Q 01/05

What is the smallest country in the world by land area?

A) Monaco

B) Vatican City

C) San Marino

D) Liechtenstein

Answer · why

B) Vatican City

Vatican City became a state only in 1929, when Mussolini's Lateran Treaty ended nearly 60 years in which popes had refused to leave the Vatican.

Q 02/05

Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

A) Indonesia

B) Norway

C) Canada

D) Australia

Answer · why

C) Canada

Canada's coastline is the longest because it wraps the shores of the Arctic Archipelago, more than 36,000 islands in the far north.

Q 03/05

What is the capital of Mongolia?

A) Ashgabat

B) Bishkek

C) Ulaanbaatar

D) Dushanbe

Answer · why

C) Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar began in 1639 as a mobile Buddhist monastery that changed location 29 times before settling at its present site in 1778.

Q 04/05

Which river is the longest in the world?

A) Mekong

B) Yangtze

C) Nile

D) Mississippi

Answer · why

C) Nile

The Nile is traditionally ranked longest, though some scientists argue for the Amazon; damming it at Aswan forced Egypt to cut the Abu Simbel temples ...

Q 05/05

Which country overtook China in 2023 to become the world's most populous?

A) India

B) Pakistan

C) United States

D) Indonesia

Answer · why

A) India

India's lead rests on UN estimates, because its 2021 census was postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled for 2026–27.