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Atlas Daily #44, Thursday 15 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. Narrative cave art on its island of Sulawesi has been dated to at least 51,200 years old.
  2. In 2023 it ranked first in the world for geothermal electricity generation.
  3. Its volcanic belt holds roughly 400 volcanoes, about 130 of them active.
  4. It is the only G20 member state in Southeast Asia.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 2

  1. A natural river bifurcation here links the Orinoco to a tributary of the Amazon.
  2. Breezes around Lake Maracaibo generate the most frequent lightning found anywhere in the world.
  3. Its hydrocarbons minister led the creation of OPEC in 1960.
  4. By late 2025 around 7.9 million of its refugees and migrants were living abroad.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 3

  1. Prince Honoré the Fourth created a company of carabiniers here in 1817 to guard his family.
  2. Italian was its official language until 1860, when French took over.
  3. No coastal nation has a shorter national shoreline than its 3.83 kilometres.
  4. Its street race has featured on the Formula One calendar since the very first season in 1950.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 4

  1. Its most performed revolutionary opera has been staged over 1,500 times since a 1971 premiere.
  2. It has the most doctors per head of any low-income country at 3.7 physicians per 1,000 people.
  3. Its official ideology rests on economic self-sufficiency, military self-reliance and independent foreign policy.
  4. Its 1950s war ended with an armistice on 27 July 1953 and no peace treaty has ever been signed.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 5

  1. In 1965 a coastal site called Coronie hosted several Nike Apache sounding rocket launches.
  2. Gold currently supplies between 60 and 80 percent of all its export earnings.
  3. Anthony Nesty delivered its first Olympic medal with 100-metre butterfly gold in Seoul in 1988.
  4. It is the smallest country in South America by both population and territory.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Answers

Round 1 answer

Indonesia · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Indonesia.

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state, spread over between 13,000 and 17,000 islands between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It ranks fourth by population and has the largest Muslim population of any country, with more than half of its people living on Java. Its capital, Jakarta, anchors Southeast Asia's largest economy.

Round 2 answer

Venezuela · South America

Clue 5: The location is Venezuela.

Venezuela lies on the northern coast of South America, with Caracas as its capital and largest city. It holds the world's largest known oil reserves and contains Angel Falls, the highest waterfall on Earth. Lake Maracaibo, the Orinoco basin and the tepuis of the Guiana Shield shape its landscapes.

Round 3 answer

Monaco · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Monaco.

Monaco is the world's second smallest sovereign state after Vatican City and the most densely populated. The Grimaldi family has ruled the Riviera principality since 1297, and its fortunes turned on the Monte Carlo casino and the end of income tax collection. Today it hosts a Formula One race on its harbour streets.

Round 4 answer

North Korea · Asia

Clue 5: The location is North Korea.

North Korea occupies the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang as its capital and largest city. Founded in 1948, it has been ruled by three generations of the Kim family under the state ideology of Juche. It is heavily militarized and nuclear-armed, and it is separated from South Korea by the world's most fortified border.

Round 5 answer

Suriname · South America

Clue 5: The location is Suriname.

Suriname is South America's smallest country and has been independent from the Netherlands since 1975. Over 90 percent of it is rainforest, the highest forest cover of any nation, and it is the only independent state outside Europe where Dutch prevails. Its capital, Paramaribo, holds a UNESCO-listed inner city of Dutch colonial architecture.

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