Geography Chain - Extremely Difficult

The questions below are ones that I believe are obscure or difficult for most people to guess. The last letter of each answer is the first letter of the next.
Put a comment below to suggest more difficult questions and I'll do my best to work them into the quiz!
Likewise, if a question is too easy, just say so and I'll remove it from the quiz.
Quiz by MyMindWentBlank
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Last updated: July 28, 2021
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First submittedOctober 12, 2016
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Wollongong and Newcastle are located on the shore of this sea
Tasman
Location in Melekeok; replaced Koror
Ngerulmud
Region of western Sudan
Darfur
Declared capital of ISIL territory from 2014 to 2017
Raqqa
Country with the lowest elevation capital city
Azerbaijan
Disputed region of the above
Nagorno-Karabakh
Island with the same name as the subnational entity in which it is located
Hawaii
Largest city in the Aegean Region
İzmir
The main roads of Benghazi form this geometric shape
Rings
City on the Han River
Seoul
City at the foot of Illimani
La Paz
The last national capital alphabetically
Zagreb
The Ebro river flows into this sea
Balearic
Largest city on the River Taff
Cardiff
This river separates Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Fly
Home of the Carcross "desert," supposedly the smallest on Earth
Yukon
Northernmost municipality on mainland Europe
Nordkapp
Semi-autonomous region of Somalia
Puntland
River that flows out of Lake St. Clair
Detroit
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Level 72
Oct 12, 2016
Did not know the spelling of Raqqa. I tried variations of Rakha.
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Level 61
Oct 13, 2016
Should that be accepted?
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Level 66
Nov 12, 2016
Whew. You weren't kidding that this is hard. I got two, and one of those was the fairly easy "Darfur".
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Level 61
Dec 22, 2016
Thanks! I tried to vary the difficulty so that there were a few easy ones, but based on the answer stats it looks like most of them were pretty difficult. I know that I myself wouldn't do very well on this quiz if I hadn't been the one who made it!
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Level 70
Dec 26, 2021
I love quizzes like this that send me off researching odd geographical nooks and crannies.
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Level 83
Apr 14, 2023
Tasmania as the name of the island with the same name...?
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Level 89
Feb 29, 2024
Love this quiz. Really challenging.

Regarding the Benghazi clue -- Just couldn't get it because the clue seems to suggest a word that is in the singular form ("this geometric shape") but the answer is a plural. I kinda knew the shape of the Benghazi roads, but couldn't think of A shape that started with R and ended with S. (I tried "rhombus" which isn't really right, but it never occurred to me that the shape of the city would be described - ungrammatically - as "a rings".) You can't really fix it by simply accepting ring as a type-in because no one would guess a word ending in G if they knew that the next clue starts with an S.

Maybe tweak the question to say "Shape(s) formed by the main roads of Benghazi"?