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Answers for 10 October 2026

Atlas Daily #39, Saturday 10 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. This country ranks 171st out of 172 on the Forest Landscape Integrity Index and sits ahead of only San Marino.
  2. Its surviving monarchy traces its roots to Gorm the Old in the early 10th century.
  3. Its most influential philosopher was Soren Kierkegaard, the creator of Christian existentialism.
  4. Its unicameral parliament is called the Folketing and seats 179 members in total.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. Until 1989 it was the world's second-largest exporter of wine.
  2. After independence its heavy militarisation earned it the nickname the Balkan Prussia.
  3. It is the world's largest producer of rose oil and lavender for fragrances.
  4. Greece and Turkey lie to its south, Serbia to its west and Romania across the Danube to the north.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. Estimates put more than 17,400 tonnes of uranium within this landlocked nation's borders.
  2. Its National Guard still fields six camel cavalry companies alongside an anti-terrorism unit.
  3. Algeria, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Senegal all border this state.
  4. Its capital and largest city Bamako holds over 4 million residents.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 4

  1. Fresh water bubbles up through the salt sea just north of this island, as noted since antiquity.
  2. In 2008 it made Houda Nonoo the first Jewish ambassador of any Arab country.
  3. Its national football team won the Arabian Gulf Cup in 2019.
  4. The Al Khalifa royal family has ruled here since 1783, beginning with Ahmed al Fateh.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 5

  1. This island state signed a Model 1 FATCA agreement with the United States on 30 June 2014.
  2. A legislative council with a limited franchise came in 1925 and universal adult suffrage only in 1951.
  3. This small nation is divided administratively into just six parishes.
  4. Filming of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies on its main island drew new visitors and investors.
Hint: which continent?

North America

Answers

Round 1 answer

Denmark · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Denmark.

Denmark is a Nordic country in Northern Europe made up of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. Its capital, Copenhagen, sits on Zealand, and its short land border with Germany is its only one. The wider Kingdom of Denmark also includes the autonomous Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Round 2 answer

Bulgaria · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Bulgaria.

Bulgaria lies on the eastern Balkans, south of the Danube and west of the Black Sea, with Sofia as its capital and largest city. Its First Empire, recognised by treaty in 681, gave the Slavic world the Cyrillic script before Ottoman rule began in 1396. Today it is a European Union member that adopted the euro in 2026.

Round 3 answer

Mali · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Mali.

Mali is a landlocked West African country and the eighth-largest in Africa, with Bamako as its capital and largest city. It was part of the Ghana, Mali and Songhai empires, whose trans-Saharan trade wealth made Timbuktu a famed centre of learning. Gold mining now dominates exports, and Bambara is the mother tongue of nearly half the population.

Round 4 answer

Bahrain · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Bahrain.

Bahrain is a small island kingdom in the Persian Gulf, joined to Saudi Arabia by the King Fahd Causeway. Once the Bronze Age land of Dilmun and famed for the finest pearls in the world, it was the first place on the Arabian side of the Gulf where oil was found. It now hosts the American Fifth Fleet and the first Arab Formula One race.

Round 5 answer

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · North America

Clue 5: The location is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an archipelagic country in the eastern Caribbean, made up of 32 islands and cays including Bequia, Mustique and Canouan. Its capital is Kingstown, and its highest point is the La Soufriere volcano, which erupted destructively in 1902 and again in 2021. It became fully independent from Britain on 27 October 1979.

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