1. The canton of Jura, whose capital is Delemont, shares its name with a French department and a mountain range. Name the country where this canton can be found.
2.After several years of battles around the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, violence fell dramatically in 2007 in the predominantly Sunni province of Anbar in which country?
3. Lombardy has a large per capita gross domestic product and is home to the industrial and financial base of which peninsular European country?
4. The Serb Republic, a semi-autonomous region populated mostly by Serbs, had its borders set by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords and is located in which country?
5. Which country’s judicial capital is found in the fertile, heavily agricultural province of Free State, located north and west of Lesotho?
6. Laguna del Carbon, the lowest point in South America at approximately 340 feet below sea level, is located in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz in which country?
7. Malacca, controlled at different times by the Portuguese, Dutch, and British, shares its name with a neighboring waterway and is a state in which country?
8. Ahmadabad is the largest city in Gujarat, a state that borders Pakistan in which country?
9. The city of Hyesan, which is the administrative center of the Yanggang province, has recorded some of the coldest temperatures in which East Asian country?
10. Emi Koussi is the highest mountain in Tibesti, a central Saharan mountain range that shares its name with an administrative region in which country?
GEOQUIZ ANSWERS: 1. Switzerland 2. Iraq 3. Italy 4. Bosnia and Herzgovina 5. South Africa 6. Argentina 7. Malaysia 8. India 9. North Korea (Also acceptable: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) 10. Chad
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
