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Answers for 2 September 2026

Atlas Daily #1, Wednesday 2 September 2026: five places, each with clues from hardest to easiest. Try to name each place before you open the answers.

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The clues

Round 1

  1. Its Atlas ranges catch enough snow for a ski resort within sight of the Sahara's edge.
  2. A 1912 treaty split its territory into French and Spanish protectorates.
  3. Its northern tip faces Europe across a strait barely 14 kilometres wide.
  4. Tanneries in its old imperial city of Fez have dyed leather in open pits since the medieval period.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 2

  1. A peninsula's southern half, separated from its northern neighbour by a strip of land no one may enter.
  2. Its alphabet was designed by a king's scholars in the 1440s so that commoners could learn to read.
  3. It hosted the Summer Olympics in 1988 and co-hosted the football World Cup in 2002.
  4. Its pop music and television dramas have become a major export known by a one-letter prefix.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 3

  1. A Baltic nation whose language is closer to Finnish than to those of its two southern neighbours.
  2. Its 1991 independence movement is remembered for mass gatherings of song.
  3. It has offered residency to foreigners online since 2014 and holds elections over the internet.
  4. More than 2,000 islands lie off its coast, the largest being Saaremaa.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 4

  1. Its cattle outnumber its people three to one on grasslands beside a wide river estuary.
  2. It was created as a buffer state between two larger neighbours after a war ended in 1828.
  3. It hosted and won the first football World Cup in 1930.
  4. It legalised cannabis nationwide in 2013 and gets almost all its electricity from renewables.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 5

  1. Copper mined in its northern belt has paid for most of its imports since colonial times.
  2. Its independence leader ruled for 27 years and kept the economy tied to a single metal.
  3. It shares a river and a vast waterfall with its southern neighbour.
  4. It was known as Northern Rhodesia until independence in 1964.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Answers

Round 1 answer

Morocco · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Morocco.

The High Atlas rises to over 4,000 metres, and the Oukaïmeden resort near Marrakesh runs lifts while the desert bakes to the south. France and Spain carved the country into protectorates in 1912; independence returned in 1956. From Tangier the Spanish coast is visible on a clear day across the Strait of Gibraltar.

Round 2 answer

South Korea · Asia

Clue 5: The location is South Korea.

The Demilitarized Zone has divided the peninsula since the 1953 armistice; no peace treaty was ever signed. King Sejong's Hangul, promulgated in 1446, is still celebrated with a public holiday. Seoul's metropolitan area holds roughly half the country's people, making it one of the most concentrated capitals on Earth.

Round 3 answer

Estonia · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Estonia.

Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic family, unrelated to Latvian and Lithuanian to the south. The Singing Revolution of 1987 to 1991 brought hundreds of thousands to the Tallinn song festival grounds. Today most public services run online, and in 2005 it became the first country to use binding internet voting nationwide, reaching parliamentary elections in 2007.

Round 4 answer

Uruguay · South America

Clue 5: The location is Uruguay.

Britain brokered its independence in 1828 as a buffer between Brazil and Argentina. The 1930 World Cup final was played in Montevideo's Estadio Centenario, built for the country's centenary. Pasture covers most of the land, and by the 2020s wind, hydro and biomass supplied nearly all of its electricity.

Round 5 answer

Zambia · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Zambia.

The Copperbelt straddles the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and copper still makes up around 70% of export earnings. Kenneth Kaunda led the country from independence in 1964 until 1991. The Zambezi forms the border with Zimbabwe and drops 108 metres at Victoria Falls, called Mosi-oa-Tunya, 'the smoke that thunders'.

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