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Answers for 3 September 2026

Atlas Daily #2, Thursday 3 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. A long, narrow country shaped like a carrying pole with a rice basket at each end, as its people say.
  2. It was ruled from China for about a thousand years and by France for about seventy.
  3. A war fought here ended in 1975 with the fall of its southern capital.
  4. It is the world's second-largest coffee exporter, mostly of the robusta variety.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 2

  1. Around half of this Alpine country is forest, and it has only about 47 kilometres of coastline.
  2. It was the first republic to leave Yugoslavia, after a ten-day war in 1991.
  3. Its Postojna cave system stretches for more than 24 kilometres and shelters a blind salamander.
  4. Its national symbol is a three-peaked mountain, Triglav, shown on the flag.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. The least densely populated sovereign country, with more horses than people on its steppe.
  2. Its empire in the 13th century became the largest contiguous land empire in history.
  3. Its two neighbours are the two largest countries in Asia by area.
  4. Its capital is the coldest national capital on Earth.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 4

  1. It has more lakes than the rest of the world combined and the longest coastline of any country.
  2. Its two official languages reflect a colonial contest settled on a battlefield in 1759.
  3. It is the second-largest country by area, yet most of its people live within 200 kilometres of one border.
  4. Its national winter sport is played on ice with a puck, and its national summer sport is lacrosse.
Hint: which continent?

North America

Round 5

  1. An archipelago of more than 300 islands with the antimeridian passing through its territory.
  2. Descendants of indentured sugar workers from India make up over a third of its people.
  3. It has had four coups since 1987, the most recent in 2006.
  4. Its rugby sevens team won the country's first Olympic gold in 2016.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Answers

Round 1 answer

Vietnam · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Vietnam.

The Red River delta in the north and the Mekong delta in the south are the two rice baskets; the narrow central coast is the pole. Chinese rule lasted from 111 BC to 938 AD, French rule from the 1880s to 1954. Coffee arrived with French planters and now covers the central highlands.

Round 2 answer

Slovenia · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Slovenia.

Forest covers about 58% of the land, one of the highest shares in the European Union. Independence in June 1991 was followed by a brief war with Yugoslav forces that ended in ten days. The olm, a pale cave salamander that can live a century, was once taken for a baby dragon.

Round 3 answer

Mongolia · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Mongolia.

About 3.4 million people live in an area larger than Western Europe, and roughly a quarter still herd livestock on the steppe. Genghis Khan united the tribes in 1206; within decades his successors ruled from Korea to Hungary. Ulaanbaatar has a January average of around −25°C.

Round 4 answer

Canada · North America

Clue 5: The location is Canada.

Canada holds an estimated 60% of the world's lakes and a coastline of about 243,000 kilometres. The Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City decided the Seven Years' War in North America in 1759. Around 90% of the population lives within about 200 kilometres of the United States border.

Round 5 answer

Fiji · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is Fiji.

Around 330 islands sit across the 180th meridian; Taveuni once had a marker where you could stand in two days at once. Britain brought some 60,000 indentured labourers from India between 1879 and 1916 for the sugar plantations. The sevens gold in Rio in 2016 prompted a national holiday.

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