Geography Flashcards by D C

forest in Nottinghamshire

Sherwood Forest

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remotest island in South Atlantic

Tristan da Cunha

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Three parts of Oceania

Micronesia in northwest half, Melanesia in southwest half (incl. New Guinea), Polynesia eastern half (incl New Zealand at bottom, Hawaii at top, Easter Island in east)

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Capital of Romania

Bucharest

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Capital of Moldova

Chisinau

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Southern tip of South America

Cape Horn

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Russian Island between East Siberian and Chukchi Seas

Wrangel Island

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bay off Miami

Biscayne Bay

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Capital of Senegal

Dakar

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Capital of Montana

Helena

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Capital of Austria

Vienna

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the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea, lying between the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa

Alboran Sea

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Aegean-Azov sequence

Aegean Sea-Dardanelles-Sea of Marmara-Bosphorus-Black Sea-Sea of Azov

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Joint Base Langley-Eustis location

Virginia

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London’s obelisk

Cleopatra’s Needle

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Capital of Indiana

Indianapolis

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Capital of Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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mountain range within the southern Negev in southern Israel

Eilat Mountains

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central African river flowing west

Congo

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Second-largest island in Italy

Sardinia

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Mexican coast mountain ranges

Sierra Madre

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Capital of Namibia

Windhoek

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UK national art gallery

Tate Museum

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island chains southeast of India

Andaman and Nicobar

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Capital of Slovenia

Ljubljana

Capital of South Africa

Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)

Capital of Yemen

Sana'a

Capital of Ohio

Columbus

Dalai Lama palace for 300 years

Potala Palace

Capital of Liberia

Monrovia

Capital of Guatemala

Guatemala City

Collective name for Puget Sound, Juan de Fuca, Strait of Georgia

Salish Sea

Capital of North Korea

Pyongyang

inlet of Caribbean Sea connected with Lake Maracaibo

Gulf of Venezuela

Two rivers that merge to flow into Bay of Bengal

Ganges (west/south of Himalayas), Brahmaputra (north/east)

Sea east of Novaya Zemlya

Kara Sea

Capital of Uruguay

Montevideo

island where Napoleon died

St Helena

Body of water south of Marseilles

Gulf of Lyon

Capital of Oregon

Salem

Body of water between Sweden and Finland

Gulf of Bothnia

Island off southern Alaska

Kodiak

Wisconsin lake near Green Bay

Winnebago

Capital of Central African Republic

Bangui

Site of Virginia Company first landing

Cape Henry

body of water at southern end of Gulf of Mexico

Bay of Campeche

Island invaded by US after 1983 coup

Grenada

Strait between Marmara and Black Sea

Bosporus

range running from Colorado into New Mexico

Sangre de Cristo

Capital of Michigan

Lansing

Capital of Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur

Confederate military prison in Georgia

Andersonville

Capital of Delaware

Dover

Oxford Museum

Ashmolean

Capital of Argentina

Buenos Aires

Capital of Japan

Tokyo

Capital of Czech Republic

Prague

Capital of Grenada

St. George's

Capital of Nunavut

Iqaluit, ee-KAL-oo-it

Body of water between Australia and New Guinea

Arafura Sea

Capital of Andorra

Andorra la Vella

Official name of St Kitts and Nevis

Federation of St Christopher and Nevis

Moscow park

Gorky Park

Capital of Iowa

Des Moines

Third-largest Indonesian island

Sulawesi (Celebes)

island shared by Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei

Borneo

Capital of Syria

Damascus

France-Belgium-NL rivers

Meuse (larger), Scheldt

Designer of Guggenheim

Frank Lloyd Wright

Mexico City park

Chapultepec

Capital of Belarus

Minsk

Capital of Kentucky

Frankfort

13th century French cathedral

Chartres

the highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains.

