Geography Trivia Questions and Answers
Geography trivia questions covering capitals, countries, rivers, mountains, and oceans, with plenty of the classic capital-city tricks thrown in. How well do you really know the world?
1 Question: What is the largest country by land area?
Answer: Russia
2 Question: What is the capital of Australia?
Answer: Canberra
3 Question: What is the tallest mountain in Africa?
Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro
4 Question: What is the largest ocean by area?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
5 Question: How many countries are in Africa?
Answer: 54
6 Question: What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
7 Question: What is the world's largest rainforest?
Answer: Amazon Rainforest
8 Question: What country has the longest coastline?
Answer: Canada
9 Question: What two continents are separated by the Ural Mountains?
Answer: Europe and Asia
10 Question: What country is home to the Great Barrier Reef?
Answer: Australia
11 Question: What is the name of the sea between Europe and North Africa?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
12 Question: What is the highest point in North America?
Answer: Denali
13 Question: What is the capital of Brazil?
Answer: Brasília
14 Question: What ocean lies between Africa and Australia?
Answer: Indian Ocean
15 Question: What is the name of the narrow land strip connecting North and South America?
Answer: Isthmus of Panama
16 Question: What is the capital of New Zealand?
Answer: Wellington
17 Question: What is the name of the deepest point in the world's oceans?
Answer: Challenger Deep
18 Question: What is the capital of Argentina?
Answer: Buenos Aires
19 Question: What river flows through Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Nile
20 Question: What is the capital of South Korea?
Answer: Seoul
21 Question: What country contains the Serengeti?
Answer: Tanzania
22 Question: What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
23 Question: What two countries make up the Iberian Peninsula?
Answer: Spain and Portugal
24 Question: What is the largest country in South America?
Answer: Brazil
25 Question: What is the capital of Egypt?
Answer: Cairo
26 Question: What mountain range separates Europe from Asia?
Answer: Ural Mountains
27 Question: What is the name of the world's longest mountain range?
Answer: The Andes
28 Question: What is the capital of Turkey?
Answer: Ankara
29 Question: What country has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
Answer: Italy
30 Question: What is the name of the largest lake in Africa?
Answer: Lake Victoria
31 Question: What ocean is the Bermuda Triangle located in?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
32 Question: What is the capital of Mexico?
Answer: Mexico City
33 Question: What country contains Mount Fuji?
Answer: Japan
34 Question: What is the name of the river that runs through London?
Answer: Thames
35 Question: What is the world's largest desert by total area?
Answer: Antarctic Desert
36 Question: What is the capital of India?
Answer: New Delhi
37 Question: What US state is the largest by land area?
Answer: Alaska
38 Question: What country shares the longest land border with the United States?
Answer: Canada
39 Question: What is the capital of Nigeria?
Answer: Abuja
40 Question: What is the world's largest lake by surface area?
Answer: Caspian Sea
41 Question: What is the capital of Pakistan?
Answer: Islamabad
42 Question: What river runs through Paris?
Answer: Seine
43 Question: What is the smallest US state by area?
Answer: Rhode Island
44 Question: What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Riyadh
45 Question: What African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia
46 Question: What is the name of the peninsula on which Spain and Portugal sit?
Answer: Iberian Peninsula
47 Question: What US state is nicknamed the 'Sunshine State'?
Answer: Florida
48 Question: What country has the world's largest population?
Answer: India
49 Question: What is the capital of South Africa's executive branch?
Answer: Pretoria
50 Question: What is the world's second-largest country by land area?
Answer: Canada
51 Question: What mountain range runs along the western edge of South America?
Answer: Andes
52 Question: What US state is the most densely populated?
Answer: New Jersey
53 Question: What country contains the ruins of the ancient city of Petra?
Answer: Jordan
54 Question: What is the capital of Sweden?
Answer: Stockholm
55 Question: What South American country is home to Machu Picchu?
Answer: Peru
56 Question: What is the name of the large island south of the Australian mainland?
Answer: Tasmania
57 Question: Which US state was the most recent to join the union?
Answer: Hawaii
58 Question: What is the capital of the Philippines?
Answer: Manila
59 Question: What is the largest country in Africa by land area?
Answer: Algeria
60 Question: What is the capital of Ukraine?
Answer: Kyiv
61 Question: What narrow body of water separates Europe from Asia at Istanbul?
Answer: Bosphorus Strait
62 Question: What US state is home to the Grand Canyon?
Answer: Arizona
63 Question: What country does the island of Greenland belong to?
Answer: Denmark
64 Question: What is the capital of Indonesia?
Answer: Jakarta
65 Question: How many US states border the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: Five
66 Question: What is the name of the largest island in the world?
Answer: Greenland
67 Question: What is the name of the world's highest navigable lake?
Answer: Lake Titicaca
68 Question: What is the capital of Morocco?
Answer: Rabat
69 Question: What is the name of the gulf that borders Texas, Louisiana, and Florida?
Answer: Gulf of Mexico
70 Question: What ocean lies to the east of the United States?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
71 Question: What is the name of the body of water between Japan and mainland Asia?
Answer: Sea of Japan
72 Question: What is the driest desert in the world?
Answer: Atacama Desert
73 Question: What US state contains the most active volcanoes?
Answer: Alaska
74 Question: What is the name of the sea between Greece and Turkey?
Answer: Aegean Sea
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