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Locations by Letter - A

Name these real and fictional locations that start with the letter A.
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Last updated: March 4, 2016
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First submittedMarch 24, 2014
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Description
Location
Southernmost continent
Antarctica
Land of the Norse gods
Asgard
Nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way
Andromeda
Ancient island that fell into the sea
Atlantis
"Remembered" place where
Davy Crockett had a last stand
Alamo
Where the Joker was imprisoned
Arkham Asylum
Country where the Taliban held sway
Afghanistan
Country where you might get
a Vegemite sandwich
Australia
Prison where Sirius Black was held
Azkaban
One of Canada's Prairie Provinces
Alberta
Former name of Ethiopia
Abyssinia
Description
Location
Peninsula of the Saudis
Arabia
Planet destroyed by the Death Star
Alderaan
"Sweet home" state sung of by Skynyrd
Alabama
Arthurian island where Excalibur was forged
Avalon
City where you'd find a Coke museum
Atlanta
Home of Socrates and Plato
Athens
Shark-infested island of "Jaws"
Amity Island
Autonomous region of southern Spain
Andalusia
Brüno's home country
Austria
Emirate to which Garfield threatened
to mail Nermal
Abu Dhabi
Location of an ancient library
Alexandria
29 Comments
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Level 4
Apr 13, 2014
I always get the hard ones and miss the easy ones. *sigh*
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Level 48
Apr 26, 2014
Got Abu Dhabi too, huh?
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Level 78
Apr 14, 2014
Skynyrd is spelled just so. No "A", ironically.
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Level 69
Oct 6, 2015
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Level 63
Apr 14, 2014
Abyssinia sounds cooler than Ethiopia. They should go back
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Level 48
Apr 26, 2014
And the cats are pretty.
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Level 66
Nov 10, 2014
Axum instead of Abyssinia? I definitely remember learning about a place called Axum that became present-day Ethiopia.
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Level 75
Jun 1, 2015
Part of the former Kingdom of Axum is included in present-day Ethiopia, but if memory serves correctly it didn't cover the entire area now included in the modern nation.
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Level 81
Sep 6, 2016
Axum is just a city (in Ethiopia) but the Axumite Empire covered a pretty big area and lasted a very long time. Neither it nor the ancient kingdom of Abyssinia have borders exactly the same as modern-day Ethiopia, though.
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Level 48
Sep 6, 2016
I'm pretty sure Abyssinia is what Ethiopia was called during Italy's invasion of it in 1935. It was pretty much exactly what constitutes the Ethiopian nation today, it had to be.

This is because Italy already controlled modern day Eritrea, modern day Somalia was jointly controlled by the UK and Italy, Kenya and Sudan were controlled by the UK, and even Djibouti was controlled by the French. Not much room left for border mutations.

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Level 68
Sep 6, 2016
Not exact area but I think its considered a successor.
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Level 59
Jul 28, 2020
Abbysinia is the same country as Ethiopia, just renamed. Axum is an acient empire that just happened to be partially in the same territory, without any real connection between the two. Kudos for knowing it, but would you say that Golden Horde is the former name of Russia? Probably not.
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Level 56
Nov 17, 2014
Too many fictional references for my taste
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Level 70
Apr 20, 2015
I agree, maybe to give those that only watch tv/films a chance to get a point or two.
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Level 71
Sep 28, 2019
Why I wouldnt mind a few more fictional ones.
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Level 81
Sep 6, 2016
I tried so many ways of spelling Alderaan, but never considered the double a.
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Level 56
Sep 6, 2016
Nice little Men at Work reference there
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Level 68
Sep 6, 2016
As an Australian I read it and thought "wait, what?" before realising this quiz was international
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Level 85
May 15, 2017
I tried vegemite once. bleccchhhtt! :-P
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Level 48
Oct 11, 2018
whadjamean???it's great on toast with avocado... yummy... the secret is .. spread it thinly !!!!
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Level 84
May 13, 2024
If the secret to keeping a food from being revolting is to eat less of it, one wonders how tasty the food actually is...
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Level 70
Jan 2, 2017
Have to get better at this.
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Level 67
Oct 10, 2017
Can't believe I missed Abyssinia, many of the others were harder...
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Level 59
Oct 11, 2017
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Ethiopia also known as Aksum at one point? I think it should also be accepted, along with Abyssinia
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Level 51
Dec 22, 2019
Most of these aren’t real geography smh
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Level 63
Aug 23, 2021
"Locations by Letter - A. Name these real and fictional locations that start with the letter A."

I don't see anything in the quiz title or description that says it's a geography quiz.

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Level 84
Jun 16, 2022
The Taliban once again hold sway in Afghanistan, so you could remove the past tense.
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Level 69
Oct 4, 2023
There are too many fictional places in this one
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Level 46
Dec 5, 2023
3/22 were US places, good