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150 Geography Trivia Questions and Answers

Reviewed by Aleesha Rubinstein, Editor·Updated Oct 2026·19 min read

150 geography trivia questions and answers on rivers, mountains, deserts, oceans, world capitals and borders — plus a U.S. geography round — with easy, medium and hard questions.

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Here are 150 geography trivia questions and answers, from the source of the Nile to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. They run in rounds — rivers and lakes, mountains and volcanoes, deserts and the globe, oceans and islands, world capitals, borders, continents, a U.S. geography round and a quick set of map terms — so you can pull a themed round or mix them up.

Every question is tagged easy, medium or hard. The easy ones work for a classroom or a family road trip; the hard ones (doubly landlocked countries, the river that crosses the equator twice, the only sea with no coastline) will separate the map nerds from everyone else. Answers are in the key at the bottom, so you can play without spoilers.

  1. 1Which river is traditionally ranked as the longest in the world?

  2. 2Which South American river carries more water than any other river on Earth?

  3. 3What river flows through Paris?

  4. 4London sits on which river?

  5. 5What is the longest river in Asia?

  6. 6Victoria Falls lies on which African river?

  7. 7Which river, sacred in Hinduism, flows past the holy city of Varanasi?

  8. 8Which river flows through Baghdad?

  9. 9Which river flows through 10 countries, more than any other river in the world?

  10. 10What is the longest river that lies entirely within Europe?

  11. 11Which African river crosses the equator twice?

  12. 12What is the deepest lake in the world?

  13. 13By surface area, which lake is usually ranked as the largest freshwater lake in the world?

  14. 14What is the largest lake in Africa?

  15. 15The Caspian Sea is usually classed as the world's largest what?

  16. 16Lake Titicaca, often called the highest navigable lake in the world, sits on the border of Peru and which country?

  17. 17Which country is home to the most natural lakes in the world?

  18. 18Mount Everest is part of which mountain range?

  19. 19What is the second-highest mountain in the world?

  20. 20What is the highest mountain in Africa?

  21. 21What is the highest mountain in South America?

  22. 22What is the highest mountain in Japan?

  23. 23The Andes, the world's longest continental mountain range, run along which continent?

  24. 24Measured from its base on the ocean floor, which Hawaiian volcano is usually called the tallest mountain on Earth?

  25. 25Which mountain range forms much of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia?

  26. 26Which mountain range separates Spain from France?

  27. 27Which peak in Russia's Caucasus range is usually ranked as the highest mountain in Europe?

  28. 28Which mountain range runs down the length of Italy like a spine?

  29. 29Mount Kosciuszko is the highest peak on which continent's mainland?

  30. 30Which Italian volcano buried Pompeii in AD 79?

  31. 31What is the horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes and earthquakes around the Pacific Ocean called?

  32. 32Iceland sits on top of which mid-ocean ridge, where two tectonic plates are pulling apart?

  33. 33What is the largest hot desert in the world?

  34. 34Because a desert is defined by how little precipitation it gets, which is the largest desert on Earth?

  35. 35Which desert in northern Chile is the driest nonpolar desert on Earth?

  36. 36The Gobi Desert stretches across northern China and which other country?

  37. 37Which desert covers most of Botswana?

  38. 38What is the name for the semi-arid belt along the southern edge of the Sahara?

  39. 39Which imaginary line circles Earth at 0 degrees latitude?

  40. 40Which line of latitude marks the northernmost point where the sun can be directly overhead at noon?

  41. 41The Prime Meridian, 0 degrees longitude, passes through which part of London?

  42. 42Which line, running mostly through the Pacific Ocean, marks where the calendar date changes?

  43. 43What seasonal wind system brings heavy summer rains to India and South Asia?

  44. 44Which continent is the coldest, windiest and highest on average?

  45. 45What was the name of the supercontinent that began breaking apart about 200 million years ago?

  46. 46What is the largest ocean on Earth?

  47. 47What is the smallest of the world's five oceans?

  48. 48Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia?

  49. 49The deepest known point in Earth's oceans lies in the Mariana Trench. What is it called?

  50. 50What canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea?

  51. 51Which canal, opened in 1914, lets ships cross Central America between two oceans?

  52. 52The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Mediterranean Sea to which ocean?

  53. 53Which narrow strait separates Asia from North America?

  54. 54Which strait near the tip of South America is named for the Portuguese explorer who sailed it in 1520?

  55. 55What body of water separates England from France?

  56. 56Which salt lake, bordered by Jordan to the east, has a shoreline that is the lowest point on land on Earth?

  57. 57Which sea separates the Arabian Peninsula from northeast Africa?

  58. 58Which sea is bordered by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania?

  59. 59Which small inland sea lies entirely within Turkey, linking the Black Sea to the Aegean?

  60. 60Which once-huge Central Asian lake largely dried up after Soviet irrigation projects diverted its rivers?

  61. 61The Strait of Hormuz links the Persian Gulf to which other body of water?

  62. 62Which part of the North Atlantic is the only sea with no land coastline, bounded instead by ocean currents?

