Geography facts
Every question in the daily challenge’s third slot, out of the rotation and sorted by subject. 371 of them, each with a written explanation and a source. One turns up in the daily every day. There is also a page for each of the 193 countries.
- Border facts: the strangest lines on the map29
- Scale: how big things actually are19
- Capital cities: the ones nobody guesses18
- Flag facts: what the designs actually mean16
- Geographic extremes: the highest, lowest, coldest15
- Rivers and lakes: the water that shapes borders14
- Estimation puzzles: work it out from what you know14
- Geographic oddities that sound made up14
- Island facts: the far-flung and the disputed12
- City facts: the biggest, oldest and highest12
- Transport geography: the routes that exist12
- Geology: what the ground is doing11
- Historical geography: borders that used to exist11
- Language geography: what is spoken where11
- Food geography: where things actually grow11
- Earth from space: the view from orbit11
- Map projections and why they lie10
- Place names and where they came from10
- Population facts: where the people are10
- Climate facts: the wettest, driest, windiest10
- Animal geography: what lives where, and only there10
- Economic geography: what countries actually sell10
- People and place: how populations moved10
- Desert facts: the dry places and their limits10
- Forest facts: the world's remaining cover10
- Cultural geography: sport, festivals and custom10
- Energy geography: who generates what10
- Ocean and coastline facts10
- Superlatives: the most and the least7
- Time zone facts: the clock as a border7
- Mountain facts: measuring the high places7