Geography of South America

1. What is the only South American country where Portuguese is the official language?

2. Which South American capital has the highest elevation of all capitals in the world?

3. Which of the following territories is not an independent country?

4. Galapagos Islands are administratively a province of which country?

5. Cotopaxi and Chimborazo are stratovolcanoes located in which country?

6. Which country's flag has the sun symbol in the upper left corner?

7. What is the name of tropical rain forest found in South America around the Amazon Basin?

8. What are pampas?

9. What is the southernmost point of South America called?

10. What is the name of the peak situated in Rio de Janeiro?

11. Angel Falls is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall. Where is it located?

12. Quito is the capital of which country?

13. What is the former name of Suriname?

14. With population over 12 million what is the largest city in South America?

15. What is the only country in the Americas where a majority of the population speaks one indigenous language: Guaraní?

16. Which two countries are sharing Tierra del Fuego archipelago?

17. What is the largest lake in South America?

18. With 76.3% percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia, what is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water?

19. What is the name of a navigable sea route separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south?

20. The isolated and sparsely-populated Falkland Islands are the overseas territory of which country?

21. Iguazú Falls are waterfalls on the border of Argentina and what other country?

22. The seat of government and executive capital of Bolivia is La Paz. What is country's constitutional capital?

23. What is the highest mountain in the Americas?

24. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is an island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean and special territory of which country?

25. What is the driest nonpolar desert in the world located in South America?