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Eurasia


December 10, 2007 | permalink |


We head to Eurasia for today's Geo Quiz.

The country we're looking for today lies between Eastern Europe and Western Asia....call it "Eurasia".

This country borders Russia and Iran, among others. It's at the edge of the Caspian Sea... And serves as a major thru-way for oil and gas pipelines. The country is also a key cotton producer --- it's a big exporter of the raw material. Handpicked cotton from this country might even be made into the jeans you're wearing:

“You might have cotton from Mali, Turkey, India and those might all be woven together and then you might take the thread and weave it into fabric in Italy and then the fabric might get shipped to Indonesia where it's cut.”

So name the Eurasian country that's a player in the global textile industry and where cotton is considered White Gold....





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