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Asian Geography by Letter - G

Can you guess these Asian geographical answers that start with the letter G?
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First submittedAugust 12, 2014
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Chinese defensive barrier against
the barbarian hordes
Great Wall
Country in the Caucasus
Georgia
Hinduism's holiest river
Ganges
Freshwater "sea" in Israel where
Jesus is said to have walked
Galilee
Area that Israel captured from Syria
Golan Heights
What Qatar juts into
Persian Gulf
One of the Palestinian territories
Gaza
Desert in China and Mongolia
Gobi
Turkey's 6th largest city – continuously
inhabited for at least 3,000 years
Gaziantep
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Traditional Japanese hostess
Geisha
China's most populous province
Guangdong
Capital of the above, formerly
called Canton
Guangzhou
State on the northwest coast of India
Gujarat
Hindu deity depicted as an elephant
Ganesha
Country that once controlled the
city of Tsingtao
Germany
Located in China, it's the world's
longest canal
Grand Canal
Term for a Soviet prison camp
Gulag
Nepalese soldier
Gurkha
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44 Comments
jriddycuz
+8
Level 67
Nov 19, 2014
Tsingtao is now spelled Qingdao.
IsleAuHaulte
+4
Level 91
Apr 3, 2019
And a big hint as to who controlled the city of Tsingtao is it's spelling.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Mar 8, 2020
its* but I agree, and the spelling that was used during the time of occupation should be in this quiz.
HendogJP
+2
Level 59
Nov 4, 2020
Also that it's the name of a beer, and who is famous for beer? Germany. That's how I got it :)
AlexThirkell
+4
Level 74
Apr 7, 2021
"Country beginning with G" is how I got it. After trying Greece. Seemed obvious once I saw it though.
Minutiae
+1
Level 74
Aug 17, 2021
I got it by thinking Tsingtao may have been a former name for Qingdao and by other JetPunk quizzes teaching me that it was formerly a German brewery city.
tshalla
+1
Level 77
Feb 2, 2025
But Tsingtao is merely the Wade-Giles transliteration of Chinese. If it's justified because it's "the former spelling," then do what - spell everything using Wade-Giles when referencing the era before what - the Chinese adoption of pinyin? The wider-spread outside adoption of it?
Sadmin
+3
Level 37
Nov 20, 2014
Can't believe so many people missed Gujarat, and I don't even consider myself to know much about India.
wielblad
+2
Level 66
Feb 7, 2021
I tried it as Gujurat :/ Apparently we do not write it like that.
ing
+2
Level 72
May 4, 2021
So why not Goa?
fitheach
+4
Level 58
May 4, 2021
Because it's not the right answer (it's not in the north-west of India).
cyninoregon
+1
Level 36
Nov 22, 2014
did you know that you reload the quiz and hide some of the questions under the dotted line? a bit of a cheat if one is on a laptop and does not know there are more questions until they are missed
Antofagasta
+1
Level 71
Jan 14, 2017
Tried so many ways: Gasha, Gashia, Gasia, Gaisha, Gaysha, Gasiah...
Sulps
+4
Level 56
Aug 19, 2017
The spelling you're looking for is Ganesha.
eric29cocoanuts
+2
Level 76
Aug 19, 2017
Actually, it's Geisha.
Baltimorean
+13
Level 66
Aug 19, 2017
I was always told that geishas were trained to be elegant. Now I find out they were trained to be elephants. Amazing that they can play the shamisen so deftly.
Balikati
+3
Level 71
Jun 24, 2017
You should accept Antep as an answer as well. Antep is the real name of the city. Gazi is added to it merely 90 years ago.
Osiris
+10
Level 65
Aug 19, 2017
...but that doesn't start with G.
Sterref10
+2
Level 58
Aug 19, 2017
Can you accept "gangzhou" and "gujurat"?
Hlfbecks
+3
Level 90
Aug 19, 2017
Some of these questions are not really about geography, are they?

Geishas? Gurkhas?

kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
Aug 19, 2017
They are.
Jacktheguy
+10
Level 91
Aug 19, 2017
Geography doesn't just include the Earth's physical features and knowing where everything is. Human geography is dealing with how human activity is influenced by the Earth's surface.
KingEureka
+1
Level 62
May 4, 2021
Geography ≠ Geology
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
May 4, 2021
I think most people's simplistic understanding of what geography means is closer to cartography than geology. But, yeah, it's neither of those things.
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 71
May 4, 2021
As long as it exists/is from/or happens in a place on Earth, it's geography.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Aug 24, 2017
Gerka? Gerhka? Gherka? Don't know why I thought it was an e instead of a u.
kogatora
+2
Level 94
Jul 14, 2018
that'd be gherkin you are thinking of
dunkinggandalf2
+3
Level 71
May 4, 2021
Gherkin is spelled "Gurke" in German, and I have to think of that every time i hear "ghurka".
P3
+1
Level 32
Nov 18, 2018
Should change the spelling from Tsingtao to Qingdao
Nestormakhno
+1
Level 74
Nov 16, 2019
Qingdao is spelled incorrectly
JackintheBox
+2
Level 80
Mar 8, 2020
No it's not. It was spelt 'Tsingtao' during the time of that country's occupation.
Findlay
+2
Level 81
Apr 20, 2021
Arguably the question is asking about the present city controlled in the past by Germany, so Qingdao is probably more correct. Though it really doesn't matter. Also the name of the city and the way it is written hasn't changed - 青岛 - just the way we transliterate it. Pinyin is just a more accurate and simple way of transliterating Chinese names into English. So it has always been Qingdao, we just once weren't as good at sounding it out.
ing
+1
Level 72
May 4, 2021
Actually when the Germans ran the place, it was written as 青島, not 青岛 with that weird new character for "island".
EcceHomo
+1
Level 84
Feb 4, 2021
Never heard of that Turkish city. Am I going to remember it? Probably not.
AlexThirkell
+3
Level 74
Apr 7, 2021
It's called Antep, and Gazi is an honorary title making it like Heroic Antep. Apparently it is its official name since 100 years ago.
ing
+1
Level 72
May 4, 2021
Actually it's come up often in the news in the last couple of years, as a major transit point in the Syrian civil war.
vermiciousknid
+1
Level 90
May 5, 2021
I know it mostly thanks to playing as the Ottomans in Civ V, but also because it's been in the news in recent years, as noted above.
Chaddius
+1
Level 65
May 5, 2021
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Ilia
+3
Level 76
Apr 6, 2023
What does Gulag has to do with Asia? They were created by a decision made in Moscow, i.e. in Europe and more than a half of all Gulags were located in the european part of the Soviet Union.
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 72
Sep 20, 2024
I have no idea where I pulled Gaziantep from my mind
Deathslayer
+4
Level 40
Jan 19, 2025
Minor but important correction: Ganesha is elephant-headed, with the body of a child. Please change.
UnohanaYachiru
+5
Level 55
Feb 2, 2025
"area that Israel captured from Syria" its called invasion. "to capture" and "to invade" are not the same thing and misusing them falsifies historic events
Timothy2b
+6
Level 58
Feb 2, 2025
As much as I like JetPunk, it seems to have a lot of pro-Israeli bias. It recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel despite the vast majority of countries recognizing Tel Aviv as such, and does not recognize Palestine.

This seems like yet another example of this bias.

Himsayo
+1
Level 21
Mar 5, 2025
Is it possible to add 'ghaza' as a possible answer ?
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