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Which country has the highest population density on average (excluding microstates)?
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Bangladesh
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What is the world’s largest uninhabited island over 50,000 km²?
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Devon Island
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What is the world’s largest river island by area?
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Majuli
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What is the Dutch constituent country in the Caribbean composed of multiple islands?
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Curaçao
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Which country has the lowest population density in continental land?
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Mongolia
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What is the giant blue hole in Belize called?
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Great Blue Hole
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What is the world’s most densely divided island politically?
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Saint Martin
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Which country has the largest percentage of land below sea level?
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Netherlands
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Which country contains the most tectonic plate boundaries?
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Indonesia
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Which country has the most extreme elevation difference between capital and highest peak?
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Bolivia
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What is the narrow strip linking mainland Russia to Kaliningrad called in NATO defense planning?
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Suwalki Gap
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What is the smallest inhabited island in the world with permanent civilian population?
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Bishop Rock
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Which country contains the world’s largest inland delta?
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Botswana
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Name the giant seasonal lake that forms in Botswana during wet years.
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Lake Ngami
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What is the name of the tiny Italian enclave inside Switzerland where the euro is used unofficially?
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Campione d’Italia
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Name the depression in Djibouti that contains one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth.
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Lake Assal
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Which country has the most lakes per square kilometer?
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Finland
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What narrow canyon in Namibia is second only to the Grand Canyon in scale?
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Fish River Canyon
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What is the deepest known cave on Earth?
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Veryovkina Cave
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What is the disputed territory between India, Pakistan, and China in the Himalayas?
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Aksai Chin
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What is the only sovereign state entirely located on a single island shared with no other country?
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Madagascar
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Name the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.
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Vulcan Point
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What is Earth’s largest known impact crater by confirmed structure?
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Vredefort Crater
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What is the name of the Danish autonomous territory in the North Atlantic?
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Faroe Islands
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Which country's capital city has the most old Dutch colonial architecture from the 1700s-1800s?
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Paramaribo
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Name the underwater plateau larger than India submerged in the Indian Ocean.
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Kerguelen Plateau
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What is the world’s northernmost permanently inhabited settlement?
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Alert
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Which country contains the largest desert entirely within its borders?
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Australia
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Name the tiny island in the Bering Strait where tomorrow and yesterday are visible from neighboring islands.
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Big Diomede, Little Diomede
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What is the Norwegian territory on Antarctica claimed under a sector principle?
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Queen Maud Land
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What country is known for dense forest roads + red-and-white poles + Baltic architecture mix?
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Lithuania
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What island is split between Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
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Hispaniola
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What is the twin-city divided by a river where one side is EU and the other is non-EU Schengen?
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Baarle-Nassau / Baarle-Hertog
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Which country has the most extreme desert-to-rainforest gradient within its borders?
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Peru
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What is the southernmost city on Earth?
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Puerto Williams
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What is the world’s largest exposed granite monolith?
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Uluru
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What is the only territory where Britain, France, and the Netherlands all meet indirectly via maritime claims?
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Saint Martin/Sint Maarten maritime boundary zone
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What is the only sea in the world without shores?
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Sargasso Sea
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What is the world’s southernmost active volcano?
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Mount Erebus
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What is the Spanish autonomous city located on the African continent but not considered part of the EU customs area fully?
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Ceuta
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What is the world’s largest endorheic salt flat?
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Salar de Uyuni
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Name the world’s largest hypersaline lagoon.
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Laguna de Torrevieja
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Which country contains the most large river systems crossing international borders?
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China
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Which country is split into two non-contiguous main landmasses by another country?
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Azerbaijan
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What is the only African country with a territory on both mainland Africa and an island group in the Atlantic under separate jurisdictions?
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Equatorial Guinea
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What is the Russian territory cut off by Poland and Lithuania?
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Kaliningrad Oblast
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Which country has the most glaciers outside polar regions?
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Pakistan
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What is the deepest point in the Mediterranean Sea called?
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Calypso Deep
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What is the name of the point in Namibia that creates a near-contact of four countries?
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Caprivi Strip
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What is the circular coral atoll nation whose islands form a ring around a lagoon larger than its landmass?
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Tuvalu
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