Continental Geography Decoder

Solve the short clues about each continent. Then combine the first letters of each answer to form one more continent-related answer.

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First submitted	October 5, 2015
Times taken	46,884
Average score	58.3%
Rating	4.42

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Africa
SECRET:		ZAIRE
Z	Last country alphabetically	Zimbabwe
A	Algeria's official language	Arabic
I	Madagascar touches this ocean	Indian
R	Burundi's northern neighbor	Rwanda
E	Asmara is its capital city	Eritrea

Asia
SECRET:		TIBET
T	Subarctic forest biome in Siberia	Taiga
I	Peninsula of Thailand and Vietnam	Indochina
B	"Kalimantan" is part of this island	Borneo
E	Tallest mountain in Eurasia	Everest
T	Companion of the Euphrates	Tigris

Europe
SECRET:		VOLGA
V	English name of Wien	Vienna
O	Largest city of Norway	Oslo
L	This bridge is falling down	London Bridge
G	Overseas territory of Denmark	Greenland
A	Sea touching Italy, Croatia, etc.	Adriatic Sea

North America
SECRET:		IDAHO
I	Narrow strip of land. Panama is one	Isthmus
D	Formerly known as Mount McKinley	Denali
A	Eastern USA mountain range	Appalachian
H	Five-letter Great Lake	Huron
O	Second biggest city in Ontario	Ottawa

Oceania
SECRET:		PALAU
P	Westernmost major city in Oceania	Perth
A	Highest mountain in New Zealand	Aoraki
L	Taupo is a type of this	Lake
A	Term for a ring-shaped coral island	Atoll
U	Also known as Ayers Rock	Uluru

South America
SECRET:		ANDES
A	Longest river in the Americas	Amazon
N	Capital of Rio Grande do Norte	Natal
D	Official language of Suriname	Dutch
E	Island known for its 900+ moai	Easter Island
S	Capital and largest city of Chile	Santiago

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91 Comments

+10

Level 77

Oct 5, 2015

Nice idea! Not sure Easter island, despite being politically part of Chile, belongs to 'South America'

Level 78

Nov 22, 2016

That's like saying Hawaii, which is technically part of the USA, belongs in Oceania.

+37

Level 76

Nov 22, 2016

Which it does!

+10

Level 69

Dec 15, 2016

It absolutely does - Hawai'i is Polynesian.

+13

Level 65

Jan 17, 2017

It belongs to the US, although geographically in Oceania. French Guiana belongs to a European country while in South America.

Level 66

Mar 5, 2017

Same case with Greenland, it is owned by Denmark, A European Country, but is part of North America.

Level 76

Mar 5, 2017

Yup, it's Polynesian. No amount of years or imperialism can change that.

+11

Level 67

Mar 5, 2017

On a related note, could you accept Rapa Nui or Rapanui for Easter Island, since it's the local name for it?

Level 65

Mar 5, 2017

If the answer goes below 50% guessed, then I will.

Level 61

Sep 5, 2023

Rapa Nui is correct regardless of how many people guess it, so it should be accepted.

Level 61

Mar 28, 2017

That's like saying Cyprus is European, when in fact it is an Asian country.

Level 66

Jul 29, 2018

@TinklePork. Cyprus is geographically closer to Asia but historically and culturally and geographically it is part of Europe.

Level 70

Apr 20, 2020

Oh no, not again.

Level 59

Aug 19, 2020

@TinklePork, there's a debate for cyprus, but no debate that Hawaii is in Oceania and is polynesian.

Level 48

Dec 4, 2020

it does

Level 38

May 6, 2021

Cyprus is probably transcontinental.

Level 82

Aug 16, 2021

I feel it's dangerous to enter into this, but I can't help myself. Cyprus is closer to the mainland of both Asia and Africa than it is to that of Europe. It seems pretty ridiculous to argue that an island belongs to a continent which is not only not the closest, but in fact only the third closest. And I know people try to argue on cultural grounds, but you may as well say Australia is part of Europe, if that's your standard. Of course you can eliminate the need for the debate at all by realising that Europe is by no conceivable consistent definition, a real continent.

And Easter Island and Hawaii aren't part of South and North America respectively, but they're not a part of the continent of Oceania either. Which isn't because they're not part of Oceania - they are - but rather because Oceania isn't a continent. It's a region that is mainly ocean. Continents are landmasses.

