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Tricky Spellings: Geography

These answers alone might be only moderately difficult... but can you spel them rite? Only exact spellings will be accepted for these geography-themed answers.
Names given in the clues will not be accepted as valid answers.
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Last updated: July 29, 2025
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What is the judicial capital of South Africa?
Bloemfontein
What term refers to a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses?
Isthmus
For which country does Jetpunk accept such egregious misspellings as "Kirgalubixostan"?
Kyrgyzstan
Which language is the official working language of Ethiopia's federal government?
Amharic
What is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka?
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
What is the name of the third-highest mountain on Earth (after Everest and K2)?
Kangchenjunga
Which "southern" and largely unrecognized country in the Caucasus has been a subject of conflict between Russia and Georgia?
South Ossetia
Located in Dubai, which skyscraper is considered the world's tallest structure?
Burj Khalifa
Which massive system of fortifications was famously bypassed by the Nazi invasion of France in 1940?
Maginot Line
What is the name of the second largest island in the Philippines?
Mindanao
Which map projection, also known by the title "Fuller projection" features the continents of the world unwrapped into one continuous mass with lots of pointy edges?
Dymaxion
Which confederacy of Indigenous peoples in North America was referred to by the British as the Five Nations?
Iroquois
Which New Zealand territory consists of the islands of Atafu, Nukunonu, and Fakaofo?
Tokelau
Which Chinese city boasts the biggest monorail system in the world and is, by some metrics, the most populous city in the country?
Chongqing
Which twelfth-century Khmer temple complex accounts for as much as half of Cambodia's foreign tourism?
Angkor Wat
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