Mt. Elbrus

Capital of Vanuatu

Port Vila

Capital of Illinois

Springfield

small mountains in SE Pennsylvania

Poconos

highest falls in North America

Bridalveil in Yosemite

Arrangement of Australian provinces with major cities

Western Australia (Perth) = west third, then middle third is Northern Territory (Darwin) in the north and South Australia (Adelaide) in the South, then eastern third North to South is Queensland (Brisbane/Cairns), New South Wales (Sydney/Canberra), Victoria (Melbourne), Tasmania (Hobart)

islands of west coast of Scotland

Hebrides

main national park in South Africa

Kruger

Capital of Connecticut

Hartford

Capital of Eritrea

Asmara

Capital of Algeria

Algiers

Capital of British Columbia

Victoria

Aztec city north of Mexico City

Teotihuacan

Largest city in Tierra Del Fuego

Ushuaia

Capital of Togo

Lomé

Body of water between Cape Cod and Nova Scotia

Gulf of Maine

Capital of Uganda

Kampala

runs between Vancouver Island and BC

Strait of Georgia

Norwegian archipelago east of Greenland

Svalbard

body of water in curve of West Africa

Gulf of Guinea

Capital of South Korea

Seoul

mountain range between Caspian and Black Seas

Caucasus

Formerly Place de la Revolution

Place de la Concorde

Coastal northwest Africa

Maghreb

Capital of Wyoming

Cheyenne

Capital of Nigeria

Abuja

Large Chinese island east of Vietnam

Hainan

Fort Necessity is in which state

Pennsylvania

Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall location

Virginia

Capital of Bangladesh

Dhaka

main river of Venezuela

Orinoco

Capital of Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar

Aztec city at center of Mexico City

Tenochtitlan

Capital of Vietnam

Hanoi

Russian palace in response to Versailles

Peterhof, St. Petersburg

Body of water between northwest Canadian islands and mainland

Amundsen Gulf

national park islands off Florida Keys

Dry Tortugas

location of Leyte Gulf

Philippine Sea

spine of Italy

Appenines

US Coast Guard Academy is in

New London

Capital of Louisiana

Baton Rouge

island in the Irish Sea

Isle of Man

Formosa

Taiwan

mountains where Russia/Mongolia/China converge

Altai

Capital of Mississippi

Jackson

FDR's NY home

Hyde Park

Capital of Poland

Warsaw

Bodies of water between Philippines and Indonesia

Sulu Sea (north), Celebes Sea (south)

island country off Arabia

Bahrain

Capital of Utah

Salt Lake City

Northern Spain/Portugal river

Douro

Capital of Republic of Georgia

Tbilisi

Former capital of Myanmar

Yangon

Sea between Greece and Turkey

Aegean Sea

desert in southern Israel

Negev

Hong Kong mainland peninsula

Kowloon

Capital of Nicaragua

Managua

Capital of New Hampshire

Concord

NYC mayor residence

Gracie Mansion

Antarctica volcano

Mt. Erebus

cities on Rio de la Plata

Buenos Aires (SW) and Montevideo (NE)

bay off mid-Wales

Cardigan Bay

Official name of Venezuela

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Antarctica highest peak

Vinson Massif

mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas that stretches from central Afghanistan into far northern Pakistan

Hindu Kush

treeless, grassy subtropical plain

savannah

River of Pakistan

Indus

Office name of North Korea

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

body of water near Edinburgh

Firth of Forth

Capital of Republic of Congo

Brazzaville

Capital of Colorado

Denver

Small sea south of Black Sea

Sea of Marmara

DC presidential guest house

Blair House

US Virgin Islands islands

Saint Croix, Saint John, Saint Thomas

desert in SW Africa

Namib

Canadian north islands are part of which territory

Nunavut (and a bit of NWT)