Level 70

Mar 5, 2017

All depends what you mean by 'belong'. If you mean which country 'owns' Easter island it is Chile, if you mean which Continent is nearer to Easter Island then it depends where you measure from, if Oceania means Australia (as everyone seems to offer in jetpunk when it is said Australia is a continent not an island) then the distance is 11,084 km, whereas the distance to Chile (South America) is 3,686 km.

Level 67

Mar 5, 2017

And Greenland is North America

Level 71

Apr 6, 2018

There's no one definition for what a continent is, ergo, there should not be one continent that a region necessarily belongs to.

Level 61

Feb 6, 2021

Same thing with greenland, but its part of Denmark, so its included.

Level 83

Jun 28, 2016

Just missed Natal. Great quiz!

Level 74

Nov 23, 2016

A bridge that is falling down, starting with L...mh..."Ladder".

Level 38

May 6, 2021

BRUH

Level 81

Nov 23, 2016

Wonderful quiz!

Level 62

Nov 27, 2016

Isn't Honolulu the westernmost major city in Oceania? It's at 157 west, while Perth is at 115 east.

Level 43

Dec 23, 2016

no you got your directions switched up...

Level 85

Mar 5, 2017

The other west.

Level 72

Mar 5, 2017

Good point

Level 56

Jun 30, 2024

Honolulu is in the U.S., so it's in North America.

Level 43

Dec 23, 2016

2:33 on the clock!

+20

Level 76

Jan 2, 2017

The "tallest Eurasian mountain" one tripped me up for ages. I kept trying to spell "Elbrus"...

Level 58

Mar 5, 2017

rightfully so i did same

Level 63

Mar 5, 2017

What do you mean rightfully? Everest is certainly taller than Elbrus. And you understand Eurasia means Europe and Asia, not just Europe?

Level 56

Jun 30, 2024

Yeah, but it's the area(s) that are considered parts of both such as Russia, Turkey, etcetera. Everest is in Nepal, which is wholly in Asia.

Level 66

Mar 5, 2017

Same, but after a few tries I realised Everest was the right one, lol.

Level 72

Jul 5, 2019

Mount everest is not acepted..

Level 80

Aug 13, 2019

The "Mount" is not required.

Level 59

Aug 19, 2020

Yes but it is generally annoying, I got confused on Denali for this same reason, with Everest it's more obvious but on Denali I thought I messed something else and moved on before realizing what happened on Everest.

Level 74

Mar 5, 2017

I did the same thing. Yes, Swilkes, I'm guessing most of us on here know what Eurasia means. For some reason I read Eurasian as European.

Level 59

Oct 8, 2019

I got stuck completely there. In so many of these quizzes Asia is counted as one continent and Europe as another so Eurasia is the part where they merge and I really consider Everest in Asia being so far away from Europe.

Level 78

Apr 15, 2020

It's because Elbrus may be the tallest mountain of Europe, but it lies pretty much on the border to Asia. So when asked about a "Eurasian" mountain, a lot of people assum it must be the one on both continents - me included.

Level 70

Sep 30, 2021

Am I the only one that got it in their first go?

Level 55

Mar 5, 2017

Didn't realize you required the "continent-related answer" to be retyped. Is that really necessary?

Level 67

Mar 5, 2017

Well, If you don't get the other clues you can still guess the continent-related one so that's why

Level 58

Mar 5, 2017

Very clever! What about Antarctica?

Level 38

Mar 5, 2017

32/36

Level 38

Mar 5, 2017

4 ponis

Level 59

Aug 19, 2020

wow, that's a bargain, 4 ponies for getting a quiz done

Level 66

Mar 5, 2017

Happy to see the three I didn't get are the three least-guessed by a large margin.

Level 63

Mar 5, 2017

Can arabian be accepted for arabic?

Level 48

Mar 6, 2017

Please say no. It is so much better to learn that Arabic is a language and Arabian is the name of both a sea and a peninsula.

Level 77

Mar 6, 2017

Rapa Nui as an acceptable alternative for Easter Island please?

Level 51

Mar 14, 2017

Good job on having only two and a half questions about the United States!

Level 50

Mar 15, 2017

Well 'Zaire' no longer exists. I've not heard of many of these answers before. Surprised others have

Level 82

Jul 11, 2017

Zaire still 'exists'. It's just called something else now.

