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Answers for 28 September 2026

Atlas Daily #27, Monday 28 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. Reports from 2023 place it among the countries with the highest research paper retraction rates.
  2. In 2010 it became the first country to introduce a national basic income.
  3. Its 29 World Heritage Sites rank first in the Middle East and tenth worldwide.
  4. Tehran is its capital, largest city and primary economic centre.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 2

  1. A charter granting privileges to Transylvanian Saxons is considered the world's first autonomy law.
  2. A bitter dark liqueur made here blends forty herbs and is taken as an apéritif.
  3. Its capital runs the world's second-oldest underground metro, whose first line dates from 1896.
  4. Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party governed here from 2010 to 2026.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. In 2022 work began on its first solar plant at Boundiali with a capacity of 37.5 megawatts.
  2. The largest of its nine national parks covers around 17,000 hectares.
  3. The Akan grouping accounts for about 38 percent of its citizen population.
  4. Its capital sits inland at Yamoussoukro while the port of Abidjan is the largest city.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 4

  1. The industrial island of Thilafushi receives most waste from this country's capital and nearby resorts.
  2. This island nation helped found the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.
  3. A tsunami devastated this Indian Ocean island country on 26 December 2004.
  4. This island nation is Asia's smallest country.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 5

  1. Among its 75 bird species, a warbler called the Bokikokiko is endemic to just one island.
  2. Its football federation is an associate of the Oceania confederation but not a FIFA member.
  3. Expelling Japanese forces here in late 1943 brought one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.
  4. In 2014 its president confirmed buying thousands of acres on the Fijian island of Vanua Levu.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Answers

Round 1 answer

Iran · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Iran.

Iran is a West Asian country of more than 92 million people, with Tehran as its capital and largest city. Once the heartland of the Achaemenid and Sasanian empires, it became an Islamic republic after the 1979 revolution. It holds vast oil and gas reserves, 29 World Heritage Sites and a world-famous carpet-weaving tradition.

Round 2 answer

Hungary · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Hungary.

The answer is Hungary, a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin whose capital is Budapest. Its Uralic language stands apart from every neighbouring tongue, and its history runs from Saint Stephen's Christian kingdom of the year 1000 through Mohács, Trianon and the 1956 revolution. Today it is known for goulash and paprika, Lake Balaton, Tokaji wine and an outsized record in Olympic sport and mathematics.

Round 3 answer

Côte d’Ivoire · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Côte d’Ivoire.

Côte d'Ivoire, also called Ivory Coast, lies on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Its political capital is Yamoussoukro, home to the world's largest church building, while Abidjan is the economic hub. Led to independence in 1960 by Félix Houphouët-Boigny, it is the world's largest exporter of cocoa beans and won the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations as host.

Round 4 answer

Maldives · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Maldives.

The Maldives is an Indian Ocean country of 26 atolls with its capital at Malé. Its history includes Buddhist kingdoms and a long sultanate. Tourism transformed its economy while rising seas threaten its low islands.

Round 5 answer

Kiribati · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is Kiribati.

Kiribati is a Pacific republic of 32 atolls plus the raised coral island of Banaba, with only 811 square kilometres of land spread across millions of square kilometres of ocean. It became independent from the United Kingdom in 1979 and its islands straddle the equator and the 180th meridian. Its easternmost islands keep the world's most advanced time zone at UTC+14.

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