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Country
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Hint
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Answer
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GB
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Former Scottish county whose name had long been known as "Mearns"
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Kincardineshire
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US
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55-mile-long Florida river with a Muscogee name; "Econ" for short
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Econlockhatchee
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RU
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"New" oil-refinery city downwind of Samara metropolis on the Volga River
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Novokuybyshevsk
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JP
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Kyushu island city on the southern shores of its namesake peninsula
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Minamishimabara
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DE
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Medium-sized city halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border
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Mönchengladbach
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UA
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Major city in Luhansk Oblast under Russian occupation since June 2022
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Sievierodonetsk
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RU
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City where the Amur and Zeya rivers meet; opposite China's Heihe
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Blagoveshchensk
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US
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Largely Hispanic suburb of Chicago; on the banks of the Fox River
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Carpentersville
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US
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Independent Virginian city infamous for its 'Unite the Right' rally of 2017
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Charlottesville
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CO
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Notoriously humid city home to the country's largest oil refinery
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Barrancabermeja
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IN
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Major city of almost one million in Tamil Nadu; founded in 3rd century BCE
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Tiruchirappalli
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UA
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City of Korsun-_____________; named for a famous Ukrainian poet
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Shevchenkivskyi
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RU
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V-shaped lake in Chukotka; its Latin spelling lacks all five vowels
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Pychgynmygytgyn
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GB
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English county whose largest city is the modernist Milton Keynes
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Buckinghamshire
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RU
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City designed by 1960s architects; suburb of namesake capital of Chuvashia
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Novocheboksarsk
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US
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Notable French (later British) fort at the upper tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula
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Michilimackinac
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LK
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Federal capital of Sri Lanka - Sri ______________ Kotte
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Jayawardenepura
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BR
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Large suburb of São Paulo; founded in 1560 by Father Joseph of Anchieta
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Itaquaquecetuba
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HU
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City at the border point between Hungary, Austria and Slovakia
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Mosonmagyaróvár
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US
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Maine lake straddling the towns of Winthrop, Monmouth and Litchfield
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Cobbosseecontee
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ID
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Independent city that is second largest in North Sumatra Province
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Pematangsiantar
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JP
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Town between lakes on the foothills of Mount Fuji (hint: Fuji's in the name)
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Fujikawaguchiko
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NZ
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Traditional Māori name for the world's clearest natural freshwater lake
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Rotomairewhenua
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CA
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Lake Huron town home to a former British naval yard and army base
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Penetanguishene
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GB
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English county whose namesake town is the largest on the River Severn
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Gloucestershire
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