HardLateral
"I have cities but no houses live there. I have mountains but no trees grow. I have water but no fish swim. I have roads but no cars drive. What am I?"
Answer
A Map
Explanation
A map represents the world symbolically. It depicts cities, mountains, rivers and roads — but only as markings. Nothing in a map physically exists within it.
This is a hard riddle in the Lateral Thinking category — Riddles that require thinking completely outside the box.
Tags:objectsgeography
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