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1. Let's kick off our journey around the westernmost country in Europe, Portugal. You've just arrived in Lisbon but you are staying in the city of Leiria. For this you need to travel north.
2. You leave Portugal satisfied with the sights and gastronomic delicacies and depart to the neighboring country of Spain. Once again you have decided not to stay in the capital and Barcelona is your choice. In comparison to Madrid, Barcelona is further south on the map of Spain.
3. Having completed your three hour siesta it's time to travel to your third destination in Europe. You couldn't resist staying in the capital of this country, Paris, the City of Light. Obviously you're going up to the ________ half of France.
4. You want to maintain your French language skills so you depart to the neighboring nation of Belgium. Paris was too chaotic however so you want to stay away from the capital city. Although you have travelled northeast to Liege you also have plans to visit Antwerp. You'll have to go further down south in Belgium when you decide to do this.
5. You start reminiscing of your stay in Paris, so when you finally decide to fly to the US you choose to stay over at a city with a French sounding name. Which of these French-sounding American state capitals is the only one that you can find down in the southern-half of the "Land of the Free"?
6. All of a sudden you miss Europe so you travel back to the Old Continent and find yourself in Germany. You don't want to exhaust yourself too much so you'll keep to the north of the country. Which of these cities won't you find up in the northern half?
7. You decide to kickoff your tour of Scandinavia by crossing the border into Denmark. You don't want to tire yourself too much by travelling to the far north so which city won't be on your itinerary?
8. You take a ferry from Copenhagen to Stockholm and decide to finally venture yourself way up north where Vikings ruled. It'll be quite a long trip but you've heard wonders about the Norrbotten County. Which of these cities won't you be finding there?
9. You're fixated with traveling east, so Finland is the next country to visit. Helsinki, the capital of the 'land of a thousand lakes' is also the capital of Lapland. All of this translates to the fact that it is located up in northern Finland.
10. You reminisce about your time in Baton Rouge and hope that you'll have a much better chance of practicing your French in the neighboring nation of Canada. You decide to take a road trip through the maple leaf country all the way through to Alaska. Which Canadian territory would you find farther up north, quite close to the mentioned American state?
11. Jumping time zones is playing havoc with your body clock but Europe is still too tempting. This time you are off to the Croatian capital of Zagreb. Even though the cities on the coast of the Adriatic Sea are tempting, you go down to the southern half of the country, namely to Cape Ostri where you will find Zagreb in a nearby location.
12. For your next destination you decide to sail in a southwesterly direction to Cyprus. You choose to weigh anchor in Paphos, which lies on the southwestern coast of the island. You'll be once again sticking to the south side, so which of the following cities won't you be visiting?
13. Consulting your map you notice that Egypt isn't so far so you point your compass towards the south and you arrive in Port Said. You'll be driving to Cairo soon where you'll be staying over. Cairo isn't that far to drive also being located up in the ________ half of the Egyptian nation.
14. Yet another maritime voyage and this time you are leaving Egypt for Morocco. Once again you'll settle for a capital, Rabat in this case. Out of all of the northern
African nations with a Mediterranean shoreline Morocco is the only one whose capital is located down in the southern half of the country.
15. Down to the other end of Africa and you decide to fly to Angola. The capital of this nation is also located up on the northern half of its territory but what's its name?
16. You notice that one continent's still missing on your list so you take a rather long flight down under to Australia. Considering you're staying over in Sydney, which of these Australian cities would you have to travel farthest north to?
17. One of the keywords for this quiz is the word "up" so what could be more appropriate than a question about Upper Volta. What is the current name of Upper Volta?
18. You'll now be heading to South America, to Brazil more precisely where Portuguese is the official language. You are however warned that their variant of Portuguese differs a bit from the main one. You settle for the capital of Brasília anyway. Within the borders of Brazil you will find that the capital is located in which half of the country?
19. The tour of Oceania wasn't complete without a visit to New Zealand. So you head to the airport and get yourself aboard a long flight. You'll be staying on the northern island so which of these cities is the odd one out?
20. Our last destination is Japan. You didn't even attempt to get an English-Japanese dictionary so let's hope you don't end up "Lost in Translation", if you catch my drift. You've chosen to visit Sapporo which is located on Hokkaido. This island is the farthest north of the Japanese islands.
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