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2008 Tunisia

The seventh International Geography Olympiad held in Carthage, Tunisia, from August 7 to 12, 2008 in conjunction with the congress of the International Geographical Union, was a great success. Apart from a written response test and a multimedia test the Olympiad consisted of a three day fieldwork through Tunisia with two mapping exercises and a knowledge test.

 

The 24 countries that participated were: Australia, Belarus, Belgium, China Beijing,China Taipeh, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, The United Kingdom. Observers from Brasil, the USA and Denmark visited the Olympiad.

The top-3 best performing countries were:

1. Romania

2. Estonia

3. Australia

Congratulations!

For the assignments of the multimediatest click here, for the images of the multimedia test click here and for the answers of the multimedia test click here.

More test assignments will follow as soon as possible.

For general information please contact h.ankone@slo.nl or j.vanderschee@ond.vu.nl

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