WORLD LOCATIONS LIST #2
GEOG 2243
Chuck Ziehr, Northeastern State University
ASIA AND EUROPE
The objective of the second world locations quiz is to develop a mental framework of two major areas of the world: Asia and Europe. This locational framework should include major rivers, land masses, mountain ranges, water bodies, countries, and cities. The list may appear long, but even so it contains only a very limited number of essential locations and current event places. The process of learning the locations on this list will likely also cause you to inadvertently learn the locations of a number of other places not on the list.
On a world map and appropriate regional maps be able to locate the following places. Be able to locate the listed cities along an appropriate river or water body or within about 75 miles of its actual location if not on a river or water body.Study suggestion: Find the required locations in your atlas, mark and label those locations on blank outline maps of the world and on regional maps. Trace in rivers, trace country boundaries, color in country areas. Blank outline maps can be found at the "Outline Maps Online" section of the class webpage <http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~ziehr/resource/outlinemaps.html>, in the Outline Map Set available on reserve in the library, and the Mapping Workbook that came with your textbook.. There is a sample, practice map quiz available on the class webpage <http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~ziehr/courses/geog2243/wor1_prc.html>. Practice describing how to find a given location to someone. If you can describe where it is well enough for them to find it on a map, then you know where it is!
RIVERS
Danube Elbe Rhine Volga
Ganges Indus Mekong Yangtze
Huang Ob Lena Amur
LAND MASSES
Greenland Iceland Corsica Sicily Cyprus Honshu Borneo Sumatra
MOUNTAIN RANGES
Zagros Himalayas Hindu Kush Tien Shan
Alps Urals Pyrenees Caucasus
WATER BODIES
Baltic Sea North Sea Adriatic Sea Black Sea Arctic Ocean Persian Gulf Aral Sea Caspian Sea Aegean Sea Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal South China Sea Sea of Japan Sea of Okhotsk Bering Sea Red Sea
CITIES
London, U.K. Paris, France Barcelona, Spain Berlin, Germany Belgrade, Yugoslavia Kiev, Ukraine Rome, Italy Stockholm, Sweden Istanbul, Turkey Baghdad, Iraq Tehran, Iran Jerusalem, Israel Moscow, Russia Karachi, Pakistan Kabul, Afghanistan Mumbai (Bombay), India Kolkata (Calcutta), India Bangkok, Thailand Wuhan, China Beijing, China Shanghai, China Hong Kong, China Tokyo, Japan Manila, Philippines Jakarta, Indonesia Hanoi, Vietnam Seoul, South Korea
COUNTRIES
Norway Netherlands Austria Poland Latvia Belarus Romania Macedonia Croatia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Kuwait Saudi Arabia Yemen Lebanon Syria Tajikistan Mongolia North Korea Malaysia Bangladesh Sri Lanka Qatar Laos Cambodia Czech Republic Azerbaijan Bosnia & Herzegovina Belgium Ireland Bulgaria Albania Armenia
Created by Chuck Ziehr; last revised January 11, 2006.