1. Which body of water, located between Saudi Arabia and Iran, has high salinity as a result of evaporation rates that exceed freshwater inflow?
2. Once a Belgian colony, what present-day country is the third-largest in Africa and has experienced terrible civil war and poverty?
3. Java, one of the world’s most densely populated islands, includes the city of Jakarta. This city is the capital of which country?
4. In 1992, the Council of the Baltic Sea States was founded to promote regional cooperation. Name the member country whose capital is Riga.
5. One of the largest boiling lakes in the world is located on Dominica, an island country bordered to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and to the west by what other body of water?
6. Odense is the third-largest city in which northern European country bordering Germany?
7. The modernization of this East Asian country began with the end of the shogunate system of government and the onset of the Meiji Restoration. Name this country.
8. After 1960, the Brazilian government encouraged migration into the country’s sparsely populated interior in conjunction with the creation of what new capital city?
9. The Ore Mountains are an important industrial center for manufacturing machinery and chemicals along the border of Germany and what neighboring country to the southeast?
10. Remnants of Celtic monuments can still be found on the Dingle Peninsula located in which European country?
ANSWERS: 1. Persian Gulf 2. Democratic Republic of the Congo 3. Indonesia 4. Latvia 5. Caribbean Sea 6. Denmark 7. Japan 8. Brasília 9. Czech Republic 10. Ireland
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
