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Geography General Knowledge #12

Can you answer these random geography questions?
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What country is the world's top oil exporter?
Saudi Arabia
Name one of the two most populous urban areas in Africa.
Cairo / Lagos
What is either a bay in the Indian ocean or a subspecies of tiger?
Bengal
What is the only country whose name starts with the letter Q?
Qatar
What group of Caribbean islands includes St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Tortola?
Virgin Islands
In what city would you find the district of Pudong, home to the world's third tallest building?
Shanghai
What part of France is located on the continent of South America?
French Guiana
What river forms much of the border between France and Germany?
Rhine
What is Canada's largest, newest, and least populated territory?
Nunavut
What de-facto independent country does China claim ownership of?
Taiwan
What is the second most populous urban area in Japan?
Osaka
In the Gulf War (1990–91), what gulf was being referred to?
Persian Gulf
What group of islands are controlled by the United Kingdom but claimed by Argentina?
Falkland Islands
What peninsula is split in half by a "demilitarized zone"?
Korea
What national capital city is less than 100 kilometers from Tallinn?
Helsinki
What group of people in the United States speak a German dialect referred
to as "Pennsylvania Dutch"?
Amish
What city in Florida has a name that starts and ends with "O"?
Orlando
The island of Majorca has a name that means "larger island". Which island
is the "smaller island"?
Menorca
What Chinese dialect is most commonly spoken in Hong Kong?
Cantonese
In what city would one have once encountered "Checkpoint Charlie" while trying
to travel from East to West?
Berlin
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Level 86
Aug 15, 2015
I really wonder why "French Guiana" is spelt with an "i" in English, since its French name is "Guyane"...
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Level 82
May 17, 2016
I did not know that, but now you've said it, I wonder also.
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Level 37
Aug 14, 2019
^ Maybe to avoid confusion with the country Guyana? (Formerly known as British Guiana).
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Level 62
Mar 19, 2024
Funny I thought of Guiana but wrote Guinea....and it was accepted!
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Level 84
Aug 20, 2015
I may be way wrong here but could Tibet fit the China clue?
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Level 69
Sep 30, 2015
I don't think so. It's that "de facto" qualification, meaning that Taiwan is in charge of itself. Tibet is (de facto and de jure) tightly held by the People's Republic.
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Level 45
May 17, 2016
Tibet is de facto controlled by China. It is not at all clear that China has any legal right to the territory.
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Level ∞
Aug 25, 2020
No country has any legal right to its territory except the most ancient of rights - the right of conquest. For example, much of the land in the United States was taken illegally from Native Americans. But before we shed too many tears, keep in mind that they had no legal right to the land either. They killed and conquered the people who were there even earlier. It's all warfare and bloodshed, back to the earliest days of humanity. Heck, even chimpanzees fight wars for territory.
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Level 67
Jan 15, 2024
False equivocation.
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Level 79
Aug 30, 2020
China and Tibet; USA and Hawaii
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Level 75
Jul 9, 2021
By that logic, Quizmaster, I suppose we should never shed any tears about any invasion, given that those being invaded didn't grow from the soil? That's channeling some John Locke - and centuries more of colonial justifications.
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Level 69
Feb 3, 2016
Tibet has in no way enjoyed any real independence since 1959 :-(
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Level 71
May 17, 2016
Tibet is Chinese just as the Crimea is Russian............ 'fait accompli'
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Level 87
Aug 25, 2020
Not true... Tibetan is a distinct ethnicity, language, culture, sect of religion. Crimea is none of those things.
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Level 49
Sep 29, 2022
Crimea has a history unique to itself. It was its own country for much of history, and was even ruled by the Ottomans for some time. Claiming that Crimeans hold no unique cultural identity is just (hopefully unintentionally) suppressing and attempting to rewrite their history, much like China is trying to do in Tibet
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Level 73
May 20, 2016
Taiwan has its own government, military, and passport whereas Tibet does not. A Tibetan holds a Chinese passport.
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Level 58
May 17, 2016
The only one I didn't get was the amish I feel so disappointed
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Level 70
May 21, 2016
Don't worry...they're not online, so they'll never know. It'll be our secret.
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Level 71
May 17, 2016
Between Tallin and Helsinki, a distance of 80 kms, there are proposals to build an underwater tunnel, similar to the English Channel Tunnel but much longer of course.
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Level 82
May 18, 2016
That would be cool if they could finish it by August, because I'm planning to go from one to the other. But I think I'll have to take a ferry.
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Level 85
Jul 7, 2021
Still just a ferry in 2108...
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Level 80
Sep 15, 2022
Man, you're predicting a long ways into the future. I kinda have a feeling both cities may be underwater by that time, and I certainly doubt they'll still be using the ferry to get around.
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Level 80
Sep 15, 2022
Unless you know something I don't...
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Level 43
May 17, 2016
Could you please accept American Virgin Islands for Virgin Islands?
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Level 75
May 17, 2016
Tortola is part of the British Virgin Islands.
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Level 43
May 17, 2016
Oh ... i didn't know that. I just tried American Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands and neither of them worked :D
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Level 73
May 7, 2017
Same happened to me. Then I switched to guessing other Caribbean islands, to no avail.
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Level 79
Jan 16, 2018
I tried that too. They're also all part of the Leeward Islands so the question's not very well framed as it stands/
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Level 88
May 17, 2016
All of the Caribbean islands mentioned are also part of the Lesser Antilles (which was my first guess), and could also be referred to as the Caribbees or the West Indies. I think the clue needs to be more specific, or these answers should be accepted.
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Level 37
Feb 12, 2018
No, it doesn't. First of all the area is named the Caribbean. Then, while St. Thomas is part of the USVI, Tortola is not; therefore, the only correct response is Virgin Islands.
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Level 47
Aug 26, 2020
Well Lesser Antilles would work, and so would Leeward Islands.
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Level 65
May 17, 2016
Saudi Arabia is not #1 for oil producing, surprisingly!
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Level 82
May 18, 2016
It has been at various points in the past. Russia only produces slightly more; but exports far less as they consume much greater quantities than the Saudis do. The USA is on track to become the world's top oil producer again in a few years... but that will just mean depleting the country's reserves that much faster which is probably a mistake. Saudi also was until recently #1 in proven oil reserves, having recently been surpassed by Venezuela.
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Level ∞
May 18, 2016
The U.S. was by far the largest producer for 2014:

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

I am guessing it fell quite a bit in 2015 since the cost of oil extraction is much higher in the U.S. and oil prices fell dramatically.

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Level 73
May 20, 2016
I tried Russia and US until I saw the picture of the King.
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Level 73
May 7, 2017
That picture should be changed now probably, since the king changed.
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Level 73
May 7, 2017
Although I don't know if many people would recognize the new king, Salman. That said, you probably only need to see the attire to recognize it's the Saudi king.
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Level 37
Sep 10, 2018
The quiz asked for top "exporter", not top producer.
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Level 52
Jan 5, 2017
can we plz have a number 13??
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Level 61
Oct 23, 2018
Is it okay if I make number 13? I have already begun making it, but I will not submit without permission.
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Level ∞
Oct 24, 2018
Feel free! But I can't promise I won't make my own #13 at some point.
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Level 49
Jan 9, 2019
Could you accept Rhein for Rhine? Like its a river in Germany.
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Level 51
Feb 16, 2019
And 'rhone' the French version please?
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Level 74
Feb 16, 2019
The Rhone is a different river.
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Level 79
Feb 16, 2019
'le Rhin' is the French name.
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Level 75
Dec 11, 2020
And 上海 for Shanghai and القاهرة‎ for Cairo please.
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Level 70
Feb 16, 2019
Pennsylvania German isn't a dialect. The Amish aren't the only Pennsylvania Dutch group who speak it
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Level 79
Feb 16, 2019
Why is the incorrect spelling 'Rein' accepted for Rhine, but the German spelling 'Rhein' not accepted?
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Level 85
Feb 16, 2019
Other rivers that form part of the border between France and Germany include the Blies, Saar, Rossel, Bist, and Nied.
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Level 75
Feb 16, 2019
I feel I must stand my ground on the Canadian question. I'm having Nunavut.
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Level 23
Feb 18, 2019
Can ou please accept Rhein for Rhine? It's the german spelling
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Level 60
Mar 20, 2019
Either a subspecies of tiger or a bay of the Indian Ocean ?

Bengal is also a geographical region.

Bengal

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Level 71
Jul 7, 2021
Yep. Although, unfortunately, I think many Westerners are more familiar with the tiger/bay than the region/ethnic group :/
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Level 72
Feb 13, 2020
Seems dubious to me to call Cantonese a 'dialect' of Chinese. Surely this is like calling English a dialect of European. Or Indo-European if you prefer.
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Level ∞
Aug 25, 2020
That doesn't really compare. Can an English speaker read a newspaper printed in Hindi?
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Level 65
Sep 6, 2020
Can Mandarin speaker read written Cantonese?
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Level 46
Jul 25, 2021
It depends, cause Mandarin and Cantonese are very similar except grammar and writing style
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Level 76
Aug 25, 2020
Apparently, there's also Texas German. I've been told it's like the three to four generations ago German in Germany.
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Level 74
Aug 28, 2020
I can't believe Nunavut has fewer people than Prince Edward Island. That's some insanely low population density.
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Level 59
Oct 15, 2020
No kidding... Wow
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Level 87
Sep 2, 2020
Cantonese cannot be considered in any sense to be a "dialect" of Chinese. Chinese is technically a language branch, but people almost only use it in the context of Mandarin. Even if it was in that context, Cantonese is still not a dialect of the branch - it is its own language.
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Level 77
Jun 6, 2021
Cantonese is a language, not a dialect. Chinese is not a language. Chinese is a group of languages, of which Mandarin is the most commonly spoken language.
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Level 52
Jul 7, 2021
Not to be nitpicky or anything, but Florida also has the city of Oviedo.
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Level 76
Jul 7, 2021
I'll add my voice of dissent to calling cantonese a dialect. Wether you consider "chinese" analogous to "mandarin" or not, cantonese is not a dialect, it's a language.
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Level 67
Jul 7, 2021
Missed Helsinki and Amish, only thing I could think of for Tallinn Was Riga
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Level 64
Jul 7, 2021
I know I guy who considers himself the world's best Pennsylvania Dutch rapper. He's the only one as far as he knows.
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Level 23
May 25, 2022
Update needed. Shanghai Tower is now the worlds third tallest building.
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Level 59
Aug 4, 2022
Florida also has Oviedo, city in seminole county. Maybe largest city?
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Level 74
Oct 20, 2022
To be fair, Tallinn is also less than 100 km from Tallinn
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Level 54
Jun 3, 2023
Why is u.s. virgin islands not accepted?