Geography warm-up · 27 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 9,707,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 16 countries.
- The main language is named after the country or its people.
- The money is the yuan.
- It is in Eastern Asia.
- Its capital starts with "B" and has 7 letters.
Question of the day
South Korea
Which admiral defeated the Japanese fleets again and again in the 1590s, using armoured turtle ships?
- AYi Sun-sin
- BYi Seong-gye
- CWang Geon
- DKing Sejong
Admiral Yi Sun-sin won battle after battle at sea during the Japanese invasions of 1592 to 1598, and is one of Korea's great heroes.