Geography by Number of Letters - Hidden Edition

Can you guess these geographical answers that contain each amount of letters, ranging from 4 to 12? In each group, you are not shown the number of letters until you answer the question.
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Last updated: February 19, 2016
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4
Most populated continent
Asia
12
Country with 50 states
United States
5
Suez, Panama, Erie, eg.
Canal
10
Brisbane's Australian state
Queensland
6
Largest bay in the world
Bengal
7
Copenhagen's island
Zealand
9
Most developed African country
Mauritius
11
NYC's ice skating center
Rockefeller
8
A line of latitude
Parallel
 
 
 
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Answer
7
Most populous Canada province
Ontario
10
Tashkent is its capital
Uzbekistan
8
Napeleon's defeat: Belgium city
Waterloo
11
Largest city of Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
12
Urban area, aka ______ area
Metropolitan
5
Italy's fashion capital
Milan
9
Palau's capital (not Melekeok)
Ngerulmud
4
Incan empire country
Peru
6
Smallest coastal country
Monaco
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Hint
Answer
5
Alexandria country's capital
Cairo
9
Jersey Shore's US state
New Jersey
12
French region in South America
French Guiana
4
Pre-euro Italian currency
Lira
6
Guangzhou, in English form
Canton
11
A very terrible event in an area
Catastrophe
10
Federated States of ________
Micronesia
8
"Hipster" borough of NYC
Brooklyn
7
Atlanta's US state
Georgia
 
 
 
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11
Russian oblast bordering Poland
Kaliningrad
4
Greek god of the skies
Zeus
12
Famous California celebrity town
Beverly Hills
8
Mt Elbrus is this range's peak
Caucasus
7
_____ of Darien (Panama)
Isthmus
10
The science of earthquakes
Seismology
9
Appears on the UK flag
Union Jack
6
Large saltwater body in Canada
Hudson
5
Czech name for "Prague"
Praha
6 Comments
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Level 78
Feb 19, 2016
Nice! It would take time but if you put the hidden numbers in order (going down from 4 to 12) it'll be easier to see which ones are still missing as you go along
+1
Level 66
Feb 19, 2016
Thanks, as always. (maybe I should say thanks beforehand!)
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Level 66
Feb 19, 2016
And I formatted it this way to align the answers with the corresponding number of letters. :)
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Level 67
May 18, 2021
As just a geography quiz it's ok- not really sure what the point of the number of letters are... doesn't really help any
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Level 85
Jun 1, 2025
The (hidden) number of letters in the answer does have a use, albeit a very minor one.

In each category, there's one answer of each length from 4 through 12. So if you're—for example—stuck on one (or two), but you have all the others, you can use process of elimination to deduce what answer lengths you have remaining, and that might be able to help your guessing.

Probably only likely to help at the margins, but not totally useless.

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Level 85
Jun 1, 2025
I liked the quiz overall, but a minor quibble about the "UK flag" question: per my understanding (and so far as I can tell this is backed up by Wikipedia), the Union Jack doesn't appear on the UK flag; rather it is the UK flag.

(That is, it's an alternative name for it.)

It did prevent me from getting that answer as I rejected it on that basis (admittedly I could have tried it anyway). Instead I thought you were getting at the fact that it's the combination of St. George's Cross (English flag), St. Andrew's Saltire (Scottish flag) and St. Patrick's Saltire (kinda sorta the Northern Ireland flag), and spent my time trying different variants of those terms - as those are designs that do properly appear "on" the UK flag.

Would be appreciated if you could consider tweaking the wording a bit!