  63. 63What is the world's largest coral reef system?

  64. 64What is the largest island in the world that is not a continent?

  65. 65Greenland is an autonomous territory of which country?

  66. 66Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

  67. 67Which island nation off southeast Africa is the fourth-largest island in the world?

  68. 68Borneo is the only island divided among three countries: Indonesia, Malaysia and which other?

  69. 69Which Pacific archipelago, famous for its giant tortoises and Charles Darwin's 1835 visit, belongs to Ecuador?

  70. 70Which British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic gave its name to knee-length shorts?

  71. 71What is the capital of Australia?

  72. 72What is the capital of Canada?

  73. 73What is the capital of Brazil?

  74. 74What is the capital of Turkey?

  75. 75What is the capital of New Zealand?

  76. 76What is the capital of South Korea?

  77. 77What is the capital of Egypt?

  78. 78What is the capital of Argentina?

  79. 79What is the capital of Norway?

  80. 80What is the capital of Thailand?

  81. 81What is the capital of Peru?

  82. 82What is the capital of Ireland?

  83. 83What is the capital of Morocco?

  84. 84What is the capital of Vietnam?

  85. 85What is the capital of Kenya?

  86. 86What is the capital of Pakistan?

  87. 87What is the capital of Iceland, the northernmost capital of a sovereign country?

  88. 88In 1991 Nigeria moved its capital from Lagos to which purpose-built city?

  89. 89Which capital city on the Danube was formed in 1873 by merging towns on opposite banks of the river?

  90. 90Which city, split by the Bosporus strait, spans both Europe and Asia?

  91. 91The Trans-Siberian Railway, the longest railway line in the world, runs across which country?

  92. 92Which two countries share the world's longest international border?

  93. 93Which country is completely surrounded by South Africa?

  94. 94Besides Vatican City, which country is completely surrounded by Italy?

  95. 95Which tiny country sits high in the Pyrenees between France and Spain?

  96. 96Portugal shares a land border with only one country. Which one?

  97. 97Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with which country?

  98. 98Which two South American countries are the only ones that do not border Brazil?

  99. 99What is the largest landlocked country in the world?

  100. 100Bolivia and which other South American country are the continent's only landlocked nations?

  101. 101Liechtenstein and which Central Asian country are the world's only two doubly landlocked nations?

  102. 102Which narrow strip of land connects North America to South America?

  103. 103Which line of latitude roughly divides North Korea from South Korea?

  104. 104Along much of the U.S.-Canada border west of the Great Lakes, the boundary follows which line of latitude?

  105. 105Which is the largest continent by area?

  106. 106Which continent has the most countries?

  107. 107Which peninsula is shared by Spain and Portugal?

  108. 108Which region of northeast Africa includes Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti?

  109. 109Scandinavia traditionally includes Denmark, Norway and which other country?

  110. 110Which European country is famously shaped like a boot?

  111. 111Which long, narrow country stretches about 2,600 miles down South America's Pacific coast?

  112. 112Which river carved the Grand Canyon?

  113. 113Which river forms much of the border between Texas and Mexico?

  114. 114Which river flows past St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans?

  115. 115According to the U.S. Geological Survey, what is the longest river in the United States?

  116. 116Which of the five Great Lakes is the only one entirely within the United States?

  117. 117What is the highest mountain in North America?

  118. 118What is the highest peak in the contiguous United States?

  119. 119Which Washington volcano erupted on May 18, 1980, in the deadliest eruption in U.S. history?

  120. 120At 282 feet below sea level, which California valley holds the lowest point in North America?

  121. 121What is the largest U.S. state by area?

  122. 122What is the smallest U.S. state by area?

  123. 123Which is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands?

  124. 124As of the 2020 census, which is the most populous U.S. state?

  125. 125Four Corners is the only place where four U.S. states meet: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and which other?

  126. 126Which U.S. state borders only one other state?

  127. 127Lake Tahoe straddles the border of California and which state?

  128. 128Niagara Falls sits on the border between New York and which Canadian province?

  129. 129Which lake in northern Utah is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere?

  130. 130Which desert of Arizona and northern Mexico is home to the giant saguaro cactus?

  131. 131Which mountain range stretches from Alabama into Canada and includes the Great Smoky Mountains?

  132. 132Which mountain range stretches from New Mexico into Canada and carries much of the Continental Divide?

  133. 133Chesapeake Bay lies mostly in Maryland and which other state?

  134. 134Which boundary line, surveyed in the 1760s, separates Pennsylvania from Maryland?

  135. 135At the end of the Florida Keys, which city is the southernmost in the contiguous United States?

  136. 136Which U.S. city is nicknamed 'the Windy City'?

  137. 137What is the capital of Texas?

  138. 138What is the capital of New York State?

  139. 139What is the capital of California?

  140. 140Established in 1872, what was the world's first national park?

  141. 141Cape Cod is a hook-shaped peninsula in which state?

  142. 142What is a chain or group of islands called?

  143. 143What is the name for a narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses?

  144. 144What is the name for the wide, often triangular area where a river drops sediment as it meets the sea?

