Thursday, May 22, 2008

Cool Geography Student Is 11


I have not done a "cool" person story for awhile, but I was just reading about one at Yahoo News~~

Quick: Cochabamba is the third-largest conurbation in what country?


Your answer might be, "Huh?" But 11-year-old Akshay Rajagopal answered "Bolivia" to clinch the 20th annual National Geographic Bee on Wednesday.

A conurbation is a large, densely populated urban area — and Cochabamba is the third-largest one in the South American country.

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