Hard Geography Trivia Questions

33 hard geography trivia questions with answers

1. Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

   Answer: Canada Its Arctic archipelago adds tens of thousands of kilometres of shore.Why?

2. Which capital city sits at the highest elevation?

   Answer: La Paz La Paz is roughly 3,600 metres above sea level.Why?

3. The Danakil Depression, one of the hottest places on Earth, is mainly in which country?

   Answer: Ethiopia It sits below sea level where three tectonic plates are pulling apart.

4. Which two countries share the longest international land border?

   Answer: Canada and the United States Alaska's boundary counts towards the total as well as the southern line.Why?

5. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon?

   Answer: Colorado It cut the canyon over millions of years and still drains seven US states.Why?

6. Which river runs through Paris?

   Answer: Seine The city's oldest core sits on an island in it, the Ile de la Cite.Why?

7. Which country contains the source of the Blue Nile?

   Answer: Ethiopia It rises at Lake Tana and supplies most of the Nile's flood water.Why?

8. The Bering Strait separates Alaska from which country?

   Answer: Russia At its narrowest the two coasts are about eighty kilometres apart.

9. Which country is entirely surrounded by Italy apart from Vatican City?

   Answer: San Marino It claims to be the oldest surviving sovereign republic.Why?

10. Kilimanjaro stands in which country?

    Answer: Tanzania It is a dormant volcano and the highest free-standing mountain on land.

11. The Mariana Trench lies in which ocean?

    Answer: Pacific Ocean Its deepest point lies further below sea level than Everest stands above it.

12. Which line of latitude passes through Ecuador, Kenya and Indonesia?

    Answer: The Equator Ecuador is named after it in Spanish.Why?

13. Novosibirsk, Omsk and Irkutsk are cities in which region?

    Answer: Siberia All three grew along the Trans-Siberian Railway.

14. Which strait separates mainland Europe from the United Kingdom at its narrowest point?

    Answer: Strait of Dover Roughly thirty-four kilometres wide, and the route of the Channel Tunnel.Why?

15. Which two countries have square national flags?

    Answer: Switzerland and Vatican City Every other national flag is wider than it is tall.

16. Which is the longest river in Asia?

    Answer: Yangtze It flows entirely within China and is the third-longest river in the world.

17. Which lake is the deepest in the world?

    Answer: Lake Baikal The Siberian lake reaches over 1,600 metres and holds about a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water.

18. Angel Falls, the highest uninterrupted waterfall on Earth, is in which country?

    Answer: Venezuela It drops from a flat-topped mountain called Auyán-tepui in the Guiana Highlands.

19. Which is the northernmost capital city of a sovereign country?

    Answer: Reykjavik It sits at about 64 degrees north, just below the Arctic Circle.

20. The Khyber Pass links Pakistan with which country?

    Answer: Afghanistan For centuries it was the main invasion and trade route into the Indian subcontinent.

21. Which country has coastline on both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?

    Answer: Iran The Elburz mountains run along its Caspian shore and the Zagros along the Gulf side.

22. Which Central Asian body of water has largely dried up since the 1960s?

    Answer: Aral Sea Soviet irrigation schemes diverted the two rivers that fed it.

23. The Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf to which body of water?

    Answer: Gulf of Oman A large share of the world's seaborne oil passes through it.

24. Which country lies at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, joined to Malaysia by causeway?

    Answer: Singapore It separated from Malaysia in 1965 and is one of the few city-states left in the world.

25. Which is the only continent that lies in all four hemispheres?

    Answer: Africa Both the Equator and the Prime Meridian cross it.

26. Which is the largest landlocked country in the world?

    Answer: Kazakhstan It does touch the Caspian Sea, but that is an enclosed lake with no outlet to the ocean.

27. Which city is the capital of Australia's Northern Territory?

    Answer: Darwin It was named after Charles Darwin by the crew of HMS Beagle in 1839.

28. Which capital city stands where the Blue Nile and White Nile meet?

    Answer: Khartoum The two rivers can be seen as distinct colours for some distance after joining.

29. Which river flows through Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest in turn?

    Answer: Danube No other river passes through so many national capitals.

30. Which country's flag shows a green cedar tree?

    Answer: Lebanon The cedar has been the country's emblem since biblical times.

31. Which two countries face each other across the Strait of Malacca?

    Answer: Malaysia and Indonesia It is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, linking the Indian Ocean to the Pacific.

32. Greenland is a self-governing territory of which country?

    Answer: Denmark It is the world's largest island and gained home rule in 1979.

33. Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, is in which country?

    Answer: Argentina It rises to about 6,960 metres in the Andes near the Chilean border.