80 Asian Countries Trivia Questions with Answers

80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?

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Which Asian country contains Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, known for its navigable underground river?

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Philippines

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Which Asian country pioneered the Shinkansen bullet train, first operated in 1964?

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Japan

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Which Asian country hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul?

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South Korea

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Which Asian country is home to the Shwedagon Pagoda, a major Buddhist stupa in Yangon?

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Myanmar

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Which Asian country contains Lake Toba, the world’s largest volcanic lake by surface area?

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Indonesia

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Which Asian country invented paper, traditionally credited to Cai Lun in the Han dynasty?

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China

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Which Asian country is home to the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace complex in Beijing?

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China

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Which Asian country is home to Lake Issyk-Kul, one of the world’s largest high-altitude lakes?

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Kyrgyzstan

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Which Asian country established Chitwan National Park as its first national park in 1973?

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Nepal

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Which Asian country hosted the first European Games in Baku in 2015?

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Azerbaijan

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Which Asian country changed its official name from Siam to Thailand in 1939?

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Thailand

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Which Asian country developed Gross National Happiness as a national policy philosophy?

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Bhutan

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Which Asian country contains Angkor Wat, the enormous temple complex built by King Suryavarman II?

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Cambodia

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Which Asian country has Naypyidaw as its capital, a city officially designated in 2006?

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Myanmar

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Which Asian country is home to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world’s first and largest space-launch facility?

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Kazakhstan

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Which Asian country is home to Sigiriya, the ancient rock fortress often called Lion Rock?

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Sri Lanka

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Which Asian country is home to the ancient city of Merv, once one of the largest cities in the medieval world?

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Turkmenistan

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Which Asian country produced the film Parasite, the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?

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South Korea

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Which Asian country is home to the city of Ulaanbaatar, the world's coldest national capital by long-term average temperature?

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Mongolia

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Which Asian country is home to the ancient city of Troy, the legendary setting of Homer's Iliad?

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Turkey

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Which Asian country contains the ancient city of Bukhara, a major Silk Road trading centre?

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Uzbekistan

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Which Asian country has the world’s largest high-speed rail network?

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China

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Which country contains the ancient city of Mtskheta, the former capital and religious center of Georgia?

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Georgia

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Which country is home to Mount Pinatubo, whose 1991 eruption was one of the 20th century’s largest?

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Philippines

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Which country is home to the ancient city of Taxila, a major center of Buddhist learning near Islamabad?

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Pakistan

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Which country contains the ancient city of Ecbatana, the former Median capital later used by Persian kings?

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Iran

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Which country is home to the Petronas Towers, the matching skyscrapers linked by a skybridge in Kuala Lumpur?

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Malaysia

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Which country is home to Mount Ararat, the volcanic mountain traditionally associated with Noah’s Ark?

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Turkey

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Which country is home to the Great Wall, the connected fortifications built to protect northern China?

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China

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Which Asian country contains the ancient city of Palmyra, a major caravan centre in the Syrian Desert?

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Syria

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Which Asian country is home to the ancient city of Luang Prabang, a former royal capital?

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Laos

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Which Asian country contains the ancient city of Ephesus, known for the Temple of Artemis?

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Turkey

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Which Asian country is home to the ancient city of Babylon, famous for the Ishtar Gate?

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Iraq

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Which Asian country is home to the ancient city of Nara, Japan’s first permanent capital?

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Japan

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Which Asian country hosted the first modern Asian Games in New Delhi in 1951?

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India

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Which Asian country launched Chandrayaan-3, the first mission to land near the Moon’s south pole?

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India

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Which country is home to the ancient city of Hegra, Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site?

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Saudi Arabia

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Which country is home to Mount Damavand, the highest volcano in Asia?

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Iran

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Which country hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics, the first Summer Games held in Asia?

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Japan

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Which country is home to Rafflesia arnoldii, the world’s largest individual flower?

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Indonesia

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Which Asian country is home to the Banaue Rice Terraces, often called the “Eighth Wonder of the World”?

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The Philippines

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Which country launched Tianwen-1, the 2020 mission that placed a rover on Mars?

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China

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Which country is home to the ancient city of Persepolis, built by the Achaemenid Persian kings?

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Iran

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Which country is home to Jeju Island, a volcanic island whose Hallasan is the country’s highest mountain?

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South Korea

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Which country contains the Sarawak Chamber, the world’s largest known cave chamber by area?

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Malaysia

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Which country contains Samarkand, the ancient Silk Road city associated with the Timurid ruler Timur?

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Uzbekistan

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Which country was home to Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner?

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India

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Which country is the world’s largest archipelagic state, made up of more than 17,000 islands?

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Indonesia

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Which country is home to the Terracotta Army, the life-size clay soldiers buried near Qin Shi Huang’s tomb?

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China

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Which Asian country built the ancient city of Mohenjo-daro, one of the Indus Valley civilization’s largest settlements?

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Pakistan