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Answers for 21 October 2026

Atlas Daily #50, Wednesday 21 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. An electrical engineer here invented the first external artificial pacemaker with internal electrodes.
  2. Its walled port of Cartagena hosts the oldest film festival in Latin America.
  3. It is the second most biodiverse country on Earth, behind only its far larger neighbour Brazil.
  4. At 2,600 metres up, Bogota is the highest city of its size in the world.
Hint: which continent?

South America

Round 2

  1. Plate subduction along its margin produced the Hikurangi Trough and the Puysegur Trench.
  2. It guaranteed a minimum wage in 1894 in what was a world first.
  3. By area it ranks as the sixth-largest island country in the world.
  4. Its best known mountaineer was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Round 3

  1. A kingdom called the Isaaq Sultanate was established in the northwest of this land in 1750.
  2. Only two permanent rivers flow here, the Jubba and the Shabele, both rising in the Ethiopian Highlands.
  3. Although an African state, it belongs to the Arab League as well as the African Union.
  4. Its capital and largest city is Mogadishu, where about 2.7 million people live.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 4

  1. Its artisans built an ornate tea house presented in 1988 to the sister city of Boulder, Colorado.
  2. It began in 1924 as an autonomous republic inside the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
  3. A rice dish called oshi palav is the recognised national dish here.
  4. It is the only Central Asian country with an Iranic majority and a Turkic minority.
Hint: which continent?

Asia

Round 5

  1. Omani sailors in the year 933 called this archipelago the Perfume Islands.
  2. Its grand marriage custom can cost a family up to 50,000 euros in dowry and celebration.
  3. A living coelacanth was rediscovered off this coast in December 1952.
  4. Its three major islands include Anjouan and Moheli.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Answers

Round 1 answer

Colombia · South America

Clue 5: The location is Colombia.

The Andes split into three ranges here before fading into Caribbean lowlands, giving the country coasts on two oceans and more bird species than any other. Emeralds from Muzo and Chivor have been mined since before the Spanish arrived. Flowers cut in the savanna around Bogotá reach American supermarkets within days.

Round 2 answer

New Zealand · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is New Zealand.

Māori arrived in about 1300 from eastern Polynesia; Europeans followed in the 1640s and 1760s. The Electoral Act of 1893 gave all women the right to vote in national elections. The kiwi cannot fly, lays an egg a fifth of its body weight, and lent its name to everyone who lives here.

Round 3 answer

Somalia · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Somalia.

Somalia sits on the Horn of Africa, the easternmost country on the continent, with mainland Africa's longest coastline. Ancient trade with Egypt made it a candidate for the Land of Punt, and medieval sultanates dominated regional commerce. Since 1991 civil war and insurgency have shaped the federal republic governed from Mogadishu.

Round 4 answer

Tajikistan · Asia

Clue 5: The location is Tajikistan.

Tajikistan is a landlocked, overwhelmingly mountainous republic in Central Asia with Dushanbe as its capital. It declared independence in 1991 and endured a civil war until 1997, and has been led by Emomali Rahmon since 1994. Its economy leans on aluminium, cotton and migrant remittances, while its Persian-rooted culture shows in Nowruz, Shashmaqom music and oshi palav.

Round 5 answer

Comoros · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Comoros.

Comoros is a three-island nation in the Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and the African mainland, with its capital at Moroni. Independent from France since 1975, it has endured more than twenty coups and still claims Mayotte. It is the world's largest producer of ylang-ylang and the only Arab League state entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.

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