Answers for 23 October 2026
Atlas Daily #52, Friday 23 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
- A Taulantian king fought Alexander the Great at the Battle of Pelium in 335 BC on this territory.
- Patos-Marinza, Europe's largest onshore oil field, lies in its western lowlands.
- Mount Korab is its highest point at 2,764 metres above the Adriatic.
- Its official language merges the Gheg and Tosk dialects, split roughly by the Shkumbin river.
Hint: which continent?
Europe
Round 2
- A prince briefly united its three principalities under one rule in May 1600.
- About 5 percent of its area is protected across 13 national parks and three biosphere reserves.
- It is one of only four nations to have played in each of the first three World Cups.
- Peles Castle and Corvin Castle rank among its most popular tourist attractions.
Hint: which continent?
Europe
Round 3
- Nine spa towns and resorts include Katlanovo, Kosovrasti and Negorci.
- The documentary Honeyland came from here and earned two nominations at the same Academy Awards.
- It has been an official European Union candidate state since 2005.
- Its flag adopted in 1995 shows a yellow sun with eight broadening rays on a red field.
Hint: which continent?
Europe
Round 4
- A French covert scheme called Operation Persil was planned against this new republic by Jacques Foccart.
- Its highest point is Mount Nimba, rising to 1,752 metres on a shared massif.
- Muslims account for roughly 90 percent of the people in this coastal republic.
- Its largest airport carries the name of Ahmed Sekou Toure and flies to Europe and other African cities.
Hint: which continent?
Africa
Round 5
- Its Kula ring exchanges circulate objects to maintain relationships rather than secure direct economic gain.
- More than 97% of this country's land is designated as customary land held by communities.
- Just 14% of this Pacific country's population lived in urban centres in 2023.
- Port Moresby is this country's capital.
Hint: which continent?
Oceania
Answers
Round 1 answer
Albania · Europe
Clue 5: The location is Albania.
Albania sits on the Balkan Peninsula between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, with Tirana as its capital and largest city. Its history runs from Illyrian kingdoms and Skanderbeg's resistance to the Ottomans to independence in 1912 and the isolationist communist rule of Enver Hoxha. Today it is an EU candidate with a fast-growing tourism sector.
Round 2 answer
Romania · Europe
Clue 5: The location is Romania.
Romanian descends from the Latin of the Roman province of Dacia, alone among the Balkan languages. Vlad Țepeș fought the Ottomans and became Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nicolae Ceaușescu was tried and shot on 25 December 1989.
Round 3 answer
North Macedonia · Europe
Clue 5: The location is North Macedonia.
North Macedonia is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, bordered by Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Skopje, home to a quarter of the population. Long known by a provisional United Nations name, it renamed itself under the 2018 Prespa agreement with Greece and joined NATO in 2020.
Round 4 answer
Guinea · Africa
Clue 5: The location is Guinea.
Guinea is a West African republic on the Atlantic coast, with Conakry as its capital. It broke from France on 2 October 1958 under Sekou Toure and has since endured repeated military coups, the most recent in 2021. Its highlands give rise to the Niger, Gambia and Senegal rivers, and it is the world's second-largest producer of bauxite.
Round 5 answer
Papua New Guinea · Oceania
Clue 5: The location is Papua New Guinea.
About 840 living languages are spoken by roughly 10 million people. The border with Indonesian Papua follows the 141st meridian for most of its length. Australian and Japanese troops fought along the Kokoda Track from July to November 1942.
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