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Answers for 25 September 2026

Atlas Daily #24, Friday 25 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 2018 remeasurement including the low-water line found it 160 square kilometres bigger than believed.
  2. In 1302 its militias beat mounted French knights at the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
  3. It legalised euthanasia back in 2002.
  4. The Adventures of Tintin by Herge is the best known comic series from this country.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. This country became an associate member of the European Space Agency in 2022.
  2. Juraj Jánošík is this country's folk counterpart to Robin Hood.
  3. This country joined the European Union on 1 May 2004.
  4. This Central European country adopted the euro on 1 January 2009.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. In 2014 it ranked sixth of fifteen Southern African Development Community states for research papers per million people.
  2. Diamond fields discovered here in 2006 are considered the biggest such find in over a century.
  3. This landlocked nation lies between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers with four neighbours around it.
  4. Emmerson Mnangagwa has served as this country's president since 2017.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 4

  1. Its unifying lama died in 1651, yet his death was kept secret for 54 years.
  2. This mountain state ranks fifth among governments holding bitcoin, mined using its own hydropower.
  3. Its vast forests absorb more carbon than it emits, giving net negative greenhouse gas emissions.
  4. Its government famously frames policy around Gross National Happiness.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 5

  1. This country was among the founding members of the Nauru Agreement.
  2. Baseball arrived in this country through the Japanese in the 1920s.
  3. The Battle of Peleliu was fought in this country during World War II.
  4. Ngerulmud is this island republic's capital.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Answers

Round 1 answer

Belgium · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Belgium.

Belgium is a federal constitutional monarchy in the Low Countries, divided between Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia. Its capital, Brussels, is the de facto capital of the European Union and hosts NATO. Famous for beer, chocolate, waffles and comics, it was the first country in continental Europe to industrialise.

Round 2 answer

Slovakia · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Slovakia.

Slovakia is a landlocked Central European country with its capital in Bratislava. It became independent through the peaceful Velvet Divorce in 1993. Its mountainous landscape includes the High Tatras.

Round 3 answer

Zimbabwe · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is a landlocked southern African country lying between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers, with Harare as its capital and largest city. Medieval Shona builders raised the dry stone city of Great Zimbabwe, which gave the nation its name. Independence came in 1980 under Robert Mugabe, who ruled until a 2017 coup brought Emmerson Mnangagwa to power.

Round 4 answer

Bhutan · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Bhutan.

Bhutan is a landlocked Buddhist kingdom on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas, between Tibet and India. Its capital is Thimphu, its head of state is the Druk Gyalpo, and hydroelectricity is its largest export. Famous for Gross National Happiness, dzong fortresses and the unclimbed peak Gangkhar Puensum.

Round 5 answer

Palau · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is Palau.

Palau is a Micronesian island country in the western Pacific. Its capital is Ngerulmud. It created the world's first shark sanctuary in 2009.

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