Global Cities 'D' Trivia Quiz

Answer: Darwin

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory in Australia; Doha, also known as ad-Dawhah, is in eastern Qatar, and is the capital and is where more than half the population lives; Dili is the capital of East Timor; and, Dodoma is the official capital city of Tanzania.

Answer: Dominican Republic

Situated in the north west of the Dominican Republic, Dajabón is near the border of Haiti.

Answer: Delft

Delft is in the west of the Netherlands, on the Schie River, between Rotterdam and The Hague; Dortmund is a city in the central west of Germany on the Ems River; Dunfermline is a city on the north shore of the Firth of Forth in Scotland; and, Debrecen is one of the largest cities in Hungary.

Answer: Delphi

Delphi was built as a shrine to the God Apollo; Delos is a Greek island in the Cyclades group; Delphos is the name of three US cities, one in each of Iowa, Ohio and Kansas; and, Demerara is a region in Guyana with a type of sugar named after it!

Answer: Delhi

With a city population (2001) of over nine million, Delhi is on the Yamuna River, a tributary of the Ganges; Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland, had a population of around one million (and could not be considered an Asian city, by any stretch); Denpasar, the capital of Bali, had a population of over three million; and, Dhading, a city in Nepal, had a population over three hundred thousand.

Answer: Djibouti

Dikhil, in the Republic of Djibouti, is situated closest to the border with Ethiopia.

Answer: Dawson

Dawson lies at the mouth of the Klondike River and was declared a city in 1902; Dacono is a city in Colorado, USA; Denmark is a city in South Carolina, USA; and, Dallas is a city not only in Texas, but there's a city named Dallas in Georgia, Oregon, and North Carolina, USA, named for Vice-President George M Dallas!

Answer: Dalmatia

Dalmatia is an historic region in Croatia; Dili is the capital of East Timor; Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh; and, Djibouti is the capital of Djibouti!

Answer: Dubai

Dubai is located in the north east of the United Arab Emirates; Danzig is in northern Poland, where it is called Gdansk (the name Danzig is German); and, Doula city is on the Wouri River in the west of Cameroon. Doha is the capital of Qatar

Answer: Derby

The city of Derby, on the Derwent River, is located in central England and was given city status in 1977; Dorchester is England, but is a town not a city; Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland; and, Dundee is in eastern Scotland on the Firth of Tay.

Answer: Damanhur

Damanhur is the capital of the Beheira Governorate which is situated in northern Egypt, on the Nile River delta; Dieppe is a city in northern France, on the English Channel; Daman is a town in the north west of India; and, Debrecen is one of the largest cities in Hungary. There is also a village in Italy called Damanhur.

Answer: Damascus

Located in the south west of Syria on the banks of the Barada River, Damascus has more than two hundred mosques! Damask, a type of fabric, gets its name from the silks originally woven in Damascus; Domyat or alternatively, Damietta, is a city in northern Egypt which is located on Lake Manzala near the Mediterranean Sea; and, Damanhur is the capital of the Beheira Governorate which is situated in northern Egypt, on the Nile River delta.

Answer: Dobrich

Dobrich was named in 1882 and is situated in the Dobrudzha plateau inland from Varna (which is on the Black Sea) in the Republic of Bulgaria; Douala is Cameroon's largest city; Dalian is a city on the Liaodong Peninsula in the Bay of Korea, China; and, Dubrovnik is on the south coast of Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea.

Answer: Darhan

Darhan is near the Russian border in Mongolia; Dunedin is a city in New Zealand; Daru is in Papua New Guinea; and, Diyarbakir is the capital of the Diyarbakir Province in south east Turkey.

Answer: Dodoma

Dodoma became the official capital of Tanzania in 1996.