World Geography Online Quiz

Africa was known as the “Dark Continent” because it remained unexplored for a fairly long period of time.

The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

Digboi refinery is known as birthplace of the Oil Industry in India. It was commissioned on 11 December 1901. It has the distinction of being Asia's first refinery and one of the oldest still in operation.

Uranium, plutonium and Thorium are the main atomic minerals. Other atomic minerals are beryllium, lithium and zirconium.

An exclusive economic zone, as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. the coastal country may establish an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) extending 200 nautical miles (370 km) from shore.

The International Date Line, established in 1884, passes through the mid-Pacific Ocean and roughly follows a 180 degrees longitude north-south line on the Earth. It is located halfway round the world from the prime meridian—the zero degrees longitude established in Greenwich, England, in 1852.

Presence of more plankton that are food for fish avail large numbers of fish. In the northern hemisphere, there are extensive continental shelves which favour fishing grounds. The rugged and hilly terrain make agriculture difficult, many people opt for fishing as the main economic activity hence its development.

The time increases at a rate of 4 minutes per one degree of longitude, east of the Prime Meridian.

New Britain and New Ireland is the island of Papua New Guinea. New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea.