Travel the world with this first-class puzzle treasury!
Where would you find the Spanish Steps? What's the modern-day name for Byzantium? Where's Wrigley Field? These and many other questions related to an international array of cultures are asked and answered in this treasury of fact-filled puzzles, which offer an entertaining and informative way to learn about different countries and famous cities all over the globe.
Geography and trivia buffs will find hours of amusement with these 100 word search puzzles. From Oslo to Athens to Hong Kong and beyond, the compilation visits 50 countries and 50 cities to discover the names of capitals, rivers, famous residents, landmarks, natural resources, flora and fauna, and many other points of interest. All subjects are listed and identified in a section above the letter grids, and complete solutions appear at the end of the book.

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Around the World Word Search Puzzles

By Victoria Fremont, Brenda Flores, Peter Lewis, Ilene J. Rattiner

Dover Publications, Inc.

CHAPTER 1

Argentina

South AMERICA (continent)
ANDES (mountain range)
ARGENTUM (origin of name, from Latin word for "silver")
BEEF cattle (export)
BUENOS Aires (capital)
Laguna del CARBON (lowest point in Western Hemisphere)
CERRO Aconcagua (tallest mountain in Western Hemisphere)
DIEGO Maradona (soccer player)
ESTANCIAS (large cattle ranches)
FALKLAND Islands (ruled by Britain after war in 1982)
Iguaz� FALLS (waterfall)
Tierra del FUEGO (group of islands)
GAUCHO (cowboy and folklore symbol)
GRAIN (product)
GUANACO (animal)
Natural HISTORY Museum (cultural institution)
JAGUAR (animal)
JORGE Luis Borges (poet)
LLAMA (animal)
PAMPAS (grasslands which are major agricultural resource)
PATAGONIA (cold, dry, windy region)
Juan PER�N (former president)
PESO (currency)
PIRANHA (fish)
POLO (sport)
PUDU (smallest known deer)
R�O de la Plata (river)
SAN Carlos de Bariloche (ski resort)
SPANISH (official language)
TANGO (dance)
Col�n THEATER (grand opera house)
VALD�S Peninsula (home to many marine mammals)

Australia

ABORIGINE (indigenous people)
ADELAIDE (city)
AYERS Rock (world's largest monolith)
BOOMERANG (used by Aborigines for hunting)
BRISBANE (city)
CANBERRA (national capital)
CRICKET (sport)
DAIRY products (export)
DIDGERIDOO (aboriginal musical instrument)
Australian DOLLAR (currency)
EMU (native bird)
Lake EYRE
Howard FLOREY (Nobel-prizewinning scientist)
GOLD (resource)
GREAT Victoria Desert
KANGAROO (indigenous animal)
KIWI (fruit)
KOALA (indigenous animal)
Mount KOSCIUSKO (highest peak)
James MCAULEY (poet)
MEAT (product)
MELBOURNE (city)
OPALS (world's largest concentration of)
PERTH (city)
Great Barrier REEF
Murrumbidgee RIVER
SHEEP (livestock)
SYDNEY (city)
Lake TORRENS
WINE (product)
WOMBAT (indigenous animal)
WOOL (product)
ZINC (resource)

Austria

ALPS (mountain range)
ARNOLD Schwarzenegger (actor/politician)
AUSTRIAN State Archives (library)
BEECH (tree)
BILLY Wilder (film director)
Vienna Boys' CHOIR (world famous choir)
DANUBE (river)
DEER (animal)
Christian DOPPLER (physicist)
EURO (currency)
FORESTS (cover 47% of total area)
FRANZ Josef (former emperor)
Sigmund FREUD (psychologist)
GERMAN (official language)
GREGOR Mendel (genetics scientist)
INNSBRUCK (site of 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics)
Gustav KLIMT (artist)
Fritz LANG (film director)
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (composer)
Kunsthistorisches MUSEUM (Museum of Fine Arts)
The Sound of MUSIC (musical set in Austria)
Vienna State OPERA (cultural institution)
PARTRIDGE (animal)
SALZBURG (city)
Alpine SKIING (popular sport)
Lipizzaner STALLIONS (animal)
Johann STRAUSS (composer)
STRUDEL (dessert)
Sch�nbrunn TIERGARTEN (world's oldest zoo)
VIENNA (capital and largest city)
WALTZ (dance)
WIENER Schnitzel (popular dish)

