Geography True or False #7

Try to guess whether these geographical statements are true or false.
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1. Iceland is mostly covered by lush forests
Less than 1% of Iceland is forested, the least of any European country
True
False
2. China has a land border with South Korea
North Korea comes between them
True
False
3. The Aswan Dam lies on the Nile River
True
False
4. Every country in Oceania touches the ocean
True
False
5. London and Cairo are in the same time zone
True
False
6. Alaska borders the Atlantic Ocean
It borders only the Pacific and Arctic oceans
True
False
7. South Korea is projected to double in population by 2100
With a fertility rate of just 0.7 children per women, South Korea is projected to shrink by large amounts
True
False
8. Milan is located in northern Italy
True
False
9. The two largest cities in Vietnam both start with the letter H
Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi
True
False
10. The world's third tallest mountain is named K3
True
False
11. A majority of Polish people are Catholic
True
False
12. New Zealand has a bird on its flag
True
False
13. Part of Cyprus is controlled by an unrecognized Turkish-speaking state
True
False
14. Hokkaido is the northernmost of Japan's four main islands
True
False
15. The Great Salt Lake is the deepest lake in the United States
Its deepest point is only about 10 meters deep
True
False
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11 Comments
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Level 63
Oct 25, 2024
15/15!
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Level 75
Oct 26, 2024
Surely vatican city is less forested
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Level 78
Oct 27, 2024
In absolute terms, sure. As a percentage, no.

Iceland - 103,125km² > 1% = 1031.25km²

Vatican City - 0.49km² > 1% = 0.0049km²

I don't know how Iceland's 1% is calculated exactly, but lets go by the area of a tree's crown as seen from above (ground coverage). I measured the diameter of the (round) crown of one reasonably sized tree in Vatican City, which was about 25 meters. The area of that is, coincidentally, roughly 0.00049km². So that single tree is already 0.1% of the total area of Vatican City. So you would only need about 11 trees of a similar size to beat Iceland's 1%. If you look at satellite images, there's a lot more than 11 trees in Vatican City. Conversely, you would need about 2,104,591 trees of this size to reach that 1% in Iceland.

This was fun, thanks.

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Level 92
Oct 26, 2024
Great Salt Lake is so shallow it's starting to shrink like a more restrained version of the Aral Sea.
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Level 83
Oct 28, 2024
the New Zealand flag SHOULD have a bird on it

Long live the Laser Kiwi!!

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Level 80
Oct 30, 2024
I think the reason so many people (relative to the other questions, at least) get the Iceland question wrong is the stupid joke that always floats around the internet (I think originating from Bill Wurz) about how Greenland and Iceland's names are swapped. While Greenland certainly isn't very green and has more ice than Iceland, Iceland is not really misnamed - around 11% is covered in Ice, more than any other sovereign state. Iceland may not be the iciest 'land', but if we're removing sovereign state criteria, then that wouldn't apply to Greenland, either - Antarctica would take the cake. Is Australia misnamed because its name suggests it is a 'southern' land, even though Chile and Argentina reach farther south? It's undeniably quite southern by world standards. Iceland is undeniably quite icy by world standards.
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Level 82
Nov 7, 2024
Iceland had 25% forest cover before the Vikings arrived, but they cut it down to make ships and things.
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Level 61
Dec 23, 2024
Damn those Vikings and their things! Ships, fine, but things?

What a waste.

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Level 79
Dec 23, 2024
Bill definitely wasn't the first to notice the "irony", but i think he definitely popularised it, and certainly what i was thinking of when i got it wrong
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Level 82
Dec 23, 2024
I only got the Poland question wrong (I thought the majority were Orthodox)
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Level 39
Apr 15, 2026
Canada touches the atlanitc ocean even more than the us