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Geography True or False #6

Try to guess whether these geographical statements are true or false.
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Last updated: November 29, 2022
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1. Greenland is smaller than Madagascar. It only appears to be larger due to the Mercator Projection.
Greenland is the world's largest island and is nearly four times the size of Madagascar
True
False
2. The official language of Egypt is Egyptian
True
False
3. No African country has ever hosted the men's FIFA World Cup
South Africa hosted in 2010
True
False
4. China borders North Korea
True
False
5. There is a country in United Nations whose name starts with "West"
True
False
6. The Rhine and the Rhone are two names for the same river
They are different rivers
True
False
7. Brooklyn is part of New York City
True
False
8. There is a U.S. state that has the same name as a country
Georgia
True
False
9. There is a city named Karen with a metro population of over 1,000,000
True
False
10. Uganda is on the Indian Ocean
True
False
11. China exports a higher value of goods than any other country
China's exports are nearly twice those of the United States
True
False
12. Portugal lies on the Iberian Peninsula
True
False
13. Germany is the only country whose name ends in Y
Hungary, Italy, Norway, Paraguay, Turkey, and Uruguay also end in Y
True
False
14. Most of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet
The Antarctic ice sheet covers 98% of the continent and is about 2 kilometers thick
True
False
15. Of the six inhabited continents, Africa has the lowest per-capita GDP
True
False
38 Comments
+77
Level 87
Nov 30, 2022
I think number 9 is wrong. I demand to speak with your manager.
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Level 83
Dec 1, 2022
genius
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Level 69
Jan 19, 2023
number 9, number 9, number 9...
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Level 70
Nov 30, 2022
Ah, I remembered the Karen people and kinda assumed there would be a city of the same name. Well, at least I only missed one.
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Level 89
Nov 30, 2022
If all the Karens demanded to live together, that city would be approximately twice the size as NYC...
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Level 75
Jan 19, 2023
Only if you think there are ~4.5 million people living in New York, and not the nearly 9 million everyone else seems to count it as.
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Level 75
Apr 21, 2024
New york city is comprised of the five borroughs, not just Manhattan, and the population of them all is between 8 and 9 million. That's the city proper population according the US Census.
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Level 86
Nov 30, 2022
20% think that Greenland is smaller than Madagascar???
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Level 56
Nov 30, 2022
most people probably know that map projection can get weird.
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Level 68
Feb 7, 2023
>Its a well known geography fact

bro you gotta get out more

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Level 48
Apr 23, 2024
It's a trick question. The mind jumps straight to Africa instead of Madagascar alone, because we know the Mercator map distorts polar areas.
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Level 84
Nov 30, 2022
Usually on these there are one or two questions that I really have to think on, but this one seemed very straightforward.
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Level 76
Nov 30, 2022
$5 that Netherlands secretly ships their olympic skaters to Antarctica to practice
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Level 86
Nov 30, 2022
Re: the cardinal directions question, I would say there is no East country either. According to the UN's list of countries, it's Timor Leste only!
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Level 82
Dec 1, 2022
It doesn't change the answer though, so that's really not a problem.
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Level 42
Jan 9, 2023
There's still North Korea and South Africa, and even then, Timor-Leste is just Portuguese for East Timor, still has a cardinal direction in its name.
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Level 72
Jan 19, 2023
North Macedonia would probably be a better example. North Korea is represented in the UN as the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". A sick joke of a name, but their name nonetheless. Also, fun fact, Timor translates to East in Malay. That means their name translates to East East.
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Level 50
Jan 19, 2023
But you can't translate it through both portugese and malay at the same time. So it's either Timor-East or East-Leste
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Level 49
Aug 25, 2023
East timor leste
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Level 75
Apr 21, 2024
Eastern East Easter
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Level 79
Jan 19, 2023
Why can't I? Just try and stop me.
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Level 63
Jan 17, 2023
Silly me... I went back and changed #1 because I thought there couldn't be three false ones in a row and that was the one of the three where I wasn't 100% sure.
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Level 65
Jan 19, 2023
You'd be surprised of the odds, the probability that 3 random coin tosses are either all heads or tails is 1/4. And for 15, there are 13 series of 3.

If the result was pure random, it's actually overwhelmingly likely to have 3 true or 3 false in a row

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Level 53
Jan 19, 2023
What about Western Sahara? I know it isn't a "country", but what is its status in the UN? I thought the UN saw it as independent, but I'm not sure.
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Level 71
Jan 19, 2023
Western Sahara is not an UN member
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Level 74
Jan 19, 2023
I find the fact that the Karen question is by far the least correctly guessed pretty funny.
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Level 85
Apr 21, 2024
It sounded quite plausible for it to be in India or China, and I don't know every 1mil+ city in either of those.
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Level 36
Jun 16, 2024
I'm German and don't know the joke behind this question
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Level 49
Jan 19, 2023
Got it on the first Try! Let's GOOO!!!!
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Level 28
Jan 19, 2023
Same let’s gooooo
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Level 23
Feb 26, 2024
Good quiz. Got two wrong: Karen did me wrong (thought she was a somewhat popular gal in Siberia) but for a geography buff not knowing so many countries end in "Y" is unforgivable! There was once a West Germany (albeit officially "Federal Republic of Germany") and Western Samoa (meanwhile renamed just Samoa) and likewise West Pakistan briefly.
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Level 56
Apr 21, 2024
I only got 2 wrong. The most guessed answer and the least guessed answer
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Level 31
Apr 22, 2024
i only got the west question wrong. well i guess it makes sense for the un not to recognize western sahara. they tend to turn a blind eye to genocide sometimes.
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Level 33
Apr 23, 2024
Paraguay also ends in Y, maybe you could add it. It was a nice quiz anyway, I got 13 out of 15
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Level 39
Apr 23, 2024
I got 100% on the first try :O, can't believe it
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Level 69
Apr 24, 2024
I read the World Cup question as "hoisted" not "hosted" :(
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Level 60
Apr 25, 2024
A little US-centric
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Level 49
Aug 12, 2024
I was thinking of western samoa with the west un question