Geography Trivia- Thursday Thirties Week 4

Cape Alava, on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, is generally treated as the westernmost point of the contiguous United States.

Baarle-Hertog consists of 22 separate parcels of land, including 8 Belgian enclaves within the Netherlands and 14 Dutch enclaves within those Belgian enclaves.

Cabinda is an exclave province of Angola on the Atlantic coast, separated from the rest of Angola by a strip of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Malaysia has Peninsular Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula and East Malaysia on Borneo, with the South China Sea between them.

Mt. Emlembe is the highest peak in the country, reaching an altitude of 1,862 meters (6,109 ft) on the western border.

Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, well north of the Arctic Circle.

The Kerguelen Islands are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, an overseas territory of France.

The Chatham Islands are part of New Zealand and are 45 minutes ahead of New Zealand standard time.

Most of the Danube Delta lies in Romania, with a smaller part extending into Ukraine.

Ecuador officially adopted the U.S. Dollar in 2000 to stabilize its economy.

The island is divided between French Saint-Martin in the north and Dutch Sint Maarten in the south.

Colombia has a Caribbean coast to the north and a Pacific coast to the west.

The Maldives is made up of low coral islands and has an extremely low average natural elevation, making sea-level rise a major concern.

Uzbekistan is doubly landlocked, meaning every country around it is also landlocked. The other commonly cited example is Liechtenstein.

While it is named an "atoll," Midway is geographically part of the Hawaiian Island archipelago rather than a standalone coral atoll developed atop a submerged volcanic mountain like the others.

Point Nemo lies in the South Pacific Ocean and is about 2,688 km from the nearest land.

Canada lies south of Detroit at this crossing. Windsor, Ontario sits across the Detroit River, so travelling from downtown Detroit toward Windsor means heading south into Canada.

Akrotiri and Dhekelia are British Sovereign Base Areas — military territories retained by the UK when Cyprus gained independence in 1960. Covering around 3% of the island, they are home to key intelligence and military facilities, and uniquely, thousands of Cypriot civilians live and farm within their boundaries!

Brazil borders every sovereign country in mainland South America except Chile and Ecuador. It also borders French Guiana, which is an overseas department of France rather than a sovereign South American country.

The phrase translates to "each person is a person," "all people are people," or "all humans are human".

Russia and North Korea meet along a short stretch of the Tumen River near the Sea of Japan. Their land border is only about 17 km long, making it Russia's shortest international land border.

The 2022 agreement split Tartupaluk (Hans Island) between Canada and Greenland (Kingdom of Denmark), creating a small international land boundary in the Arctic.

Brunei sits on Borneo's north coast and is divided by the Malaysian state of Sarawak into two separate, disconnected parts.

Madha is an exclave inside the United Arab Emirates and contains the UAE counter-enclave of Nahwa. Which country is Madha part of?

The city was originally given the name al-Qāhirah—which roughly translates to "The Victorious" or "The Conquering"—because it was founded at a time when the planet Mars was visible in the sky.

Equatorial Guinea officially designated Ciudad de la Paz as its capital by presidential decree in January 2026, replacing island-based Malabo. The transfer of administrative functions is expected to take time.

Iquitos is in the Peruvian Amazon and is famous for lacking a major road connection to the wider road network; access from outside is mainly by air or river.

Oecusse-Ambeno belongs to Timor-Leste but is separated from the rest of the country by Indonesian West Timor, except for its northern coastline.

Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, lies on the Danube near Austria to the west and Hungary to the south.

Campione d’Italia is an Italian municipality in Lombardy. It sits on Lake Lugano and is surrounded by the Swiss canton of Ticino.