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Geography Containing the Letter X

Can you guess these geographical answers that contain the letter X?
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Last updated: August 12, 2021
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First submittedMarch 31, 2020
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A significant percentage of cactus species can be found only in this country
Mexico
Southern state in the country above, known for its many kinds of mole sauce
Oaxaca
Second largest U.S. state
Texas
Capital of Arizona
Phoenix
Nelson Mandela was a native speaker of this language, one of 11
official languages of South Africa
Xhosa
Germanic tribe that many English people are descended from
Saxons
Second least populous country in the European Union, after Malta
Luxembourg
England's oldest university
Oxford
Capital of Nova Scotia
Halifax
Tourists flock to this Egyptian city to see the Valley of the Kings
Luxor
Chinese city on the Taiwan Strait, formerly called Amoy
Xiamen
Largest city in South Dakota, named for a Native American tribe
Sioux Falls
Borough that lies just north of Manhattan
Bronx
French city known as the "Wine Capital of the World"
Bordeaux
County just northeast of London, named for a Medieval kingdom
Essex
This town in the French Alps hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924
Chamonix
A former capital of China, known for its Terracotta Army
Xi'an
Second most populous city in Egypt, founded by a famous conqueror
Alexandria
This surveyor's line is often considered the boundary between
the Northern and Southern U.S. states
Mason-Dixon
This tributary of the Amazon is nearly 5x as long as any river in the UK
Xingu River
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Level 82
Apr 1, 2020
Good!
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Level 77
Apr 1, 2020
Malta is the least populous country in EU, not Luxembourg.
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Level 65
Apr 1, 2020
Correct malta is in the EU since 2004 and has a lower population (a couple of 100k might not mean much to other countries, but percentagewise to them it is a huge difference ;) )

Luxembourg is growing faster though. So at one point it did have less inhabitants than malta. But not since about 1950

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Level 65
Apr 1, 2020
If you have a hard time coming up with an alternative clue for luxembourg but still want to use it, you can use, "one of the countries that bear the same name as their capital"
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Level 87
Apr 1, 2020
Also, "least" generally contains the letter "a" (but not in your clue).
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Level 68
Apr 1, 2020
Thanks for letting me know, I will fix that.
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Level 68
Apr 9, 2020
Fun Quiz :) Got 18/20
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Level 69
Apr 9, 2020
Quite important to note that 'many English people' are descended from Saxons is not correct. They had little impact on our wider gene pool. Please see https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/mythsofbritishancestry

It would be better to word the question as 'Germanic tribe that invaded Britain after the Romans' or put the approximate time period.

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Level ∞
Apr 9, 2020
The quiz is accurate.

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

"A 2016 study concluded that on average 25–40% of the ancestry of modern Britons was contributed by Anglo-Saxon immigrants."

Lots of other sources confirm this. The Romans, on the other hand, did not leave much of a genetic trace.

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Level 75
Apr 9, 2020
I didn't do very well. I don't like this quiz. Those two facts are not connected. Honest. Definitely not.
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Level 76
Apr 9, 2020
Excellent quiz. I need to hone up on my X geography.
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Level 65
Apr 9, 2020
Had fun taking this quiz from Halifax :)
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Level 81
Apr 9, 2020
X marks the spot
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Level 67
Apr 10, 2020
Got Xian by accident oh well
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Level 65
Apr 16, 2020
Thank you, Amazon Trail 3. I am one of the 6% who knew the Xingu River.
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Level 74
May 14, 2020
This quiz is too Egypt-centric.
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Level 65
Jul 16, 2020
By that, we can certify that Egyptians like the letter x lol
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Level 29
May 27, 2020
I thought the mole sauce one was New Mexico. It’s says state in the country above. I must’ve typed at least 10 times hoping it would accept it once 😂
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Level 75
May 31, 2020
Do you plan on doing a Q version, if not, would you mind if we did?
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Level 68
May 31, 2020
No, I do not plan on doing Q version. Go ahead.
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Level 75
May 31, 2020
Alright thanks, here it is
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Level 65
Jul 16, 2020
Nice quiz. Just got Xingu right cause I'm Brazilian and we have even a beer named after the river.
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Level 43
Aug 3, 2020
Oaxaca and Xhosa I knew, I just wasn't sure how to spell! I tried several variations of xosa, xossa, etc and xahaca, xuahaca, juaxaca, etc! Dumb I know, but I would appreciate several varied spellings being accepted for the tricky ones
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Level 85
Aug 12, 2021
Amoy works as a type-in despite being being in the clue