South/Southeastern Asia
and Oceania
and Oceania
Peshawar, a city in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, has had strategic importance for centuries because of its location near what historic pass?
Khyber Pass
This body of water contains the Gulf of Aqaba, which separates the Sinai Peninsula from the mainland. This sea is linked to the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal.
Red Sea
Part of this archipelago declared independence from the United States as the Conch Republic as a tongue-in-cheek publicity stunt. This archipelago is the namesake of a type of a small subspecies of deer as well as a lime commonly used in pies.
Florida Keys
Home to Transylvania, Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube and is located in the western part of which European country?
Romania
Hosting 2 of the 7 Wonders of the World, what is the only country in the world that borders both the Mediterranean Sea & the Black Sea?
Turkey
Tagalog is one of the three main native languages of which island country in Asia?
Philippines
This desert’s Makgadikgadi Salt Pan and the Okavango Delta is one of the world’s largest and the name translates as “the great thirst” in the Tswana language. For the points, name this desert primarily located in Botswana.
With the largest salt flat in the world and liberated in 1825, name this dual-capital landlocked South American country.
Bolivia
With over 3 thousand miles of borders, more than 80 million people live in this European Union’s most populous member country.
Germany
This country's Dasht-e Kavir desert is the only remaining habitat of the Asiatic cheetah. The Zagros mountains forms a border with Iraq This country's western shore is made up by the Persian Gulf.
Iran
With a current construction boom occurring in Ja Ong, this country's principal port is located at Chittagong. For the point, name this low lying south Asian country with capital Dhaka.
Bangladesh
Chimuzulu and Likoma are island exclaves in this lake, whose largest inflow is the Ruhuhu River of Tanzania. Water from this lake feeds the Shire River, a tributary of the Zambezi. For the points, name this third-largest lake by area in Africa, the southernmost of the African Great Lakes.
Lake Malawi
The 2,000 foot deep Oblatos Canyon was carved by the Rio Grande de Santiago northeast of this city, where Miguel Hidalgo established Mexico’s first revolutionary government in 1810. Lake Chapala is just south of, for the points, what capital of Jalisco, which has the second-most-populous metropolitan area in Mexico?
Guadalajara
The term "scouser" for residents of this city refers to a Lancashire beef or lamb stew popularized by its sailors. With this city's Stanley Park separates (*) Goodison Park from the larger Anfield Stadium, what city where the Beatles were formed?
Liverpool
Hazelnuts are a popular export of this country’s region of Trabzon, named for a former port on the Silk Road. The (*) Pontic and Anti-Taurus Mountains meet near Lake Van and Mount Ararat in the east of this country. For the points, what country is dominated by the Anatolian Plateau?
Turkey
This country is home to the elliptical shaped Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is leased to Russia. This country contains the northern Aral Sea and is the worlds largest landlocked nation.
Kazakhstan
Located at the center of the endorheic basin in the Kalahari, this is, for the points, what river that forms an inland delta in Botswana?
Okavango River
The Rio Dulce drains this countr's Lake Izbal into the Caribbean. With the rainforests containg the ancient ruins of Tilak, this country is also home to the largest number of ethnic Mayans and is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean.
Guatamala
This range, containing Lake Turgoyak, divides the watersheds of the Ob and Volga rivers. During Soviet rule, this mountain range was used as the primary mineral supply for Russia.
Ural Mountains
Bordered by 5 countries, Pashto and Dari are the official languages of which mountainous, landlocked country in the Middle East?
Afghanistan
This state has its largest city at Visakhapatnam, and its eastern coastline extends from Tamil Nadu to Odisha. This Indian state from which Telangana split in 2014, which is also home to speakers of Telugu.
Andhra Pradesh
Because this country is positioned near several crucial shipping lanes, it is home to Camp Lemonnier of the U.S. Navy. Lake Assal, the lowest point in Africa, is in, for the point, what small country on the Horn of Africa?
Djibouti
Lake Gatún, an artificial lake that constitutes part of the Panama Canal system, was created by damming which river?
Chagres River
This river largest tributary runs through cities such as Kaluga and Ryazan. In addition to the Oka, this river is fed by the Kama River. This river, one of the longest in the world, originates in the Valdai Hills and flows past Astrakhan on its way to the Caspian Sea.
Volga
This country is home to Green Island Park, which was built on the first artificial island in the Persian Gulf. This country is home to the Great Burgan Oil Field, which was set on fire by the forces of Saddam Hussein.
Kuwait