 ๐จ HERE WE GO ๐จ The May 2024 #fridaygeotrivia question. What is the longest chain of countries such that each successive country in the chain shares a land border and capital city names are in alphabetical order? Example: SK ๐ธ๐ฐ (Bratislava) - CZ ๐จ๐ฟ (Prague) - PL ๐ต๐ฑ (Warsaw) is a chain of 3. Who can top that? As always, you need the #fridaygeotrivia hashtag and the country flag emoji. 1/n 17 comments
3/ to clarify - capital names in ENGLISH, not the local language(s). Also, in the case of countries with multiple capitals you can choose whichever you like 4/ @IIVQ opens the #fridaygeotrivia scoring with a chain of 6 ๐ณ๐ฑ Amsterdam>๐ฉ๐ช Berlin>๐ง๐ช Brussels>๐ซ๐ท Paris->๐ฎ๐น Rome->๐ฆ๐น Vienna 5/ People, please. ALPHABETICAL order. You can do this. Athens ๐ฌ๐ท does not before Ankara ๐น๐ท. Budapest ๐ญ๐บ does not come before Bratislava ๐ธ๐ฐ 7/ Was @ccferrie taking a break the last few months? OR WAS HE PRACTICING ALONE IN A REMOTE CABIN? Behold, his chain of 11! Addis Ababa ๐ช๐น Juba ๐ธ๐ธ Kampala ๐บ๐ฌ Kigali ๐ท๐ผ Kinshasa ๐จ๐ฉ Luanda ๐ฆ๐ด Lusaka ๐ฟ๐ฒ Maputo ๐ฒ๐ฟ Mbabane ๐ธ๐ฟ Pretoria ๐ฟ๐ฆ Windhoek ๐ณ๐ฆ 8/ some good efforts to go Latin American @arferrand discovers ๐ง๐ฟ Belmopan - ๐ฌ๐น Guatemala City - ๐ธ๐ป San Salvador - ๐ญ๐ณ Tegucigalpa while @njwatt finds Asuncion ๐ต๐พ Brasilia ๐ง๐ท Buenos Aires ๐ฆ๐ท La Paz ๐ง๐ด Lima ๐ต๐ช Quito ๐ช๐จ nice, but just not long enough. Keep searching! 9/ @Jann finds a new variant of the African chain, also for 11 Bangui ๐จ๐ซ โ Juba ๐ธ๐ธ โ Kampala ๐บ๐ฌ โ Kigali ๐ท๐ผ โ Kinshasa ๐จ๐ฉ โ Luanda ๐ฆ๐ด โ Lusaka ๐ฟ๐ฒ โ Maputo ๐ฒ๐ฟ โ Mbabane ๐ธ๐ฟ โ Pretoria ๐ฟ๐ฆ โ Windhoek ๐ณ๐ฆ 10/ nice little run through the 'stans by @njwatt to find a chain of 8. But that's just not enough, current lead is 11. Ashgabat ๐น๐ฒAstana ๐ฐ๐ฟ Beijing ๐จ๐ณ Bishkek ๐ฐ๐ฌ Dushanbe ๐น๐ฏ Kabul ๐ฆ๐ซ Tehran ๐ฎ๐ท Yerevan ๐ฆ๐ฒ 11/ This is an interesting one by @ccferrie Asuncion ๐ต๐พ Buenos Aires ๐ฆ๐ท Brasilia ๐ง๐ท Caracas ๐ป๐ช Georgetown ๐ฌ๐พ Paramaribo ๐ธ๐ท But wait ... is there more here? Who sees it? EDIT: this chain of course has an error Buenos Aires does not come before Brasilia. We got too excited in the heat of the moment. 12/ yes, @Jann picks up the chain Asuncion ๐ต๐พ Buenos Aires ๐ฆ๐ท Brasilia ๐ง๐ท Caracas ๐ป๐ช Georgetown ๐ฌ๐พ Paramaribo ๐ธ๐ท Paris ๐ซ๐ท Rome ๐ฎ๐น Vatican ๐ป๐ฆ (or Vienna ๐ฆ๐น or San Marino๐ธ๐ฒ) Still it's only a chain of 9. The record of 11 still stands 13/ Well done to late-arriving, former champ @ryankas who finds a way to direct it to Africa Asuncion ๐ต๐พ Buenos Aires ๐ฆ๐ท Brasilia ๐ง๐ท Caracas ๐ป๐ช Georgetown ๐ฌ๐พ Paramaribo ๐ธ๐ท Paris ๐ซ๐ท Madrid ๐ช๐ธ Rabat ๐ฒ๐ฆ EDIT - this is of course wrong Madrid does not come before Paris. SORRY! Got too excited by making it to Africa. 14/ โฑ๏ธ 10 more minutes to play. Who can find a chain longer than 11? 15/ just for the record @cyclotopie corrects us on the South America to Europe path. This one is actually in alpha order ๐๐๐ Bogota ๐จ๐ด Brasilia ๐ง๐ท Caracas ๐ป๐ช Georgetown ๐ฌ๐พ Paramaribo ๐ธ๐ท Paris ๐ซ๐ท Rome ๐ฎ๐น San Marino ๐ธ๐ฒ 16/ Wow, in the final minutes @ccferrie comes up with another chain of 11 Bujumbara ๐ง๐ฎ Dodoma ๐น๐ฟ Kampala ๐บ๐ฌ Kigali ๐ท๐ผ Kinshasa ๐จ๐ฉ Luanda ๐ฆ๐ด Lusaka ๐ฟ๐ฒ Maputo ๐ฒ๐ฟ Mbabane ๐ธ๐ฟ Pretoria ๐ฟ๐ฆ Windhoek ๐ณ๐ฆ That could well be the game. We are now late in extra time โฑ๏ธ 17/ ๐๐๐ that's it, game over! Thanks to all of you who played, that was intense. The May 2024 #fridaygeotrivia emoji trophy ๐ goes to ... @ccferrie for discovering two chains of 11 Final answers will be up on the blog shortly. 18/ The #fridaygeotrivia answers are now up on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-may-2024 where you can also find all the past questions in case you want to quiz yourself Enjoy the weekend everyone and see you next month on June 28th ๐๏ธ |
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2/ One other twist to the game: in the case of dependent territories with their own ISO code you can use either the capital of the country or the capital of the dependent territory. So, for example, you can consider the capital of French Guiana ๐ฌ๐ซ (ISO code: GF) to be Cayenne or Paris.
Full rules, etc on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-may-2024
Good luck! #fridaygeotrivia