"Second Best" Geography Edition #3

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

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Last updated: December 14, 2021

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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
Largest desert in Africa	Sahara	Kalahari
Most populous U.S. state	California	Texas
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
Country producing the most oranges	Brazil	China
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

Level 66

Jun 22, 2020

Fun quiz - but Albania comes before Algeria, so it should be 2nd after Afghanistan I believe.

Level 73

Jun 22, 2020

Seconded.

Level 74

Jun 25, 2020

Fixed

Level 75

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 81

Dec 9, 2021

Zambia comes before Zimbabwe

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Level 74

Dec 9, 2021

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

Level 69

Dec 16, 2021

Source for orange production? If you look at wikipedia (not the best source I am aware), China isn't even in the top three: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_production

My biased general knowledge for years was that the USA was the second largest producer, with either China or India or Mexico being third (varying from year to year), and several sources back me up on that; however, maybe something drastic happened since 2015 and I'm out of date.

Level ∞

Dec 16, 2021

Source is the FAO department of the UN.

Level 69

Jan 7, 2022

This? https://www.fao.org/3/cb6492en/cb6492en.pdf

Wow, that's eye opening! The USA's orange production is less than 1/13th of what it was in the early 1980's, while China's production increased 4x since 2011.

Level 63

Dec 16, 2021

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

Level 76

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 57

Dec 17, 2021

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

Level 54

Jan 18, 2022