Bolivia

ABU�A (river)
ANACONDA (snake)
ANDES (mountains)
AYMARA (an official language)
BENI (river)
CATTLE ranching (industry)
CHICHA (liquor made from corn and other grains)
CHUNO (popular food made from potatoes)
COCHABAMBA (city)
COFFEE (product)
COPPER (resource)
Natural GAS (major export)
LLAMA (indigenous animal)
LLUCHU (knitted wool helmet)
MAHOGANY (product)
MINING (leading industry)
OIL (resource)
ORURO (city)
La PAZ (administrative capital)
PILCOMAYO (river)
PONCHO (typical clothing)
POOP� (lake)
POTOS� (one of the highest towns in the world)
PUMA (indigenous animal)
QUECHUA (an official language)
SAJAMA (highest peak)
SANTA Cruz (city)
SPANISH (an official language)
SUCRE (judicial capital)
SUGARcane (crop)
TIN (resource)
TITICACA (lake)
TOUCAN (indigenous bird)
VANILLA (crop)
ZINC (resource)

Brazil

Jorge AMADO (writer)
AMAZON (river and rain forest)
National Museum of Fine ARTS, Rio de Janeiro
BEL�M (city)
BRAS�LIA (capital)
Serra dos CAR�JAS (mountains)
CARNIVAL (festival)
COFFEE (leading export)
�RICO Ver�ssimo (writer)
Serra Geral de GOI�S (mountains)
GOLD (resource)
IGUA�U (river and falls)
IPANEMA (beach)
Antonio Francisco LISBOA (sculptor)
Joaquim MACHADO de Assis (writer)
MADEIRA (river)
MIRIM (lake)
Pico de NEBLINA (highest peak)
NEGRO (river)
Oscar NIEMEYER (architect)
PAPER (product)
Lagoa dos PATOS (171-mile-long lagoon)
Candido PORTINARI (artist)
PORTUGUESE (language)
RAIN FOREST
REAL (currency)
RIO de Janeiro (port city)
RUBBER (product)
RoadRUNNERS (indigenous birds)
SAMBA (dance)
S�O Paulo (largest city)
SISAL (crop)
SOCCER (national sport)
SUGARloaf Mountain

Canada

Lake AGASSIZ (ancient glacial lake)
ALBERTA (province)
BAFFIN Island
BANFF National Park
Great BEAR Lake
BEAVER (indigenous animal)
Cape BRETON Island
CALGARY (city)
ELK (indigenous animal)
FISHING (industry)
GRAND Banks (best fishing area in world)
INUIT (northern indigenous people)
JASPER National Park
Stephen LEACOCK (writer)
Mount LOGAN (highest peak)
MACKENZIE River
MAPLE Leaf (national emblem)
Lt. Colonel John MCCRAE (author of "In Flanders Field")
Lucy Maud MONTGOMERY (author of Anne of Green Gables)
MONTREAL (largest city)
MOOSE (indigenous animal)
NEWSPRINT (leading supplier of)
NIAGARA Falls
NICKEL (resource)
NOVA Scotia (province)
ONTARIO (province)
OTTAWA (capital)
QUEBEC (province and city)
Canadian ROCKIES (mountains)
SAINT Lawrence River TORONTO (city)
VANCOUVER (city)
Lake WINNIPEG

Chile

Isabel ALLENDE (novelist)
ANDES (mountains)
ARICA (city)
Claudio ARRAU (pianist)
ATACAMA Desert
Andr�s BELLO (scholar and poet)
B�O-B�o River
Alberto BLEST Gana ("Balzac of Chile")
Milod�n CAVE
CERRO San Crist�bal (tourist site)
CONDOR (national bird)
COPPER (resource)
CUECA (folk dance)
EASTER Island (has over 600 huge stone statues)
EMPANADA (food)
Alonso de ERCILLA y Zu�iga (poet)
Petrohu� FALLS (waterfall)
Tierra del FUEGO (archipelago)
GLACIER National Park
GOLD (resource)
IQUIQUE (leading port)
LAGO Todos los Santos (lake)
LLAMA (indigenous animal)
LOA (river)
Santa LUC�A (fortress and garden)
Gabriela MISTRAL (Nobel-prizewinning poet)
MOAI (giant stone figures on Easter Island)
MUSEO Pre-Colombiano (museum)
Isla NEGRA (home of Pablo Neruda)
Pablo NERUDA (Nobel-prizewinning poet)
OJOS del Salada (volcano and second-highest peak in western hemisphere)
Le PAIGE Museum (houses mummies)
SANTIAGO (capital and largest city)
STRAIT of Magellan
VALPARA�SO (city)
VILLARRICA (most active volcano)
WINE (product)