Big Nile dam

Aswan

Full name of Egypt

Arab Republic of Egypt

Capital of UK

London

Canada's highest mountain

Logan

body of water between Canadian islands and Greenland

Baffin Bay

Capital of Libya

Tripoli

language spoken in Maharashtra and Goa states of Western India

Marathi

Capital of China

Beijing

island off Malaysia

Penang island

Siberian river originating in Mongolia

Yenisei

Capital of Cambodia

Phnom Penh

Capital of Quebec

Quebec City

Capital of Washington

Olympia

Capital of Chile

Santiago

Sea east of Taiwan

Philippine Sea

Capital of Switzerland

Bern

Britain's northernmost point

John O'Groats

island chain east of Spain

Balearic

Capital of Kyrgyzstan

Bishkek

island country SW of Sri Lanka

Maldives

Islands disputed by Russia and Japan

Kuril islands

Capital of Kazakhstan

Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana)

grassy plains in southern Africa

veldt

Lake Tanganyika is the border between

Tanzania and DRC

Capital of Arizona

Phoenix

Capital of Armenia

Yerevan

Official name of Switzerland

Swiss Confederation

Bay south of New Bedford, MA

Buzzards Bay

Capital of Isle of Man

Douglas

Joint Base Andrews location

Maryland

Capital of Kenya

Nairobi

Russian long islands between Barents and Kara Sea

Novaya Zemlya

wide grassy plain in Eurasia

Steppe

in the open ocean, rather than near land

pelagic zone

Largest city in New Brunswick

Moncton

largest tributary of Hudson River

Mohawk

Sea between south Greenland and Iceland

Irminger Sea

Moorish palace in Granada

Alhambra

US Antarctic research station

McMurdo Station (named for Royal Navy officer)

also known as a composite volcano, it is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra

stratovolcano

cape on the Mississippi River in Missouri

Cape Girardeau

site of WWII's largest Pacific battle

Leyte Gulf

a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar

shoal (sandbar)

Mackenzie River drains into

Beaufort Sea

Impressionist museums in Paris

Musee d'Orsay, Orangerie

Capital of Tennessee

Nashville

body of water leading to Houston Ship Canal

Galveston Bay

Capital of Germany

Berlin

Center of French Polynesia

Tahiti

Virginia swamp

Dismal Swamp

Capital of Oklahoma

Oklahoma City

spectacularly narrow part of Danube, in Romania

Iron Gates

DC modern art museum

Hirshhorn

Official name of Luxembourg

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Indonesian language is a standardized variety of

Malay

bulb garden near Amsterdam

Keukenhof

northernmost point in US

Point Barrow, Alaska

Capital of Northwest Territories

Yellowknife

Pennsylvania steel town (not city)

Bethlehem

Capital of Ethiopia

Addis Ababa

Joint Base Lewis-McChord location

Washington State

Fort south of Lake Champlain

Ticonderoga

Capital of Bulgaria

Sofia

Capital of Alabama

Montgomery

River draining north Italy to the east

Eastern region of South Africa, incl Durban

Natal

Language of Ethiopia

Amharic

largest island of Russia

Sakhalin

Balearic Islands are

Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza (Formentera)

mountain range bisecting Russia

Ural

body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from northeast of Greenland to Svalbard.

Wandel Sea

Capital of East Timor

Dili

Capital of Iraq

Baghdad

southern tip of Baja California

Cabo San Lucas (cape)

Sea east of Korea

Sea of Japan

Canadian Northwest Territories bordered by

Yukon in the west and Nunavut in the East

barrier chain off North Carolina

Outer Banks

sea bounded by Kamchatka Peninsula

Sea of Othotsk

Fort Knox state

Kentucky

Basketball Hall of Fame is in

Springfield, MA

river through Hong Kong

Pearl River

Russian eastern peninsula

Kamchatka

Capital of Azerbaijan

Baku

Caribbean "Little Ireland"

Montserrat

Bodies of water at top of Red Sea east and west of Sinai

West; Gulf of Suez. East, Gulf of Aqaba.

French shrine where Bernadette had her vision

Lourdes

Capital of Pakistan

Islamabad

Capital of Minnesota

Saint Paul

Caribbean Islands also called

Anitlles

Massachusetts marine lab at

Woods Hole

Vanderbilt's Newport mansion

The Breakers

Headquarters building for KGB

Lubyanka

Location of Notre Dame in Paris

Ile de la Cite

Danish islands in north Atlantic

Faeroes

Capital of Mauritius

Port Louis

Capital of Guinea

Conakry

private NYC modern art museum

Whitney

South African mountains

Drakensbergs

river border between Russia and China

Amur

West Point location

Hudson River

mountain complex in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolian Plateau

Taurus Mountains

2 seas north of Alaska

Chukchi on the west (north of Bering Sea/Strait), Beaufort on the east

Mountain Range north of the Taklamakan

Tian Shan mountains

site of Statue of Liberty

Liberty Island

mountains between France and Spain

Pyrenees

easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea

Levantine Sea

Body of water between Spain and France

Bay of Biscay

Capital of Greenland

Nuuk

Richard Leakey worked near this lake

Lake Turkana

Capital of Singapore

Singapore

island of the Blue Grotto

Capri

Present-day Tunis

Carthage

Bay north of Alaska's Aleutian islands

Bristol Bay

Long river from Belarus through Ukraine

Dnieper

Capital of Antigua and Barbuda

St. John's

Capital of South Carolina

Columbia

Body of water where El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua meet the Pacific

Gulf of Fonseca

Capital of Puerto Rico

San Juan

park in San Diego

Balboa Park

Capital of Seychelles

Victoria

Capital of Saskatchewan

Regina

Capital of Australia

Canberra

Capital of Kansas

Topeka

Golden Horn

Istanbul's bay and harbor

largest lake entirely in Canada

Great Bear Lake

mountain range at a junction with Tian Shan, Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Himalaya

Pamir Mountains

Lake Baikal is part of which river

Yenisei

Capital of Rhode Island

Providence

Capital of Massachusetts

Boston

Capital of Jordan

Amman

Capital of Maldives

Malé

Full name of Afghanistan

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Lena River drains into

Laptev Sea

The "Hot Gates" in Greece

Thermopylae

sacred stone in Mecca's mosque

Ka'aba

Capital of Cayman Islands

George Town

Danube flows into

Black Sea

Munich square

Marienplatz

Capital of Kiribati

South Tarawa

Russian island north of Japan

Sakhalin

New name for Swaziland

Eswatini

Body of water between Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea

Gulf of Oman

language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Telugu

Capital of Sudan

Khartoum

Full name of Jordan

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

archipelago off northern Russia east of Svalbard

Franz Josef land

island off Yucatan

Cozumel

western Massachusetts mountains

Berkshires

mountain range north of Alps between France and Switzerland

Jura Mountains

Capital of Turkey

Ankara

relating to bank of a river, pond, lake

riparian

Founder of LA Chinese Theater

Grauman

largest Canadian island

Baffin

NY prison, site of riot

Attica

central African river flowing east

Zambezi

Hampton Roads VA is on this River

James

Capital of Haiti

Port-au-Prince

Capital of Brazil

Brasilia

Language of southeastern Nigeria

Igbo

Sea connected to north Black Sea

Sea of Azov

Venice square

Piazza San Marco

Capital of North Dakota

Bismarck

military island in Indian Ocean

Diego Garcia (UK)

Body of water between China, Vietnam, Philippines

South China Sea

water between Italy and Sicily

Strait of Messina

resort island off South Carolina

Hilton Head

island nation off Gabon

Sao Tome and Principe

Capital of New York

Albany

island shared by Haiti and DR

Hispaniola

Joint Base Charleston location

South Carolina

Capital of Bhutan

Thimphu

Sea north of Corsica

Ligurian Sea

Capital of Italy

Rome

body of water south of Sydney

Botany Bay

military college on Hudson River

West Point

Language of southwestern Nigeria

Yoruba

Capital of Maine

Augusta

Capital of Thailand

Bangkok

Capital of Dominica

Roseau

Body of water between Sulawesi and Papua

Banda Sea

Capital of Bermuda

Hamilton

River through Madrid

Manzanares

body of water in the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya

Gulf of Sidra

Water between northern Ellesmere Island and Greenland

Lincoln Sea

Capital of Ukraine

Kiev

Lake Titicaca on border between Peru and

Bolivia

Capital of Vermont

Montpelier

stand of sequoia in Yosemite

Mariposa Grove

Sea between southern Italy and Greece

Ionian

term for falling tide

ebb tide

Capital of Zimbabwe

Harare

New Mexico cave system

Carlsbad Caverns

River from Ukraine/Russia to Sea of Azov

Don

Capital of Yukon Territory

Whitehorse

Capital of Bolivia

La Paz

Original name for Liberty Island NYC

Bedloe's Island

River through Canada and Alaska

Yukon

The southernmost point of Alaska is on this island, as well as the westernmost longitude of Alaska, the United States, and North America.

