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Five Letter Geography #2

Can you guess these geographic answers that are only five letters long?
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Top coal producing (and using) country
China
Country in the Levant
Syria
One of the Great Lakes
Huron
Country once ruled by the British Raj
India
Country liberated by Toussaint Louverture
Haiti
One of Singapore's official languages
Malay /
Tamil
Finnish name for Finland
Suomi
Canada's first national park
Banff
Former name of the D. R. Congo
Zaire
Longest river within France
Loire
Swedish city connected via bridge
to Denmark
Malmö
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Czech name for Prague
Praha
2014 Winter Olympics host
Sochi
Northwestern U.S. state
Idaho
WWII conference location on the
Crimean peninsula
Yalta
Capital of France during WWII
Vichy
Egyptian city called "the world's
greatest open air museum"
Luxor
Another name for Ayers Rock
Uluru
Borough of New York City
Bronx
Neighbor of Oman
Yemen
Former capital of Japan
Kyoto
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45 Comments
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Level 75
Jul 27, 2014
Sotsi? Soshi? Sohci? SoAARGH!
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Level 86
Jul 28, 2014
C'mon! Sochi is quite easy to remember! At least not as difficult as Novorsibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod or some other russian cities.
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Level 47
Jun 10, 2019
Novosibirsk is actually pretty easy; it's the largest city in Siberia.
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Level 71
Sep 13, 2021
Or Yekaterinburg, my second least favorite city after Antananarivo.
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Level 52
Sep 13, 2021
That's nothing, try remembering how to spell Naberzhnye Chelny
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Level 74
Sep 14, 2021
I think were forgetting about Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, even though you can just do "Kotte" and get it
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Level 63
May 11, 2023
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1744710/spell-the-capital-of-sri-lanka
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Level 63
Aug 10, 2023
Or SJK, or Sri Jellyfish Tempura
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Level 84
Mar 24, 2017
It's definitely a -ch sound so Why on the earth It would be Sotsi? I really don't understand some of you guys typing mistakes.
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Level 55
Jan 19, 2019
In some countries it's spelled as Sotsi.
+8
Level 73
Jun 10, 2019
English isn't everyone's first language
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Level 52
Sep 13, 2021
In finnish it's spelled Sotši
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Level 65
Feb 19, 2025
Maybe because in some language "si" is pronounce "shi" then "tsi" will be "chi"...
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Level 85
Jun 15, 2016
Technically it's called The Bronx and not just Bronx.
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Level 36
Jan 19, 2019
It's "Bronx". The Bronx is a misnomer.
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Level 87
Jul 11, 2022
What a bizarre thing to say. And so easy to debunk. Have you ever set foot in New York City?
+2
Level 72
Aug 9, 2023
You mean The New York The City?
+8
Level 51
Dec 10, 2016
Love it when I get the least guessed answer.
+2
Level 51
Dec 10, 2016
Good tough quiz, 16/24. Had heard of some of the others that I missed but could not dredge them up at the time!
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Level 66
Dec 10, 2016
I've always seen the Czech spelling of Prague as Praja, but maybe I'm crazy.
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Level 76
Dec 10, 2019
Perhaps you are thinking of Praia? The capital of Cape Verde? (Otherwise, praja with a j is amongst other thing an indian movie)
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Level 59
Aug 1, 2021
I'm sorry to break it up to you, man.
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Level 79
Dec 11, 2016
wow, I made a huge improvement on this one over the first time I took it. Still missed a couple, though.
+1
Level 79
Jun 9, 2019
Looks like some questions changed; stats reset. Only missed Loire this time.
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Level 38
Sep 8, 2018
Idaho is hardly the only northwestern state. Why not Alaska, or Washington?
+24
Level 65
Dec 20, 2018
5 letters?
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Level 82
Jan 19, 2019
oR oReGoN
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Level 70
Mar 21, 2020
I did the whole quiz without realising that the answers had to 5 letters long. Not even been drinking. 20/21 didn't know Banff.
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Level 63
May 11, 2023
They need to add Alask, Washi, Orego, and maybe even Monta
+9
Level 76
Jan 19, 2019
Paris (from June 1944 onwards) and Tours (briefly in 1940) were also 5-letter French capitals in World War 2.
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Level 89
Jan 19, 2019
There are actually quite a few former capitals of Japan whose English names have 5 letters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_of_Japan. Other than the currently accepted answer, the most well-known are probably Asuka, Osaka, and Heian.

Though I will readily admit that anyone who has heard of these (especially Heian) has probably also heard of the currently accepted answer ;)

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Level 63
Aug 10, 2023
Osaka was my first guess.
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Level 74
Jan 19, 2019
France sure has a lot of five-letter rivers
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Level 51
Jun 9, 2019
I think you need to read the hint again
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Level 76
Dec 10, 2019
Does that make france have less rivers? That would be impressive magic..
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Level 87
Sep 17, 2021
I was thinking that exactly. I was trying Seine, Rhine, Rhone. Should have gotten Loire, but there were so many to choose from.
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Level 79
Jan 19, 2019
Finally someone who writes Ayers Rock instead of Ayer's Rock.
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Level 47
Jun 10, 2019
I didn't get Idaho despite living in the US XD I was just thinking of states on the coast and not landlocked ones.
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Level 45
Jul 10, 2019
Shouldn’t the “France in WW2 be changed to “Vichy France?” The capitals both have five letters. Although Vichy France is kind of a giveaway, so maybe something else?
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Level 86
Sep 9, 2019
Change it to capital of Occupied France
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Level 70
Mar 21, 2020
But it was the capital of the part of France that wasn't occupied.
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Level 52
Oct 25, 2020
Missing Vichy was one of the more frustrating experiences on this site. I am a major WW2 buff. I use the term 'Vichy France' all the time. I do not know why it slipped my mind in this instance. It's like forgetting how to ride a bike. Maybe I should get better sleep or something.
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Level 56
Jan 8, 2025
Uluru is not another name for Ayer's Rock. Should probably be "formerly known as Ayer's Rock." Its considered to be a bit of a dogwhistle to call it Ayer's Rock
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Level 49
Feb 19, 2025
Isn’t Jordan part of the Levant?

(Also I know may have wanted to make the quiz a little harder but Paris and Tokyo are also 5 letters long)

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Level 67
Nov 15, 2025
To be fair, Paris was legally still the capital of France during the nazi occupation. It is however true that the collaborationist government was in Vichy. I think that it should be mentioned as the "de facto capital" in the quizz.

Similarly, Amsterdam is only considered as the capital of the Netherlands because the Constitution says so. All institutions, including the Parliament, the PM, the King, the embassies, international courts, etc, are located in the Hague.

I remember that when I was in middle school, the history teacher often pointed out that it is technically inaccurate to say that Vichy was the capital of France. By the way, another common misconception about this period is thinking that the anthem was "maréchal, nous voilà" (the song of the collaborationist regime), because it was still legally the Marseillaise.