Country by its Cultural Figures
Languages
Greetings from around the world
Country by its landmarks
Cuisines
100

Queen, the Beatles, The Clash

What is the UK?


100

This is the official language of the United States

Trick question! the U.S. has no official language

100

This is how people in Europe greet loved ones.

kissing on the cheeks

100
Taj Mahal

India

100

Moussaka

Greece

200

Carlos Santana, Luis Miguel, Juan Gabriel

What is Mexico?

200

Sign language involves these three ways to communicate words and meanings.

hands, facial expressions, body

200
This is how people greet each other in Japan

by bowing

200

Christ the Redeemer

Brazil

200

Pho

Vietnam

300

Ravi Shankar, Lata Mangeshkar, Zubin Mehta

What is India?

300

Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian are all in this category of languages.

Romance languages

300

This phrase is commonly used as a greeting (or for other uses) in Costa Rica.

Pura vida

300

Machu Picchu

Peru

300

couscous

Morocco

400

Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Vivaldi

What is Italy?

400

This is the third most-spoken language in the world

Hindi (609 million speakers worldwide).

400

When you do this in Middle Eastern culture, people may suspect that you're envious of someone.

When you compliment someone's appearance or possessions too heavily.

400

Victoria Falls

Zimbabwe and Zambia

400

Kibbeh

Lebanon and Syria

500

Umm Kulthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Hossam Ramzy

What is Egypt?

500

Maltese, the language spoken in Malta, a European Union island nation in the Mediterranean Sea, is derived from this language.

Arabic, which was spoken by Muslim settlers of the Mediterranean islands in the mid-11th century.

500

Greeting someone this way in Greece is considered an insult.

Greeting with the palm open ("moutza"). It's the equivalent of giving one finger in the US. Make sure to wave with your fingers close together!

500

Petra

Jordan

500

Buuz

Mongolia