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Answers for 10 September 2026

Atlas Daily #9, Thursday 10 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. 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 3

  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 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. 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

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

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 3 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 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

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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