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Answers for 21 September 2026

Atlas Daily #20, Monday 21 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. An island's larger part, whose population is still lower than it was in 1841.
  2. A potato blight in the 1840s killed a million and drove another million to emigrate.
  3. Its constitution names Irish as the first official language, though English is more widely spoken.
  4. It joined the European Economic Community in 1973 and adopted the euro in 1999.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  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 3

  1. A ribbon of land 4,300 kilometres long and on average under 180 kilometres wide.
  2. It holds the driest non-polar desert on Earth and the world's largest copper reserves.
  3. A 1973 coup ended democratic rule for 17 years.
  4. Thirty-three miners were rescued from a collapsed mine after 69 days underground in 2010.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 4

  1. Settled by Polynesian voyagers around 1300, it was the last major landmass humans reached.
  2. Its women won the vote in 1893, the first in the world to do so at national level.
  3. A flightless nocturnal bird has become the nickname for its people.
  4. Its two main islands are separated by a strait named after the captain who charted them.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Round 5

  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

Answers

Round 1 answer

Ireland · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Ireland.

The island held about 8.2 million people before the Great Famine; the Republic and Northern Ireland together have roughly 7 million today. The blight of 1845 to 1852 destroyed the crop that most rural families depended on. Four Nobel laureates in literature, from Yeats to Heaney, wrote here in English.

Round 2 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 3 answer

Chile · South America

Clue 5: The location is Chile.

From Arica to Cape Horn the country spans 38 degrees of latitude. Parts of the Atacama have recorded no rain for decades, and its copper mines supply about a quarter of world output. The San José mine rescue in October 2010 was watched by an estimated billion people.

Round 4 answer

New Zealand · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is New Zealand.

Māori arrived in about 1300 from eastern Polynesia; Europeans followed in the 1640s and 1760s. The Electoral Act of 1893 gave all women the right to vote in national elections. The kiwi cannot fly, lays an egg a fifth of its body weight, and lent its name to everyone who lives here.

Round 5 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.

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