Geography Quiz #252
Geography Quiz for 10 November 2013
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Q1.
What country in North Africa, bordered by Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco and the Mediterranean Sea, is the largest country on the Mediterranean, on the African continent and in the Arab world?
Note: This question was updated in October 2017
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Q2.
The national flag of which country features a map of it in a copper-yellow colour, symbolising large deposits of copper ore, with, to symbolise peace, two olive branches below on white?
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Q3.
What is the capital of Sudan?
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Q4.
In 1993, Eritrea became independent from which country?
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Q5.
Which river begins in the Rocky Mountains in south-west Colorado, crosses New Mexico and forms the border between Mexico and the USA before reaching the Gulf of Mexico?
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Q6.
Where is 0 degrees latitude and 180 degrees longitude?
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Among the islands that make up Kiribati
B
The Canary Islands, due west of Morocco
C
In the Atlantic Ocean, 20 degrees west of Lisbon, Portugal
D
Wrangel Island, Russia, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea
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Q7.
What strait is between the Russian island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of HokkaidÅ?
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