Geography warm-up · 12 January 2026
Which country is it?
Put this on the big screen. Show one clue at a time and let the class guess out loud. Every class in the world gets the same country today.
- It covers about 18,300 km².
- It shares no land border with any other country.
- People speak a language named after the country or its people, and also English.
- The money is the dollar.
- It is in Melanesia, in the Pacific Ocean.
- Its capital starts with "S" and has 4 letters.
Question of the day
Armenia
Which of these countries does NOT share a border with Armenia?
- ARussia
- BGeorgia
- CIran
- DTurkey
Russia does not border Armenia. Armenia's neighbours are Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Iran to the south and Turkey to the west.