Geography Chain - Extremely Difficult

The questions below are ones that I believe are obscure or difficult for most people to guess. The last letter of each answer is the first letter of the next.

Put a comment below to suggest more difficult questions and I'll do my best to work them into the quiz!

Likewise, if a question is too easy, just say so and I'll remove it from the quiz.

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Last updated: July 28, 2021

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First submitted	October 12, 2016
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Clue	Answer
Wollongong and Newcastle are located on the shore of this sea	Tasman
Location in Melekeok; replaced Koror	Ngerulmud
Region of western Sudan	Darfur
Declared capital of ISIL territory from 2014 to 2017	Raqqa
Country with the lowest elevation capital city	Azerbaijan
Disputed region of the above	Nagorno-Karabakh
Island with the same name as the subnational entity in which it is located	Hawaii
Largest city in the Aegean Region	İzmir
The main roads of Benghazi form this geometric shape	Rings
City on the Han River	Seoul

Clue	Answer
City at the foot of Illimani	La Paz
The last national capital alphabetically	Zagreb
The Ebro river flows into this sea	Balearic
Largest city on the River Taff	Cardiff
This river separates Indonesia and Papua New Guinea	Fly
Home of the Carcross "desert," supposedly the smallest on Earth	Yukon
Northernmost municipality on mainland Europe	Nordkapp
Semi-autonomous region of Somalia	Puntland
River that flows out of Lake St. Clair	Detroit

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15 Comments

Level 76

Oct 12, 2016

Did not know the spelling of Raqqa. I tried variations of Rakha.

Level 61

Oct 13, 2016

Should that be accepted?

Level 66

Nov 12, 2016

Whew. You weren't kidding that this is hard. I got two, and one of those was the fairly easy "Darfur".

Level 61

Dec 22, 2016

Thanks! I tried to vary the difficulty so that there were a few easy ones, but based on the answer stats it looks like most of them were pretty difficult. I know that I myself wouldn't do very well on this quiz if I hadn't been the one who made it!

Level 69

Dec 26, 2021

I love quizzes like this that send me off researching odd geographical nooks and crannies.

Level 87

Apr 14, 2023

Tasmania as the name of the island with the same name...?

Level 64

Feb 6, 2025

but it doesnt start with h

Level 91

Feb 29, 2024

Love this quiz. Really challenging.

Regarding the Benghazi clue -- Just couldn't get it because the clue seems to suggest a word that is in the singular form ("this geometric shape") but the answer is a plural. I kinda knew the shape of the Benghazi roads, but couldn't think of A shape that started with R and ended with S. (I tried "rhombus" which isn't really right, but it never occurred to me that the shape of the city would be described - ungrammatically - as "a rings".) You can't really fix it by simply accepting ring as a type-in because no one would guess a word ending in G if they knew that the next clue starts with an S.

Maybe tweak the question to say "Shape(s) formed by the main roads of Benghazi"?

Level 72

Jan 28, 2025

Hawaii is an archipelago

Level 77

Jan 29, 2025

and an island

Level 74

Jan 28, 2025

As an Australian, I tried Derwent for the river, as there is a very well-known lake in Tasmania called Lake St Clair

Level 81

Jan 28, 2025

Really enjoyed the challenge! Several clues have non-unique answers which is especially frustrating when they match the letter you have from the previous question... grr.

Level 64

Jan 28, 2025

Hainan could also work for the island question

Level 64

Jan 28, 2025

Also if you make another one, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa might work? maybe its too hard, but you'd have to be lenient on the spelling for Pakhtunkhwa. The clue could be something like "Province in northwest Pakistan, named after a region in the area"

Level 72

Jan 30, 2025

I've been to Carcross, it's a friendly little town. Didn't know it was a desert