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The Great World Location Hunt

For each geographical location or site of interest, select the country in which it is found.
The quiz changes each time you play. All 196 countries are included in this quiz.
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Last updated: October 26, 2022
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1. Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy
United Arab Emirates
Qatar
Kuwait
Bahrain
An internationally renowned collection of Arabic Manuscripts, decorated ceramics and other treasures.
2. Sugarloaf Mountain and Cable Car
Brazil
Canada
Australia
South Africa
Ride the cable car to get spectacular panoramic views over Rio de Janeiro.
3. Le Morne Peninsula and "Underwater Waterfall"
Gabon
Bahamas
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Mauritius
Here at the southwest tip of Mauritius is a 556 metre high monolith overlooking a stunning lagoon.
4. Velana International Airport
Mauritius
Seychelles
Maldives
Kiribati
Located close to the capital city, Malé, the airport was rebranded with this new name in 2017.
5. Sira Fortress
United Arab Emirates
Latvia
Yemen
Romania
A military fortification and tourist attraction located on an island of the same name in Aden, Yemen.
6. Saint Basil's Cathedral
Latvia
Denmark
Tunisia
Russia
Located in Moscow's Red Square, and shaped like "the flame of a bonfire rising into the night."
7. Teatro Solís
El Salvador
Panama
Dominican Republic
Uruguay
The country's most important and renowned theater, located in Montevideo's Old Town.
8. Citadelle Laferrière
Haiti
Algeria
Vanuatu
France
An icon of the Caribbean nation, situated on a mountaintop in the department of Nord.
9. Tower of the Juche Idea
Laos
China
North Korea
Russia
A monument in Pyongyang, named after North Korea's state ideology.
10. Mount Nyiragongo
Uganda
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nigeria
Ghana
An active stratovolcano with a crater two kilometers wide and a significant lava lake.
11. Nurek Hydro-Electric Dam and Reservoir
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
The second tallest dam in the world, built in the 1960s and 70s by the Soviet Union.
12. Amphitheatre of El Jem
Tunisia
Libya
Algeria
Morocco
An oval amphitheatre in what was once Thysdrus in the Roman province of Africa.
13. Pom City
United Kingdom
Benin
Phillipines
Papua New Guinea
A familiar name for Port Moresby, the capital city. Its IATA airport code is also POM.
14. The "Mannekin Pis" statue
Belgium
France
Netherlands
Germany
A fountain statue of a little boy taking a leak, a short distance from Brussels' Grand Place.
15. The Dead Cities
Jordan
Syria
Israel
Lebanon
A group of 700 abandoned settlements - now archaeological sites - in northwest Syria.
16. Tsarevets Fortress
Denmark
Hungary
Bulgaria
Lithuania
This medieval fortress was the primary stronghold of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
4 Comments
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Level 63
Oct 26, 2022
If you enjoyed this quiz, take it again! The quiz changes each time you play.
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Level 60
Oct 27, 2022
Cool idea, but it was too tough for me :(
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Level 79
Nov 23, 2022
WOW, this was hard. Great quiz. I looked everything up afterwards and learned a few things...thank you!
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Level 63
Nov 23, 2022
Thanks! I’d hoped people would be interested to look up the ones they didn’t know, as there were some really interesting sites and sights I didn’t know of before researching the quiz. Glad you enjoyed it!