defined similarly - as a political sub-unit. I know - Kashmir is only the main part (demographically) of Jammu and Kashmir state. And then there's Azad Kashmir, the common name for the Pakistani state that exists mostly outside Kashmir proper. Long story short - because of the presence of US States, I wasn't thinking of political sub-units and that put me off the trail.
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Level 65
Apr 23, 2017
Not Jammu and Kashmir - just the Kashmir dispute.
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Level 25
Apr 23, 2017
People who say that are too busy learning obscure geography to watch the news :)
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Level 33
Apr 23, 2017
Could you accept Diner for Dinar? I typed that and I didn't get it so I thought it was the wrong nanswer.
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Level 65
Apr 23, 2017
If you use diners to pay for dinars, then yes.
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Level 63
Apr 23, 2017
I thought KAS would be Kassel for sure
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Level 71
Apr 23, 2017
Would Sahel be acceptable as a desert for SAH or would it qualify as more of a region?
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Level 65
Apr 23, 2017
It is a region :)
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Level 65
Apr 23, 2017
Great quiz! I look forward to more challenging versions
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Level 44
Apr 23, 2017
Couldn't get Melilla out of my head for whatever reason
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Level 60
Jul 27, 2023
Same with Krakatoa
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Level 74
Apr 23, 2017
Any reason why Melbourne and Krakow are "world cities" but Orlando is only a US one?
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Level 65
Apr 23, 2017
No reason, just another category.:)
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Level 74
Apr 25, 2017
To distinguish it from Orleans?
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Level 54
Dec 6, 2017
Because Orlando is out of this world
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Level 22
Apr 23, 2017
Cool but way too easy.
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Level 89
Apr 23, 2017
Actually kinda surprised Kashmir is the least guessed by such a large percentage. I got that one immediately.
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Level 75
Apr 24, 2017
Maybe because people were mentally sounding out possible words beginning with kas, and adding the h gave the s a completely different sound they weren't thinking about.
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Level 80
Apr 24, 2017
I tried "Dinero" (Spanish for money) on the DIN clue. *face palm*
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Level 66
Apr 24, 2017
Me too! It was the first thing I thought of.
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2019
Same and it is not just the word for money, but an actual currency
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Level 81
Mar 8, 2023
They're related etymologically, so you were on the right track.
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Level 65
Apr 25, 2017
Tough time with PER. Kept thinking Persia
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Level 40
Aug 1, 2017
i didn't know how to write Yangtze
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Level 86
Aug 4, 2018
Now you do! Hooray for learning!
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Level 60
Aug 18, 2017
Could accept the Russian variants for KRA
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Level 45
Sep 7, 2017
i missed ottawa,melbourne,maryland,mojave,krakow,dinar,yangtze,sinai and kashmir. i don't know what is desert mojave ,sinai peninsula and yangzte.Cool quiz
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Level 64
May 22, 2018
curious difference between World City and US city
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Level 65
Dec 13, 2019
It almost seems self-explanatory
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Level 40
Aug 13, 2018
21/21. 1:31 to go.
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Level 67
Aug 7, 2019
SUM: Sumbawa
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Level 71
Aug 20, 2019
Yangtze also goes by the spellings Yangzi and Yangtse, both of which fit the clue.
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Level 66
Nov 9, 2019
Indead, would be great if 'Jangtse' was allowed too. Thanks!
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Level 81
Mar 8, 2023
That starts with YAN?
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2019
Imo all very easy, only two that stopped me from non stop typing were krakow (but that was because I used the spelling krakau, then figured they meant a different answer..) and dinar (tried dinero first there). Well they didnt stop me, I skipped over them and went back. But didnt get kasmir and wouldnt have (though I recognize the name) I stopped the time at 2 minutes, cause I knew I was never gonna get the last one.
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Level 57
May 30, 2020
I tried writing down random letters after din and it worked. I didn't know dinar was a currency.
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Level 69
Oct 10, 2020
I'm from Poland and Kraków was the last one I got.
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Level 60
Oct 14, 2021
gotten all!
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Level 60
May 20, 2022
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
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Level 71
Jan 25, 2023
Can you please accept ‘yangzi’ for ‘yangtze’. This is actually the correct spelling based on pinyin, the standard romanisation of Chinese used officially in China since 1958 and in Taiwan since 2009. ‘Yangtze’ or ‘Yangtze’ is based on the old Wade-Giles system of romanisation of Chinese which hasn’t been used in mainland China for 65 years and doesn’t convey the correct pronunciation of Chinese names.
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Level 60
Jul 27, 2023
Out of the 4 I missed, I had 3 terrible incorrect answers: Krakatoa (mountain), Carpentaria (gulf), and Dinero (wrong language).
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Level 56
Dec 11, 2023
What about Carpathian Sea?
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Level 71
Dec 13, 2023
For KAS, Kashubia is also another correct answer.
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Level 67
Jan 25, 2024
Please add Yangzi as type-in for YAN river.
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Level 46
Mar 17, 2024
Almost missed Sinai. I kept wanting to put Singapore even though it's an island not a peninsula. Got all.