Amatignak Island

The Hague museum

Mauritshuis

southern arm of Hudson Bay

James Bay

Capital of Idaho

Boise

US Red Rivers

South (Mississippi), North (ND)

Capital of Hungary

Budapest

Sea south of Korea

East China Sea

Balboa Park city

San Diego

Egyptian statues rescued from dam

Abu Simbel

Capital of New Brunswick

Fredericton

Capital of Mozambique

Maputo

Coachella is part of CA's

Imperial Valley

runs between Vancouver Island and WA

Juan de Fuca strait

mountain range of Bulgaria and Serbia

Balkan Mountains

Capital of Cyprus

Nicosia

Capital of Saudi Arabia

Riyadh

Location of Alhambra

Granada

largest city in Quebec

Montreal

Capital of Venezuela

Caracas

Capital of DRC

Kinshasa

deserts in Mexico and US SW

Chihuahuan, Sonoran

Capital of Cameroon

Yaounde

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst location

New Jersey

peninsula in eastern Quebec

Gaspe

NW-central Canadian river to Arctic

Mackenzie

northernmost Canadian island

Ellesmere

Main river of Myanmar

Irawaddy

Italian island where migrants land

Lampedusa

Capital of California

Sacramento

Shakespeare library in DC

Folger

Capital of Benin

Porto-Novo

Paris basilica where French monarchs were buried

St. Denis

Capital of St. Vincent & Grenadines

Kingstown

Location of Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling

Washington DC

Capital of Ireland

Dublin

Capital of Niger

Niamey

Baseball Hall of Fame in

Cooperstown, NY

Strait between Aegean Sea and Sea of Marmara

Dardanelles

Bay at Rio de Janeiro

Guanamara Bay

Capital of Nepal

Kathmandu

Capital of Botswana

Gaborone

Capital of Greece

Athens

Capital of Sri Lanka

Colombo

large lake near St Petersburg

Ladoga

main island of Japan

Honshu

Sea between Italy and Corsica/Sardinia

Tyrrhenian Sea

volcano formed Crater Lake

Mazama

Capital of Finland

Helsinki

Portuguese wine-making island

Madeira

Capital of Sierra Leone

Freetown

main southern island of Japan

Kyushu

Capital of Peru

Lima

French name for New Orleans French Quarter

Vieux Carre

Office name of Laos

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Capital of New Zealand

Wellington

tidal island commune off Normandy

Mont St. Michel

Oxford Library

Bodleian

Capital of Spain

Madrid

Kentucky cave system

Mammoth Cave

connects Lake Huron and Superior

Soo Locks

Capital of Iran

Tehran

Santa Catalina island was owned and developed by

Wrigley

Name of Dead Sea Scrolls caves

Qumran Caves

Teddy Roosevelt’s mansion Long Island

Sagamore Hill

religious center off of Cornwal

St. Michael's Mount

river through Warsaw

Vistula

Capital of Nova Scotia

Halifax

mountain range that is the north side of the Tibetan plateau

Kunlun mountains

ancestral people of Japan

Ainu

Monument in Trafalgar Square

Nelson's Column

Location of Iqaluit

Baffin Island, Nunavut

language spoken in Punjab region

Punjabi

Capital of Trinidad and Tobago

Port of Spain

body of water between Myanmar and Sumatra

Andaman Sea

Capital of Djibouti

Djibouti

Capital of Nebraska

Lincoln

Capital of UAE

Abu Dhabi

Capital of Virginia

Richmond

British resort islands south of Bahamas

Turks and Caicos

George Washington home

Mount Vernon

Capital of Portugal

Lisbon

Indiana river

Wabash

