Southern Asia countries and capitals
The capital of Iran.
What is Tehran?
The capital of Iraq.
What is Baghdad?
This ocean lies west of India.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The highest mountains on earth.
What are the Himalayas?
This area curves from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and is called the “cradle of civilization” and people have dwelt there for all recorded history.
What is the Fertile Cresent?
Kabul is the capital of this country.
What is Afghanistan?
Jerusalem is the capital of this country.
What is Israel?
These two rivers run along side each other.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
These 2 large rivers rush year round and are fed by snowmelt and glaciers.
What are the Indus and Ganges rivers?
The Greeks established trading ports here as well as where the apostle Paul made his missionary journeys.
What is Anatolia or Asia Minor?
The capital of Bhutan.
What is Thimphu?
Damascus is the capital of this country.
What is Syria?
This bay lies east of India.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
This area gave birth to Hinduism and Buddhism.
What is India?
When the Byzantine Empire fell to the Turks in 1453, Constantinople was renamed this.
What is Istanbul?
Kathmandu is the capital of this country.
What is Nepal?
The capital of Saudi Arabia.
What is Riyadh?
These 2 deserts are in Western Asia.
What is the Syrian and Arabian deserts?
Bhutan’s native name means this.
What is Land of the Thunder Dragon?
A man named Muhammad founded the religion of Islam in the seventh century in this modern day country.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Colombo and Sri Jayewardenepru Kotte is the capital of this country.
What is Sri Lanka?
Nicosia is the capital of this country.
What is Cyprus?
This gulf lies south of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Gulf of Aden?
Monsoon rains are heavy and a blessing to this island nation.
What is Sri Lanka and the Maldives?
The city of peace and a war zone.
What is Jerusalem?