1. Conejo Island, a small island in the Gulf of Fonseca, is the subject of a dispute between Honduras and its smallest neighbor. Name this country.
2. Many years of drought conditions and water overuse along the Amu Darya have led to conflicts over water rights between Uzbekistan and which other country that shares the lower reaches of the river?
3. The Polisario Front, a group working toward independence for Western Sahara, is participating in U.N.-supported talks with what country that currently administers most of Western Sahara?
4. Which country has recently reactivated its claim to the Atacama Corridor that it lost to Chile in 1884 after the War of the Pacific?
5. The sovereignty of Hans Island, located in the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland, is disputed by Canada and which European country?
6. Though a cease-fire was signed in 1992, Russian troops remain in Transdniestria as a show of support in the territory’s struggle for independence from which European country?
7. Based on the island of Mindanao, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is a separatist group that has been seeking autonomy from which country since 1977?
8. Due to the presence of oil and gas fields in the Black Sea, Zmiyinyy Island, located in the northwestern Black Sea, is the subject of an ongoing dispute between Ukraine and which other country?
9. The border between Turkey and Armenia remains closed because of the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave surrounded by what country?
10. Guatemala claims much of the southern part of a neighboring country based on treaties made between Spain and the United Kingdom during their colonial control of the region. Name this neighboring country.
ANSWERS: 1. El Salvador 2. Turkmenistan 3. Morocco 4. Bolivia 5. Denmark 6. Moldova 7. Philippines 8. Romania 9. Azerbaijan 10. Belize National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
