50 Geography Trivia Questions and Answers

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  1. What is the capital of France?
    Answer: Paris
  2. What is the capital of Japan?
    Answer: Tokyo
  3. What is the capital of Australia?
    Answer: Canberra
  4. What is the capital of Canada?
    Answer: Ottawa
  5. What is the capital of Egypt?
    Answer: Cairo
  6. What is the capital of Brazil?
    Answer: Brasília
  7. What is the capital of Spain?
    Answer: Madrid
  8. What is the capital of Germany?
    Answer: Berlin
  9. What is the capital of Turkey?
    Answer: Ankara
  10. What is the capital of New Zealand?
    Answer: Wellington
  11. Which city is the legislative capital of South Africa, home to its Parliament?
    Answer: Cape Town
  12. What is the capital of Argentina?
    Answer: Buenos Aires
  13. What is the capital of Greece?
    Answer: Athens
  14. What is the capital of Norway?
    Answer: Oslo
  15. What is the capital of Kenya?
    Answer: Nairobi
  16. What is the longest river in the world?
    Answer: Nile
  17. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon?
    Answer: Colorado River
  18. Which river flows through London?
    Answer: Thames
  19. Which river flows through Paris?
    Answer: Seine
  20. Which river flows through Cairo and into the Mediterranean Sea?
    Answer: Nile
  21. Which South American river carries the most water of any river on Earth?
    Answer: Amazon
  22. What is the highest mountain in the world above sea level?
    Answer: Mount Everest
  23. On which continent is Mount Kilimanjaro located?
    Answer: Africa
  24. Which mountain range separates Europe from Asia?
    Answer: Ural Mountains
  25. In which mountain range would you find the Matterhorn?
    Answer: Alps
  26. Which is the longest mountain range in the world?
    Answer: Andes
  27. What is the largest hot desert in the world?
    Answer: Sahara
  28. On which continent is the Gobi Desert located?
    Answer: Asia
  29. Which desert covers much of southern Africa across Botswana and Namibia?
    Answer: Kalahari
  30. Which is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, located in Chile?
    Answer: Atacama Desert
  31. What is the largest ocean on Earth?
    Answer: Pacific Ocean
  32. What is the smallest of the world's five oceans?
    Answer: Arctic Ocean
  33. Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia?
    Answer: Indian Ocean
  34. Which ocean separates North America from Europe?
    Answer: Atlantic Ocean
  35. How many continents are there on Earth?
    Answer: Seven
  36. Which is the largest continent by area?
    Answer: Asia
  37. Which is the smallest continent by area?
    Answer: Australia
  38. Which is the largest country in South America by area?
    Answer: Brazil
  39. Which is the most populous country in the world as of the 2020s?
    Answer: India
  40. Which country has a maple leaf on its national flag?
    Answer: Canada
  41. The flag with a red circle on a white background belongs to which country?
    Answer: Japan
  42. Which country is shaped like a boot and has a flag of green, white and red?
    Answer: Italy
  43. Which country has the most natural lakes in the world?
    Answer: Canada
  44. Which country is entirely surrounded by South Africa?
    Answer: Lesotho
  45. In which country would you find the Eiffel Tower?
    Answer: France
  46. In which country is the Great Pyramid of Giza located?
    Answer: Egypt
  47. The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of which country?
    Answer: Australia
  48. In which country would you find the ancient city of Machu Picchu?
    Answer: Peru
  49. The Statue of Liberty stands in which city?
    Answer: New York City
  50. In which country would you find the Taj Mahal?
    Answer: India

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