Krillion prompt · October 28, 2026
Name a region of the world that spans multiple countries (like the Middle East)
Krillion accepted 884 answers for this prompt in Dive #105. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gem and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 884 accepted answers, this prompt is about 1.5 times wider than a typical Krillion prompt (about 588).
- 757 answers (86%) are Deep Cuts and 79 are Rare, while 16 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Sahel +60 Samoa +60 Taiga +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Polesia
Chernobyl's exclusion zone lies inside this vast marshy forest region.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Acacia–Commiphora bushland
- Acadia
- Accursed Mountains
- Adamawa Plateau
- Aegean
- Aegean Islands
- Aethiopia
- Afar Triangle
- African Great Lakes
- Afromontane
- Afrotropical realm
- Akwapim-Togo Ranges
- Alay Mountains
- Albertine Rift
- Albertine Rift montane forests
- Alemannia
- Aleutian Islands
- Alpine Foreland
- Altai Mountains
- Altiplano
- American Cordillera
- Amu Darya basin
- Amur basin
- Ancient Libya
- Andaman Sea region
- Andean states
- Anglo-America
- Anglo-Scottish border region
- Anglophone Africa
- Anglophone Caribbean
- Angolan miombo woodlands
- Annamite Range
- Anti-Lebanon Mountains
- Antilles
- Antipodes
- Apachería
- Apennines
- Arab world
- Arabah
- Arabia Deserta
- Arabia Felix
- Arabia Petraea
- Arabian Desert
- Arabophone Africa
- Arachosia
- Aral Sea basin
- Aralkum Desert
- Aram
- Ardennes
- Aridoamerica
- Armenian Highlands
- Assyria
- Atacama–Sechura deserts
- Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests
- Atlantic Europe
- Atlantic Forest
- Atlas Mountains
- Australasian realm
- Austronesia
- Azania
- Azawagh
- Bab-el-Mandeb region
- Bačka
- Bactria
- Badakhshan
- Baekdudaegan
- Balkan Mountains
- Balochistan
- Baltoscandia
- Bambouk
- Banat
- Banda Oriental
- Baranya
- Barbary Coast
- Barents Region
- Basel tri-border region
- Bashan
- Basin and Range Province
- Batéké Plateau
- Bay of Bengal region
- Bay of Biscay region
- Belasica
- Bengal
- Bering Strait region
- Beringia
- Beskids
- Bessarabia
- Bhojpur region
- Białowieża Forest
- Bieszczady
- Bight of Biafra
- Blue Banana
- Bohemian Forest
- Bohemian Massif
- Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island
- Borgu
- Bornu
- Brabant
- Brahmaputra basin
- Brooks Range
- Budjak
- Bukovina
- Bushveld
- Cameroon Highlands
- Canaan
- Canadian Shield
- Cardamom Mountains
- Caribbean Basin
- Caribbean Lowlands
- Caribbean South America
- Carinthia
- Caroline Islands
- Carolinian forest
- Carpathian Ruthenia
- Carpathians
- Cascade Range
- Caspian Depression
- Catalan Countries
- Catalonia
- Central African Copperbelt
- Central African mangroves
- Central African Plateau
- Central America and the Caribbean
- Central America Volcanic Arc
- Central American Dry Corridor
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Central Andes
- Central Highlands (Central America)
- Central Range (New Guinea)
- Central Sahel
- Central Sudan
- Central Zambezian miombo woodlands
- Cerdanya
- Cerrado
- Chaillu Massif
- Chameria
- Changbai Mountains
- Cheviot Hills
- Chihuahuan Desert
- Chimanimani Mountains
- Chin Hills
- Chiquitano dry forest
- Chocó
- Cieszyn Silesia
- Coast Mountains
- Coele-Syria
- Coffee Belt
- Colorado Desert
- Colorado River basin
- Columbia Mountains
- Columbia River basin
- Comoro Islands
- Continental Europe
- Coral Triangle
- Cordillera de Talamanca
- Corocoro Island
- Cottian Alps
- Crișana
- Cross–Sanaga–Bioko coastal forests
- Crystal Mountains
- Curonian Spit
- Cuvelai Basin
- Cyprus
- Dacia
- Dalmatia
- Danakil Alps
- Danakil Desert
- Dângrêk Mountains
- Danube Basin
- Danube Delta
- Dardistan
- Daurian steppe
- Dawna Range
- Dawnland
- Dead Sea region
- Dendi
- Desht-i Kipchak
- Dinaric Alps
- Diomede Islands
- Diyar Rabi'a
- Djibouti xeric shrublands
- Dnieper basin