seat of Church of England's primate

Canterbury

Scottish mountains south of Northern Highlands

Grampian

Capital of Wisconsin

Madison

island in Solomons retaken by allies in WWII

Guadalcanal

main national park in Tanzania

Arusha

Capital of Florida

Tallahassee

highest-elevation major lake

Titicaca

Capital of Morocco

Rabat

Rome's greatest temple, later a church

Pantheon

Capital of New Jersey

Trenton

island at the mouth of the St Lawrence

Anticosti

finger-shaped inlet from the sea

firth or fjord

ring-shaped coral reef

atoll

Capital of Slovakia

Bratislava

wildlife park near Kilimanjaro

Amboseli

language spoken in Sri Lanka

Tamil

Nebraska river

Platte

country in Pyrenees

Andorra

Venetian craft island

Murano

Body of water between Red Sea and Arabian Sea

Gulf of Aden

Strait known as the Hellespont

Dardanelles

wide grassy plain, esp. in South America

pampas

islands further off northern tip of Scotland

Shetland

Capital of Laos

Vientiane

Body of water between Madagascar and mainland

Mozambique Strait

Capital of Kosovo

Pristina

Capital of France

Paris

London gardens west of Hyde park

Kensington Gardens

Capital of Sweden

Stockholm

Body of water east of Valencia and Barcelona

Balearic Sea

Capital of Zambia

Lusaka

Lake Malawi separates Malawi from

Tanzania (north) and Mozambique (south)

Balkan republic renamed in 2018

North Macedonia

Body of water north of Java and south of Borneo

Java Sea

low-lying coniferous area in NJ

Pine Barrens

Sea west of Novaya Zemlya

Barents Sea

Rio de la Plata tributaries

Parana and Uruguay rivers

London Wren-designed church

St. Paul's

River from Belarus through LIthuania

Neman

Israel's Holocaust archives

Yad Vashem

Big lake near Concord NH

Lake Winnepesaukee

most prominent Roman hill

Palatine

highest peak in Hawaii

Mauna Kea

Capital of West Virginia

Charleston

Official name of Uruguay

Oriental Republic of Uruguay

largest component of Mississippi Delta from river offshot

Atchafalaya Basin

Revere church in Boston

Old North Church

Legislative capital of Chile

Valparaiso

Capital of Alberta

Edmonton

River through Kolkata

Hooghly

desert in southern Africa

Kalahari

Capital of Madagascar

Antananarivo

Prague river

Moldau (Vltava)

central valley of southern CA

Imperial Valley

Capital of Lebanon

Beirut

Capital of Netherlands

Amsterdam (official, govt at Hague)

Dutch National Museum

Rijksmuseum

largest island in Indonesia

Sumatra

body of water between Baja and mainland Mexico

Gulf of California

deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores

spit

group or chain of islands

archipelago

Mountains of Armenia/Georgia

Caucasus

Capital of Alaska

Juneau

Capital of Samoa

Apia

Capital of Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou

Volga flows into

Caspian Sea

desert in western China

Taklamakan

Body of water separating NZ islands

Cook Strait

Largest island in Italy

Sicily

Capital of Belgium

Brussels

Main Square in Mexico City

Zocalo

Capital of Malta

Valletta

Body of water between Sri Lanka and Maldives

Laccadive Sea

Capital of Iceland

Reykjavik

Capital of Mauritania

Nouakchott

shore or coast zone

littoral zone

site of the only World War II land battle fought in the United States and its Territories

