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Answers for 11 October 2026

Atlas Daily #40, Sunday 11 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. One of its small southern islands is considered the southernmost point of Europe.
  2. It is the European Union's biggest grower of both cotton and pistachios.
  3. Its constitution names Eastern Orthodoxy the prevailing faith while guaranteeing freedom of belief for all.
  4. A war of independence begun in 1821 saw it emerge as a modern nation state in 1830.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. A wartime escape network based here worked with British MI6 and helped almost 400 fugitives.
  2. Its summit of Coma Pedrosa reaches 2,942 metres while its lowest point is a river confluence.
  3. It keeps no armed forces and depends on treaty guarantees from France and Spain.
  4. Its national holiday, Our Lady of Meritxell Day, falls on 8 September.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. The earliest known poet of this land was born in the fifteenth century at Ras Al Khaimah.
  2. American generals nicknamed this small but very active military Little Sparta.
  3. The British called this southern gulf shoreline the Pirate Coast for centuries of raids on their shipping.
  4. The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is the largest place of Muslim worship in this country.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 4

  1. A precolonial king called the mwami ruled here above a land-owning princely aristocracy known as the ganwa.
  2. A source of the Nile rises on the eastern slope of the central mountains in Bururi Province.
  3. Roman Catholics form the largest religious group here at roughly 60 to 65 percent.
  4. English joined French as an official language of this Great Lakes state in 2014.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. A 1778 treaty handed these islands to Spain in exchange for lands in western Brazil.
  2. It hosted the 2008 women's African football championship and won the trophy at home.
  3. The World Bank credits it with the highest gross national income per person in Africa.
  4. Since January 2026 its capital has been Ciudad de la Paz although Bata is the largest city.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Answers

Round 1 answer

Greece · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Greece.

The answer is Greece, whose capital is Athens. Occupying the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula with thousands of islands, it has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean and is widely called the cradle of Western civilisation. It joined the European Communities in 1981, adopted the euro in 2001, and its merchant marine remains the largest in the world.

Round 2 answer

Andorra · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Andorra.

Andorra is a landlocked microstate in the eastern Pyrenees between France and Spain. It is a co-principality headed jointly by the Bishop of Urgell and the president of France, with Catalan as its only official language. Its parliament dates from 1419 and tourism supplies most of the economy. Andorra la Vella is the highest capital city in Europe.

Round 3 answer

United Arab Emirates · Asia

Clue 5: The location is United Arab Emirates.

The answer is the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven emirates at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula with Abu Dhabi as its capital. Formed in 1971 after the end of British treaty relationships with the Trucial States, it grew rapidly on oil revenues. Today Dubai is its largest city and an international hub of finance, tourism and commerce.

Round 4 answer

Burundi · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Burundi.

Burundi is a small landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region, with Gitega as its political capital and Bujumbura as its largest city and economic capital. Independent from Belgian administration in 1962, it endured two genocides and a long civil war closed by the Arusha Agreement. Coffee, tea and its royal drummers are its best-known exports.

Round 5 answer

Equatorial Guinea · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Equatorial Guinea.

Equatorial Guinea is the only sovereign African state with Spanish as an official language. It pairs the mainland enclave of Rio Muni with islands including Bioko and Annobon. Oil discovered in 1995 made it one of the richest countries per person in Africa while the wealth stayed concentrated. Teodoro Obiang has led it since a 1979 coup.

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