China

ACUPUNCTURE (traditional medical technique)
BEIJING (capital)
CALLIGRAPHY (art of writing)
COAL (resource)
ENAMEL (art form)
Mount EVEREST (highest peak)
FAN (decorative accessory)
FEN (currency)
FORBIDDEN City
Natural GAS (resource)
GOBI Desert (one of largest in the world)
HAINAN (large island in South China Sea)
Temple of HEAVEN (tourist site)
HIMALAYAS (mountains)
HUANG He (river)
KITE flying (popular activity)
KOKO Nor (lake)
LHASA (capital of Tibet)
LOP Nor (lake)
MANCHU Imperial Palace
MANDARIN (chief dialect)
MEKONG River
MONSOON rains
PAGODA (architectural style)
QUFU (home of Confucius)
RICE (crop)
STEEL (product)
TEA (crop)
TEXTILES (products)
Great WALL (1,500-mile-long wall)
WENQUAN (world's highest human settlement)
WHEAT (crop)
XINGANG (harbor)
YANGTZE (another name for the Chang Jiang, the longest river in Asia)

Costa Rica

ARENAL (volcano)
BEADwork (traditional craft)
Cordillera CENTRAL (mountain range)
CHIRRIP� Grande (highest peak)
CINCHONA (trees whose bark produces quinine)
COFFEE (crop)
COL�N (currency)
ECOTOURISM (industry)
La FORTUNA (town)
R�o FR�O (river)
IRAZ� (semiactive volcano)
Museo de JADE (jade museum in San Jos�)
San JOS� (capital)
LIM�N (port)
MARIMBA (musical instrument)
Roberto Brenes MES�N (writer)
Joaqu�n Garc�a MONJE (writer)
Capuchin MONKEY (animal)
MONTEVERDE Cloud Forest Reserve
MUSEO de Oro (museum)
Cano NEGRO (wildlife refuge)
OSA Peninsula
PLAYA del Coco (beach)
POAS (volcano)
PUMA (indigenous animal)
PUNTARENAS (port)
RICE (crop)
RICH Coast (meaning of "Costa Rica")
Oscar �rias S�NCHEZ (former president and winner of Nobel Peace Prize)
SLOTH (indigenous animal)
TABAC�N Hot Springs (mineral baths)
Cordillera de TALAMANCO (mountains)
TEXTILES (products)
Leatherback TURTLE
Puerto VIEJO (black sand beach)

Croatia

ADRIATIC Sea (border)
ARTUR Radzinski (musician)
BOL (beach)
CHESS (sport)
CORN (crop)
CROATIAN (official language)
DALMATIA (coastal region and origin of Dalmatian dog breed)
DEER (animal)
DINARA Peak (highest point)
DUBROVNIK (medieval city)
FLAX (crop)
FOOTBALL (sport)
HUM (world's smallest town)
HVAR (historic port)
ISLANDS (geographical feature)
KOLO (circle dance)
KUNA (currency)
Plitvice LAKES National Park (area of lakes and waterfalls)
Historical MUSEUM of Croatia (museum)
Diocletian PALACE (former emperor's home)
Slavoljub PENKALA (inventor of mechanical pencil)
PLASTICS (major industry)
Marco POLO (explorer born on island of Korcula)
SAVA River (longest river)
Natural SCIENCES Museum (museum)
SHIPS (major export)
SPLIT (coastal city)
Nikola TESLA (scientist)
YUGOSLAVIA (former name)
ZAGREB (capital)
ZLATNI Rat Beach (changes color according to wind)

Cuba

ANDY Garcia (actor)
Pearl of the ANTILLES (nickname)
BASEBALL (sport)
BEE Hummingbird (animal)
BOXING (sport)
CAUTO (largest river)
CHA CHA (dance)
CIGARS (product)
CITRUS fruits (export)
COFFEE (leading export)
Celia CRUZ (musician)
DESI Arnaz (musician/actor)
DOMINOES (popular game)
Gloria ESTEFAN (singer)
FIDEL Castro (longtime leader)
FISH (major export)
GUANT�NAMO Bay (location of U.S. naval base)
HAVANA (capital)
ISLA de la Juventud (main island)
JOS� Mart� (airport)
MAMBO (dance)
MANGER (prehistoric fish found only in Cuba)
National MUSEUM of Fine Arts (museum)
NICKEL (mineral resource)
Royal PALM (national tree)
PESO (currency)
Juan Jos� SICRE (sculptor)
SPANISH (language)
SUGARCANE (crop)
TOBACCO (crop)
Isle of YOUTH (location of coral reefs)