- Dniester basin
- Dobruja
- Drakensberg
- Dry Andes
- Dry miombo woodlands
- Duars
- East African mangroves
- East African montane forests
- East African Plateau
- East Asian cultural sphere
- East European Plain
- East Prussia
- East Saharan montane xeric woodlands
- East Sudanian savanna
- East-Central Europe
- Eastern Alps
- Eastern Arabia
- Eastern Arc Mountains
- Eastern Caribbean
- Eastern Carpathians
- Eastern Desert
- Eastern Guinean forests
- Eastern Highlands
- Eastern Himalayas
- Eastern Mediterranean
- Eastern Rift
- Edom
- Eifel
- El Djouf
- Elbe Sandstone Mountains
- Elbe Valley
- Emerald Triangle
- Epirus
- Equatorial Africa
- Erg Chech
- Erg Iguidi
- Eritrean coastal desert
- Ethiopian Highlands
- Ethiopian montane forests
- Euphrates valley
- European Arctic
- European Plain
- Eweland
- Fennoscandia
- Fergana Valley
- Fichtel Mountains
- Flanders
- Francophone Africa
- Francophone West Africa
- Frisia
- Frisian Islands
- Futa Toro
- Galicia
- Galilee
- Gambia River Basin
- Gandhara
- Ganges basin
- Ganges Delta
- Gaul
- Gazaland
- Gedrosia
- German-speaking Europe
- Germania
- Giant Mountains
- Golden Crescent
- Golden Triangle
- Gorizia region
- Gourma
- Graian Alps
- Gran Chaco
- Grand Erg Oriental
- Great Escarpment
- Great Hungarian Plain
- Great Rift Valley
- Great Sand Sea
- Greater Antilles
- Greater Caucasus
- Greater Central Asia
- Greater China
- Greater Horn of Africa
- Greater India
- Greater Iran
- Greater Khingan
- Greater Middle East
- Greater Sunda Islands
- Grenadines
- Guajira Peninsula
- Guiana Highlands
- Guiana Island
- Guiana Shield
- Guianas
- Guinea
- Guinea Highlands
- Guinean forest–savanna mosaic
- Guinean forests of West Africa
- Guinean mangroves
- Guinean montane forests
- Gulf of Aden
- Gulf of Bothnia region
- Gulf of Finland region
- Gulf of Guinea
- Gulf of Guinea islands
- Gulf of Maine
- Gulf of Oman region
- Gulf of Thailand region
- Gulf of Tonkin
- Hadhramaut
- Hainaut
- Hajar Mountains
- Hans Island
- Hauran
- Hausaland
- Helmand basin
- Hengduan Mountains
- High Arctic
- High Fens
- High-mountain Asia
- Highveld
- Himalayan Rim
- Hindu Kush
- Hindu Kush Himalaya
- Hispanic America
- Hispaniola
- Holarctic
- Hunger Steppe
- Hutsul Region
- Hyrcania
- Ibero-America
- Ifriqiya
- Illyria
- Imatong Mountains
- Indian Ocean Rim
- Indo-Gangetic Plain
- Indomalaya
- Inner Asia
- Interior Plains
- Inuit Nunaat
- Ionian region
- Iranian Plateau
- Ireland
- Irish Sea region
- Iron Gates
- Iroquoia
- Isthmo-Colombian Area
- Istria
- Italian Lakes
- Italian Peninsula
- Itigi–Sumbu thicket
- Iullemmeden Basin
- Johor Strait region
- Jordan Valley
- Juba-Shabelle Basin
- Judaean Desert
- Judea
- Julian Alps
- Julian March
- Jura Mountains
- Jutland
- Kagera Basin
- Kalahari acacia–baikiaea woodlands
- Kaokoveld
- Karakoram
- Karamoja Cluster
- Karawanks
- Karelia
- Kazakh Steppe
- Khorasan
- Khwarazm
- Kirat region
- Kopet Dag
- Korab
- Kra Isthmus
- Kresy
- Kyzylkum
- Lacandon Jungle
- Lake Chad Basin
- Lake Chad flooded savanna
- Lake Constance region
- Lake Malawi region
- Lake Ohrid region
- Lake Peipus region
- Lake Tanganyika region
- Lake Titicaca region
- Lake Turkana Basin
- Lake Victoria Basin
- Land of Israel
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Latin Caribbean
- Latin Europe
- Lazistan
- Lebombo Mountains
- Leeward Antilles
- Leeward Islands
- Lemko Region
- Lepontine Alps
- Lesser Antilles
- Lesser Caucasus
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Lezgistan
- Libyan Desert
- Limburg
- Limpopo Basin
- Line Islands
- Liptako-Gourma
- Lithium Triangle
- Lithuania Minor
- Little Hungarian Plain
- Livonia
- Llanos
- Lower Danube Plain
- Lower Guinea
- Lower Himalayan Range
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Lower Nubia
- Lower Silesia
- Lowveld
- Luang Prabang Range
- Lubusz Land
- Lucayan Archipelago
- Lusatia
- Lusitania
- Lusophone Africa
- Luxembourg
- Maasailand
- Macaronesia
- Macedonia
- Madrean pine–oak woodlands
