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Atlas Daily #37, Thursday 8 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. King John the Third divided this territory into fifteen private captaincies in 1534.
  2. Its navy is the only one in Latin America that operates a helicopter carrier.
  3. A president built an entirely new capital city in the interior, inaugurated in 1960.
  4. Home to sixty percent of the Amazon rainforest, it is held to have the greatest biodiversity on the planet.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 2

  1. Its highest point is the Kneiff near Wilwerdange, rising only 560 metres.
  2. A blind king who fell at Crecy founded the Schueberfouer fair here in 1340.
  3. It is the uplink home of SES, a carrier of major European satellite television services.
  4. Europe's border-free agreements are named after a small village inside its territory.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. Razihi is the only Old South Arabian language still surviving in this country.
  2. A Roman army of 10,000 men was defeated before it ever reached Marib.
  3. Its archipelago east of the Horn of Africa is biologically linked to Africa rather than Asia.
  4. This country of about 455,000 square kilometres sits at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 4

  1. The Grondin oil field was found in 1971 in shallow water some 40 kilometres off this shore.
  2. In 2021 it became the first African nation paid for cutting deforestation and its emissions.
  3. At 92 percent urban in 2025, it is the most urbanised country in all of Africa.
  4. No other African country has so high a share of its people speaking French.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. A missionary priest published a 376 page monograph about these islands in 1914.
  2. In 2011 it set aside nearly 2 million square kilometres of ocean as a shark sanctuary.
  3. A compact of free association hands its international defence entirely to the United States.
  4. All five SpaceX Falcon 1 rockets lifted off from Omelek Island inside Kwajalein Atoll.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Answers

Round 1 answer

Brazil · South America

Clue 5: The location is Brazil.

Brazil is the largest country in South America and the only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas. Claimed for Portugal by Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500, it became an empire in 1822 and a republic in 1889, with a purpose-built inland capital inaugurated in 1960. Today it holds most of the Amazon basin, the largest economy in Latin America, and a record five football World Cup titles.

Round 2 answer

Luxembourg · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Luxembourg.

Luxembourg is a landlocked Western European state wedged between Belgium, Germany and France, and the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy. Its fortified capital is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an institutional seat of the European Union. Once a steel producer, it is now a leading investment fund centre.

Round 3 answer

Yemen · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Yemen.

Yemen occupies the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, with Sanaa as its constitutional capital and Socotra lying far offshore. Ancient Saba built the Great Dam of Marib, and for centuries the country was a primary coffee producer shipping through Mocha. North and South united in 1990, and war since 2015 has driven a severe humanitarian crisis.

Round 4 answer

Gabon · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Gabon.

Gabon is an equatorial country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, with Libreville as its capital and largest city. Nearly ninety percent of its land is forest, making it a haven for forest elephants and gorillas. Oil and manganese dominate the economy, and the Bongo family ruled for 55 years until the coup of 2023.

Round 5 answer

Marshall Islands · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is Marshall Islands.

The Marshall Islands is an atoll nation in the Northwestern Pacific, built from 29 coral atolls split between the Ratak and Ralik chains. Lagoon waters make up 98.47 percent of its territory, and the capital Majuro holds roughly half the population. Between 1946 and 1958 the United States used its atolls for 67 nuclear tests.

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