Pakistan and Asia
In terms of land area, what is Asia’s largest country?
Russia
What is the highest mountain on the Korean Peninsula, located between North Korea and China?
Mt. Paektu
What was Thailand known as prior to 1939?
Siam
What is the currency in both the Philippines and Indonesia?
Indonesian Rupiah and Philippine Peso
What was the largest city in Vietnam previously known as?
Saigon
Following a war in 1971, East Pakistan became what country?
Bangladesh
Which Korea has no official religion?
North Korea
What river forms Thailand’s border with Laos and Vietnam?
Mekong River
The Philippines is divided into what three island groups?
Luzon
The Visayas
Mindanao
What country ruled Vietnam for over 1,000 years?
China
What Asian country has the highest GDP per capita?
What South Korean leader was assassinated in 1979?
Park Chung-hee
When is Songkran (the Thai New Year) observed each year?
April 13-15
Who was the first president of Indonesia?
Sukarno
Vietnam is divided into how many provinces and municipalities?
58 provinces
5 municipalities
What English company gained control over the region by 1765?
English East India Company
Korea was briefly independent after what war in 1895?
First Sino-Japanese War
Around 1240, a local Tai ruler crowned himself Si Inthrathit, king of this kingdom, considered the first kingdom of the Thai people
Sukhotai Kingdom
What Hindu kingdom was founded in eastern Java in the 16th century?
Majapahit Kingdom
What South Vietnamese leader was assassinated in 1963?
Ngô Đình Diệm
What are Pakistan’s four provinces?
Punjab
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa
Balochistan
In what year was an armistice signed between North and South Korea?
1953
What year did a bloodless revolution force King Rama VII to grant the first constitution?
1932
What is the oldest known written record from the Philippines called?
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription
From what years did Vietnam’s first dynasty, the Hồng Bàng Dynasty, last?
2879-258 BCE