Geography word list

The second-largest continent.

“He named three countries in Africa, slowly.”

The largest city in New Mexico.

“He took a wrong turn spelling Albuquerque.”

The capital and largest city of Madagascar.

“They recognized Antananarivo from the map, but spelling it was harder.”

The frozen continent at the South Pole.

“The second c in Antarctica took him out.”

Relating to the eastern US mountain range.

“His Appalachian trail plan is a screenshot.”

A group of islands.

“The archipelago has forty islands.”

A ring-shaped coral island or reef surrounding a lagoon.

“At the map round, atoll came up and everyone immediately had an opinion.”

A country between Europe and Asia on the Caspian Sea.

“Azerbaijan ended a twelve-word streak.”

A coastal city in Spain.

“Her Barcelona trip is her whole personality.”

A low area of land drained by a river system or surrounded by higher ground.

“As soon as basin appeared in the map round, everyone started silently counting letters.”

A line dividing two regions.

“The blanket border is non-negotiable.”

A wide city street.

“They drove down the boulevard.”

A deep gorge with steep sides.

“Her echo is still in that canyon.”

The city where a government sits.

“He guessed the wrong capital with confidence.”

A sea and region east of Central America.

“They cruised the Caribbean.”

The principal church of a diocese.

“The cathedral bells rang.”

An instrument that shows direction.

“The compass says we passed the snacks.”

One of the earth's main landmasses.

“Which continent is largest?”

The capital of Denmark.

“Copenhagen is all bicycles.”

Land formed where a river splits at its mouth.

“The map quiz died at the delta.”

A dry, barren area of land.

“The desert cooled after sunset.”

A small country on the Horn of Africa.

“Everyone giggled, nobody spelled Djibouti.”

A walled coastal city in Croatia.

“He calls Dubrovnik the TV castle place.”

The imaginary line around the earth's middle.

“We crossed the equator at noon.”

A long steep slope or cliff.

“He called the curb an escarpment.”

Where a river meets the sea.

“Nobody at this table can define estuary either.”

A narrow sea inlet between cliffs.

“Four letters of fjord, zero survivors.”

Islands famous for unique wildlife.

“He wants a Galapagos trip and a nap.”

Also accepted: Galápagos

The scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape Earth's surface.

“Everyone in the map round knew geomorphology, but spelling it aloud was another story.”

A spring that shoots hot water into the air.

“The shaken soda went full geyser.”

A slow-moving mass of ice.

“The glacier is half what it was.”

A major city in western Mexico.

“Guadalajara claimed two players tonight.”

A sheltered place for ships.

“Boats crowded the harbor.”

One half of the globe.

“His side of the bed is a hemisphere.”

The mountain range of southern Asia.

“The Himalayas ruined his knees.”

Land surrounded by water.

“They rented a house on the island.”

A narrow strip of land joining two larger areas.

“Say isthmus five times fast, I dare you.”

Dense tropical forest.

“The backyard is basically a jungle now.”

The highest mountain in Africa.

“He trains for Kilimanjaro on the stairs.”

A country in Central Asia.

“Nobody at this table can spell Kyrgyzstan.”

A shallow pool separated from the sea.

“The hotel pool is not a lagoon, Dave.”

Distance north or south of the equator.

“He knows his latitude but not his left.”

A tiny alpine country in Europe.

“Liechtenstein is smaller than this word.”

The capital and largest city of Slovenia.

“They recognized Ljubljana from the map, but spelling it was harder.”

Distance east or west of the prime meridian.

“She spelled longitude with attitude.”

A famous city in Morocco.

“Her Marrakech photos have three filters each.”

Also accepted: Marrakesh

A state in New England.

“She grew up in Massachusetts.”

Relating to the sea between Europe and Africa.

“They took a Mediterranean cruise.”

A long river and southern US state.

“He ran out of s letters spelling Mississippi.”

A seasonal wind pattern that brings major changes in rainfall, especially in South and Southeast Asia.

“The host repeated monsoon twice in the map round before anyone wanted to go first.”

A country in North Africa.

“He doubled the wrong letter in Morocco.”

A country on Africa's southeastern coast.

“The q in Mozambique came out of nowhere.”

A fertile spot in a desert.

“The snack table is the only oasis here.”

A vast body of salt water.

“He pointed at a lake and said ocean.”

The study or description of mountains and other elevated landforms.

“Orography was the one word everyone remembered after the map round.”

The capital and largest city of Burkina Faso.

“They recognized Ouagadougou from the map, but spelling it was harder.”

The capital of France.

“She has a Paris phase every spring.”

Land almost surrounded by water.

“The road hugs the peninsula.”

A high area of level ground.

“His skills hit a plateau in round two.”

A wide grassland plain.

“The lawn is one mow away from prairie.”

A high point of land jutting into water.

“She posed on the promontory for an hour.”

The capital city of Iceland.

“Our layover was in Reykjavik.”

Also accepted: Reykjavík

A large natural stream of water.

“He claims the river is walkable.”

The great desert of North Africa.

“The Sahara keeps growing.”

A prairie province of Canada.

“Saskatchewan broke the spellcheck and the player.”

A grassy plain with scattered trees.

“The documentary voice said savanna and everyone nodded.”

An island city-state in Southeast Asia.

“The layover in Singapore had better food than home.”

A narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water.

“Strait sounded easy in the map round until somebody had to spell it without autocorrect.”

The highest point of a mountain.

“He declared the escalator a summit.”

A mountainous country in Europe.

“He stayed neutral, very Switzerland of him.”

The capital and largest city of Honduras.

“They recognized Tegucigalpa from the map, but spelling it was harder.”

A southern US state.

“Tennessee has more letters than he remembered.”

A large state in the southern United States.

“Everything he owns says Texas on it.”

The physical shape, elevation, and surface features of an area of land.

“Topography sounded easy in the map round until somebody had to spell it without autocorrect.”

A river flowing into a larger one.

“The tributary floods every spring.”

A cold treeless plain.

“The office AC turns it into tundra.”

A low area of land between hills.

“The whole valley heard him miss that word.”

A small community in the country.

“The village has one stoplight.”

A mountain that erupts lava.

“The group chat is a dormant volcano.”

A major city in Russia's Ural region, east of the Ural Mountains.

“They recognized Yekaterinburg from the map, but spelling it was harder.”