Geography Game

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #2720 on:** June 01, 2010, 03:36:27 AM

Norway, part of Scandanavia and, according to some exchange students I met, rivals of Sweden

Noname · **Reply #2721 on:** June 01, 2010, 03:58:22 AM

Yekaterinburg, Russia. A city in the Urals mountains where the last Czar and his family were killed by the communists.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #2722 on:** June 01, 2010, 04:22:40 AM

Gitega, one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. It's the one right in the middle.

Noname · **Reply #2723 on:** June 01, 2010, 04:43:41 AM

Aruba, a small island in the Caribbean sea.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #2724 on:** June 01, 2010, 05:03:51 AM

Aornos, the site of the last great siege of Alexander the Great, in 326-327 BC.

WAbam · **Reply #2725 on:** June 01, 2010, 08:10:45 PM

Sydney Australia- home of the Sydney Opera House and location of the year 2000 Summer Olympics.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #2726 on:** June 01, 2010, 08:42:05 PM

Yarmouth, Maine. It was well known for "Herbie," a 110 foot tall elm tree and the largest and oldest of its kind on New England. Unfortunately, Herbie recently contracted Dutch Elm Disease and had to be cut down.

Noname · **Reply #2727 on:** June 01, 2010, 11:33:48 PM

England, a country within the UK. We all know about it, I'm sure.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #2728 on:** June 04, 2010, 01:13:45 AM

Dolon, village in the Issyk Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan, which coincidentally shares a name with one of the characters from Darwin's Soldiers

WAbam · **Reply #2729 on:** June 04, 2010, 10:39:48 PM

North Korea. It's communist

Noname · **Reply #2730 on:** June 05, 2010, 04:04:18 AM

Austria, a small country to the North of Italy.

The Chronicler · **Reply #2731 on:** June 10, 2010, 03:25:19 PM

(Sorry for my absence. I've been busy with other things for a while.)

Andros (Island) - The largest island of the Bahamas, it is known to the Bahamians as "Big Yard". It is actually three separate islands: North Andros, Mangrove Cay, and South Andros. North Andros is the sixth largest island in the Caribbean. (The five larger islands are Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad.)

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #2732 on:** June 11, 2010, 04:10:17 AM

Springfield. Take your pick which one

The Chronicler · **Reply #2733 on:** June 11, 2010, 03:45:20 PM

Drakensberg - The highest mountain range in southern Africa, it stretches along the eastern coast of South Africa and the small countries of Lesotho and Swaziland. The major rivers of South Africa, the Orange and the Vaal, drain from these mountains to the west.

Noname · **Reply #2734 on:** June 11, 2010, 04:22:53 PM

Georgia, and not the US state, either. Georgia also refers to a small country in the Caucuses, a former part of the Soviet Union.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #2735 on:** June 12, 2010, 06:59:29 PM

Acapulco, one of the most well known Mexican tourist resorts. The name means "place of broken reeds" in the Nahuatl language.

The Chronicler · **Reply #2736 on:** June 12, 2010, 09:07:33 PM

Osh - The second largest city in Kyrgyzstan, it is one of the oldest settlements in Central Asia and is one of few places where a statue of Lenin still stands. The city has been appearing in the news lately, due to riots.

Noname · **Reply #2737 on:** June 12, 2010, 09:08:18 PM

Orleans, a city in France which gives New Orleans its name. Joan of Arc was said to have inspired the French military to lift a siege of this city.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #2738 on:** June 12, 2010, 09:29:47 PM

Scranton, Pennsylvania, a real town that makes frequent appearances in popular culture, notably as the setting of The Office.

The Chronicler · **Reply #2739 on:** June 13, 2010, 03:00:09 PM

Nuuk - The capital of Greenland. With a population of 15,469, it is one of the smallest capital cities in the world by population. It was founded in 1728 as Godthab (translated: "Good Hope"), and given its current name (translated: "The Tip") in 1979.