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(Capital: Phnom Penh?

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Cambodia

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(Capital: Vientiane

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Laos

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Scarborough Shoal

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South China sea

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Nine-dash lines given by?
A. UNCLOS
B. Taiwan
C. Philippines
D. China

A

D

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Spratly Islands, Paracel Islands

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South China Sea

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Pratas Island, Natuna Islands,

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South China Sea

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Capital: Damascus?

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Syria

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8
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Syria land boarder ?
does it open to Mediterranean sea ?

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Land Borders:
o Turkey (north), Iraq (east and
southeast), Jordan (south),
Lebanon and Israel (southwest)

Water Bodies: Mediterranean Sea

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(Capital: Yerevan

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Armenia

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10
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Armenia land boarder

A

Azerbaijan, Nagorno-
Karabakh Republic (a disputed territory),
Turkey, Nakhchivan Autonomous
Republic (an exclave of Azerbaijan),
Georgia, and Iran

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(Capital: Manama)

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Bahrain

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Bahrian Land Borders:

A

Qatar and Saudi Arabia

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land boarder of IRAN

A

Land Borders: Azerbaijan, Armenia,
Turkmenistan, and Caspian Sea (north),
Pakistan and Afghanistan (east), Turkey
and Iraq (west).

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Capital: Doha

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Qatar

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Qatar land border

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Land Borders: Saudi Arabia, UAE and
Bahrain

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Lebanon is boarder by

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syria and Israel

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Turkey land border

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Land Borders: Georgia and Armenia
(northeast), Azerbaijan and Iran (east),
Iraq and Syria (southeast), and by
Greece and Bulgaria (northwest)

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18
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Artsakh is ?

A

Nagarbo-karabak region is what is called by Armenia

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red sea Boundary countries are
Israel’s only Red Sea coast is at ____________

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Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan,
Eritrea and Djibout, Israel , jordon

Eilat

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20
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Duqm Port in ?

A

Oman

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21
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Panama boarders with

A

Costa Rica and Columbia

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22
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Capital: Paramaribo

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Suriname (

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23
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highest civilian honour of
___________ ‘Grand Order of the Chain of
the Yellow Star was conferred to indian president

A

Suriname

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24
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Suriname boarders with

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French Guiana (east),
Brazil (south), and Guyana (west).

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25
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Capital: Havana

A

Cuba (

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(Capital: Belmopan

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Belize

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(Capital: Quito

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Ecuador
Galapagos Islands come under its
jurisdiction.

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Capital: Port of Spain

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Trinidad and Tobago (

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29
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Gulf of
Paria.
b/w?

A

venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago

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(Capital: Georgetown

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Guyana

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32
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Esequibo river flows b/w?

A

Venezuela and Guyana

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32
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Capital: Caracas

A

Venezuela

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33
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__________ is Home to Lake Maracaibo
(largest lake in South America).

A

Venezuela

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34
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Cocos islands are
external territory of __________

A

Australia

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35
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Capital: Honiara

A

Solomon Islands (

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36
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Capital: Majuro

A

Marshall Islands (

37
Q

the Ratak
(Sunrise) group and the Ralik
(Sunset) group
is at

A

Marshall Islands

38
Q

Capital: Suva

A

Fiji (Tropic of Capricorn passes
through it.)

39
Q

Koro Sea is near

40
Q

(Capital: Port
Moresby

A

Papua New Guinea

41
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(Capital: Dili)

A

Timor-Leste

42
Q

Land Boarder around Italy
.

A

Land borders: France, Switzerland,
Austria, and Slovenia

43
Q

Capital: Port-Vila

A

Vanuatu (Australia(east
Melanesian archipelago

44
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water bodies around Italy

A

Mediterranean Sea,
Adriatic Sea (northeast), Ionian Sea
(southeast), Tyrrhenian Sea (southwest),
and Ligurian Sea (northwest)

45
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(Capital: Valletta

46
Q

Capital: Ljubljana)

A

Slovenia (

47
Q

countries surrounding Adriatic Sea are:

A

Italy
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Montenegro
Albania
Slovenia

48
Q

Capital: Vilnius)

A

Lithuania (

49
Q

land boarder with Lithuania

A

Latvia(north),
Belarus(east and south), Poland and the
detached Russian oblast of Kaliningrad
(southwest).
o It also shares a maritime border
with Sweden to the west

50
Q

Baltic
states

A

Lithuania , Estonia, and
Latvia

51
Q

countries bordering Baltic Sea are:

A

Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Germany
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Russia
Sweden

52
Q

Capital: Nicosia

53
Q

four UNESCO world
heritage sites: Skara Brae, Ring of Brodgar, Standing Stones of Stenness, and Maeshowe chambered tomb

Are in?

