Answers for 27 September 2026
Atlas Daily #26, Sunday 27 September 2026: five places, each with clues from hardest to easiest. Try to name each place before you open the answers.
The clues
Round 1
- Endemism reaches 55.8 percent among its amphibians while standing at only 12.6 percent among its mammals.
- A great desert draws in southwest winds that between June and October bring most of its rainfall.
- A constitution adopted in 1950 made it a federal republic with a democratic parliamentary system.
- The decimal number system used today was first recorded by the mathematicians of this country.
Hint: which continent?
Asia
Round 2
- Manfredi Nicoletti designed Millennium Park in its capital.
- This West African country joined OPEC in July 1971.
- English is the official language of this West African country.
- Its capital is Abuja.
Hint: which continent?
Africa
Round 3
- It scored 6.18 out of 10 on the 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index, ranking 83rd of 172 countries.
- Wrestlers here compete in a form where they wear traditional animal hides and cover themselves in dust.
- It became independent on 11 August 1960 with Francois Tombalbaye as its first president.
- This landlocked state borders Libya, Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Niger.
Hint: which continent?
Africa
Round 4
- In 2010 a regional West African court awarded a former newspaper editor damages for torture by its government.
- Export earnings here have historically relied on groundnuts.
- English is the official language of this West African state, used in government and education.
- It is the smallest country in continental Africa.
Hint: which continent?
Africa
Round 5
- A wind farm owned by the national petroleum corporation stands at Wigton in Manchester parish.
- It is the third-largest island in the Greater Antilles after Cuba and Hispaniola.
- Its unlikely national bobsled team once beat well-established rivals at the Winter Olympics.
- Kingston is the capital and largest city of this island country.
Hint: which continent?
North America
Answers
Round 1 answer
India · Asia
Clue 5: The location is India.
The answer is India, a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia with its capital at New Delhi. It is the world's seventh-largest country by area and the most populous, home to the ancient Harappan cities, the birthplaces of Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, and the Mughal architectural legacy. Its constitution was adopted in 1950 after independence and partition in 1947.
Round 2 answer
Nigeria · Africa
Clue 5: The location is Nigeria.
Nigeria is a West African country with its capital at Abuja. Its cultural landscape includes Nollywood cinema and hundreds of languages. It gained independence on 1 October 1960.
Round 3 answer
Chad · Africa
Clue 5: The location is Chad.
Chad is a landlocked country in Central Africa and the fifth-largest on the continent, with its capital and largest city at N'Djamena. French and Arabic are official languages among more than 200 ethnic and linguistic groups. Crude oil has led export earnings since 2003, and the country hosts a very large refugee population from Sudan.
Round 4 answer
Gambia · Africa
Clue 5: The location is Gambia.
The Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, a narrow ribbon of land following its namesake river and surrounded by Senegal except along the Atlantic coast. Its island capital, Banjul, was called Bathurst in colonial times. Independent from Britain in 1965, it endured 22 years of Yahya Jammeh's rule before an ECOWAS intervention in 2017.
Round 5 answer
Jamaica · North America
Clue 5: The location is Jamaica.
Jamaica is the third-largest island in the Greater Antilles, lying about 145 kilometres south of Cuba. Independent from the United Kingdom since 6 August 1962, it is a Commonwealth realm with its capital and largest city at Kingston. It gave the world reggae, ska and dancehall, the Rastafari faith, jerk spice and Blue Mountain Coffee.
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