Geography thread - on which bit of the world are you least knowledgeable?

[FredaFrogspawn]

I’m shaky on the ‘stans - I realised how little I know about any of them other than Pakistan and Afghanistan in terms of language, demographic, flags, landscape etc. Also not very informed about the island countries to the north of Australia, south of Japan.

What’s your weakest area?

I don't think I'm very knowledgeable in the area of geography at all, other than knowing which countries belong to which continent and their rough location, their capitals and their flags.

People and their motives is my area I lack knowledge on.

The Caucasus, especially the special administrative regions (not sure if this is the proper term...) in Russia like Dagestan and Chechnya and part recognised countries like Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But I'm very committed to learning more!

Me too! I geography app my way through my commute. Better than the Evening Standard anyway...

South America. I know a little of each country's history, and a little about their contemporary politics and economics, but that's about all.

I used to be rubbish with flags, especially the African ones but then I found a website that helped me improve my knowledge of the flags of the different countries. If anyone is interested it was called Flags & Countries.

Tradle is fun to find out a bit more about countries through their exports
oec.world/en/tradle/

I learned most of the countries and their flags when I was at school in the 60's/70's. But many things have happened in the world since then, and I've completely lost track of a lot of them now.