Human Geography
This is the term for a city and its surrounding built-up areas that function as a single economic unit.
What is a metropolitan area?
This U.S. state is the only one made up entirely of islands.
What is Hawaii?
This country completely surrounds San Marino and Vatican City.
What is Italy?
The tallest mountain above sea level.
What is Mount Everest?
This international organization has 193 member states and is headquartered in New York.
What is the United Nations?
This country has the most official languages (16) on its currency.
What is Zimbabwe?
This large island is split between three countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei.
What is Borneo?
This East Asian country has a border that meets only 14 miles of Russia's coastline.
What is North Korea?
This river has the greatest discharge volume in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
This country changed its name from "Macedonia" to this.
What is North Macedonia?
This European city has the highest percentage of foreign-born residents.
What is Luxembourg City?
This island was formerly known as Formosa.
What is Taiwan?
The Diomede Islands are split between these two countries—only 2.4 miles apart but separated by a day.
What are the United States and Russia?
The deepest lake in the world by volume.
What is Lake Baikal?
These two countries dispute ownership of the Kashmir region.
What are India and Pakistan?
In the Demographic Transition Model, Stage 3 is characterized by this shift in birth and death rates.
What is declining birth rates and low death rates?
The island of Hispaniola is shared by these two countries.
What are Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
This Central Asian country has exclaves within Uzbekistan and is itself home to an Uzbek exclave, making it a jigsaw puzzle in the Fergana Valley.
What is Kyrgyzstan?
The driest non-polar desert on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This Eastern European country banned the letter “Z” in public displays in 2022 due to its association with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
What is Latvia?
The concept of "Edge Cities" in urban sprawl was popularized by this American journalist and author.
Who is Joel Garreau?
This tiny, remote island in the South Atlantic is one of the most isolated settlements in the world.
What is Tristan da Cunha?
This European state has no border control with France, but the official border is so irregular that some homes literally straddle the two countries—residents may eat in one nation and sleep in another.
What is Andorra?
The coldest inhabited place on Earth.
What is Oymyakon, Russia?
This unrecognized country in the Caucasus declared independence from Azerbaijan in 1991.
What is Nagorno-Karabakh?