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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
Former Soviet Republics
Gulf of Kara-Bogaz. Gulf of Kutch is in India, the other two are in Turkey. The Gulf of Kara-Bogaz is in the eastern Caspian Sea.
Uzbekistan, Kazahkstan. The Aral Sea is not actually a sea, but a lake. Also, recently the Aral Sea has been drying up, leaving some boats beached in a desert in Uzbekistan and Kazahkstan.
Russia. The Gulf of Ob is a thin gulf directly east of the Yanin peninsula. It is located in north-central Russia.
Communism Peak. Rize is the highest point in Turkmenistan, Khan-Tengri is the highest point of Kazahkstan, and the Pobeda Peak is the highest point in Kyrgyzstan.
Armenia. Armenia, whose capital is Yerevan, is the smallest former Soviet Republic. It borders Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, and Georgia.
Apsherori. Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, is located on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Lately, the government of Azerbaijan has discovered oil is their territory of the Caspian Sea.
Kyzyl-Kum Desert. The Kara-Kum Desert covers most of Turkmenistan. The Rub' al Khali is in southern Saudi Arabia, as well as in parts of the U.A.E., Yemen and Oman. The Nubian Desert, is in Sudan.
I am standing in Tallinn, and I have just spent my last five kroons on a bottle of vodka. Therefore I am in which north-eastern European country? | Former Soviet Socialist Republics
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Estonia. August 20 is a national holiday in Estonia, commemorating the signing revolution of 1991.
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