- Madrean Sky Islands
- Magellanic subpolar forests
- Makran
- Malay Archipelago
- Malay Peninsula
- Malay world
- Maloti Mountains
- Manchuria
- Mandara Mountains
- Mandera Triangle
- Manding
- Maputaland
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
- Maputaland–Pondoland bushland and thickets
- Maramureș
- Maritime Alps
- Maritime Southeast Asia
- Märket
- Marmarica
- Martín García Island
- Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands
- Mascarene Islands
- Mashriq
- Mauretania
- Maya Forest
- Maya Lowlands
- Maya region
- Mayombe
- Mekong Basin
- Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
- Mesopotamian Marshes
- Meuse valley
- Middle America
- Miombo
- Mississippi River basin
- Mithila
- Moesia
- Moldavia
- Mongolian Plateau
- Mongolian–Manchurian grassland
- Mont Blanc massif
- Moselle Valley
- Mosquito Coast
- Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests
- Mughan Plain
- Musandam Peninsula
- Naga Hills
- Nama Karoo
- Namaqualand
- Namib
- Namibian savanna woodlands
- Navarre
- Near Oceania
- Nearctic
- Neotropics
- Neumark
- New Guinea
- Niger Basin
- Nimba Range
- Nordic-Baltic region
- Noricum
- North American Arctic
- North American prairie
- North Calotte
- North European Plain
- North Frisian Islands
- North Sea region
- Northeast Africa
- Northeast Asia
- Northeastern Congolian lowland forests
- Northeastern Europe
- Northern Acacia–Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- Northern America
- Northern Andes
- Northern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic
- Northern Levant
- Northern Limestone Alps
- Northern Triangle
- Northern Zanzibar–Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- Northwest Coast
- Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
- Northwestern Europe
- Novorossiya
- Nubia
- Nubian Desert
- Nyika Plateau
- Oasisamerica
- Ob basin
- Occitania
- Oder basin
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Adriatic
- Appalachian Mountains
- Arabian Sea region
- Asia-Pacific
- Atacama Desert
- Australasia
- Basque Country
- Benelux
- Bermuda Triangle
- Black Sea region
- Borneo
- Caspian region
- Caucasus
- Congo Basin
- Darién Gap
- Down Under
- East Indies
- Eastern Hemisphere
- English Channel region
- Eurasia
- Eurasian Steppe
- Far East
- Fertile Crescent
- Global North
- Global South
- Gobi Desert
- Great Lakes region
- Great Plains
- Gulf of Mexico
- Holy Land
- Horn of Africa
- Iberian Peninsula
- Indo-Pacific
- Indochina
- Indus Valley
- Kalahari
- Kashmir
- Kurdistan
- Lapland
- Levant
- Maghreb
- Melanesia
- MENA
- Mesoamerica
- Mesopotamia
- Micronesia
- Near East
- Nile Valley
- Northern Hemisphere
- Old World
- Pacific Northwest
- Pacific Rim
- Patagonia
- Prussia
- Pyrenees
- Red Sea region
- Ring of Fire
- Sahel
- Samoa
- Serengeti
- South China Sea region
- South Pacific
- Southeast Africa
- Southern Hemisphere
- Strait of Gibraltar region
- Strait of Hormuz region
- Subtropics
- Sudan (region)
- Taiga
- Taiwan Strait region
- Temperate zone
- Tibet
- Tibetan Plateau
- Tropics
- Tundra
- Ural Mountains
- Virgin Islands
- West Asia
- Western Hemisphere
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Alps
- Amazon
- Americas
- Andes
- Arabian Peninsula
- Arctic
- Balkans
- Baltic region
- Baltic states
- British Isles
- Central Africa
- Central Asia
- Central Europe
- East Africa
- Great Britain
- Himalayas
- Indian subcontinent
- Korea
- Nordic countries
- Northern Europe
- Oceania
- Pacific Islands
- Persian Gulf
- Polynesia
- Rocky Mountains
- Sahara
- Southern Africa
- Southern Europe
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- West Africa
- Western Europe
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Africa
- Asia
- Caribbean
- Central America
- East Asia
- Eastern Europe
- Europe
- Latin America
- Mediterranean
- Middle East
- North Africa
- North America
- Scandinavia
- South America
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia