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Can you name the country* whose land/territory you reach 1st if you head due north from the following capital cities?
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paranoid_android
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Click any empty Heading due north from... or Country to answer for that location
*includes only land and not territorial waters. Country means the first country you reach - not the country in which the capital city is situated.
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Heading due north from...
Country
Riga
Seoul
Beijing
Singapore
Tunis
Athens
Montevideo
Lisbon
Vaduz
Canberra
Muscat
San Salvador
Vienna
Copenhagen
Cairo
Manila
Khartoum
Kingston
Belmopan
Paramaribo
Heading due north from...
Country
Gaborone
Santiago
Helsinki
Tehran
Chisinau
Sarajevo
Warsaw
Skopje
Bamako
Wellington
Maseru
San Jose
Brasilia
Antananarivo
Dili
Dakar
Port Moresby
Roseau
Port-au-Prince
Tarawa
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Know Your Atlas Challenge2-Go North! Quiz
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Created Jun 23, 2010 in
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HiddenPalace
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Jun 23rd, 2010 at 17:11 GMT
3 points
Challenging and enjoyable. Brasilia was an especially difficult one.
HiddenPalace
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Jun 23rd, 2010 at 17:13 GMT
4 points
You could maybe do a quiz for "countries that do not pass through any other country's territory going either due north or due south from their capitals until you reach the north pole or south pole" - as bizarre as that may sound a lot of people might like that. It's hard to know where all the small islands and stuff are, as well as the oceanic gaps. Some are easy, others are very tough.
paranoid_android
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Jun 23rd, 2010 at 17:27 GMT
3 points
@Hidden Palace: Strangely enough, on my created, but not yet contributed games page, I have a quiz that has an ever so slightly different idea to the one you have suggested, and it will be appearing in July. However, I quite like your suggestion - watch this space! Thanks for the feedback.
Chipmunkdavis
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Jun 23rd, 2010 at 19:59 GMT
2 points
Interesting. I was foiled by Taiwan, still never think of it when thinking countries. Well done, good sequel.
confused
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Jun 24th, 2010 at 05:05 GMT
3 points
I *still* underestimate the offset of S. America -- Paramaribo and Brazilia were great. Ditto Dakar. Thanks for doing the research to make these, nicely done.
koopa08
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Jun 24th, 2010 at 05:06 GMT
2 points
Much more challenging than the 'west' quiz. Not too thrilled about the territorial answers though.
TheArbiter
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Jan 3rd, 2011 at 16:41 GMT
1 point
Are you sure about Kiribati from Wellington? Doesn't look anything like it on the map... What did you use as a source?
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