Quiz: Where were these Wanderlust Photos of the Year taken?

Over the years, we've narrowed down dozens of breathtaking Photo of the Year finalists and winning shots and shared them with you. But can you work out (or remember) where they were taken?

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Wanderlust's popular Travel Photo of the Year competition has highlighted the amazing work of countless budding travel photographers from around the world for years.

Let's take a look back at some of the winning, highly commended and finalist photographs, past and present. Can you guess, deduce or remember where they were taken? Let's find out...

1. Where was Aung ThuYa's 2019 landscape photo taken?

China

Bhutan

Myanmar (Burma)

Thailand

2. Where was Giovanni Frescura's 2019 wildlife winner taken?

Botswana

Zimbabwe

South Africa

Madagascar

3. Where was Callie Chee's 2017 landscape photo taken?

Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Yellow Mountain, China

Tsingy Forest, Madagascar

Mount Fuji, Japan

4. Where was Giovanni Frescura's 2019 arctic fox capture taken?

Iceland

Antarctica

Sweden

Norway

5. Recognise the lake in Paul-Vlad Epure's 2018 landscape photo?

Lake Natron, Tanzania

Laguna Colorada, Bolivia

Red Lake, USA

Lake Retba, Senegal

6. Monika Mazurkiewicz's 2019 travel icon photo is obvious... or is it?

Copenhagen, Denmark

London, UK

Paris, France

Washington DC, USA

7. What about Geraint Rowland's 2018 travel icon winner? Obvious?

Kingston, Jamaica

Havana, Cuba

Oaxaca, Mexico

Madrid, Spain

8. Where was Md Rafayat Haque Khan's 2018 travel icon photo taken?

Jodhpur, India

Vang Vieng, Laos

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Colombo, Sri Lanka

9. Where was Sanghamitra Sarkar's 2016 travel icon winner taken?

India

Sri Lanka

Bhutan

Bangladesh

10. Where was Gunther Riehle's 2017 chinstrap penguin capture taken?

Iceland

Greenland

Ushuaia, Argentina

South Shetland Islands

11. Where was Ruth Spencer's 2016 moonlit mosque photo taken?

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Ishafan, Iran

Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Muscat, Oman

12. Where was Marcus van Hauten's 2018 landscape photo taken?

Seljalandsfoss, Iceland

Greenland

Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina

Aldeyjarfoss, Iceland

13. Where was Viv Leese's 2017 pilot whale photo taken?

Australia

Sri Lanka

French Polynesia

Micronesia

14. Where would find the people in Christopher Roche's 2016 winner?

Guatemala

Brazil

Peru

Ecuador

15. Where does the sun set in Stefania Urbini's 2019 landscape shot?

Poland

Estonia

Finland

Lithuania

16. Where was Khanh Phan Thi's 2019 people photo taken?

Mongolia

Vietnam

Cambodia

Sri Lanka

17. Where was Bun Ngo Leung's 2019 people photo taken?

Havana, Cuba

Kingston, Jamaica

Guadalajara, Mexico

Roseau, Dominica

18. Where was Donald Yip's 2019 landscape finalist taken?

Gotland, Sweden

Greenland

Lofoten Islands, Norway

Faroe Islands

19. Where was Babak Mehrafshar's 2019 desert landscape taken?

Namib Desert, Namibia

Khara Desert, Iran

Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Sahara Desert, Africa

20. Where was Joe B N Leung's 2018 landscape photo taken?

Hong Kong

Singapore

China

Taiwan

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