Geography 2000, Map Quiz Study Guide – Spring 2006

Note that places may be added as the course progresses.

Europe

Every country and its capital (partially devolved entities such as Scotland are not included). Montenegro and its capital, Podgorica.

Other cities: Glasgow, Belfast, Lyon, Marseille, Rotterdam, Maastricht, Barcelona, Gibralter, Milan, Naples, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Malmo.

Hydrology: North, Baltic, Black, Mediterranean, Aegean, Adriatic and Irish Seas. Bay of Biscay, Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Lyons. Straits of Dover (Pas de Calais) and Gibralter. English Channel. Rivers: Thames, Loire, Seine, Rhone-Saone, Rhine, Danube, Kiel Canal, Øresund Fixed Link.

Islands: Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, and Cyprus.

Peninsulas: Scandinavian, Iberian, Balkan, Peloponnesus, and Crimean Peninsulas.

Mountains: Pennines, Alps, Carpathians, Jura, Pyrenees, Apennines, Dinaric Alps, Transylvanian Alps.

Other regions: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, The Midlands, Basque Country, Catalonia, Massif Central, Normandy, Alsace, Saar, Ruhr, Silesia, Bavaria, Mezzogiorno, Donbas, North European Plain.

Russia

Russia’s New Federal Districts and their capitals.

Cities: Murmansk, Kaliningrad, Moscow, St Petersburg, Volgograd, Magnitogorsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Kahabarovsk, Vladivostok.

Hydrology: Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Lake Baykal, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, Barent's Sea, Gulf of Finland. Rivers: Volga, Don, Ob, Lena, Amur.

Regions: Povolzhye, Baykaliya, Siberia, Far East, Kamchatka Peninsula, Novaya Zemlya, Ural Mountains, Caucasus Mountains, Eastern Highlands, Kuznetsk Basin (Kuzbas), Chechnya, Ingushetiya, Dagestan, North Ossetia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh.

Trans-Siberian Railroad, Baykal-Amur Mainline

Middle America

Mexico, all countries of Central America and their capitals

Hydrology: Gulf of California/Sea of Cortes, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Isthmus of Panama, Panama Canal

Islands: Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, Bahamas

Peninsulas: Baja California and Yucatan

Mountains: Sierra Madre Oriental

Cities: All national capital cities, Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Monterrey, Guadalajara, and Acapulco

Carribean: Cuba, Havana, Guantanamo Bay, Haiti, Port au Prince, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Jamaica, Kingston, and Trinidad and Tobago

South America

All countries and their capitals

Physiographic regions: Andes Mountains, Brazilian Highlands, Mato Grosso, Pampas, Patagonia, Altiplano, Atacama Desert

Hydrology: Orinoco, Amazon, Rio de la Plata, Parana and Paraguay Rivers, Tierra del Fuego, Strait of Magellen. The Falkland Islands

Other cities: Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Rio de Janiero

North Africa-Southwest Asia

Every country and its capital

Hydrology: Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee, Jordan, Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates Rivers, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus, and the Dardenelles

Other regions: Cyprus, Sinai, Suez Canal, Arabian Peninsula, Maghreb, Eritrea, Tigre, Ogaden, Gaza, Golan Heights, West Bank, Kurdistan (Kurdish majority region)

Cities: Aden, Alexandria, Mecca, Port Said, Haifa, Tel-Aviv and Istanbul

Afghanistan: Kandahar, Hindu Kush, Rigestan Desert

Iraq: Kurdish domain, Sunni domain, Shiah domain, Basra, Kirkuk, Mosul, Tikrit

Sudan: Darfur, Nubian Desert

Subsaharan Africa

Hydrology: Gulf of Guinea, Moçambique Channel, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea

Horn of Africa, Cape of Good Hope

Mountains: Atlas Mountains, Drakensberg Mountains,

Lakes Victoria, Malawi, Tanganyika, and Chad. Nile, Niger, Congo and Zambezi Rivers

Countries: Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Moçambique (Mozambique), Madagascar (Malagasy Republic), Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi

Cities: Lagos, Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Harare, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Kampala, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Nairobi

South Asia

Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal

Eastern and Western Ghats, Deccan Plateau, Maldives. Indus, Ganges and Bramhaputra Rivers. Himalayas, Mount Everest

Language Regions: Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Punjabi

Pakistani cities: Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Islamabad, Hyderabad, state of Kashmir, state of Punjab

Indian cities: Delhi, New Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras), Kolkata (Calcutta), Hyderabad, Bhopal, Amritsar

Indian States: Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.

Bangladesh, Dhaka, Chittagong, and Delta of Ganges

Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Colombo, territory claimed by Tamils as homeland, Nepal, Kathmandu, Bhutan

China:

Xizang (Tibet), Xinjiang (Sinkiang), Tarim Basin, Mongolia, Nei Mongol, Gobi Desert, Manchuria

Coastal features: Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea, Taiwan Strait, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Shandong Peninsula, and Korean Peninsula

Rivers: Huang (Yellow River), Chang Jiang (Yangtse), Liao

Cities: Harbin, Shenyang, Beijing (Peking or Peiping), Tianjin (Tientsin), Lanzhou, Xian, Shanghai, Nanjing (Nanking), Wuhan (Hankow), Chonqing (Chungking), Chengdu

Fuzhou (Fuchow), Hong Kong, Macao, Shenzhen, Guangzhou (Canton)

Japan

Okinawa, Kyushu, Shikoku, Seto Inland Sea, Honshu, Tsugaru Strait, Seikan Tunnel. Hokkaido, Kurile Islands

Major Cities: Kitakyushu, Hiroshima, Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Yokohama, Tokyo, Sapporo

Ishikari Plain, Kanto Plain, Kansai, Tokkaido

Korea

Cease Fire Line, Pyongyang, Seoul, Pusan

Taiwan

Taiwan (Formosa) and Taipei

South-East Asia

All countries and their capitals, including both Pyinmana (also spelled “Nay Pya Daw”) and Yangon, the new and former capitals of Myanmar

Andaman Sea, Strait of Malacca, Gulf of Thailand, South China Sea, Malay Peninsula

Indonesia: Sumatera (Sumatra), Jawa (Java), Sulawesi (Celebes), Banda Aceh, Timor.

Island of Borneo including Sarawak and Sabah (parts of Malaysia) and Kalimantan (part of Indonesia), and Brunei.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)

Island of New Guinea including Papua (a province of Indonesia formerly called West Irian and prior to that, Irian Jaya) and Papua New Guinea (a sovereign state, often referred to as PNG).

Philippines: Mindanao, Luzon, Davao, Manila

Malaysia: Georgetown on island of Pinang (Penang), Kuala Lumpur

Vietnam: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Haiphong, Danang

Thailand: Bangkok, Chiang Mai

Myanmar (Burma): Yangon (Rangoon), Mandalay

Laos: Viangchan (Vientiane)

Rivers: Irawaddy, Chao Phraya, Mekong, Hong (Red)

Australia

all states/territory and state/territorial capitals

Great Dividing Range, Outback

Southern Ocean, Great Australian Bight, Arnhem Land, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Coral Sea, and Great Barrier Reef

New Zealand

North and South Islands, Cook Strait, Southern Alps and Canterbury Plain

Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin

Pacific

International Date Line

Melanesia, Fiji, New Caledonia

The island of New Guinea which includes two parts:

Papua New Guinea (independent state) and its capital, Port Moresby

West Papua (part of Indonesia), formerly known asWest Irian, and before that, Irian Jaya).

Micronesia, Guam

Polynesia, Hawaii, Tahiti