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Geography by Letter - D

Can you guess these geographical answers that start with the letter D?
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Last updated: September 5, 2018
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First submittedApril 26, 2013
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Capital of Ireland
Dublin
Language of the Netherlands
Dutch
German name for Germany
Deutschland
"The Motor City"
Detroit
Most populous city in India
Delhi
Formerly known as Mount McKinley
Denali
The first U.S. state
Delaware
Hindu festival of lights
Diwali
Site of the world's tallest building
Dubai
Salty lake between Israel and Jordan
Dead Sea
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Hamlet's country
Denmark
English Channel town with white cliffs
Dover
German city destroyed by firebombs in 1945
Dresden
"The Mile-High City"
Denver
Name for the Russian Parliament
Duma
South Africa's third largest city
Durban
Triangular shape at the mouth of some rivers
Delta
Capital city of Bali
Denpasar
River that passes by Vienna and Budapest
Danube
Capital of Djibouti
Djibouti
57 Comments
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Level 76
Jul 10, 2013
Good quiz - missed 3.
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Level 73
Sep 13, 2013
Capital of Djibouti....nice.
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Level 41
Jul 9, 2014
that got me too, i feel stupid
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Level 71
Dec 28, 2016
I love it when people miss Djibouti.
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Level 60
Mar 3, 2019
Well, according to stats and calculations, 9410 people got it wrong.
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Level 40
Nov 6, 2013
Can you accept Deepavali? I live in Malaysia and that is how it is called here. Also, in Nepal, it is known as Divali.
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Level ∞
Jul 31, 2015
Deepavali will work now.
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Level 83
May 23, 2014
Bummer, misspelled Diwali. I still don't get why every other comment on these Geography quizzes is "X doesn't have anything to do with geography!!"
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Level 69
Sep 9, 2014
Pleasantly surprised at the amount of people who got Dover, was never sure how well known it was worldwide
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Level 83
Sep 24, 2015
"There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover..." The song is probably more famous than the place itself.
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Level 72
Jul 17, 2018
Vera Lynn is one of my all time favorite singers and an amazing lady. Her voice is one of the reasons that the Allies won WWII.
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Level 66
Mar 3, 2019
That's interesting. Bluebirds are endemic to North America.
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Level 79
Mar 19, 2019
@sulfuratus: It's a symbolism
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Level 83
Oct 5, 2016
There's also 1944 Hollywood movie, The White Cliffs of Dover
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Level 74
Mar 7, 2019
The movie, the song, and of course there's always Dover sole.
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Level 22
Dec 21, 2015
"Capital city of Bali?"
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Level 75
Jul 2, 2018
Denpasar.., like it says above
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Level 39
Jul 26, 2019
What even IS bali? 😂 😂 😂
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Level 67
Jul 26, 2019
Bali is an island in Indonesia.
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Level 20
Dec 23, 2015
I thought the Russian parliament was the Kremlin
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Level 63
Jun 8, 2016
Duma is not a building. And the Moscow Kremlin is more like the White House.
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Level 66
Jun 18, 2016
Actually the Kremlin in Moscow is a citadel, containing the Presidential Palace, various historical churches, military and government buildings.
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Level 67
May 9, 2018
Dover like a State Capital ?
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Level 83
Jun 23, 2018
Dover like the white cliffs of Dover I suspect.
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Level 69
Jul 1, 2018
There are definitely no white cliffs in Dover, Delaware, plus it's not in England.
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Level 48
Sep 12, 2018
Dover in Delaware was named by a man from Dover, which is a town in England.
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Level 58
Mar 3, 2019
dedicated to the so called gifted geography frauds here , 20 of 20 , 100 percentile, actually requires knowledge not punching in the places till you get all of them then repeating , it to,ruin the curve
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Level 65
Mar 3, 2019
Darmstadt was a major German city also destroyed by fire bombing
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Level 57
Mar 3, 2019
Not in 1945 though, and I'm not sure it constitutes a "major" city. It's tiny both in terms of population and area, and it doesn't even have an airport
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Level 65
Mar 4, 2019
I'll concede you the year discrepancy, but city of 157,000 and metro population of 430,000 = "tiny" ?
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Level 59
Jul 19, 2020
Compared to Dreseden's 540k/1.34M, I certainly wouldn't say "major."
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Level 61
Oct 4, 2023
It has an element named after it. That's pretty notable.
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Level 66
Mar 3, 2019
What is most populous city in Indiana? Damn it!
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Level 38
Mar 3, 2019
Can you accept other spellings for deutschland?
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Level 26
Mar 3, 2019
what other spellings are there?
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Level 58
Mar 4, 2019
doychland…? ;-)
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Level 38
Mar 24, 2019
Deuscheland, deucheland, deutcheland, the list goes on.
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Level 57
Nov 25, 2020
Duetschland too (I know that’s tripped me up before)
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Level 75
Dec 3, 2020
Why not take the chance to learn? I'm happy I've spent the time to learn things like Reykjavik, Machu Picchu, Kyrgyzstan etc etc!
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Level 89
Mar 3, 2019
It is my understanding that the Duma is just one of the houses of the Russian Federal Assembly--not the whole parliament--or am I not understanding that correctly?
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Level 80
Mar 5, 2019
My favourite letter :)
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Level 79
Mar 19, 2019
Missed Dead Sea again as the hint says 'lake'... (now I know it's a lake/inland sea)
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Level 67
Jul 26, 2019
How can Bali have a capital?
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Level 75
Aug 28, 2019
Is this a trick question?

Same way that many, many other places can have capitals. Why wouldn't Bali have a capital?

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Level 78
Oct 31, 2019
like U.S. states
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Level 57
Apr 21, 2020
"Formerly known as Mount McKinley"... I suspect that to most of the English-speaking world it is still known that way! How about "One day the mountain formerly known as McKinley may be known as..."
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Level 44
Apr 23, 2020
I think this quiz needs an update, Dunbar has just over 1 million people more than Johannesburg, thus placing it in second place
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Level 75
Dec 3, 2020
Dunbar is a wee town in Scotland with a few thousand inhabitants at most. Definitely fewer people than Jo'burg.
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Level 58
Apr 25, 2020
I got diwali because of the office...
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Level 45
Jun 2, 2020
Nice, fellow Office fan. However, Diwali is a very well known festival.
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Level 58
Apr 5, 2021
you have no idea the amount of excitement I had when I went to post the exact same thing as you Mr.Pappy and then when I scrolled down to the bottom and saw Chromyx's post the level of sadness that swept over me was unreal. I had one chance to finally post a comment that was you know, good and I lost it. :(
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Level 59
Nov 18, 2020
At first, I misread it as Indiana, and I thought, every large town in Indiana doesn't start with D...oh, wait, that's India.
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Level 59
Jul 25, 2021
Just a clarification, Duma is only the lower house of the Russian Parliament. It is the equivalent of the House of Representatives. The entire Russian Parliament consist of it and the upper house, Coincil of the Federation (Senate).
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Level 72
Oct 16, 2021
I believe the most populous city in India is Mumbai.
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Level 45
Feb 2, 2022
Got all but denpasar. I like the variety in subjects on this quiz. Well done!
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Level 72
Dec 30, 2023
maybe for some people, you should clarify that it is the Lower House of Parliament for Russia
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Level 69
Sep 9, 2024
Missed Denpasar