Capital Cities
What is the capital city of India?
New Delhi
What are the names of the two rivers that flow through Iraq in the region known as Mesopotamia?
100 points per River
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is the capital city of Afghanistan?
Kabul
What is the capital city of Taiwan?
Taipei
What is the capital city of Kazakhstan?
Almaty
What is the capital city of Thailand?
Bangkok
What is the name of the mountain range which includes the tallest mountain on earth?
The Himalayas
True or False: Ulan Bator is the capital city of Bhutan
False: Ulan Bator is the capital of Mongolia and Bhutan's capital is Thimphu
What is the capital city of Mongolia?
Ulan Bator
What does the "stan" from multiple country names mean? For example, what does Afghanistan mean in English?
"The land of..." for example, Afghanistan roughly translates to "The Land of the Afghans"
What is the capital city of Vietnam?
Hanoi
What is the name of the mountain range which forms the informal divide between Europe and Asia?
The Ural Mountains
What is the capital city of Sri Lanka?
Colombo
True or False: Nanjing is the capital city of China
False, Beijing is the capital of China
Bishkek is the capital of which West Asian country?
Kyrgyzstan
Pyongyang, is the capital of which Asian country?
North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
What is the name of the river which flows through Vietnam into the South China Sea?
Mekong River
What is the name of the mountain range in between Pakistan and Afghanistan?
The Hindu Kush Mountains
What is the capital city of South Korea?
Seoul
What is the capital city of Turkmenistan?
Ashgabat
What is the capital city of Nepal?
Kathmandu
What is the name of the river that begins in the mountains north of Pakistan, flows through the country, and empties into the Arabian Sea?
The Indus River
True or False: Kathmandu is the capital city of Bangladesh
False, Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal and the capital of Bangladesh is Dhaka
According to Dylan's college roommate who was from China, what animal do Chinese people say their country looks like?
A chicken
Try to list all 5 of the West Asian former Soviet Republics:
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan