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1. First I want you to name the main settlement of the Kurile Islands.
2. Then I want you to give me the administration centre of Sakhalin Island.
3. Now I want the administration centre of the Russian Siberian republic of Sakha.
4. We stay in the Russian Federation. Now I want the administrative centre of Tatarstan.
5. We stay in the area. Chechnya declared independence 1992 and meant it. This resulted in two wars with Russia, which still more or less controls the area. But what is the administration centre here?
6. Now we go to a republic which borders Finland. The Karelian republic is also part of the Russian federation. What is the administration centre?
7. Now off we go to the Faroe Islands. What is the main settlement?
8. We stay in the area. What is the administrative centre of the Shetland Islands?
9. And what is the administrative centre of the Orkney Islands?
10. Now to the Hebrides, or rather the Outer Hebrides. What is its administrative centre?
11. We are off to another remote area which actually was independent 1832-1933: Newfoundland. What is its administrative centre?
12. The Aleutian Islands are administratively a part of Alaska. But the main settlement is?
13. Now we go to the southern hemisphere. The Pacific island Bougainville is formally a part of Papua New Guinea, but there is a movement strifing for independence. What is the main city here?
14. We are still in the Pacific. What is the administrative centre of French Polynesia?
15. What is the administrative centre of another French dependency: New Caledonia?
16. And yet another French dependency, Wallis and Futuna Islands - what is the main centre here?
17. Again the Pacific: What is the administrative centre of the self governed U.S. island of Guam?
18. The administrative centre of American Samoa?
19. Now I want the administration centre of two French dependencies off the coast of SE Africa. I start with Reunion.
20. And now, please give me the administrative centre of Mayotte.
21. Now we go to neighboring island Anjouan. There is a movement here to break away from the Comoro Islands and gain the same status as Mayotte, which is a French dependency. But what is the main settlement on this island?
22. Socotra is an island off the coast of Somalia. It belongs to Yemen, but it has its own administration centre. Which of the following is it?
23. Now I go back to the Pacific. New Ireland is an island that belongs to Papua New Guinea. But what is the administrative centre?
24. Finally we go to two Indian territories that both have guerilla groups striving for independence. But what is the administration centre of Nagaland?
25. And now the second Indian territory - Assam. What is its administrative centre?
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