Geo Quiz

Central Asia

We’re looking for the smallest nation in Central Asia, about 3,400 miles south west for today’s Geo Quiz destination.

Like many of its neighbors, Afghanistan being one, this place has challenging terrain. More than ninety percent of it is mountainous.

In the east are the Pamirs — home to Communism Peak — at one time the highest point in the Soviet Union. This area was the setting for civil war in the mid-90s when the Moscow-backed government fought an Islamist opposition.

Relations with Moscow are a little calmer now and that’s enabled an unlikely export — in the form of a Youtube superstar. He’s a musician known for singing Bollywood music and he’s now performing in Moscow nightclubs.

We’ll tell you about him and reveal the name of his homeland in our Global Hit…

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Geo Answer:
Just two items left on the agenda for today. Item 1: We were looking for a former Soviet republic in Central Asia for today’s Geo Quiz.

That would be — Tajikistan. Which leads us nicely into Item 2 – our Global Hit.