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Answers for 4 October 2026

Atlas Daily #33, Sunday 4 October 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. Four incompatible track gauges hobble freight movement across its sprawling rail network.
  2. It is the largest Spanish-speaking society that universally uses the pronoun vos instead of tú.
  3. Jorge Luis Borges, author of Ficciones and The Aleph, is its most acclaimed writer.
  4. A junta led by General Jorge Rafael Videla seized power in 1976 and began the National Reorganization Process.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 2

  1. One scholarly hypothesis traces its own name for itself to the leiciai, a medieval warrior social group.
  2. A firm here makes a femtosecond laser system holding 80 percent of the world market.
  3. Rye bread counts as the oldest and most fundamental food product of its cuisine.
  4. This Baltic state borders Latvia, Belarus, Poland and the Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. A tribe called the Vennones held this Alpine stretch of the Rhine valley in the Iron Age.
  2. Its largest lake is a reservoir built mainly to generate electricity.
  3. This principality is divided into just 11 communes known as Gemeinden.
  4. Only Vatican City, San Marino and Monaco are smaller countries in Europe.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 4

  1. Iron smelting traces from 800 to 700 BC here form part of a metallurgy World Heritage Site.
  2. A 33-megawatt solar plant opened at Zagtouli in late 2017.
  3. Gold accounts for roughly 70 percent of its export earnings.
  4. Captain Ibrahim Traoré was appointed its president in October 2022.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. Roughly 115 tons of charcoal are smuggled each week across its land border into deforested Haiti.
  2. Three sisters nicknamed The Butterflies were murdered by the dictator's henchmen on November 25, 1960.
  3. The four highest peaks in the Caribbean, led by Pico Duarte, all rise in its Cordillera Central.
  4. Only the United States supplies more Major League Baseball players than this country.
Hint: which continent?

North America

Answers

Round 1 answer

Argentina · South America

Clue 5: The location is Argentina.

Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest in the world, reaching from the subtropical north to the Drake Passage. Mass Italian and Spanish immigration shaped a culture of tango, asado and football, while Peronism has dominated its modern politics. Aconcagua, the highest point in the Southern and Western Hemispheres, stands on its western frontier.

Round 2 answer

Lithuania · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Lithuania.

Lithuania is one of three Baltic states, and Vilnius is its capital and largest city. Mindaugas united its lands and formed a kingdom in 1253, and the later Grand Duchy became the largest country in Europe. In 1990 it was the first Soviet republic to proclaim the restoration of its independence, and it adopted the euro in 2015.

Round 3 answer

Liechtenstein · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Liechtenstein.

Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked Alpine microstate of just over 160 square kilometres between Austria and Switzerland, with Vaduz as its capital. Created as an imperial principality in 1719, it has been reigned over by Prince Hans-Adam II since 1989 and uses the Swiss franc. It has no army, no airport and more Olympic medals per capita than any other nation.

Round 4 answer

Burkina Faso · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is a landlocked West African country of some 23 million people, with Ouagadougou as its capital and largest city. Known as Upper Volta until Thomas Sankara renamed it in 1984, it has seen repeated coups and a long jihadist insurgency. Gold dominates its exports, and Ouagadougou hosts the continent's largest film festival, FESPACO.

Round 5 answer

Dominican Republic · North America

Clue 5: The location is Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic fills the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola, sharing the island with Haiti. Its capital, Santo Domingo, holds the first cathedral and fortress built in the Americas. Pico Duarte is the Caribbean's tallest peak and Lake Enriquillo its lowest point. Merengue, bachata and baseball are among its best-known exports.

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