Colombia
Colombia lies in northwestern South America. This topic is part of Countries within Geography. This page currently draws on 9 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Colombia trivia questions
Colombia is located on which continent?
Answer: South America
Bonus fact: Colombia lies in northwestern South America.
Colombia has coastlines on the Pacific Ocean and what sea?
Answer: Caribbean Sea
Bonus fact: It is the only South American country with both Pacific and Caribbean coasts.
What is the capital of Colombia?
Answer: Bogotá
Bonus fact: The U.S. Department of State lists Bogotá as the capital of Colombia.
Which Central American country forms the land bridge between Costa Rica and Colombia?
Answer: Panama
Bonus fact: Panama has coastlines on both the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gave the United States rights to build what?
Answer: Panama Canal
Bonus fact: The agreement was signed shortly after Panama separated from Colombia in 1903.
Titanoboa fossils were discovered in which country?
Answer: Colombia
Bonus fact: The fossils came from the Cerrejon coal mine in northern Colombia.
Bogotá is the capital of which country?
Answer: Colombia
Bonus fact: Bogotá lies high in the Andes.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate in Literature, was born in which country?
Answer: Colombia
Bonus fact: His international breakthrough novel One Hundred Years of Solitude appeared in 1967.
Panama declared independence in 1903 from which country?
Answer: Colombia
Bonus fact: The separation created the Republic of Panama.