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(Capital: Phnom Penh?

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Cambodia

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(Capital: Vientiane

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Laos

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Scarborough Shoal

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South China sea

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Nine-dash lines given by?
A. UNCLOS
B. Taiwan
C. Philippines
D. China

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D

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Spratly Islands, Paracel Islands

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South China Sea

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Pratas Island, Natuna Islands,

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South China Sea

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Capital: Damascus?

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Syria

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Syria land boarder ?
does it open to Mediterranean sea ?

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Land Borders:
o Turkey (north), Iraq (east and
southeast), Jordan (south),
Lebanon and Israel (southwest)

Water Bodies: Mediterranean Sea

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(Capital: Yerevan

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Armenia

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Armenia land boarder

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Azerbaijan, Nagorno-
Karabakh Republic (a disputed territory),
Turkey, Nakhchivan Autonomous
Republic (an exclave of Azerbaijan),
Georgia, and Iran

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(Capital: Manama)

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Bahrain

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Bahrian Land Borders:

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Qatar and Saudi Arabia

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land boarder of IRAN

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Land Borders: Azerbaijan, Armenia,
Turkmenistan, and Caspian Sea (north),
Pakistan and Afghanistan (east), Turkey
and Iraq (west).

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Capital: Doha

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Qatar

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Qatar land border

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Land Borders: Saudi Arabia, UAE and
Bahrain

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Lebanon is boarder by

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syria and Israel

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Turkey land border

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Land Borders: Georgia and Armenia
(northeast), Azerbaijan and Iran (east),
Iraq and Syria (southeast), and by
Greece and Bulgaria (northwest)

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Artsakh is ?

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Nagarbo-karabak region is what is called by Armenia

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red sea Boundary countries are
Israel’s only Red Sea coast is at ____________

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Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan,
Eritrea and Djibout, Israel , jordon

Eilat

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Duqm Port in ?

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Oman

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Panama boarders with

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Costa Rica and Columbia

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Capital: Paramaribo

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Suriname (

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highest civilian honour of
___________ ‘Grand Order of the Chain of
the Yellow Star was conferred to indian president

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Suriname

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Suriname boarders with

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French Guiana (east),
Brazil (south), and Guyana (west).

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Capital: Havana
Cuba (
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(Capital: Belmopan
Belize
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(Capital: Quito
Ecuador Galapagos Islands come under its jurisdiction.
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Capital: Port of Spain
Trinidad and Tobago (
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Gulf of Paria. b/w?
venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago
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(Capital: Georgetown
Guyana
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Esequibo river flows b/w?
Venezuela and Guyana
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Capital: Caracas
Venezuela
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__________ is Home to Lake Maracaibo (largest lake in South America).
Venezuela
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Cocos islands are external territory of __________
Australia
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Capital: Honiara
Solomon Islands (
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Capital: Majuro
Marshall Islands (
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the Ratak (Sunrise) group and the Ralik (Sunset) group is at
Marshall Islands
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Capital: Suva
Fiji (Tropic of Capricorn passes through it.)
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Koro Sea is near
FIJI
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(Capital: Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
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(Capital: Dili)
Timor-Leste
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Land Boarder around Italy .
Land borders: France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia
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Capital: Port-Vila
Vanuatu (Australia(east Melanesian archipelago
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water bodies around Italy
Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea (northeast), Ionian Sea (southeast), Tyrrhenian Sea (southwest), and Ligurian Sea (northwest)
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(Capital: Valletta
Malta
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Capital: Ljubljana)
Slovenia (
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countries surrounding Adriatic Sea are:
Italy Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Albania Slovenia
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Capital: Vilnius)
Lithuania (
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land boarder with Lithuania
Latvia(north), Belarus(east and south), Poland and the detached Russian oblast of Kaliningrad (southwest). o It also shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west
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Baltic states
Lithuania , Estonia, and Latvia
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countries bordering Baltic Sea are:
Denmark Estonia Finland Germany Latvia Lithuania Poland Russia Sweden
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Capital: Nicosia
Cyprus
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four UNESCO world heritage sites: Skara Brae, Ring of Brodgar, Standing Stones of Stenness, and Maeshowe chambered tomb Are in?
Orkney Islands north of Scotland
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SAHEL REGION countries
Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea
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Countries bordering Tanzania
Uganda, and Kenya (north), Mozambique and Zambia (south and southwest), and Burundi, and Rwanda (west), Malawi
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Lake Nyasa b/w
Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi
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Lake Tanganyika b/w
Tanzania, DR of Conga, Zambia and Burundi
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Lake Rukwa is in
Tanzania
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(Capital: Dodoma)
Tanzania IIT Madras establishes first international campus in Tanzania's Zanzibar
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(Capital: Dakar
Senegal boarder - Mali (east); Guinea and Guinea-Bissau (south
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Capital: Moroni
Comoros (
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Capital: Addis Ababa
Ethiopia (Landlocked country on Horn of Africa)
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boardering countries of Ethiopia
Eritrea (north), Djibouti (northeast), Somalia (east), Kenya (south), South Sudan and Sudan (west
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(Capital: Abuja
Nigeria Giant of Africa.
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boardering states
Niger (north), Chad and Cameroon (east), Benin (west).
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Capital: Bamako
Mali ( Algeria (north), Niger and Burkina Faso (east), Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea (south), and Senegal and Mauritania
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Capital: Maputo
Mozambique bordering with Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
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Capital: Khartoum
Sudan (
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countries bordering SUDAN
Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea
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Capital: Niamey
Niger (
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(Capital: Lilongwe
Malawi Parliamentary delegation from Malawi is visited India Land borders: Tanzania (north), Lake Malawi (east), Mozambique (east and south), and Zambia (west) Lake Malawi (aka Lake Nyasa in Tanzania) (largest), Lake Chilwa
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Capital: Tripoli
Libya (Ghibli - a hot arid wind blows from south over entire country.)
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Land bordering Libya
Egypt (east), Sudan (southeast), Niger and Chad (south), and Tunisia and Algeria
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capital-Libreville
Gabon Gabon military officers declare coup after president wins disputed election
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countries bordering Gabon
Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and the Republic of the Congo
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___________Capital: Ouagadougou) * *
Burkina Faso(Context: Burkina Faso orders the French embassy's defense attache to leave.) Land borders: Mali(north and west), Niger(northeast), Benin(southeast), and Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo(south
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(Capital: Lusaka
Zambia
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Capital: Porto-Novo
Benin ( Burkina Faso (northwest), Nigeria (east), Togo (west), Niger (North).
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(Capital: Kampala
Uganda South Sudan (north), Kenya (east), Tanzania and Rwanda (south), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (west).
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Lake Kariba, located on border between ________ and _______, is the world's largest man-made lake by volume
Zambia Zimbabwe
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Galkynysh gas field
Turkmenistan (
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Uthuru Thilafalhu (UTF) atoll ?
(located near the capital Male) Maldives
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Land Borders of Israel
o Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt
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Sea of Galilee
in Israel b/w Golan heights
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countries surrounding Black sea
Russia, Gorgia, Turkey, greece, Bulgaria, romania, Ukraine
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countries surrounding the North Sea are:
Norway - to the west Denmark - to the south Germany - to the east The Netherlands - to the east Belgium - to the east France - to the east United Kingdom (England and Scotland) - to the west
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Mekong Delta, the river flows through six countries: ______________
China, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam
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The Amazon River passes through 4 countries ____________
Brazil, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela
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Volga flows through ________
Only Russia

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