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World Geography Flashcards

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River mentioned most often in the Bible

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What is the Jordan?

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World’s largest lake

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What is the Caspian Sea?

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The white island disaster happened here

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What is New Zealand?

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Internet name .cy

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What is Cypress?

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F.R.G.

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What is the Federal Republic of Germany?

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Largest county in England

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What is Yorkshire County?

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City In Somerset started by the Romans as Aquae Sulis

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What is Bath?

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Sherwood is found in this “shire”

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What is Nottinghamshire?

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Southernmost tip of England

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What is Cornwall?

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South African city also called Egoli

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What is Johannesburg?

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World capital home to University of the West Indies

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What is Kingston, Jamaica?

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The Giralda is a landmark of this city on the Guadalquivir river

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What is Seville, Spain?

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13
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Second most populous city in Germany

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What is Hamburg?

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Body of water separating Scandinavian Peninsula from rest of continental Europe

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What is the Baltic Sea?

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Second largest city in Norway

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What is Bergen?

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On a visit, the queen of this place blessed Solomon & the God of Israel

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What is Sheba?

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Estadio Azteca in this capital city was the first stadium to host 2 World Cup Finals, 1970 & ‘86

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What is Mexico City?

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In La Mauricie National Park you can observe this beloved rodent, also the mascot of Parks Canada

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What is Beaver?

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Until 2003 this Middle East nation used ‘The Land Of Two Rivers’ as its national anthem

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What is Iraq?

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The term ‘bay salt’, evaporated seawater, is from the Bay of Bourgneuf in this west-central France river valley

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What is Loire?

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21
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The Congo River passes through this world capital

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What is Kinshasa/Brazzaville?

22
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The Yamuna River passes through this world capital

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What is New Dheli?

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The Vistula River passes through this world capital

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What is Warsaw?

24
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Havarti cheese is originally from this country

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What is Denmark?

25
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The Chaobai and Yongding rivers pass through this world capital

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What is Beijing?

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The Amstel river passes through this world capital

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What is Amsterdam?

27
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Largest and smallest countries bordering the Mediterranean

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What are Algeria and Monaco?

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This headstream branch of the Nile that originates in Ethiopia is the source of almost 70% of its water

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What is the Blue Nile?

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On its way to the Atlantic Ocean, the Orange River crosses the vast veld region of this country

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What is South Africa?

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Stretching from Tibet to the Bo Hai Gulf in the Pacific, this 3,400-mile river is often called the cradle of Chinese civilization

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What is the Yellow River?

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They’re sister cities, but you can’t see Magadan in this country from your house in Anchorage

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What is Russia?

32
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It’s about 800 miles from South Africa’s executive capital of Pretoria to this legislative capital on the southwest coast

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What is Cape Town?

33
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These 2 national capitals lie little more than 100 miles apart across the 38th parallel

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What are Pyongyang and Seoul?

34
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In 1872 these 2 cities on opposite sides of the Danube joined hands & names

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What are Buda and Pest?

35
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Queen Maud Land in Antarctica is a dependency of this country where Maud was queen consort

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What is Norway?

36
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This river is navigable from its mouth on the North Sea to a spot near Basel on the Swiss-German border

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What is the Rhine?

37
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The United Nations Archives in this Swiss city is also where you’ll find the League of Nations Archives

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What is Geneva?

38
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Back when it was known as the Hellespont, this strait was where the mythic lovers Hero & Leander perished

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What are the Dardanelles?

39
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Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooks this bay of the Atlantic Ocean

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What is Guanabara Bay?

40
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Built with siege amenities like a 500-foot-deep well, the Königstein Fortress is aka the Saxon this, after a Paris prison

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What is Bastille?

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2 impact craters in the Sea of Tranquility are named for these 2 men

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Who are Aldrin and Armstrong?

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The name of these islands off the southern tip of South America means “land of fire”

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What is Tierra del Fuego?

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This “C” in the ABC Islands of the Caribbean has the oldest continuously inhabited Jewish community in the Americas

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What is Curaçao?

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This Australian place got its name due to “the great quantity of plants Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander” found on shore

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What is Botany Bay?

45
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This area of the North Atlantic is named for the type of seaweed prevalent there

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What is the Sargasso Sea?

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Televised debates dubbed “The Road to Carthage” were a new feature in this country’s 2019 elections

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What is Tunisia?

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A university in this U.K. city consists of 38 colleges, including All Souls, St. John’s & Trinity

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What is Oxford?

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Much of this capital of New South Wales lies on the Cumberland Plain, named for a British duke

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What is Sydney?

49
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Named for 19th century polymath Alexander von Humboldt, Mare Humboldtianum is a huge plain here

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What is the Moon?

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Quebec’s Plains of him were the site of a key 1759 battle between the British & French

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Who is Abraham?

51
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In 2018 a cornerstone was laid in Tallinn, capital of this country, for a new memorial to victims of Communist crimes

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What is Estonia?

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