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Which country's flag features a building?

Cambodia

Cambodia's flag shows Angkor Wat in white at its centre, the only current national flag depicting a building. Afghanistan's flags have shown a mosque in several past versions.

Greater Tokyo's population is closest to that of which country?

Canada

Greater Tokyo holds roughly 37 million people and Canada about 40 million, so one metropolitan area is within a tenth of the world's second-largest country by area. Australia is about 27 million.

Which country moved its capital in 2024 to a purpose-built city called Nusantara?

Indonesia

Jakarta is sinking (parts by over 10 cm a year) and is badly congested, so Indonesia began relocating its capital to Nusantara on Borneo. Egypt, Kazakhstan and Nigeria all made similar moves earlier.

What is unusual about Bir Tawil, the land between Egypt and Sudan?

Neither country claims it

Egypt and Sudan each prefer a different border line, and each line assigns Bir Tawil to the other while assigning the larger Hala'ib Triangle to itself. Claiming Bir Tawil would undermine the claim to Hala'ib.

Which country has the most wild camels?

Australia

Camels were imported for desert transport in the 1800s and released when motor vehicles arrived. Australia now has the world's largest feral camel population, in the hundreds of thousands.

Which country has the youngest population by median age?

Niger, at around 15

Niger's median age is around 15, meaning half the country is a child. Monaco and Japan are at the other end, above 48.

Is any part of Africa further north than the southernmost part of Europe?

Yes, much of it

Tunisia's northern tip is at about 37.3 N, north of Crete's south coast and roughly level with southern Sicily. The continents overlap in latitude by hundreds of kilometres.

Oxford University was already teaching when which empire was founded?

The Aztec Empire

Teaching at Oxford is recorded from about 1096. Tenochtitlan was founded around 1325 and the Aztec Triple Alliance in 1428, well over two centuries later.