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Atlas Daily #47, Sunday 18 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. Caspar Wessel from this country was the first to describe complex numbers in the complex plane.
  2. The wooden Urnes Stave Church in inner Sognefjord sits on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
  3. It holds the largest registered stock of plug-in electric vehicles per person in the world.
  4. National Geographic once listed this country's fjords as the top tourist attraction on earth.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. Its wettest recorded typhoon dumped 2,210 millimetres of rain on a mountain city in 1911.
  2. It completed the first nuclear power plant in Southeast Asia back in 1984.
  3. This archipelago is made up of roughly 7,641 islands.
  4. A Spanish explorer named this archipelago in 1543 in honour of King Philip the Second.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 3

  1. Its earliest kingdoms were Bonoman in the south and Dagbon in the north, with Bonoman dating to the 11th century.
  2. An offshore field discovered in 2007 and named Jubilee holds up to three billion barrels of sweet crude.
  3. The 2021 census recorded just over 71 percent of its people as Christians.
  4. Its largest ethnic group is the Akan at about 47 percent, ahead of the Mole-Dagbani and the Ewe.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 4

  1. Stone tools found here belong to an Arabian Nubian Complex dated to 106,000 years ago.
  2. A royal decree granted women the vote in Consultative Assembly elections here in 1997.
  3. Portugal governed this Arabian country for 143 years from 1507 to 1650.
  4. Its land neighbours are Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 5

  1. These deep-water islands rose along a volcanic mountain line about 30 million years ago in the Oligocene.
  2. Since 1995 its smaller main island has formed an autonomous region matching a single district.
  3. Independence came peacefully in 1975 under a one-party communist system that lasted until 1990.
  4. This two-island country lies in the Gulf of Guinea about 250 kilometres off the northwest coast of Gabon.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Answers

Round 1 answer

Norway · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Norway.

Norway occupies the western and northernmost part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, with Oslo as its capital and largest city. Tradition dates the unified kingdom to Harald Fairhair in 872, and the modern state adopted its constitution on 17 May 1814. Today it is known for its fjords, its petroleum and gas exports, and the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.

Round 2 answer

Philippines · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Philippines.

The Philippines is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia made up of about 7,641 islands, with Manila as its capital. Spanish rule from the 1500s left a Catholic majority, and American rule ended with independence in 1946. Sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire, it is a megadiverse nation known for jeepneys, adobo and a passion for basketball.

Round 3 answer

Ghana · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Ghana.

Portuguese traders named this stretch of coast for the gold they bought there in the 1470s, and the name outlived three centuries of forts and the British colony that followed. Independence in 1957 under Kwame Nkrumah made it the first sub-Saharan colony to leave the British Empire. The Akosombo Dam, finished in 1965, flooded a valley into Lake Volta, which now covers about 3.6% of the country.

Round 4 answer

Oman · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Oman.

Omani sultans ruled Zanzibar from the 1690s until 1856, when the empire was split between brothers. The Musandam peninsula reaches into the Strait of Hormuz. Frankincense from Dhofar was traded to Egypt, Greece and Rome, and the trees still grow wild in Wadi Dawkah.

Round 5 answer

São Tomé and Príncipe · Africa

Clue 5: The location is São Tomé and Príncipe.

São Tomé and Príncipe is a volcanic two-island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, uninhabited until Portuguese ships arrived in 1470. Sugar and then cocoa plantations worked by enslaved Africans made it a slave-trade hub and, by the early 1900s, the world's largest cocoa exporter. It became independent in 1975 and is Africa's second-smallest sovereign state.

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