Asia: Odd One Out Trivia Quiz

Answer: West China Sea

As indicated by their names, the South China Sea lies to the south of China (and between the Philippines and Vietnam) and the East China Sea to the east (between China and Japan). China's west is made up of land boundaries with Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, among others.

Answer: Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is an African nation. Myanmar is in south-east Asia, while Nepal and Taiwan are in south Asia.

Answer: Zagreb

Zagreb is the largest and capital city of Croatia, in Europe. Pyongyang is in North Korea; Vientiane in Laos; and Chennai in India.

Answer: False

While much of the Caspian Sea sits in West Asia, it also touches Eastern Europe. The Caspian Sea is over 370,000 square km (143,000 square miles) in surface area.

Answer: Horlick Mountains

The Horlick Mountains are in Antarctica. The Altays are in Central and East Asia, between Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. The Zagros Mountains are in Iran and Iraq, and the Himalayas are a very large range north of India and including several of the world's largest peaks (including Mount Everest).

Answer: Thailand

Asia is the largest continent on Earth by area. China consists of over 9.5 million square km and is easily the largest Asian country, followed by the Asian portion of Russia (about 3.9 million). India is the third largest country in Asia by size (about 3.2 million square km); Indonesia sixth (1.9 million); and Pakistan ninth (0.8 million).

While still relatively large in global terms, Thailand comes in 14th in Asia at just over 500,000 square km.

Answer: Pakistan

Nepal is landlocked between Bhutan, India, China, Tibet and Bangladesh; Mongolia by China, Kazakhstan and Russia; and Bhutan by India, Bangladesh, China, Nepal and Myanmar. Pakistan has a southern coastal area on the Arabian Sea.

Answer: False

While Asia has some large deserts including the Arabian (West Asia) and Gobi (East Asia), these are significantly smaller than Africa's Sahara Desert. Asia does have two of the world's smallest sub-tropical deserts, the Dasht-e Kavir and Dasht-e Lut, both in Iran.

Answer: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, at about 65,000 square km, is small in Asian terms. However, there are at least twelve Asian countries that are substantially smaller, including Brunei (5,700 square km), Singapore (690 square km) and Bahrain (660). The Maldives comes in as smallest, at just 300 square km.

Answer: False

There are many volcanoes in Asia that are considered to be 'active', which means they are in the process of erupting (often slowly) or likely to erupt. Some famous examples, which bring millions of tourists to watch every year, include Mount Fuji (Japan) and Mount Bromo (Indonesia).