This country's flag features a yellow silhouette of the island itself, topped with two olive branches, designed specifically to symbolize peace between its Greek and Turkish communities.
What is Cyprus?
100
This massive country is famously the largest landlocked nation by land area in the entire world.
What is Kazakhstan?
100
This body of water, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, has famously shrunk to less than 10% of its original size due to Soviet irrigation projects diverting its source rivers.
What is the Aral Sea?
100
Many people think Zurich or Geneva is the capital of Switzerland, but the actual de facto capital city is this one.
What is Bern?
100
Comprising over 17,000 individual islands, this Southeast Asian nation is the largest archipelagic state in the world.
What is Indonesia?
200
While most flags use standard shapes, the flag of this modern European nation is unique for having a distinct 1:2 aspect ratio containing a stylized double-headed black eagle.
What is Albania?
200
There are only two "doubly landlocked" countries in the world (meaning they are surrounded entirely by countries that are also landlocked). One is Liechtenstein; name the other, located in Central Asia.
What is Uzbekistan?
200
Located in the Western Pacific, the Challenger Deep is the lowest known point on Earth. Name the oceanic trench it is located within.
What is the Mariana Trench?
200
Though Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo are much more famous, this hyper-futuristic, planned city has been the capital of Brazil since 1960.
What is Brasília?
200
This remote Atlantic island territory, where Napoleon was exiled and eventually died, belongs to the United Kingdom but sits over 1,200 miles off the coast of Africa.
What is Saint Helena?
300
This is the only country in the world whose national flag features an image of a modern firearm—specifically, an AK-47 assault rifle crossed with a hoe over an open book.
What is Mozambique?
300
Completely surrounded by South Africa, this mountainous kingdom holds the title of the largest enclave country entirely enclosed by a single other nation.
What is Lesotho?
300
This specific African river is the only major river in the world to cross the Equator twice during its course to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Congo River? (Formerly the Zaire River).
300
Casablanca is the largest city and economic heart of Morocco, but this historic coastal city is the nation's actual capital.
What is Rabat?
300
The Galápagos Islands, famous for their unique wildlife and connection to Charles Darwin, belong to this South American country.
What is Ecuador?
400
The national flags of Romania and this landlocked African country are virtually identical, sharing the exact same blue, yellow, and red vertical stripes with only a microscopic difference in the shade of blue.
What is Chad?
400
This country has a long, incredibly narrow strip of land called the Wakhan Corridor, which was deliberately created in the 19th century to act as a buffer zone between the British and Russian Empires.
What is Afghanistan?
400
Because the Earth bulges at the equator, the summit of this Ecuadorian volcano—not Mount Everest—is officially the closest point on Earth to space and the farthest from the Earth's center.
What is Mount Chimborazo?
400
While Amsterdam is the constitutional capital of the Netherlands, the country's parliament, supreme court, and royal palaces are all located in this city.
What is The Hague?
400
This sovereign island nation in the Indian Ocean is the smallest country in Asia by both land area and population.
What are the Maldives?
500
This central Asian nation's flag is famously intricate, featuring a vertical stripe on the left side containing five traditional carpet designs (called guls) representing the country's five major tribes.
What is Turkmenistan?
500
This European microstate is the only country in the world that is bordered entirely by just one single country, but is split into two non-contiguous parts by that country.
What is San Marino?
500
This is the only sea on Earth that has no land boundaries or coastlines at all, defined instead entirely by ocean currents in the North Atlantic.
What is the Sargasso Sea?
500
Shanghai is the massive financial hub and Beijing is the capital, but this city famously serves as the capital of nearby Taiwan (Republic of China).
What is Taipei?
500
This autonomous island territory in the Arctic Ocean belongs to Norway, is famous for its polar bear population, and houses the Global Seed Vault.