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Answers for 4 September 2026

Atlas Daily #3, Friday 4 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. Eight of the world's fourteen peaks above 8,000 metres lie fully or partly within its borders.
  2. Its soldiers have served in the British Army for two centuries under a name derived from a hill town.
  3. A 2015 earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people and toppled temples in its capital valley.
  4. Its flag is the only national flag that is not a rectangle.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 2

  1. The only South American country with coasts on both the Pacific and the Caribbean.
  2. It is the world's largest exporter of emeralds and second-largest of cut flowers.
  3. A 2016 peace accord ended a five-decade conflict with a guerrilla movement.
  4. Its writer Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 3

  1. Its borders have barely changed since 1249, making it one of the oldest nation-states in Europe.
  2. Its navigators rounded Africa's southern tip and reached India by sea in 1498.
  3. A 1755 earthquake destroyed its capital and shook Enlightenment thinking about providence.
  4. It produces about half of the world's cork.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 4

  1. A small country almost cut in two by a neighbour that follows a single river inland.
  2. Its capital sits on the westernmost point of mainland Africa.
  3. An island off its coast was a major departure point for the Atlantic slave trade.
  4. Its first president was a poet who helped found the Négritude movement.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. A sultanate whose empire once stretched to an East African island famous for cloves.
  2. It guards the southern shore of a strait through which a fifth of the world's oil passes.
  3. Frankincense trees grow in its southern region, once the source of a trade route to Rome.
  4. It is the oldest independent state in the Arab world and is ruled by a sultan.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Answers

Round 1 answer

Nepal · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Nepal.

Everest, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and Annapurna all rise here or on its borders. Gurkhas, named after the town of Gorkha, have fought for Britain since 1815. The two pennants of the flag stand for the Himalaya and for the two main religions.

Round 2 answer

Colombia · South America

Clue 5: The location is Colombia.

The Andes split into three ranges here before fading into Caribbean lowlands, giving the country coasts on two oceans and more bird species than any other. Emeralds from Muzo and Chivor have been mined since before the Spanish arrived. Flowers cut in the savanna around Bogotá reach American supermarkets within days.

Round 3 answer

Portugal · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Portugal.

The Algarve was taken from Moorish rule in 1249 and the frontier with Castile settled in 1297. Vasco da Gama's voyage of 1497 to 1498 opened the sea route to India and a century of Portuguese trading forts. The cork oak forests of the Alentejo still supply half of the world's cork.

Round 4 answer

Senegal · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Senegal.

The Gambia, a former British colony, runs 300 kilometres inland along its river and splits the country nearly in half. Gorée Island, off Dakar, is a memorial to the Atlantic slave trade. Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet and philosopher, led the country from independence in 1960 until 1980.

Round 5 answer

Oman · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Oman.

Omani sultans ruled Zanzibar from the 1690s until 1856, when the empire was split between brothers. The Musandam peninsula reaches into the Strait of Hormuz. Frankincense from Dhofar was traded to Egypt, Greece and Rome, and the trees still grow wild in Wadi Dawkah.

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