Asian Geography
Known to its inhabitants as Druk Yul (Land of the Thunder Dragon), this tiny country is sandwiched between China and India.
What is Bhutan?
Let’s drive north up to Oregon and see this deepest lake in the United States.
What is Crater Lake?
Louis XIV belonged to this royal dynasty.
What is the Bourbon dynasty?
This is the world’s largest Spanish-speaking country.
What is Argentina?
The Tsushima Strait is a strait between these two countries.
What are Japan and Korea?
Next, we head northeast to Yellowstone, and this smaller (but just as beautiful) National Park next door, named for its iconic mountain range.
What are the Grand Tetons?
In an attempt to unite Spain and France, Louis married his first cousin, Maria-Theresa. Their marriage was decreed in this treaty.
What is the Treaty of the Pyrenees?
This Chilean desert might be the driest place on Earth?
What is the Atacama?
Iran is slightly larger than this U.S. state.
What is Alaska?
We can drive southeast and stop at the westernmost town in Texas. Bonus points for the name of the city in Mexico that is right across the border...
What is El Paso (and Juarez)?
This was the grand palace built under the orders of Louis XIV.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
At 4,086 square miles, Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat, and it’s located in this country.
What is Bolivia?
Spanning over 5000 kilometers from East to West, China covers this many time zones.
What is one?
Buckle up, kid - we’re driving all the way to Maine, and camping out in this, the only National Park in the Northeast US.
What is Acadia?
When Carlos II of Spain died, one condition of his will was that France and Spain were never to unite, a clause broken by Louis XIV, initiating this, the last of Louis' wars.
What is the The War of Spanish Succession?
Despite being over 4,000 miles long, the entire Amazon River system has this many bridges crossing it.
What is one?
This is the most populous island in the world, and contains half the population of its country.
What is Java (Indonesia)?
We can drive between these two largest cities in Tennessee, and visit the heart of country music and what some may consider the birthplace of the blues.
What are Nashville and Memphis?
He was stadtholder of the United Provinces, soon to become the King of England, and was well-known as Louis’ archenemy.
Who is William of Orange? (William III)
Located in the Tierra del Fuego Province in Argentina, this city is commonly regarded as the southernmost city in the world (bonus points for naming the actual southernmost city in the world).
What is Ushuaia, Argentina?
(Actually, it’s Puerto Williams, Chile, but that’s such a small city that it’s rarely counted).