The Battle of Attu Island, Alaska

Daniel Boone route through the Appalachians

Cumberland Gap

Capital of Gambia

Banjul

Capital of Papua New Guinea

Port Moresby

Capital of Montenegro

Podgorica

Capital of Bahrain

Manama

neck of land connecting two larger land masses

isthmus

Capital of Norway

Oslo

Capital of Tajikistan

Dushanbe

New Hampshire birthplace of World Bank

Bretton Woods

Aruba is in the Kingdom of

Netherlands

first US National Monument

Devils Tower

Capital of US Virgin Islands

Charlotte Amalie

Body of water east of Papua New Guinea

Solomon Sea

Capital of Croatia

Zagreb

Capital of Ghana

Accra

disputed regions of South Georgia

Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Largest city in Pakistan

Karachi

Capital of Estonia

Tallinn

main square in Berlin

Alexanderplatz

royal residence in Edinburgh

Holyroodhouse

Official name of Micronesia

Federated States of Micronesia

Big lake in northern Alberta/Saskatchewan

Lake Athabasca

Capital of Serbia

Belgrade

Former US base on Baffin Island

Frobisher Bay

Capital of Jamaica

Kingston

Capital of Bosnia

Sarajevo

concave bend or curvature in a coastline, river or other geographical feature, or very open bay

Bight

Antilles SE of Puerto Rico divided into

Leeward (north) and Windward (south)

Capital of Taiwan

Taipei

massive Egyptian temple near Luxor

Karnak

World's longest lake

Tanganyika

Lake in caldera on Sumatra

Toba

Capital of Gabon

Libreville

Dutch ABC islands

Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao

large populated island off England's southern coast

Isle of Wight

Capital of North Macedonia

Skopje

Founder of Detroit

Cadillac

Official name of Greece

Hellenic Republic

old European name for Manchuria/Siberia

Tartary

narrows of the English Channel

Dover Strait

Roman site of chariot races

Circus Maximus

estuary next to Buenos Aires

Rio de la Plata

river in northern South Africa

Limpopo

Capital of Afghanistan

Kabul

Capital of Lithuania

Vilnius

Capital of Indonesia

Jakarta

area at the foot of a mountain

piedmont

Largest island in France

Corsica

places on opposite sides of the earth

antipodes

citadel in Arabic architecture

kasbah

Prague's largest church

St. Vitus

River between North Korea and China

Yalu

Inlet of Barents Sea

White Sea

Siberian rivers west to east

OYL

Spanish national museum

Prado

Bay south of Rhode Island

Narragansett Bay

Mississippi's source

Lake Itaska

large lake in Venezuela

Maracaibo

Capital of Mexico

Mexico City

Capital of South Dakota

Pierre

main wildlife reserve in Kenya

Masai Mara

Capital of Ontario

Toronto

mountain range arcing across Eastern Europe

Carpathian

Capital of South Sudan

Juba

Capital of Ivory Coast

Yamoussoukro

Capital of Chad

N'Djamena

a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water

head or headland

Capital of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown

St. Petersburg art museum

Hermitage

Capital of Somalia

Mogadishu

where Noah's ark came to rest

Mt. Ararat

2nd highest peak in Americas, in Ecuador

Chimborazo

Capital of Oman

Muscat

Capital of Uzbekistan

Tashkent

Paris Cemetery

Pere lachaise

Capital of Nevada

Carson City

River originating in Baikal mountains

Lena

plateau in southern France

Massif Central

county house of Spencer-Churchill Family

Blenheim Castle

Capital of Israel

Jerusalem

Chinese city directly north of Hong Kong

Shenzhen

Capital of Qatar

Doha

Capital of Honduras

Tegucigalpa

desert in Northern Chile

Atacama

Italy Alpine peaks

Dolomites

Capital of Georgia

Atlanta

cathedral that is the symbol of Florence

Duomo

islands just off northern tip of Scotland

Orkney

Capital of Maryland

Annapolis

Main river in British Columbia

Fraser

Russian territory east of north Finland

Kola peninsula

Capital of San Marino

San Marino

Capital of Egypt

Cairo

Capital of Belize

Belmopan

Capital of Liechtenstein

Vaduz

New Zealand glow-worm caves

Waitomo

Capital of Ecuador

Quito

mountain pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan

Khyber Pass

Capital of Cuba

Havana

Capital of New Mexico

Santa Fe

Capital of North Carolina

Raleigh

Islands in Mozambique Channel

Comoros

Fort Benning state

Georgia

Capital of Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo

Body of water northeast of Papua New Guinea

Bismarck Sea

Land between Black Sea and Sea of Azov

Crimea

2nd longest river flowing through Poland

Oder

Capital of Tunisia

Tunis

separates Finland from Estonia

Gulf of Finland

land built up at the mouth of a river

delta

Capital of Manitoba

Winnipeg

River through Delhi

Yamuna (tributary of Ganges)

islands in Alexandria Bay in St. Lawrence River

Thousand Islands

highest mountain in Wales

Snowdon

Capital of Burundi

Bujumbura

Capital of Russia

Moscow

Official name of Oman

Sultanate of Oman

mountain range in Israel and the West Bank where Jerusalem and several other biblical cities are located

