Australia
This "closest" country to Australia is 4,155km away
What is New Zealand?
Iranians are not an Arabic but rather come from this ancient culture.
What is Persian/Persia?
The flags of England, Scotland and Ireland combine to make a flag known by this nickname
What is the Union Jack?
The Saud family came from this region in the center of the Arabian peninsula.
What/where is Najd?
This is the capital of both modern and and ancient Greece
What is Athens?
Australia has bilateral security treaty with these two countries
What are the USA and New Zealand?
Sunni is the main Muslim sect but the majority of Iran`s people practice this other religious sect.
What is Shia?
England can thank this ancient empire for its extensive road system
Who are the Romans?
This Saudi Arabian city is the spiritual center of the Islam religion
What is Mecca?
This ancient civilization and its people were the Greeks greatest ancient rival.
Who were the Persians?/What is Persia?
70% of Australia is inhabitable consisting of desert and great plains and known commonly by this term.
What is the "Outback"?
Iran was not really effected from this post World War I treaty dividing much of the Middle East between in France and England.
What is the Sykes-Picot agreement?
In 2014, this country made a referendum to leave to the UK...but it failed.
What is Scotland?
The current crown prince of Saudi Arabia is known by these three letters of the alphabet
What is M-B-S?
Under this "great" leader, Greece expanded as far south as Egypt and as far east as India
Who is Alexander, the Great?
Sir Joseph Banks who traveled on one of Captain Cook`s voyages to Australia suggested using Australia as this kind of place to put convicts.
What is a penal colony?
This ethnic group lives on land bordered by Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria?
Who/What are the Kurds/Kurdish people?
England's geographical power was increased by the opening of this canal in 1869 which allowed British ships could cut through the canal to reach India.
What is the Suez (canal)?
This terrorist attack lead to the Saudi Arabian government becoming more religious and enforcing strict religious laws in 1979
What is the attack on the grand mosque?
These two major problems have troubled Greece in the past decade.
What are finance/financial and immigration?
Australia has abundant natural resources such as minerals as well as uranium, zinc and lead as well as wool, wine and beef which may be why it has this nickname.
What is "the lucky country"?
Iran is protected bu these mountain ranges on its Western and Northern borders?
What are the Zagros and the Elburz mountain?
This king decided that the people of Wales must speak English (when he wasn't with one of his six wives).
Who is Henry VIII?
The Saudi Arabian government is closely connected to this sect of Islam
What is Wahhab/Wahhabism?
Greece is surrounded on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea, the Ionian Sea and this body of water
What is the Aegean Sea?