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2. Which major Japanese city is often grouped with Tokyo and Kawasaki as part of the country's largest urban and industrial area?

3. What group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean make up an autonomous community of Spain?

4. Interaction of the solar wind with the upper layer of Earth's atmosphere produces what colorful electromagnetic phenomenon?

5. The Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount are two holy sites in what city northwest of the Dead Sea?

6. What canal cuts across an isthmus between the city of Colón and the city of Balboa?

7. What mountain range runs along Russia's southern border with Georgia and Azerbaijan?

8. Which mostly desert country, bordered to the north by Angola, is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world?

9. Valletta is the capital of an independent country located south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. Name this country.

10. Lake Ohrid is on the border between Albania and what country to its east?

National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society

ANSWERS: 1. Geneva 2. Yokohama 3. Canary Islands 4. aurora (also acceptable: aurora borealis, northern and southern lights) 5. Jerusalem 6. Panama Canal 7. Caucasus 8. Namibia 9. Malta 10. Macedonia