40 World Geography Trivia Questions

1. The pale limestone peaks called the Dolomites are in which country?

2. Which mountain range makes a sweeping arc through Romania and neighboring countries?

3. The Drakensberg escarpment rises in which part of Africa?

4. Mount Fuji, with its nearly symmetrical volcanic cone, is in which country?

5. Bryce Canyon’s irregular, slender rock spires are commonly known by what name?

6. Mauna Loa is an example of which broad, gently sloping volcano type?

7. The Tatra Mountains lie along the border between Poland and which country?

8. A fjord is a sea inlet occupying a valley carved mainly by what?

9. The St. Marys River connects Lake Superior to which other Great Lake?

10. Which river runs through the Italian city of Florence?

11. Which large African lake is also known as Lake Nyasa?

12. The Mekong’s broad delta spreads across the southern part of which country?

13. Lake Balaton, a long, shallow lake popular for holidays, is in which country?

14. After flowing through western Europe, the Rhine reaches which sea?

15. Lake Ohrid straddles North Macedonia’s border with which country?

16. Which Cambodian river reverses its normal direction when the Mekong rises during the wet season?

17. Which strait separates the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra?

18. Sardinia, immediately south of Corsica, is part of which country?

19. Which is the largest Greek island by area?

20. Which strait separates New Zealand’s North Island and South Island?

21. The Socotra archipelago belongs to which country?

22. The Tasman Sea lies between Australia and which island country?

23. The Faroe Islands lie in which part of the Atlantic?

24. The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard is under which country’s sovereignty?

25. The historic city of Luang Prabang stands in which country?

26. Samarkand, a historic Silk Road crossroads, is in which country?

27. The Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo occupy much of which peninsula?

28. Patagonia stretches across southern Chile and which neighboring country?

29. The Peloponnese is a large peninsula in which country?

30. Serengeti National Park is in which country?

31. Cappadocia’s rock formations and valleys are in which country?

32. The Pampas are best described as what kind of South American landscape?

33. What do geographers call a narrow strip of land joining two larger land areas?

34. What coastal water body is partly enclosed by land and mixes incoming river water with seawater?

35. Karst landscapes commonly form as water dissolves which rock?

36. Loess is a deposit made mainly of which wind-carried material?

37. What fan-shaped landform develops where a stream leaves a steep valley and drops its sediment?

38. An endorheic basin lacks what kind of natural drainage outlet?

39. On a topographic map, a contour line joins points with the same what?

40. At a map scale of 1:100,000, one centimeter on the map represents how far on the ground?