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Medium Geography Trivia Questions
The medium questions from our geography set, 33 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
Keys 1-4 pick an answer, Enter moves on. Nothing is saved to an account.
The middle set assumes you know the basics and pushes into borders, lakes and the small countries that are easy to mix up. Expect to get most of them, but not all.
33 medium geography trivia questions with answers
Which European capital is split by the Danube into Buda and Pest?
Answer: Budapest The two towns and Obuda merged into one city in 1873.Why?
Lake Titicaca lies on the border of Peru and which country?
Answer: Bolivia It is the highest lake in the world that large boats can navigate.
Which country has the most time zones?
Answer: France Counting its overseas territories, France spans twelve.Why?
What is the smallest country in the world by area?
Answer: Vatican City An enclave inside Rome, it is smaller than many city parks.Why?
The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from which country?
Answer: Morocco At its narrowest the crossing is only about fourteen kilometres.
Which African country is completely surrounded by South Africa?
Answer: Lesotho Its entire territory sits above 1,400 metres, the highest low point of any country.Why?
Which sea is the saltiest body of water listed here?
Answer: Dead Sea Its salinity makes swimmers float, and almost nothing lives in it.Why?
The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of which Australian state?
Answer: Queensland It is made of thousands of individual reefs and hundreds of islands.
Istanbul straddles the boundary between which two continents?
Answer: Europe and Asia The Bosphorus strait forms the dividing line through the city.
Which country has Wellington as its capital?
Answer: New Zealand It sits at the southern tip of the North Island and is famously windy.Why?
The Ural Mountains are the traditional dividing line between Europe and which continent?
Answer: Asia The range runs roughly north to south through western Russia.
Which South American country has coastline on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: Colombia Panama also has both coasts, but it is counted as Central America.Why?
Which country is sometimes called the Land of a Thousand Lakes?
Answer: Finland Its glacial landscape actually holds well over a hundred thousand lakes.Why?
The Atacama Desert lies mainly in which country?
Answer: Chile Some weather stations there have never recorded rainfall.
Which small country sits in the Pyrenees between France and Spain?
Answer: Andorra Its heads of state are the French president and a Spanish bishop, jointly.
The Danube empties into which sea?
Answer: Black Sea Its delta on the Romanian coast is one of Europe's largest wetlands.
Which river forms much of the border between Germany and Poland?
Answer: Oder Together with the Neisse it has marked the frontier since 1945.
Which country has the only national flag that is not a rectangle?
Answer: Nepal It is made of two stacked triangles, or pennants, with a moon and a sun.
Which capital city stands where the Tagus river meets the Atlantic?
Answer: Lisbon The Tagus is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula.
Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia It is one of the few African countries never to have been colonised.
The temple complex of Angkor Wat is in which country?
Answer: Cambodia It appears on the national flag, the only building to do so.
Lake Victoria is shared by Uganda, Kenya and which other country?
Answer: Tanzania It is Africa's largest lake and the main reservoir of the White Nile.
Which strait separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand?
Answer: Cook Strait The ferry crossing between Wellington and Picton takes about three hours.
Which desert covers most of Botswana?
Answer: Kalahari Despite the name it gets enough rain to support grass and acacia, so it is often called a semi-desert.
Which country's flag shows a single red maple leaf?
Answer: Canada The design was adopted in 1965, replacing a flag that carried the British Union Jack.
The historic trading city of Timbuktu is in which country?
Answer: Mali It sits on the southern edge of the Sahara near the Niger river.
Which river flows through Baghdad?
Answer: Tigris The Euphrates runs roughly parallel to the west, and the two meet further south.
Which is the longest river in Europe?
Answer: Volga It runs entirely through Russia and drains into the Caspian Sea.
Which is the largest country in South America by area?
Answer: Brazil It takes up nearly half the continent and borders every other South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
Which island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei?
Answer: Borneo It is the only island in the world shared by three sovereign states.
Which capital city lies on the Vltava river?
Answer: Prague The Charles Bridge has carried people across the river there since the fourteenth century.
The ancient rock-cut city of Petra is in which country?
Answer: Jordan It was the capital of the Nabataean kingdom before Rome absorbed it.
Which island country lies off the south-east coast of Africa?
Answer: Madagascar It is the fourth-largest island in the world and most of its wildlife is found nowhere else.
Answer key
- Budapest
- Bolivia
- France
- Vatican City
- Morocco
- Lesotho
- Dead Sea
- Queensland
- Europe and Asia
- New Zealand
- Asia
- Colombia
- Finland
- Chile
- Andorra
- Black Sea
- Oder
- Nepal
- Lisbon
- Ethiopia
- Cambodia
- Tanzania
- Cook Strait
- Kalahari
- Canada
- Mali
- Tigris
- Volga
- Brazil
- Borneo
- Prague
- Jordan
- Madagascar
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