Central Asian Geography Quiz - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What country did all the Central Asian countries use to be part of until 1991?	Soviet Union	94%
What language has official status in both Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan?	Russian	83%
What major lake does Central Asia border to its west?	Caspian Sea	82%
What ancient trading road went through Central Asia for getting to the west?	Silk Road	81%
What is the new name of the Kazakh capital of Astana?	Nur-Sultan	77%
What type of landlocked country is Uzbekistan?	Double-landlocked	72%
What country is sometimes associated with Central Asia, but is not counted so by the U.N.?	Afghanistan	69%
What is the most populous metropolitan area in the region?	Tashkent	67%
What lake, between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, has been shrinking since the 1960s?	Aral Sea	66%
The name of what Central Asian capital means "the city of love" in that language?	Ashgabat	61%
The official language of Tajikistan is a variety of what language?	Persian	59%
What river parts the "European" side of Kazakhstan?	Ural River	58%
With what European peninsula does the western region of Turkmenistan share its name?	Balkan	49%
To what ethno-linguistic group of people does the majority of the region belong?	Turkic people	48%
What is another name for the above?	Farsi	47%
What three letters make the name of the second biggest city in Kyrgyzstan?	Osh	30%
What river, that flows into the above, makes most of Tajikistan's southern border?	{Amu} Darya	27%
What name does both Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan's currencies have?	Som	20%
What mountain range covers almost 80% of the area of Kyrgyzstan?	Tian Shan	20%
What lake in Kazakhstan is the largest in Central Asia - as well as Asia's third largest?	Balkhash	18%
By what mountain range is Tajikistan mostly covered?	Pamir Mountains	18%
Meaning Black Sand, what is the Central Asia's largest desert?	Karakum	16%

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