World Geography Flashcards
Which mountain with strong biblical connections is, at 16,853 feet, the highest point in Turkey?
Ararat
Tokyo is situated on which of the Japanese islands?
Honshu
What name for the vast plains of central Argentina comes from a quecha word meaning “flat place”?
Pampas
In which country is Lake Disappointment?
Australia
Which island, with an area of 195,000 square miles, is the largest in the Canadian Arctic and the fifth largest in the world?
Baffin
Derived from the Arabic for “coastal region”, what name is given to the semi-arid region of Africa, which forms a transitional zone between the Sahara to the north and the wetter tropical areas to the south?
Sahel
What is the name of the square in Prague which saw the start of the Velvet Revolution in 1989?
Wenceslas
In the early seventeenth century, Potosi in Bolivia was one of South America’s richest and largest cities/ What was discovered there in 1545 that resulted in this wealth?
Silver
Which landlocked salt lake, at up to 1,312 feet below sea level, is the lowest body of water on the earth?
The Dead Sea
Which strait, up to 70 miles wide, contains the island of Krakatoa and links the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean?
Sunda
What is the most northerly of the five Great Lakes of North America?
Superior
In December 1991, Nigeria changed its capital from Lagos to which purpose built new federal city, the first planned city to be built in the country?
Aduja
Lake Titicaca. which at an altitude of 12,500 feet is the world’s highest lake navigable to large vessels, is astride the border of Bolivia and which other country?
Peru
Four capital cities lie on the River Danube. Vienna, Belgrade and Budapest are three; what is the fourth?
Bratislava
In which US state is Mount McKinley, the highest point in North America?
Alaska
Which lake in Eastern Siberia contains one fifth of the fresh water on the Earth’s surface, and is the largest freshwater lake on Earth?
Baikal
In which country is the Vredefort Dome, which is the second largest known meteorite impact crater on Earth?
South Africa
Extending some 3,200 miles from east to west and consisting of 13,670 islands, which country makes up the world’s largest archipelago?
Indonesia
In which European capital city is the Uspenski Orthodox Cathedral, one of the few remaining reminders of a period of Russian rule?
Helsinki
In which country is Fiordland National Park, established in 1952 and one of the largest in the world?
New Zealand
Which city in western Uruguay became important in the early 1860s when the “Liebig Extract of Meat Company” was established there?
Fray Bentos
What is the name of the Canadian territory that was created as a homeland for the Inuit?
Nunavut
Which country, whose capital is Asmara, became a separate state in May 1993 when it gained independence from Ethiopia?
Eritrea
Opened in 1958 as part of the World Fair, what is the name of the visitor attraction in Brussels which takes the form of a giant model of an iron crystal?
Atomium
What is the name of Ecuador’s principle port and largest city?
Guayaquil
The Great Barrier Reef extends for some 1,250 miles off the North Eastern coast of which Australian state?
Queensland
Vientiane, or Viangchan, is the capital of which Asian country?
Laos
Which river flows into the Mediterranean through two principle branches, the Rosetta and the Diametta?
Nile
The Polish Glacier provides one of the more challenging routes up which South American mountain?
Aconcagua
What name was given to the main crossing between East and West Berlin, situated in Friedrichstrasse?
Checkpoint Charlie
