Geography Basics #3: Nerd Geography (Geo quiz)

Guess the stuff. Yeah. (By the way, I made this quiz back in 2022, but I have included this in my new series Geography Basics just for funsies. It actually used to be called "Geo quiz")

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Hint	Answer
Ocean south of India	Indian Ocean
Ocean between The Americas, Europe, and Africa	Atlantic Ocean
Ocean between Asia, Australia, Oceania, and the Americas	Pacific Ocean
Sea north of Turkey	Black Sea
Sea east of China and south of Japan and the Koreas	South China Sea
Sea southeast of the Arabian Peninsula	Arabian Sea
Sea lying south of Europe and north of Africa	Mediterranean Sea
Strait connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean	Strait of Gibraltar
Strait primarily used to trade between India and China	Sunda Strait
Sea lying north of Central America and near many island countries	Caribbean Sea
Sea lying north of Iran and west of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan	Caspian Sea
Sea lying between China and Japan	Sea of Japan
Strait connecting the Mediterranean and Black Sea	Bosporus
Gulf lying northeast of Saudi Arabia and primary sea road for goods transporting from the Arabian Peninsula	Persian Gulf
Sea lying between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula	Red Sea
River flowing from Egypt to Congo, one of world's longest rivers	Nile
One of the two rivers flowing through Iraq, the top one	Tigris
One of the two rivers flowing through Iraq, the bottom one	Euphrates
River flowing through Pakistan, used to flow through India	Indus
River flowing through India, close to Nepal	Ganges
One of the two rivers flowing through China, the top one	Yellow
One of the two rivers flowing through China, the bottom one	Yangtze
Biggest river in South America	Amazon
River flowing from Nigeria to Guinea	Niger
River flowing through Russia	Volga
River starting in Mississippi and flowing across the Central Time Zone	Mississippi
Desert located in Northern Africa	Sahara
Desert located in Southern Africa	Kalahari
Desert located near China and Mongolia	Gobi
Desert located in the Arabian Peninsula	Arabian
Desert stretching from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico	Sonora
Mountain range located mostly in Nepal, one of the biggest in the world	Himalayas
Mountain range stretching across Western South America	Andes
Mountain range stretching across the Western USA	Rocky
Mountain range in western Russia	Caucasus
Continent in the middle of the World Map	Europe

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Continent of the most ways of trade in 1200	Asia
Continent which has the Sahara and Kalahari deserts	Africa
Continent which contains the USA	North America
Continent south of the Panama Isthmus	South America
Continent/country south of Indonesia	Australia
Country in Asia north of Australia	Indonesia
Country east of China	Philippines
Peninsula which caused the Himalayas to form	Indian Peninsula
Peninsula containing both Koreas	Korean Peninsula
Peninsula now called Turkey	Anatolian Peninsula
Peninsula containing Spain and Portugal	Iberian Peninsula
Peninsula where pizza originated	Italian Peninsula
Island country east of Russia	Japan
Region containing two bordering continents	Eurasian Steppe
Peninsula containing countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.	Arabian Peninsula
Region in which the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through	Mesopotamia
Region containing countries like Iran, Iraq, etc.	Persia
Isthmus connecting the Americas	Isthmus of Panama
Rainforest taking up most of Northwest South America	Amazon
Rainforest in the Congo area in Africa	Congolian
One of two trading cities in China, the upper one	Beijing
One of two trading cities in China, the lower one	Canton
Trading city in Malaysia	Malacca
One of two trading cities in India, the west one	Delhi
One of two trading cities in India, the east one	Calcutta
Trading city in Iraq	Baghdad
Trading city in Egypt	Cairo
Trading city in Saudi Arabia	Mecca
Trading city in Turkey, now called Istanbul	Constantinople
Trading city in Italy	Venice
Trading city in Mali	Timbuktu
Border region in Southeast Africa	Swahili Coast
Trading city in Peru	Cuzco
Trading city in Mexico	Tenochtitlan
Trading city in Russia	Moscow