100 Geography Trivia Questions & Answers 2026

World Capitals — 25 Questions

1. What is the capital of Australia? (Canberra — not Sydney)
2. What is the capital of Canada? (Ottawa)
3. What is the capital of Brazil? (Brasília — not Rio de Janeiro)
4. What is the capital of India? (New Delhi)
5. What is the capital of Japan? (Tokyo)
6. What is the capital of China? (Beijing)
7. What is the capital of Russia? (Moscow)
8. What is the capital of Egypt? (Cairo)
9. What is the capital of Argentina? (Buenos Aires)
10. What is the capital of South Africa? (Pretoria — legislative: Cape Town; judicial: Bloemfontein)
11. What is the capital of Nigeria? (Abuja — not Lagos)
12. What is the capital of Pakistan? (Islamabad — not Karachi)
13. What is the capital of Turkey? (Ankara — not Istanbul)
14. What is the capital of Saudi Arabia? (Riyadh)
15. What is the capital of Kazakhstan? (Astana — formerly Nur-Sultan)
16. What is the capital of Indonesia? (Jakarta — moving to Nusantara)
17. What is the capital of Sweden? (Stockholm)
18. What is the capital of Switzerland? (Bern — not Zurich)
19. What is the capital of New Zealand? (Wellington — not Auckland)
20. What is the capital of Myanmar? (Naypyidaw — not Yangon)
21. What is the capital of Morocco? (Rabat — not Casablanca)
22. What is the capital of Kenya? (Nairobi)
23. What is the capital of Israel? (Jerusalem — disputed internationally)
24. What is the capital of Ukraine? (Kyiv)
25. What is the capital of Colombia? (Bogotá)

World Records & Extremes — 25 Questions

1. What is the largest country by area? (Russia — 17.1 million km²)
2. What is the smallest country? (Vatican City — 0.44 km²)
3. What is the highest mountain? (Mount Everest — 8,849m)
4. What is the deepest ocean trench? (Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench — 10,935m)
5. What is the longest river? (Nile — 6,650km — though Amazon sometimes competes)
6. What is the largest ocean? (Pacific — 165 million km²)
7. What is the largest continent? (Asia)
8. What is the smallest continent? (Australia — or Oceania)
9. What is the largest country by population? (India — surpassed China in 2023)
10. What is the driest place on Earth? (Atacama Desert, Chile)
11. What is the wettest place on Earth? (Mawsynram, India — or Cherrapunji)
12. What is the largest desert? (Antarctic Desert — not the Sahara)
13. What is the deepest lake? (Lake Baikal, Russia — 1,642m)
14. What is the largest freshwater lake? (Lake Superior, North America)
15. What is the longest mountain range? (Andes, South America — 7,000km)
16. Which country has the most coastline? (Canada)
17. What is the most densely populated country? (Monaco)
18. What is the largest island? (Greenland)
19. What is the most populated city? (Tokyo, Japan — ~37 million)
20. What is the hottest place ever recorded? (Death Valley, California — 56.7°C in 1913)
21. What is the coldest place? (East Antarctica — -89.2°C recorded)
22. What is the highest capital city? (La Paz, Bolivia — 3,600m)
23. What is the most visited country by tourists? (France — ~90 million visitors/year)
24. Which country has the most time zones? (France — 12, including overseas territories)
25. What is the largest lake in Africa? (Lake Victoria)

Continents & Oceans — 25 Questions

1. How many continents are there? (7)
2. How many oceans are there? (5 — Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern)
3. Which continent has no permanent human population? (Antarctica)
4. Which is the smallest continent? (Australia)
5. Which continent has the most countries? (Africa — 54)
6. What ocean lies between Europe/Africa and the Americas? (Atlantic Ocean)
7. Which ocean surrounds Antarctica? (Southern Ocean)
8. What is the highest point in Africa? (Mount Kilimanjaro — 5,895m)
9. What is the largest country in South America? (Brazil)
10. What is the Amazon River famous for? (Largest river by water volume — biodiversity of Amazon rainforest)
11. Which continent is entirely in the Southern Hemisphere? (Antarctica — also most of Australia and parts of South America)
12. What is the smallest ocean? (The Arctic Ocean)
13. Which continent does Egypt span, partially via the Sinai Peninsula? (Africa and Asia)
14. Which two continents does Russia span? (Europe and Asia)
15. What is the most populous continent? (Asia)
16. What strait separates Asia from North America? (The Bering Strait)
17. What ocean is the largest by surface area? (The Pacific Ocean)
18. Which continent is home to the Sahara Desert? (Africa)
19. What is the dividing mountain range between Europe and Asia? (The Ural Mountains)
20. Which continent has the most glaciers and ice sheets? (Antarctica)
21. What sea connects to the Atlantic Ocean and borders southern Europe and North Africa? (The Mediterranean Sea)
22. What is the warmest ocean on average? (The Indian Ocean)
23. Which two continents border the Panama Canal? (North America and South America)
24. What ocean lies between Africa, Asia, and Australia? (The Indian Ocean)
25. What is the term for the imaginary line dividing Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres? (The Equator)

Rivers & Mountains — 25 Questions

1. What is the longest river in Africa? (The Nile)
2. What is the longest river in South America? (The Amazon)
3. What is the longest river in Asia? (The Yangtze River, China)
4. What mountain range contains Mount Everest? (The Himalayas)
5. What mountain range runs along the western coast of South America? (The Andes)
6. What mountain range separates France and Spain? (The Pyrenees)
7. What river flows through Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean? (The Nile)
8. What river flows through Paris? (The Seine)
9. What river flows through London? (The Thames)
10. What is the highest mountain in North America? (Denali, Alaska)
11. What is the highest mountain in Europe? (Mount Elbrus, Russia)
12. What is the highest mountain in Africa? (Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania)
13. What river flows through both Germany and several other European countries into the North Sea? (The Rhine)
14. What river is the longest in the United States? (The Missouri River, or the Mississippi depending on measurement)
15. What mountain range runs through much of California and Nevada? (The Sierra Nevada)
16. What river forms much of the border between the US and Mexico? (The Rio Grande)
17. What mountain in Japan is an iconic, often snow-capped volcano? (Mount Fuji)
18. What river flows through Russia and is Europe's longest river? (The Volga)
19. What is the term for a river's starting point? (The source)
20. What is the term for where a river meets the sea? (The mouth or delta)
21. What mountain range divides European Russia from Siberian Russia? (The Ural Mountains)
22. What is the world's longest mountain range, including its underwater portion? (The Mid-Ocean Ridge, though the Andes is the longest above-water range)
23. What river is central to Mesopotamian civilization along with the Euphrates? (The Tigris)
24. What is the second-highest mountain in the world? (K2, in the Karakoram range)
25. What country is K2, the world's second-highest peak, located in? (Pakistan, on the border with China)