South American Geography Quiz #1

Oh wow that's a very cool fact Quizmaster! I never knew that! (just so you know, i'm not being sarcastic)

In the same way, in French, they are called "Îles Malouines", named after the sailors of Saint-Malo who settled on those islands.

I'm going to try and answer this. Trinidad and Tobago is usually placed in North America. Not in the same geographical way that Cyprus is really near to Asia. You could say culturally, but if you follow the island chain of the greater and lesser Antilles, it goes in a line, then a curve near St Kitts, into a line again and follow that, it seems as if Trinidad is part of the island chain, even though Trinidad is really near South America. But then again that could be complete rubbish.

Spanish doesn't really do double letters lol

As of 2019, the margin is extremely small. Spanish is definitely spoken in more places, but Brazil simply has more people...

I make it as roughly 198m Spanish speakers on the continent vs 206 million Portuguese speakers. It's close, but Portuguese has a non-negligible edge. One factor working against Spanish is that whereas very few Brazilians speak native languages significant portions of the populations of Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay do, cutting into those countries' contributions to the total number of Spanish speakers. Though Paraguay is a little confusing as the vast majority of its population is bilingual - Wikipedia says 90% speak Guarani and 87% speak Spanish. Breaking that down into a single 'first language' is virtually impossible/irrelevant.

If you add up the number of Spanish speakers from South America from this website, then you'll see that the number comes to about 213 million speakers (not including the Spanish speakers in Brazil).

According to this website, there are almost 209 million people in Brazil, basically all of whom speak Portuguese.

That's a pretty small difference. So if you include all the Portuguese speakers from Spanish-speaking countries, it's about even. I am curious where QM got his data though, because I'm having trouble finding a solid source myself.

good for you

Lake Maracaibo is not a lake. It more of a bay.

I only just noticed that comment.

The general rule appears to be only spellings commonly used in English are accepted. So Zhongguo or Deutschland wouldn't be accepted for China and Germany respectively, despite those being the native names for those countries. Similarly, I haven't encountered the Magallanes spelling in English usage, only in Spanish.

Do you people ever stop and think that maybe this isn't such a breeze for everyone? I think you do and you're just bragging rudely

Time to go forth and argue about Cyprus.

Pretty sure it's from birds tho

I feel like Guano's answer should be compatible with phosphates.