Capitals
What capital is the largest city in the world in population?
Tokyo
What tiny European country is the world's smallest independent state?
Vatican City
What area is known as the "Cradle of Civilization"?
Fertile Crescent
What system is Indian society based on that is a strict division of social classes?
caste
What city do both Muslims and Jews claim as a holy city?
Jerusalem
What is the capital of Spain?
Madrid
Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan were once under the control of what country?
the Soviet Union
What arrow body of water separates the Iberian Peninsula from North Africa?
Strait of Gibraltar
In which German city did the Communists build a wall to keep people from escaping to freedom?
Berlin
What continent is considered the birthplace of Western civilization?
Europe
What is the capital of Russia?
Moscow
What country is spread over the thousands of islands in the Malay Archipelago?
Indonesia
What body of water separates Great Britain from continental Europe?
English Channel
What is a person skilled in displaying geographic information on maps and globes?
cartographer
On what parallel were North and South Korea divided?
38th parallel
What is the capital of Greece?
Athens
What are the four major political divisions of the United Kingdom?
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
What plateau is known as the "roof of the world"?
Tibet
What is a narrow strip of land that connects two landmasses?
isthmus
What is the main product exported from the Arabian Peninsula?
oil
Baghdad is the capital of...
Iraq
What three countries are called the Baltic States?
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
What is the highest peak in Europe?
Mt. Elbrus
What is known as the Emerald Isle?
Ireland
About 1/4 of the land of this country is polder, land that has been taken from the sea by using dams, dikes, and windmills to drain the water?
the Netherlands