Level 72

Nov 28, 2019

You must be quite young if you havent heard of Zaire. It only changed its name about 20 years ago. (In 1997, so 5 years after Yugoslavia split, and Czechoslovakia and people usually do remember those)

Level 59

Aug 19, 2020

It's not that we usually remember them, it's just that we've heard the names learning about WW2 and Zaire doesn't come up as often, you do raise a valid point tho

Level 78

Aug 8, 2017

For Taupo, I kept typing volcano, caldera, etc. because Taupo is a volcano (volcanic caldera filled with a lake, I know) which confuzzled me before I finally tried lake, the last thing I had left :/ Could those things I mentioned be added as type-ins, or would that mess it up?

Level 78

Feb 2, 2018

I think the clue is misleading. It shouldn't say "Taupo is a type of this". It should just say "Taupo is one of this"

Level 72

Nov 28, 2019

Yea that makes it sounds like there are several types and taupo is one type, so there should be more taupo's

Level 92

Aug 27, 2020

Agreed. Great Bear and Baikal aren't types of lakes.

Level 60

Nov 29, 2017

This quiz is great and similar to many of my other favorite quizzes, but I have one suggestion.

I am I the only one who realized that Wien is a type-in for the English name of Wien? That's got to be fixed. I didn't know it was Vienna, but I certainly think that a question asking you to give an alternative name for a place should not have the original place as an answer.

Level ∞

Nov 29, 2017

Fixed! The downside of automatic type-ins.

Level 59

Mar 25, 2018

Maybe a part 2?

Level 76

Apr 7, 2018

Very fun. The definition for "atoll" needs to be reworked. Maybe "ring-shaped coral reef"? After all, atolls develop on the former coastline of partially-submerged volcanic mountains sitting on subsiding tectonic plates, so atolls of any significant age do not form the shoreline of any island, but generally involve multiple islands at various points on the rim, or even the interior, of the outer reef. ("Atolhu" is a Maldivian - Dhivehi - word meaning something like province, which bears close similarity to the geographic feature, given that physical atolls were convenient ways to combine islands for administrative purposes.)

Level 71

Apr 7, 2018

Mega awesome.

Level 36

May 15, 2018

Great Quiz! - But isn't Zaire extinct (now the Democratic republic of the Congo?

Level 66

Jul 29, 2018

what is your point?

Level 66

Nov 29, 2018

I got Zaire, Idaho, Tibet and Volga after guessing 2 letters in each of these continents. Oceania was tough.

Level 66

Dec 8, 2018

Easter Island is 49% guessed. You said you would accept Rapa Nui if it went below 50%.

Level 45

Dec 10, 2018

London Bridge is falling down ?! Oh no !

(jk, just didn't get the reference until the answers showed.)

Level 55

Jan 6, 2019

I knew "Natal" because I live one state south of Rio Grande do Norte

Level 28

Feb 17, 2019

I guessed Greenland, but wouldn’t Faroe Islands work better? Greenland is generally considered North American, but the Faroe Islands are definitely European.

Level 74

Apr 15, 2020

But then you'd have Volfa...

Level 80

Nov 28, 2019

Argghhgh, got 35/36 - didn't know Natal!

Level 49

Dec 22, 2019

Lmao guessed Palau when all I knew was the second A

Level 66

Jan 10, 2021

I did the same but I only had the P

Level 44

Apr 15, 2020

Isn't Kalimantan the Indonesian name for the entire island of Borneo?

I would know because I am Indonesian myself. And if I'm wrong, I would feel stupid.

Level 62

Apr 20, 2020

accept mount denali for denali

Level 67

Aug 13, 2020

could you accept more spelling options for Taiga? (tried Tayga I don't know how many times....) And also accept atoll with only single 'L'.

Level 75

Aug 27, 2020

So often here people who spell words correctly get penalised by having an extra letter hanging, just to please those who don't spell words correctly...

Level 75

Aug 27, 2020

MORE TIME PLEASE! I like working these out.

Level 66

Jan 10, 2021

I guessed TIBET from _I_E_ and I'm amazed. Ended up getting 3 points.

Level 38

May 6, 2021

Eurasia=

Eur+Asia

Europe+Asia

WoW I dId It YaY

Level 60

Jul 16, 2021

Ugh. I thought it was Atol. I had all the mystery words though!

Level 60

Jul 16, 2021

Greenland is in North America.

Level 29

Oct 25, 2021

I have always called it Southeast Asia not Indochina thats what I was taught

Level 65

Nov 13, 2023

There can be other correct names.

Level 57

Feb 23, 2022

Hey, I live in Idaho!

Level 79

Dec 1, 2024

Seems weird to have Greenland for Europe and Easter Island for South America when they're not actually in those continents.

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