world’s first cell phone
world’s first cell phone
Geography For 10 Points?
A 5 Part Question:
a) Name the first Country that sees the dawn of the new day (that’s not a polar country in summertime.)
b) What city has more people Karachi, Pakistan or Los Angeles, California.
c) What’s larger in square miles China or the United States of America?
d) What country provides 80% of the world’s supply of the mineral Coltran for cell phones and also has had the most deaths in the last ten years?
e) Name the 3 Seas directly North, East and South of the Mediterranean Sea.
No not Nepal. It’s not the country with the highest altitudes but the one furthest east in relation to the International Dateline. Sudan was wrong as well. Berring Sea? What are you nuts?
1. Can’t tell, really. It can be Japan, as they claim. Some say it’s Tonga, some say it’s Kiribati (first to experience the new millenium).
Japan, which is also known as the “Land of the Rising Sun”
- Japan is the very first country to experience sunrise everyday.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006040901989
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question38872.html
http://geography.about.com/library/misc/bly2kfirst.htm
2. Karachi Pakistan – 12,315,843
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi
Los Angeles, CA – 3,849,378
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California
Therefore, it’s Karachi.
3. China – 3,704,427 sq mi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China
USA – 3,793,079 sq mi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
Therefore, it’s the USA.
4. Democratic Republic of the Congo
http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=provides+80%25+of+the+world%27s+supply+of+the+mineral+Coltan+&spell=1
5. The 3 seas you are talking about are all directly north.
- Ionian Sea
- Tyrrhenian Sea
- Aegean Sea
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/5/5c/650px-Mediterranean_Relief.jpg
There are no other seas that are directly South, East or West of the Mediterranean Sea.
South – Gulf of Sidra (Libya), Gulf of Gabes (Tunisia)
East – none
West – Strait of Gibraltar