"Second Best" Geography Edition #3

Can you name the things that rank #2 in these geographical categories?

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First submitted	June 21, 2020
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Category	First	Second
Most spoken language in the United States	English	Spanish
Longest river in the world	Nile	Amazon
African country with the northernmost point	Tunisia	Algeria
African country with the southernmost point	South Africa	Lesotho
Largest desert in Africa	Sahara	Kalahari
Largest desert in Asia	Arabian	Gobi
Biggest island in the Mediterranean Sea	Sicily	Sardinia
Most populous African country	Nigeria	Ethiopia
Country with the highest population density	Monaco	Singapore
National capital closest to Madrid	Andorra la Vella	Lisbon
First country alphabetically	Afghanistan	Albania
Last country alphabetically	Zimbabwe	Zambia
Southernmost capital city in Europe	Valletta	Athens
Biggest island in the Philippines	Luzon	Mindanao
Most populous city in Ohio (city proper)	Columbus	Cleveland
Most populous island	Java	Honshū
Canadian province with the smallest land area	Prince Edward Island	Nova Scotia
Most populous national capital starting with T	Tokyo	Tehran
Country with the most stars on its flag	United States	Brazil
Northernmost national capital	Reykjavík	Helsinki

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28 Comments

Level 76

Dec 8, 2021

Quite pleased with myself here - got 18 of them on the first guess. Got the remaining two in 2 guesses for Ohio (behind Cincinnati) and 3 for oranges (behind Spain and India).

Level 78

Dec 9, 2021

Zambia comes before Zimbabwe

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Level 76

Dec 9, 2021

Which is why Zimbabwe is given and Zambia is the second best

Level 62

Dec 16, 2021

Wow that island question was pretty eye opening. Never knew how populated Java was!

+12

Level 72

Mar 8, 2023

Java has more people than all of Russia, surprisingly.

Level 74

Jun 26, 2024

wow indeed it does! wasn't aware of that. That is an insightful fact.

Level 81

Dec 16, 2021

Jetpunk Interesting Facts: "It is up for debate whether the Nile or the Amazon is the world's longest river."

Also Jetpunk: (Question 2)

Level ∞

Sep 12, 2024

#dealwithit

Level 71

Oct 8, 2024

But it's not debatable that those are the two longest, so if one is given, the answer has to be the other.

Level 59

Dec 17, 2021

The most populous U.S. state question is already in your "second best" geography quiz #2

Level ∞

Sep 12, 2024

Removed and replaced.

Level 63

Jan 18, 2022

You might also want to try the randomized version.

Level 54

Apr 16, 2022

Got all except somehow missed Amazon.... embarrassing

Level 43

May 30, 2023

i write spainish... when i dont have first question

Level 59

Mar 16, 2025

"Spainish"? Missclick?

Level 77

Sep 12, 2024

Urgh there's always that one random question that massively favours Americans to stop me getting 5/5

Level 84

Sep 13, 2024

Only one question about the US and it has a common sense answer that doesn't "massively favor" anyone.

Level 58

Sep 25, 2024

I couldn't disagree more - the question about Ohio is on a par with asking what's the second largest city in Lorraine, or Brandenburg, or KwaZulu-Natal. It's not an invalid question, but for non-Americans is significantly harder than the others, I'd say. Like @mrpepperdine I feel just slightly aggrieved at my 19/20, but it's quite a common thing on Jetpunk. Which is after all an American site.

Level 84

Sep 28, 2024

Yeah y'all are right. I forgot the Ohio question was in there, I thought he was referring to the second most spoken language question

Level 36

Mar 15, 2025

I would've never gotten that one OH IS IT CLEVELAND OK I TAKE THAT BACK

I'm not googling that btw

Level 86

May 28, 2025

The question about the islands of the Philippines is probably going to be easier for Filipinos than non-Filipinos. Is your complaint that people from different places might know different things? Because... yup, that's how it works.

Level 79

Sep 16, 2024

Is there a reason why it wouldn't accept "honshu"? I do not have the capability of the punctuation over the final "u" on my keyboard.

Level ∞

Sep 16, 2024

Honshu is accepted. Diacritics are never required on JetPunk.

Level 51

Oct 14, 2024

I said Mingdanao :(

Level 75

Mar 14, 2025

I thought the first question was asking which other country had the most English speakers. I need to stop drinking decaf.