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Atlas Daily #42, Tuesday 13 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. It was responsible for roughly 10 per cent of the transatlantic slave trade over three centuries.
  2. With 56 operating reactors it ranks second worldwide for nuclear power units.
  3. Charles de Gaulle founded its current semi-presidential Fifth Republic in 1958.
  4. Couture houses such as Chanel, Dior and Givenchy were founded here.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. Its film history began in the jungle city of Iquitos in 1932 with Antonio Wong Rengifo.
  2. In 2011 and 2016 it was the world's largest supplier of fishmeal.
  3. Covering 1,285,216 square kilometres, it is the third largest country in South America.
  4. Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca here in December 1532.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 3

  1. A faunal reserve became its first World Heritage Site when UNESCO inscribed it in 1987.
  2. Its 475,442 square kilometres make it the world's 53rd-largest country.
  3. After Germany's defeat in World War One its colony was split into French and British mandates in 1919.
  4. It hosted the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 4

  1. The first novel written by a woman from this archipelago was A Louca de Serrano by Dina Salustio.
  2. Its escudo currency is indexed to the euro under a special European Union partnership.
  3. Portuguese is official here, yet a creole called Kriolu is nearly everyone's mother tongue.
  4. Its footballers reached the knockout stage on their very first World Cup appearance in 2026.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. In 2008 a poet named Emelihter Kihleng published this nation's first ever poetry collection in English.
  2. A dynasty ruled roughly 25,000 people here from a canal-laced stone seat between about AD 500 and 1500.
  3. A Compact of Free Association with the United States took effect on 3 November 1986 and brought independence.
  4. Its four states run from west to east as Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Answers

Round 1 answer

France · Europe

Clue 5: The location is France.

France is a Western European republic whose capital, Paris, anchors the world's leading tourist destination. Its story runs from Roman Gaul and the Frankish kingdoms to the 1789 Revolution, Napoleon and the Fifth Republic founded in 1958. It holds a permanent United Nations Security Council seat and leads the world in the share of electricity generated by nuclear power.

Round 2 answer

Peru · South America

Clue 5: The location is Peru.

Peru lies on the western Pacific side of South America, spanning arid coastal desert, the Andes and Amazon rainforest. Its territory cradled the Caral-Supe civilization and later the Inca Empire, ruled from Cusco until the Spanish conquest of 1532. Lima has been the capital since colonial times and is now celebrated as a global culinary city.

Round 3 answer

Cameroon · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Cameroon.

Cameroon lies on the Gulf of Guinea in Central Africa, with Yaounde as its political capital and Douala as its main seaport. Often called Africa in miniature, it ranges from coast and rainforest to mountains and savanna, topped by Mount Cameroon at 4,095 metres. Both French and English are official languages, and Paul Biya has led the country since 1982.

Round 4 answer

Cape Verde · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Cape Verde.

Cape Verde is a ten-island volcanic archipelago in the eastern Atlantic, some 600 to 850 kilometres west of Dakar. Portuguese settlers arrived in 1462 and the islands became a slave-trade hub before independence in 1975. Today it is a stable democracy known for morna music, Cesaria Evora and a knockout-stage World Cup debut in 2026.

Round 5 answer

Federated States of Micronesia · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is Federated States of Micronesia.

The Federated States of Micronesia spans about 607 islands across most of the Caroline Islands, with its capital at Palikir on Pohnpei. Once part of the United States administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, it became independent in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association. It is known for Yap stone money and the stone city of Nan Madol.

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