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Atlas Daily #59, Friday 30 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. The town of Hallstatt here holds the oldest archaeological evidence of the Celts in Europe.
  2. With over eight kilograms a year it has the sixth highest coffee consumption per person worldwide.
  3. More than half of its electricity comes from hydropower and renewables together supply about 63 percent.
  4. It was home to Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and to Alfred Adler.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 2

  1. The swinging sport of kiiking is this nation's unique contribution to world sport.
  2. A chimneyless smoke sauna tradition from Voru County joined a UNESCO heritage list in 2014.
  3. Its schoolchildren placed first in Europe in the 2018 PISA assessments.
  4. The medieval Old Town of its capital, Tallinn, is the most important architectural ensemble here.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 3

  1. Its photography history includes Johann Pucher's 1841 invention of a process for photography on glass.
  2. The linden tree is one of this country's national symbols.
  3. A plateau here gave its name to karst landscapes shaped by water dissolving rock.
  4. Its Janja Garnbret became the first female Olympic champion in sport climbing in 2021.
Hint: which continent?

Europe

Round 4

  1. Felix Couchoro published L'Esclave in 1929, the first novel written by a national of this country.
  2. Its loftiest summit, Mount Sokbaro, reaches only 658 metres above sea level.
  3. It won full independence from France on 1 August 1960, now its national holiday.
  4. The coastal town of Ouidah is the spiritual heart of its Vodun or Voodoo faith.
Hint: which continent?

Africa

Round 5

  1. Its traditional fair season begins when the star Antares appears in the sky after sunset.
  2. In 1902 a trans-Pacific telegraph cable landed on one of its atolls, completing an all-British global line.
  3. One of its islands has the largest land area of any atoll in the world.
  4. It once exported phosphate from Banaba, whose mine is now virtually exhausted.
Hint: which continent?

Oceania

Answers

Round 1 answer

Austria · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Austria.

Austria is a landlocked federation of nine states in the Eastern Alps, with Vienna as its capital, largest city and a state in its own right. Long the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy, it was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 and declared permanent neutrality in 1955. Today it is known for alpine skiing, hydropower, a vast classical music heritage and its coffee house culture.

Round 2 answer

Estonia · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Estonia.

Estonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic family, unrelated to Latvian and Lithuanian to the south. The Singing Revolution of 1987 to 1991 brought hundreds of thousands to the Tallinn song festival grounds. Today most public services run online, and in 2005 it became the first country to use binding internet voting nationwide, reaching parliamentary elections in 2007.

Round 3 answer

Slovenia · Europe

Clue 5: The location is Slovenia.

Forest covers about 58% of the land, one of the highest shares in the European Union. Independence in June 1991 was followed by a brief war with Yugoslav forces that ended in ten days. The olm, a pale cave salamander that can live a century, was once taken for a baby dragon.

Round 4 answer

Benin · Africa

Clue 5: The location is Benin.

Benin is a narrow West African country on the Gulf of Guinea, with Porto-Novo as capital and Cotonou as its seat of government and only seaport. Known as Dahomey until 1975, it grew from the Kingdom of Dahomey, famous for its female soldier corps. Cotton dominates its exports, and the coastal town of Ouidah is the spiritual centre of Vodun.

Round 5 answer

Kiribati · Oceania

Clue 5: The location is Kiribati.

Kiribati is a Pacific republic of 32 atolls plus the raised coral island of Banaba, with only 811 square kilometres of land spread across millions of square kilometres of ocean. It became independent from the United Kingdom in 1979 and its islands straddle the equator and the 180th meridian. Its easternmost islands keep the world's most advanced time zone at UTC+14.

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