A

Orkney Islands
north of Scotland

54
Q

SAHEL REGION countries

A

Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea

55
Q

Countries bordering Tanzania

A

Uganda, and Kenya
(north), Mozambique and Zambia
(south and southwest), and
Burundi, and Rwanda (west), Malawi

56
Q

Lake Nyasa b/w

A

Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi

57
Q

Lake Tanganyika b/w

A

Tanzania, DR of Conga, Zambia and Burundi

58
Q

Lake Rukwa is in

59
Q

(Capital: Dodoma)

A

Tanzania
IIT Madras establishes
first international campus in
Tanzania’s Zanzibar

60
Q

(Capital: Dakar

A

Senegal
boarder - Mali (east); Guinea
and Guinea-Bissau (south

61
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Capital: Moroni

62
Q

Capital: Addis Ababa

A

Ethiopia (Landlocked country on Horn
of Africa)

63
Q

boardering countries of Ethiopia

A

Eritrea (north),
Djibouti (northeast), Somalia
(east), Kenya (south), South Sudan
and Sudan (west

64
Q

(Capital: Abuja

A

Nigeria
Giant of
Africa.

65
Q

boardering states

A

Niger (north), Chad
and Cameroon (east), Benin (west).

66
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Capital: Bamako

A

Mali (

Algeria (north),
Niger and Burkina Faso (east),
Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea (south),
and Senegal and Mauritania

67
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Capital: Maputo

A

Mozambique

bordering with Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

68
Q

Capital: Khartoum

69
Q

countries bordering SUDAN

A

Egypt, Libya, Chad,
Central African Republic, South
Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea

70
Q

Capital: Niamey

71
Q

(Capital: Lilongwe

A

Malawi
Parliamentary delegation
from Malawi is visited India

Land borders: Tanzania (north),
Lake Malawi (east), Mozambique
(east and south), and Zambia
(west)

Lake Malawi (aka
Lake Nyasa in Tanzania) (largest),
Lake Chilwa

72
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Capital: Tripoli

A

Libya (Ghibli - a hot arid
wind blows from south over entire
country.)

73
Q

Land bordering Libya

A

Egypt (east), Sudan
(southeast), Niger and Chad
(south), and Tunisia and Algeria

74
Q

capital-Libreville

A

Gabon

Gabon military officers
declare coup after president wins
disputed election

75
Q

countries bordering Gabon

A

Equatorial Guinea,
Cameroon, and the Republic of the
Congo

76
Q

___________Capital: Ouagadougou)
*
*

A

Burkina Faso(Context: Burkina Faso orders the
French embassy’s defense attache
to leave.)

Land borders: Mali(north and west),
Niger(northeast), Benin(southeast),
and Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and
Togo(south

77
Q

(Capital: Lusaka

78
Q

Capital: Porto-Novo

A

Benin (

Burkina Faso
(northwest), Nigeria (east), Togo
(west), Niger (North).

79
Q

(Capital: Kampala

A

Uganda

South Sudan
(north), Kenya (east), Tanzania and
Rwanda (south), and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
(west).

80
Q

Lake Kariba, located
on border between ________ and
_______, is the world’s largest
man-made lake by volume

A

Zambia
Zimbabwe

81
Q

Galkynysh gas
field

A

Turkmenistan (

82
Q

Uthuru Thilafalhu (UTF) atoll ?

A

(located near the capital Male) Maldives

83
Q

Land Borders of Israel

A

o Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt

84
Q

Sea of Galilee

A

in Israel b/w Golan heights

85
Q

countries surrounding Black sea

A

Russia, Gorgia, Turkey, greece, Bulgaria, romania, Ukraine

86
Q

countries surrounding the North Sea are:

A

Norway - to the west
Denmark - to the south
Germany - to the east
The Netherlands - to the east
Belgium - to the east
France - to the east
United Kingdom (England and Scotland) - to the west

87
Q

Mekong Delta, the river flows through six countries:
______________

A

China, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam

88
Q

The Amazon River passes through 4 countries ____________

A

Brazil, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela

89
Q

Volga flows through ________

A

Only Russia

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