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Answers for 18 September 2026

Atlas Daily #17, Friday 18 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. 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 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. Its Atlantic coast was known to European traders for centuries by the metal they came to buy.
  2. In 1957 it became the first sub-Saharan colony to gain independence from Britain.
  3. One of the world's largest artificial lakes by surface area sits behind a dam on the Volta River.
  4. It is the world's second-largest cocoa producer, behind its western neighbour.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 4

  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 5

  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

Answers

Round 1 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 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

Ghana · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Ghana.

Portuguese traders named this stretch of coast for the gold they bought there in the 1470s, and the name outlived three centuries of forts and the British colony that followed. Independence in 1957 under Kwame Nkrumah made it the first sub-Saharan colony to leave the British Empire. The Akosombo Dam, finished in 1965, flooded a valley into Lake Volta, which now covers about 3.6% of the country.

Round 4 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 5 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.

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