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Six Letter Geography #3

Can you guess these geographic answers that are only six letters long?
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Last updated: October 29, 2016
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First submittedOctober 23, 2014
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Biggest country by land area
Russia
Capital of the above
Moscow
Yucatan resort city
Cancun
River on Israel's eastern border
Jordan
Peninsula seized by Russia in 2014
Crimea
Gallic country
France
The 50th U.S. state
Hawaii
Capital of Canada
Ottawa
Said to be where Noah's ark landed
Mt. Ararat
"Mile High" city in the U.S.
Denver
Canada's largest island
Baffin
Capital of Alaska
Juneau
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Over 500 million live in the basin of this river
Ganges
Chinese river also called Huang He
Yellow
Largest island of the P.R.C.
Hainan
Capital of Spain
Madrid
Country where genocide happened in 1994
Rwanda
Small Asian country led by a sultan
Brunei
Sea bordering Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Baltic
Country where the Vistula River flows
Poland
City once called the Paris of the Middle East
Beirut
Indochina's longest river
Mekong
Capital of Iran
Tehran
Italy's city of canals
Venice
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Level 82
Feb 12, 2015
For some reason when I saw Yucatan I was thinking Yukon.... and I couldn't think of any resort cities in the Yukon. D'oh..
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Level 75
Sep 21, 2016
If you're into fishing and hunting, Whitehorse would probably qualify.
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Level 88
Jul 22, 2018
Whihos would qualify you mean?
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Level 70
Mar 22, 2017
Dawson is arguably the tourist city of Yukon, (and it even has six letters).
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Level 43
Dec 23, 2016
47 seconds left!
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Level 58
Dec 30, 2016
I am so bad at geography, I'm glad for the opportunity to learn some stuff.
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Level 85
Mar 22, 2017
So the genocide in Bosnia didn't occur until 1995? Missed it by that much.
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Level 60
Mar 22, 2017
Well, a year and like 14 letters.
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Level 70
Jun 11, 2018
I also tried "Kosovo" and "Serbia"
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Level 34
Mar 22, 2017
My brain really wanted to read "Gallic" and think "Gaelic".
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Level 65
Mar 2, 2019
Ditto. I guess I never really heard the term Gallic.
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Level 58
Sep 16, 2021
At least not outside of Asterix-comics...
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Level 28
Mar 22, 2017
Realized it was time to stop when I guessed "Sicily" for the Italian city.
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Level 76
Aug 30, 2018
Today I learned the Yellow river isn't the Yangtze.
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Level 60
Jul 30, 2020
Yep. Yangtze is Blue river, but it is not really used that much. For some reason, Yangtze made it's way into english, while Huang He didn't. I would like to know why, actually.
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Level 62
Sep 17, 2021
I suspect it might be to do with “Yangtze” (扬子, Yángzǐ) is more pronounceable by English-speaking people than Huang He (黃河, Huáng Hé), given the difficulty of accurately creating the Mandarin “h” sound (it’s like the “ch” of “loch”, but at the start rather than the end).
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Level 50
Mar 2, 2019
I always thought the capital of Alaska was Anchorage.
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Level 90
Sep 16, 2021
You were always wrong.
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Level 64
Sep 16, 2021
Not used to the PRC acronym, i thought it was about North Korea (People's Republic of Corea, since it's spelled with a C in French)... which was way more tough.
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Level 68
Sep 16, 2021
very easy
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Level 63
Sep 16, 2021
why "prc" instead of china
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Level 66
Sep 16, 2021
Largest Chinese island is Taiwan
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Level 55
Sep 19, 2021
That’s a rather spicy opinion
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Level 57
Sep 28, 2021
Klaas47: Yeah, but this quiz asks for the largest island in PRC which is not Taiwan.
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Level 64
Apr 5, 2022
Because ROC is Taiwan and Taiwan is Taiwan but PRC is not Taiwan and Taiwan is not PRC

T A I W A N

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Level 64
Apr 5, 2022
I see you're trolling people with the Chinese island.
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Level 65
Sep 12, 2022
Cancun isn´t in Yucatan... It´s in Quintana Roo
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Level 76
May 17, 2023
It's not in the state of Yucatan, but it is on the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Level 76
May 17, 2023
"What's the capital of Alaska?"

"Juneau."

"I don't know, that's why I'm asking!

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Level 28
Nov 9, 2023
Cancun is not in Yucatán, is in the state of Quintana Roo.
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Level 49
Feb 28, 2024
No one:

Me: thank you for not counting Taiwan as part of PRC