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# of Letters
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Answer
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10
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Portuguese colony which became a one-party Marxist state in 1975
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Mozambique
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English neolithic structure near the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire
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Stonehenge
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Primary residence and private plantation of Thomas Jefferson
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Monticello
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City at the epicenter of the British Industrial Revolution
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Birmingham
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North Atlantic bay to the west of the Delmarva Peninsula
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Chesapeake
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Ancient Greco-Roman city once home to the world's largest library
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Alexandria
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British territory that merged with Zanzibar to become Tanzania
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Tanganyika
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European capital bombed twice by the U.K. during the Napoleonic Wars
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Copenhagen
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Australia's northernmost continental point, Cape York, lies in this state
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Queensland
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Sea situated between the islands of Corsica and Sardinia, and Italy
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Tyrrhenian
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11
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The River Yenisei runs through this large Siberian metropolis
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Krasnoyarsk
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Largest country to declare its independence from the United States
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Philippines
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Capital of the country formerly known as French Upper Volta
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Ouagadougou
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Indian state home to Mumbai and Nagpur, among other large cities
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Maharashtra
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Russian city known for a meteor famously landing nearby in 2013
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Chelyabinsk
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Major river whose source lies in Minnesota's Lake Itasca
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Mississippi
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Most populous Mexican city named for a historic Spanish one
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Guadalajara
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Fifth largest river in the U.S. by discharge; lies entirely within Louisiana
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Atchafalaya
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Capital city and historic trade stop from Beijing to Kyakhta (now Russia)
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Ulaanbaatar
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The only African capital city to be named after an Italian
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Brazzaville
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12
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Historic region in the Carpathian Basin with a Latin name
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Transylvania
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Capital of Madagascar, known by the French as "Tana" for short
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Antananarivo
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Southernmost ex-Soviet country, formerly led by President Niyazov
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Turkmenistan
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New Zealand city which suffered a devastating earthquake in 2011
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Christchurch
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U.S. state wherein the Declaration of Independence was ratified
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Pennsylvania
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South African metropolis nicknamed "The City of Gold"
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Johannesburg
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Canada's flattest and most rectangular province
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Saskatchewan
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Largest Colombian city on the Caribbean coast
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Barranquilla
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Canadian island associated with Leif Eriksen
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Newfoundland
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Most populated city on Britain's Nene River
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Peterborough
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13
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U.S. state home to Boston and Harvard University
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Massachusetts
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Massive lake/estuary immediately north of New Orleans
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Pontchartrain
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Russian metropolis named for Catherine the Great
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Yekaterinburg
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Austria's tallest mountain and the highest peak of the East Alps
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Grossglockner
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Small country whose name means "bright stone" in English
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Liechtenstein
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West Midlands city home to Molineux Stadium
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Wolverhampton
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River forming the southern half of the Georgia-Alabama border
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Chattahoochee
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Earth's third tallest mountain, lying on the border of India and Nepal
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Kangchenjunga
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The remotest point of land from any sea is in this desert
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Gurbantünggüt
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Largest Brazilian city that lies mostly on an island
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Florianópolis
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14
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German Ruhr valley city and host of the annual Ruhrfestspiele
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Recklinghausen
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Paris is divided into twenty of these; roughly translates to "district"
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Arrondissement
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Southern Indiana city on the Ohio River; known as "Jeff" by locals
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Jeffersonville
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U.S. peninsula/island connected to Martha's Vineyard by a sandbank
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Chappaquiddick
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English county associated with a savory condiment of the same name
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Worcestershire
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Large Ukranian city named for one of Europe's great rivers (pre-2014 name)
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Dnipropetrovsk
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Capital of the Byzantine Empire from 395 to 1453 A.D.
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Constantinople
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Closest major city to Lake Balaton; former capital of the Kingdom of Hungary
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Székesfehérvár
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Northernmost English county; home to Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Northumberland
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Densely populated city and state in Central Mexico
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Aguascalientes
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