Learn Some Geography

The Game Room
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The game is simple… just follow my lead. Hopefully you’ll learn something… (Heck, I’ve already learned something new setting this thing up…)

Example:
C. A country South of California.

A. Mexico

C. A popular beach East of Orlando, FL.

A. Cocoa Beach

Got it? (Use the spoiler tag to hide your guesses/answers)
Ok… I’ll start it out with a couple of clues… you can answer whatever you want and leave more clues also. You do not have to answer a clue to leave clues…

C. The Capitol of Ireland. 6 letters.
C. Country East of Norway. Starts with S.
C. Continent North of Africa
C. Asian country NW of Hawaii. Capital city is Tokyo.
C. Country which is home of the Taj Majal

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Well, unless I’m missing something, I got:

A. Dublin
A. Sweden
A. Europe
A. Japan
A. India

I won’t post any clues of my own until I get confirmation I’ve got these right, because they seem too simple to me!

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S1: South America’s two landlocked countries

S2: Two countries which border Italy and no other nation.

S3: A country with three capital cities. Bonus: Name the cities and the branch of government centered in each.

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I’ll have another go!

A1:Paraguay and Uruguay?
A2: San Marino and the Vatican City.
A3: South Africa: Johannesburg (financial), Pretoria (governmental), and Bloemfontein (judicial)? I have a feeling there is another country with 3 similar capitals, and I think Bolivia has 2 capitals - La Paz (governmental) and Sucre (financial), but I’m not sure - I’m trying to do all this without looking them up.

I’ll come back to post some of my own when I have more time.

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Those were the answers I was looking for…

The point of this isn’t to make things ridiculously difficult… A few are gifted with this knowledge but a lot of us aren’t… I for one. So, I prefer the easier stuff to get warmed up with. :slight_smile:

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[SPOILER]S2: San Marino and the Vatican.

S3: Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria[/SPOILER]
R1: Chinese province whose name means “fragrant harbo(u)r”.

R2: Island nation south of India. Bonus: give its previous name.

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Sri Lanka… Not sure on that bonus question…

The capital of the country that is South of Florida (2 words)
Island nation SE of Africa
Country that is in the southernmost point of Africa
The country that is West of the state that is North of Hawaii
The 2 seas that are West and South of the Dead Sea

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Ceylon-Sri Lanka

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Nitpick: capital. Ireland doesn’t have a capitol.

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Yup.

1. The country south of Florida is Cuba… capital is Havana. 2 words?
2. South Africa
3. Russia
4. Mediterreanean and Red Seas.

Backwards, but yes.

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t1: The only two doubly landlocked countries in the world.

t2. Longest (by dimensions) city in the world.

t3. Largest to smallest, the five largest countries in the world.

t4. Island grouping just east of Madagascar.

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Missed a question in there… answer should be Madagascar

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I think that’s Chongqing (重庆) in China
As well as having an area of 82,300 square km, it has a population of over 31 million.

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Nope. I’m not looking for square km, but length.

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So there’s a city that’s more than 400 km long?

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Add about 2000 km to that.

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Honolulu, HI
(The city formally merged with the county that made up the rest of Oahu. The county also included a string of islands to the NW of the inhabited Hawaiian islands that are now a part of Honolulu.)

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Do the addresses of people who live on the farthest islands say “Honolulu”?

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Then it’s a pity that the Huon Valley in Tasmania isn’t called a “city”, because it includes Macquarie Island about 2,000 km away. However, I’m not sure that a geographic area split like that can be described as long. If I cut a piece of rope in half and put one piece at the North Polie and the other piece at the South Pole, would that become the longest rope in the world?

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A1:Paraguay and Uruguay?

Correct on the first, incorrect on the second.

A2: San Marino and the Vatican City.

Right on both.

A3: South Africa: Johannesburg (financial), Pretoria (governmental), and Bloemfontein (judicial)?

You got two of the cities, while Really Not All That Bright named the third. However, you both incorrectly gave

Johannesburg as an answer. The actual lineup is

Cape Town (of the old British Cape Colony) – legislative
Pretoria (of the Dutch Transvaal) – executive
Bloemfontein (of the old Dutch-settled Orange Free State) – judicial

There may well be, which is why I said “[a] country” as opposed to “the country”. :slight_smile:

You’re basically correct.

La Paz is the administrative capital, Sucre the constitutional and judicial capital.