Capitals
Big Ben and the London Eye stand beside the River Thames in this capital city.
What is London?
At 8,849 meters, this peak on the Nepal-Tibet border is the tallest mountain above sea level.
What is Mount Everest?
This country’s flag features a red maple leaf on a white center between two red bars.
What is Canada?
This is the largest country in South America by area and the only one where Portuguese is the official language.
What is Brazil?
This iron tower in Paris was built for the 1889 World’s Fair.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This capital of Brazil, inaugurated in 1960, is famous for its modernist architecture and was planned from scratch.
What is Brasília?
This South American river carries more water than any other on Earth.
What is the Amazon?
Japan’s flag shows a red circle on a white background, representing this celestial body.
What is the Sun?
This country, shaped like a long, narrow ribbon, stretches along the Pacific coast.
What is Chile?
Located in Agra, India, this white marble mausoleum was built by Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife.
What is the Taj Mahal?
Home to Parliament on the Danube, this Hungarian capital was formed by merging two cities in 1873.
What is Budapest?
This mountain range runs along the entire western edge of South America.
What are the Andes?
This is the only country whose national flag is not rectangular or square, using two stacked triangular pennants.
What is Nepal?
This country is home to Angel Falls, the world’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall.
What is Venezuela?
This Inca citadel in the Peruvian Andes was brought to the world’s attention by Hiram Bingham in 1911.
What is Machu Picchu?
Located at roughly 2,355 meters in Ecuador’s Andes, this city is one of the world’s highest capitals.
What is Quito?
Flowing through ten countries from Germany to Romania, this is the European river that ends at the Black Sea.
What is the Danube?
This South American country’s flag has horizontal red, white and blue stripes, with a coat of arms on one side and a treasury seal on the other.
What is Paraguay?
Along with Paraguay, this country is one of South America’s two landlocked nations.
What is Bolivia?
This ancient Jordanian city, carved into rose-colored rock, was the capital of the Nabataean Kingdom.
What is Petra?
Since 1997, this city has served as the capital of Kazakhstan, though it was named Astana for most of that time.
What is Astana?
Paraguay’s capital sits on the east bank of this river, which forms part of the border with Argentina.
What is the Paraguay River?
Though it looks similar to Romania’s flag, this country’s flag is a blue-yellow-red vertical tricolor with a darker blue and a different history.
What is Chad?
Formerly a Dutch colony, this country is the smallest independent state on the continent by population and area besides Guyana’s neighbor.
What is Suriname?
This 12th-century temple complex in Cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world.
What is Angkor Wat?