Europe
This country is considered the birthplace of Democracy.
What is Greece?
This intercontinental sea stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to Asia on the east and separates Europe from Africa.
This great trans-Himalayan river of South Asia is one of the longest rivers in the world and home to one of the earliest river valley civilizations.
What is the Indus River?
Southeast Asia is a vast region of Asia situated east of the Indian subcontinent and south of this country.
What is China?
This island country lying off the east coast of Asia consists of a great string of islands that stretches for approximately 1,500 miles through the western North Pacific Ocean.
What is Japan?
Joan of Arc is the national heroine of this country.
What is France?
The two most important cities in Islam, Mecca and Medina, are located in this modern country.
This landlocked country is located between India to the east, south, and west and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north.
What is Nepal?
This country, whose capital is Hanoi, occupies the eastern portion of mainland Southeast Asia.
What is Vietnam?
This modern-day country was once home to the world's largest contiguous land empire, founded by the warrior-ruler Genghis Khan in 1206.
What is Mongolia?
This is the ancient capital in which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BCE.
What is Rome?
The Hagia Sophia is located in this city.
What is Istanbul?
Since this country and India achieved independence from British rule in 1947, it has been distinguished from its larger southeastern neighbor by its overwhelmingly Muslim population (as opposed to the predominance of Hindus in India).
What is Pakistan?
Until the second half of the 20th century, Thailand was primarily an agricultural country, but since the 1960s increasing numbers of people have moved to this city, its capital.
What is Bangkok?
This region on the Korean peninsula that demarcates North Korea from South Korea roughly follows latitude 38° N (the 38th parallel), the original demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea at the end of World War II.
What is the demilitarized zone (DMZ)?
This is the easternmost of Europe’s three great southern peninsulas, comprising Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and portions of Greece and Turkey.
What are the Balkans?
This peninsula of land today constitutes the Asian portion of Turkey.
What is Anatolia?
This historical region of South Asia is known for being the birthplace of Sikhism.
What is Punjab?
This is the largest city in northern Thailand and the third largest city in the nation.
What is Chiang Mai?
The most extensive and best-preserved version of this extensive bulwark erected in ancient China dates from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and runs for some 5,500 miles east to west.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This mountain range forms a major part of the traditional physiographic boundary between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This strait connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and is one of the major reasons why the nearby city of Istanbul is such a geographically and historically important city.
What is the Bosporus?
This country was ruled by the Taliban, an ultraconservative Muslim faction, from 1996-2001 and now again since 2021.
What is Afghanistan?
This country's capital, Nay Pyi Taw, is often described as a ghost town due to its vast empty boulevards and seldom-occupied grandiose hotels, reflecting its ambitious planning and the lack of a realized population.
What is Myanmar?
The third Ming emperor restored Dadu as the imperial seat of the dynasty and gave it this new name, meaning “Northern Capital."
What is Beijing?