Geography Game

The Chronicler · **Reply #3000 on:** December 27, 2016, 07:20:09 PM

(I had been avoiding this topic for quite a while mostly because it has simply gotten way to complicated for me. It just wasn't fun anymore when I had to keep visiting Wikipedia for every post here just to get some info on some rather obscure place. On another forum I visit, they have a their own place-name game going on where they don't require any descriptions to go with names, and I actually liked that a lot. Of course, I understand that some of you might like the old way better, so perhaps we should reduce descriptions to just one sentence from now on. I'd like for this game to not be so much of a chore anymore.

Anyway, since I got a new atlas for Christmas, I might as well try getting back into this game.)

Yaren - The capital of Nauru, a tiny island nation in the Pacific.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3001 on:** December 29, 2016, 03:32:57 PM

(Nobody plays it but you and me, so if you want to dial down the description part that'd be fine with me Also Yay 3000 posts!!! )

Nigeria - Home of the prince who's going to make me rich as soon as I wire $2000 to cover his bank fees.

Justin1993 · **Reply #3002 on:** December 29, 2016, 03:42:11 PM

Aldabra is an atoll in the Indian Ocean. It is the second largest coral atoll in the world. It is also home to the world's largest population of giant tortoises, at 100,000 individuals.

The Chronicler · **Reply #3003 on:** December 29, 2016, 11:05:29 PM

Anchorage - The largest city in Alaska.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3004 on:** December 30, 2016, 12:07:06 AM

England - A country that wants to leave the EU. Not the most exciting answer, but it ends with D which is a cool and uncommon letter in this thread. Have fun with it next poster

The Chronicler · **Reply #3005 on:** December 30, 2016, 08:15:08 PM

(If you're looking for rare letters, I believe the rarest one you can find at the end of a place name is J. When I had looked through my old atlas, the only places ending in J that I could find were cities in Iran. I guess if you really want a challenge, that would be my suggestion.)

Denmark - A small country that's part of Scandinavia, and is also the country where you'll find the headquarters of the Lego company.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3006 on:** December 30, 2016, 10:54:38 PM

(P is another really uncommon one, the only time I got a P location was when I specifically requested one back in, like 2014 or something.)

Kharaj is a city in Iran, it first appeared on censuses in 2006.

The Chronicler · **Reply #3007 on:** December 31, 2016, 08:40:20 PM

Japan - A country in east Asia consisting of a series of large islands. It has one of the largest economies in the world, and is also facing problems due to an aging population (it's estimated that by the middle of this century, 30% of Japan's population will be over 65 years old).

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3008 on:** December 31, 2016, 09:02:50 PM

Norway is a democratic country in Scandanavia. I flew there once but unfortunately it was the day of the Oslo shooting so it wasn't the happiest trip

The Chronicler · **Reply #3009 on:** January 01, 2017, 09:05:08 PM

Yellow (River) - The second-longest river in China, named so because of the sediment in the water.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3010 on:** January 01, 2017, 09:45:02 PM

Wadsworth Ohio is a really small town that I lived in for two years. It snowed a lot and there was literally nothing to do, I couldn't stand it. There's a reason almost half of my posts on the GoF are from those two years.

The Chronicler · **Reply #3011 on:** January 02, 2017, 06:50:14 PM

(I think something worth keeping in mind for this topic is to make it easy for everyone to understand which letter they're supposed to use for the next post. For example, in my most recent one, I put the "River" part in parentheses to show that I wanted you to use W instead of R. The way you formatted your recent post, however, it's hard for me to tell if you want me to use H or O. I'm going to assume H here, but please try to make sure it's easier to tell which letter you want the next poster to use.)

Honolulu - Capital of Hawaii, and home to nearly a third of the state's entire population.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3012 on:** January 02, 2017, 08:45:07 PM

Oh, ok. I always figured next poster could use whichever they prefer but I'll specify in the future.

The Underground Railroad was a network of safespots used by slaves to escape from the American south to the North during the times when slavery was legal. I got to follow along it when I was in high school during a history-themed family vacation to the east coast.

The Chronicler · **Reply #3013 on:** January 19, 2017, 11:20:24 PM

Delaware - Second smallest state in the U.S., and the first of the original colonies to ratify the constitution on December 7, 1787, giving it the distinction of "the first state".

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #3014 on:** February 26, 2017, 06:43:56 PM

Erasmus is a university in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It's named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist and theologian.

The Chronicler · **Reply #3015 on:** February 26, 2017, 09:45:32 PM

South Sudan - A country in east Africa that became independent on July 9, 2011, making it the most recently independent nation in the world. However, despite its independence from Sudan, it is currently plagued by ethnic violence, civil war, and famine.

Sovereign · **Reply #3016 on:** February 27, 2017, 05:00:31 AM

Naantali is a small city in western Finland, just north of Turku, and one of the oldest towns in the country, known for its medieval abbey church and its distinctive wooden old town.

Justin1993 · **Reply #3017 on:** February 27, 2017, 01:28:52 PM

Isle of Wight is a county and island located in England's English Channel.

The Chronicler · **Reply #3018 on:** March 04, 2017, 10:25:31 PM

Tallahassee - The capital of Florida, the name comes from the old native Muskogean word meaning "old fields" or "old town", and was chosen as the capital of Florida in 1822 because it was seen as being right in the middle between St. Augustine and Pensacola, the colonial capitals of East Florida and West Florida respectively.

Coyote_A · **Reply #3019 on:** March 05, 2017, 03:46:14 AM

Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of the Northern Europe. One of the former Soviet Socialist Republics and not proud of it.

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