Answers for 12 October 2026
Atlas Daily #41, Monday 12 October 2026: five places, each with clues from hardest to easiest. Try to name each place before you open the answers.
The clues
Round 1
- Its great length means botanists split it into five major vegetation zones.
- Four fundamental laws, among them an Act of Succession, together form its constitution.
- About 15% of its land lies north of the Arctic Circle.
- Its official tongue is a North Germanic language very close to Danish and Norwegian.
Hint: which continent?
Europe
Round 2
- In a 1962 referendum 86 per cent of local Somalis voted to join Somalia, and Britain rejected the result.
- Geothermal energy supplies the largest share of this country's electricity.
- A state of emergency ran from 1952 to 1959 during the Mau Mau rebellion against British rule.
- Its second-largest and oldest city is the island port of Mombasa.
Hint: which continent?
Africa
Round 3
- A painting school founded in 1949 united Muslim, Christian and Jewish artists against Orientalist colonial style.
- Snow falls in winter in its northwestern uplands, where elevations reach 1,050 metres.
- A national dialogue quartet from here won the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.
- An island off its southeast coast holds 39 synagogues and a Jewish community 2,600 years old.
Hint: which continent?
Africa
Round 4
- On the last days of 2010 its parliament adopted a law protecting the rights of indigenous peoples.
- Building its railway to the ocean after the First World War is estimated to have cost 14,000 lives.
- It ranks as the fourth largest oil producer in the Gulf of Guinea.
- It is an entirely separate state from the far larger neighbour with an almost identical name.
Hint: which continent?
Africa
Round 5
- This Pacific country recorded its first Zika virus outbreak in 2015.
- This country's own dollar replaced the Australian dollar at equal value in 1977.
- Tulagi became this territory's colonial capital in 1896.
- This island country lies east of Papua New Guinea.
Hint: which continent?
Oceania
Answers
Round 1 answer
Sweden · Europe
Clue 5: The location is Sweden.
Sweden is the largest and most populous Nordic country, with its capital at Stockholm. Once a great power that controlled much of the Baltic, it lost its eastern half, today's Finland, to Russia in 1809 and last went to war in 1814. It is now a constitutional monarchy that joined the European Union in 1995 and NATO in 2024.
Round 2 answer
Kenya · Africa
Clue 5: The location is Kenya.
Kenya sits on the equator in East Africa, with Nairobi as its capital and Mombasa as its oldest city. The country is named after Mount Kenya, the second highest peak on the continent, and it gained independence from Britain in 1963. Tea, coffee and cut flowers anchor its farming, while the Masai Mara and its distance runners are world famous.
Round 3 answer
Tunisia · Africa
Clue 5: The location is Tunisia.
Tunisia occupies the Maghreb coast of North Africa between Algeria and Libya. Its capital Tunis gives the country its name, and nearby Carthage grew from a Phoenician settlement into a rival of Rome. The protest of street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010 set off a revolution that inspired the Arab Spring.
Round 4 answer
Republic of the Congo · Africa
Clue 5: The location is Republic of the Congo.
The Republic of the Congo, often called Congo-Brazzaville, lies on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa west of the Congo River. It became independent from France in 1960 and was proclaimed Africa's first people's republic a decade later. Oil dominates the economy, and Denis Sassou Nguesso returned to the presidency in 1997 after an earlier term from 1979.
Round 5 answer
Solomon Islands · Oceania
Clue 5: The location is Solomon Islands.
Solomon Islands is a Melanesian country with its capital at Honiara. It gained independence in 1978. Guadalcanal was a major battleground during World War II.
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