Denmark/Greenland

AALBORG (port in Denmark)
AARHUS (port in Denmark)
CHEESE (product)
COD (fish/export)
COPENHAGEN (capital of Denmark)
CRYOLITE (mineral found in Greenland)
DUNDAS (strategic area in Greenland)
Hans EGEDE (missionary who began colonization of Greenland)
EGESKOV Castle (fortress built in 1554)
EJER Bavreh�j (mountain in Denmark)
ERIC the Red (founded first European settlement in Greenland in 986)
ESBJERG (city and port in Denmark) FOX (animal)
FURNITURE (industry)
Natural GAS (resource)
GLACIER
GODTHAAB (former capital of Greenland)
GUDENAA (river in Denmark)
HANS Christian Andersen (author)
HERRING (fish/export)
INUIT (Arctic people of Greenland)
S�ren KIERKEGAARD (philosopher)
KRONE (currency)
LEAD (Greenland resource)
"Little MERMAID" (popular seaside sculpture)
NIKOLAI Grundtvig (poet)
ODENSE (city in Denmark)
Iron ORE (Greenland resource)
Harp SEAL (Greenland mammal)
SHIPbuilding (industry)
SILVER (resource of Denmark)
SJOA (river in Denmark)
TIVOLI Gardens (amusement park)
TUNDRA (treeless grassy land in Greenland)
ZINC (Greenland resource)

Dominican Republic

ALC�ZAR de Col�n (palace)
AMBER (world's largest source of)
ARAWAK Indian caves (tourist site)
BASEBALL (national sport)
BAVARO (beach resort)
BOCA Chica (beach)
Juan BOSCH Gavi�n (former president)
CACAO (product)
Altos de CHAV�N (replica of 16th-century Mediterranean village)
CIBAO Valley
COFFEE (product)
CONSTANZA (town)
CORDILLERA Central (mountain range)
Calle de las DAMAS (oldest street in the Americas)
Santo DOMINGO (capital and oldest city in the Americas)
Pico DUARTE (highest peak in the Caribbean)
Lago ENRIQUILLO (saltwater lake and lowest point in the Caribbean)
GOLD (resource)
Juan Luis GUERRA (musician)
HAINA River
La ISABELA (first European colony in the New World)
JURASSIC Park (parts filmed in the Dominican Republic)
MERENGUE (national dance)
Los Tres OJOS (cave with sweet, salt, and sulfur pools)
OZAMA (river)
PASEO de los �ndios (park)
PESO (currency)
PLANTAINS (crop)
Puerto PLATA (city)
Oscar de la RENTA (fashion designer)
SANTIAGO de los Caballeros (city)
Sammy SOSA (baseball player)
TA�NO (indigenous people)
TOURISM (industry)
YUMA (river)

Egypt

ALEXANDRIA (chief port)
Mosque of Mohammed ALI Pasha
ASW�N (city and dam)
Khan-el Khalili BAZAAR
BEN Ezra (oldest remaining synagogue)
CACTUS (indigenous plant)
CAIRO (capital)
CAMEL (indigenous animal)
The CITADEL (fortress)
CLEOPATRA (queen of Egypt)
COBRA (royal symbol of ancient Egypt)
COTTON (crop)
Book of the DEAD (papyruses to guide the soul through the underworld)
EGYPTIAN Museum, Cairo
FELUCCA (ancient sightseeing boats on the Nile)
G�ZA (city)
Tawfiq al-HAKIM (social critic and playwright)
Mount HOREB (Biblical mountain, believed to be Mount Sinai)
JACKAL (indigenous animal)
JEBEL Kather�na (highest peak)
KHAMSIN (dry winds and sandstorms)
KH�RGA (oasis)
Naguib MAHFOUZ (writer and Nobel laureate)
Lake NASSER
NILE River (world's longest river)
Crude OIL (resource)
Date PALM (indigenous tree)
PHARAONIC Village (living museum)
PYRAMID (structure for royal burial)
RAMSES (pharaoh)
RASH�D (city where Rosetta Stone was found)
RICE (crop)
Anwar al-SADAT Memorial
Port SAID (city)
SINAI Peninsula
SPHINX (stone figure with lion's body and human head)
SUEZ Canal
TOMB of Tutankhamen (richly arrayed tomb for 18th-dynasty pharaoh)
ZAYAN Temple (partially excavated temple)

(Continues...)

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