| HISPANIOLA | The most populated and second largest island in the Caribbean (10) |
| PENANG | One of Malaysia's most densely populated and urbanised states (6) |
| LOSANGELES | Second most populated city in the US (3,7) |
| ALEXANDRIA | Chief port and second largest city of Egypt (10) |
| SARDINIA | With the capital Cagliari and situated directly south of Corsica, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, site of Costa Smeralda (8) |
| FAISALABAD | Pakistan's third-most populated city |
| EGYPT | Consisting of 90 per cent desert, the most-populated of the Arab countries, site of the Great Sphinx, Abu Simbel and Great Pyramid of Giza (5) |
| FLORENCE | The most populated city in the Italian region of Tuscany (8) |
| NEWARK | What is the most populated city in the US state of New Jersey? (6) |
| KODIAK | Second largest island in the United States, on the south coast of Alaska (6) |
| GOZO | The second largest island in the Maltese archipelago (4) |
| NEWGUINEA | Divided between two countries, what is the second largest island in the world? (3,6) |
| MINDANAO | Second-largest island in the Philippines; in Japanese hands, 1942-1944 (8) |
| MADAGASCAR | Second-largest island nation |
| ISTANBUL | Formerly known as Constantinople, the most populated city in Turkey (8) |
| LAKETANGANYIKA | Body of fresh water in central Africa between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the longest and second-largest of its kind on earth (4,10) |
| SERB | Inhabitant of second largest island in the Mediterranean (4) |
| UIST | South ___ , second largest island in the Outer Hebrides (4) |
| HOY | The second largest island in Orkney, after Mainland |
| MAUI | Second-largest island in the U.S. state of Hawaii (4) |