Judean Mountains

Jerusalem house of worship on the Temple Mount

Dome of the Rock

Capital of Colombia

Bogota

western tributaries of Hudson Bay

Churchill River and Nelson-(Lake Winnipeg)-Saskatchewan River

Body of water east of northern Australia

Coral Sea

Capital of Barbados

Bridgetown

mountain range spanning the borders of China, India, and Pakistan, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan; second highest mountain range in the world

Karakoram

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson location

Alaska

Significant inlet of Gulf of Maine

Penobscot Bay

Capital of India

New Delhi

"The Adobe of Peace"

Brunei

Capital of Costa Rica

San Jose

Capital of Latvia

Riga

Capital of Rwanda

Kigali

Capital of Mali

Bamako

Capital of Tanzania

Dar es Salaam

Capital of Malawi

Lilongwe

Language of northern Nigeria

Hausa

Capital of Angola

Luanda

Capital of Hawaii

Honolulu

US Air Force Academy is in

Colorado Springs

Body of water between Newfoundland and Greenland

Labrador Sea

Capital of Guyana

Georgetown

Capital of Paraguay

Asuncion

Capital of Denmark

Copenhagen

Body of water between East Timor and Darwin, Australia

Timor Sea

Capital of Bahamas

Nassau

Saint Martin island in Caribbean divided between

France and Netherlands

River through eastern Germany

Elbe

Capital of Arkansas

Little Rock

Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java - collectively

Greater Sunda Islands

River between Irawaddy and Mekong

Salween

2 bodies of water between Greenland/Iceland and Svalbard/Norway

Greenland Sea in the north, Norwegian Sea in the south

Body of water between Australia and New Zealand

Tasman Sea

Capital of Panama

Panama City

Winston Churchill's home in southern England

Chartwell

English abbey linked with Arthur

Glastonbury

Capital of Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John's

Russian port on Barents Sea

Murmansk

Denmark's largest island, including Copenhagen

Zeeland

River east of Lena, north of Sea of Okhotsk

Kolyma, drains to East Siberian Sea

rock-bound peninsula on the west coast of Galicia, Spain. In Roman times it was believed to be an end of the known world.

Cape Finisterre

mountain in Acadia NP

Cadillac

body of water between Egypt proper and Sinai

Gulf of Suez

Capital of Northern Mariana Islands

Saipan

Capital of El Salvador

San Salvador

garden near Jerusalem where Jesus was arrested

gethsemane

Capital of Philippines

Manila

Capital of Myanmar

Naypyidaw

desert in Mongolia and northern China

Gobi

Dublin's cathedral

St. Patrick's

Capital of Suriname

Paramaribo

main north Island of Japan

Hokkaido

Capital of Fiji

Suva

Highest capital in the world

La Paz

Capital of Texas

Austin

Capital of Turkmenistan

Ashgabat

Sea west of Korea

Yellow Sea

Capital of Albania

Tirana

US Naval Academy is in

Annapolis

Chinese city inland from Hong Kong

Guangzhou (Canton)

Capital of Pennsylvania

Harrisburg

Two languages of Afghanistan

Dari (Farsi) and Pashto

Body of water west of Cornwall and Wales

Celtic Sea

Capital of Kuwait

Kuwait City

Island Mumbai is on

Salsette Island

Desert covering 70% of Turkmenistan

Karakum Desert

body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica

Drake Passage

Tahiti and Bora Bora are part of

Society Islands (which are part of French Polynesia)

Narrowest point between Australia and New Guinea

Torres Strait

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