  145. 145What is a long, narrow sea inlet between steep cliffs, carved by glaciers and common in Norway, called?

  146. 146What is a ring-shaped coral island surrounding a lagoon called?

  147. 147What do mapmakers call lines that connect points of equal elevation?

  148. 148What is a smaller river that flows into a larger one called?

  149. 149What is the name for a flat-topped landform with steep sides that is wider than it is tall?

  150. 150Which layer of the Earth lies directly beneath the crust?

Answer Key

  1. 1. Nile
  2. 2. Amazon
  3. 3. Seine
  4. 4. Thames
  5. 5. Yangtze
  6. 6. Zambezi
  7. 7. Ganges
  8. 8. Tigris
  9. 9. Danube
  10. 10. Volga
  11. 11. Congo River
  12. 12. Lake Baikal
  13. 13. Lake Superior
  14. 14. Lake Victoria
  15. 15. Lake
  16. 16. Bolivia
  17. 17. Canada
  18. 18. Himalayas
  19. 19. K2
  20. 20. Mount Kilimanjaro
  21. 21. Aconcagua
  22. 22. Mount Fuji
  23. 23. South America
  24. 24. Mauna Kea
  25. 25. Ural Mountains
  26. 26. Pyrenees Mountains
  27. 27. Mount Elbrus
  28. 28. Apennines
  29. 29. Australia
  30. 30. Mount Vesuvius
  31. 31. Ring of Fire
  32. 32. Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  33. 33. Sahara
  34. 34. Antarctic Desert
  35. 35. Atacama Desert
  36. 36. Mongolia
  37. 37. Kalahari
  38. 38. Sahel
  39. 39. Equator
  40. 40. Tropic of Cancer
  41. 41. Greenwich
  42. 42. International Date Line
  43. 43. Monsoon
  44. 44. Antarctica
  45. 45. Pangaea
  46. 46. Pacific Ocean
  47. 47. Arctic Ocean
  48. 48. Indian Ocean
  49. 49. Challenger Deep
  50. 50. Suez Canal
  51. 51. Panama Canal
  52. 52. Atlantic Ocean
  53. 53. Bering Strait
  54. 54. Strait of Magellan
  55. 55. English Channel
  56. 56. Dead Sea
  57. 57. Red Sea
  58. 58. Black Sea
  59. 59. Sea of Marmara
  60. 60. Aral Sea
  61. 61. Gulf of Oman
  62. 62. Sargasso Sea
  63. 63. Great Barrier Reef
  64. 64. Greenland
  65. 65. Denmark
  66. 66. Sicily
  67. 67. Madagascar
  68. 68. Brunei
  69. 69. Galápagos Islands
  70. 70. Bermuda
  71. 71. Canberra
  72. 72. Ottawa
  73. 73. Brasília
  74. 74. Ankara
  75. 75. Wellington
  76. 76. Seoul
  77. 77. Cairo
  78. 78. Buenos Aires
  79. 79. Oslo
  80. 80. Bangkok
  81. 81. Lima
  82. 82. Dublin
  83. 83. Rabat
  84. 84. Hanoi
  85. 85. Nairobi
  86. 86. Islamabad
  87. 87. Reykjavík
  88. 88. Abuja
  89. 89. Budapest
  90. 90. Istanbul
  91. 91. Russia
  92. 92. Canada and the United States
  93. 93. Lesotho
  94. 94. San Marino
  95. 95. Andorra
  96. 96. Spain
  97. 97. Dominican Republic
  98. 98. Chile and Ecuador
  99. 99. Kazakhstan
  100. 100. Paraguay
  101. 101. Uzbekistan
  102. 102. Isthmus of Panama
  103. 103. 38th parallel
  104. 104. 49th parallel
  105. 105. Asia
  106. 106. Africa
  107. 107. Iberian Peninsula
  108. 108. Horn of Africa
  109. 109. Sweden
  110. 110. Italy
  111. 111. Chile
  112. 112. Colorado River
  113. 113. Rio Grande
  114. 114. Mississippi River
  115. 115. Missouri River
  116. 116. Lake Michigan
  117. 117. Denali
  118. 118. Mount Whitney
  119. 119. Mount St. Helens
  120. 120. Death Valley
  121. 121. Alaska
  122. 122. Rhode Island
  123. 123. Hawaii
  124. 124. California
  125. 125. Utah
  126. 126. Maine
  127. 127. Nevada
  128. 128. Ontario
  129. 129. Great Salt Lake
  130. 130. Sonoran Desert
  131. 131. Appalachian Mountains
  132. 132. Rocky Mountains
  133. 133. Virginia
  134. 134. Mason-Dixon Line
  135. 135. Key West
  136. 136. Chicago
  137. 137. Austin
  138. 138. Albany
  139. 139. Sacramento
  140. 140. Yellowstone
  141. 141. Massachusetts
  142. 142. Archipelago
  143. 143. Isthmus
  144. 144. Delta
  145. 145. Fjord
  146. 146. Atoll
  147. 147. Contour lines
  148. 148. Tributary
  149. 149. Mesa
  150. 150. Mantle

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