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Answers for 26 September 2026

Atlas Daily #25, Saturday 26 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 lowest point sits in a depression at the head of the Caspian Sea some 29 metres below sea level.
  2. It is the world's largest producer of both barley and buckwheat.
  3. Eastern Orthodox Christianity is the largest religion practised across this country.
  4. With over 140 million inhabitants it is the most populous country in Europe.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. It pioneered species protection in North Africa by creating the El Kouf protected area in 1975.
  2. Greek settlers founded the city of Cyrene in its eastern lands in 630 BC.
  3. Until 2011 it flew the world's only plain-coloured national flag, a solid green banner.
  4. Its capital and largest city is Tripoli, set in the northwest of the country.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 3

  1. Lace from the village of Lefkara is recognised by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage.
  2. Richard the First of England seized this island in 1191 and sold it to the Knights Templar a year later.
  3. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily and Sardinia.
  4. Its first president was an Orthodox archbishop named Makarios the Third.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 4

  1. Pottery older than the mid second millennium was unearthed at Asa Koma on the Gobaad Plain.
  2. Three tectonic plates meet inside its borders at a geologic tripoint.
  3. French and Arabic serve together as its two official languages.
  4. Its 2024 census counted just over a million people, the smallest population in mainland Africa.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. Its capital holds Nidhe Israel, one of the oldest Jewish synagogues in the Americas, dating from 1654.
  2. Green monkeys were introduced here, as they were to Saint Kitts, Nevis and Saint Martin.
  3. Its single airport, Grantley Adams International, is a southern air hub for the Caribbean.
  4. Mount Gay, claimed as the world's oldest surviving rum company, is distilled on this island.
Hint: which continent?

North America

Answers

Round 1 answer

Russia · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Russia.

The answer is Russia, the largest country on Earth, spanning eleven time zones across Eastern Europe and North Asia. Its capital and largest city is Moscow, while Saint Petersburg serves as a second cultural centre. Russia holds the world's largest proven gas reserves and the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and it launched both the first satellite and the first human into space.

Round 2 answer

Libya · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Libya.

Libya spans almost 1.8 million square kilometres of North African desert and coast, with its capital Tripoli and most of its people crowded along the Mediterranean. Ancient Cyrene and Leptis Magna lie near the shore, while the Great Man-Made River taps a deep desert aquifer. Muammar Gaddafi ruled 42 years until 2011, and rival governments have contested power since.

Round 3 answer

Cyprus · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Cyprus.

Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean, an island republic off the Levantine coast whose capital, Nicosia, is split by a United Nations buffer zone. Settled by hunter-gatherers some 13,000 years ago and rich in copper, it gave Latin its word for that metal. Divided since the Turkish invasion of 1974, it joined the European Union in 2004.

Round 4 answer

Djibouti · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Djibouti.

Djibouti is a small Horn of Africa republic at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, independent from France in 1977 and named after its capital city. Lake Assal, the lowest point in Africa, sits on a geologic tripoint of three tectonic plates. Its ports move the great majority of Ethiopian trade, and rent from foreign military bases is a major income source.

Round 5 answer

Barbados · North America

Clue 5: The location is Barbados.

Barbados is the southern and easternmost island of the Caribbean, a coral-limestone landmass out in the Atlantic on the boundary of two tectonic plates. Sugar cane brought from Dutch Brazil in 1640 built a plantation economy worked by enslaved Africans, whose descendants form most of the population. Independent since 1966, it became a republic on 30 November 2021.

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