- What is the capital of the United States? Washington, of course. But what is the capital of Washington? The capital of the state of Washington (belongs to the United States) is Olympia. This state is located in the upper left part of the map and borders Canada and the Pacific Ocean. Its largest city is Seattle. Another of its cities is Tacoma.
2) How many and which are the countries whose name is the same as their capital? There are 11 and they are the following: Guatemala, Luxembourg, Panama, San Marino, Mexico, The Vatican, Djibouti, Tunisia, Singapore, Monaco and Kuwait.
3) What countries end in stan? They are: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. There is also Azerbaijan, but it does not end in stan.
4) Which countries (of a single word) have the 5 vowels in their name? Answer at the end of the article.
5) What countries and capitals have names of people? Sofia, Spain, Israel, Argentina, Lima, Italy, Cuba. Of course there are many more because, technically, you can give your daughter or son any name.
6) We have all heard of New York, but where is York? York is a city located in the north of England. It’s not worth doing the same for New Mexico and New England, but do you know what the capital of India is? It’s New Delhi. So where is Delhi? In this case, it is not in another country. Delhi is a district of India and contains the city of New Delhi.
7) In area, the United States is 66 times larger than Bangladesh, but in population it is not even double (337 million against 165 million people).
In other words, if the United States had the same population density* as Bangladesh, its population would be 10,206,810,760 inhabitants (ten billion inhabitants, that is, two billion more than the entire current world population).
* United States has a population density of 36 inhabitants per square kilometer; Bangladesh has 1,115 people per square kilometer. You can’t even lift an arm.
8) Answer to question 4: Mozambique.
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