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Answers for 11 September 2026

Atlas Daily #10, Friday 11 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 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 2

  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 3

  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 4

  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 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

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 2 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 3 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 4 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 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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