Africa is enormous — but our flat maps play tricks on us. Which of these is actually true about how big Africa really is? You could fit the United States, China, India, and most of Europe inside it Africa is roughly the same size as Russia Africa is smaller than it looks — about the size of South America Africa is mostly desert, so its usable land is tiny None There's a "sea" on Earth that is famous for one very strange feature. It has no coastline at all — no country touches it, no beach borders it. Which sea is it? The Caspian Sea The Sargasso Sea The Dead Sea The Tasman Sea None Russia is so wide that it stretches across a remarkable number of time zones. How many does it span? 5 7 11 15 None The continental United States has a state that, thanks to a quirk of geography, technically sits in all four hemispheres — Northern, Southern, Eastern, AND Western — at the same time. Which state pulls this off? Hawaii Alaska Maine Florida None If you want to find the single deepest point in any ocean on Earth — the very bottom of the world — where do you go? Off the coast of Antarctica, under the ice The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific The middle of the Atlantic, along the mid-ocean ridge The Arctic Ocean, beneath the North Pole None Canada and the United States share the longest international border on Earth. But buried in that border is a genuine geographic oddity — what is it? A town where the border runs straight through the middle of a library An island that belongs to both countries on alternating days A stretch where the border runs underwater for 50 miles A spot where you can stand in three countries at once None Time's up
