Geo Answer Defunct place names

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On today’s Geo Quiz we want to know about geographic names that have disappeared. Here’s an example: Tanganyika. Can you find Tanganyika on the map? It once bordered the Indian Ocean and Lake Victoria, but its vanished! Harry Campbell has written a book called �Whatever Happened to Tanganyika?: The Place Names That History Left Behind.� We speak with him.

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