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Asian Geography by Letter - N

Can you guess these Asian geographical answers that start with the letter N?
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Last updated: November 7, 2020
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First submittedAugust 18, 2014
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Clue
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Capital of India
New Delhi
Himalayan country
Nepal
City where Jesus grew up
Nazareth
City struck by an atomic bomb
Nagasaki
Former capital of China brutally
attacked by Japan in 1937
Nanjing
Desert covering southern Israel
Negev
Third largest city in Japan
Nagoya
Capital of Myanmar since 2005
Naypyidaw
Capital of Cyprus
Nicosia
Japanese for Japan
Nihon
Southern Indian state whose
capital is Chennai
Tamil Nadu
Clue
Answer
City whose name means "New Siberian"
Novosibirsk
Fourth largest island of the Philippines
Negros
Capital of Okinawa
Naha
Spice that originally comes from the
Maluku Islands of Indonesia
Nutmeg
Japanese host of the 1998 Winter Olympics
Nagano
Country in Indochina that annexed its
southern counterpart in 1975
North Vietnam
Probably the world's most repressive country
North Korea
Family name of 40% of Vietnamese people
Nguyen
Major city in central India known
for oranges and tigers
Nagpur
23 Comments
+4
Level 86
Oct 15, 2017
It will be a long, long time before I remember Naypyitaw.
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Level 67
Oct 28, 2017
Let's just Anglicize it to Nappytown
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Level 79
Nov 8, 2020
I have never been able to spell this correctly in any quiz.
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Level 21
Oct 28, 2017
cant you accept new dehli in lowercase it does say capitalization dosent matter
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Level 76
Oct 28, 2017
"new dehli" would be a wrong answer, capitalized or not.
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Level 42
Oct 30, 2017
The site never accounts for capitalization or spaces, you spelled it wrong.
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Level 58
Oct 28, 2017
The Nagpur question was ridiculously difficult. An Indian who didn't get it!
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Level 91
Apr 3, 2019
I automatically typed Nagpur as soon as I started, along with Negev, Nagoya, Nanjing, New Delhi and maybe a couple other major N answers for Asia.
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Level 79
Mar 14, 2018
Novosibirsk (Новосибирск) means New SiberiaN in Russian. Like New Siberian (City), but without the word City. New Siberia would be Novaya Sibir (Новая Сибирь). I did not find an example on the internet, but you can try it in Google Translate. Just paste there Сибирск (Sibirsk) and you will see that the translation of it is Siberian.
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Level ∞
Mar 14, 2018
I'll take your word for it. I changed the clue.
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Level 85
Nov 7, 2020
yeah it's the adjectival form
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Level 77
Jul 13, 2021
Very interesting. I had no idea.
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Level 73
Jun 1, 2025
basically Sibirish :)
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Level 79
Nov 7, 2020
a very japanese centric quiz lol
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Level 72
Nov 8, 2020
Didn't know Novosibirsk meant New Siberian - that'll help me remember the spelling!
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Level 82
Nov 17, 2020
Too Asiacentric.
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Level 57
Jul 13, 2021
Surprised to see Tamil Nadu in here - "Nadu" is a Tamil common noun meaning - in this context - state, whereas "Tamil" is the proper noun. (Bonus trivia: it's only one word in the local language.)

For a Tamil speaker, finding T.N on this quiz is almost like seeing Canada's Northwest Territories on a 'T' quiz, or perhaps New Zealand's South Island on an 'I' quiz.

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Level 85
Jun 13, 2024
I mean, sure. But as a Canadian, the idea of seeing "Northwest ___________" on a "North American Geography by letter T" quiz doesn't feel as if it would be that out of place... 🤷‍♂️
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Level 66
Jul 13, 2021
Isn't Nagoya the fourth largest city nowadays? Just saying, since this quiz is now on the front page.
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Level 57
Aug 19, 2024
I thought nutmeg famously came from Grenada?
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Level 78
Nov 1, 2024
you're thinking of shrapnela
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Level 69
May 12, 2025
underrated reply
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Level 56
Jun 1, 2025
For Negev, can Nakab also be accepted ?