Geography warm-up · 18 February 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 1,104,000 km² and has no coastline.
- It shares a land border with 6 countries.
- People there speak Amharic.
- The money is the birr.
- It is in Eastern Africa.
- Its capital starts with "A" and has 10 letters.
Question of the day
Dominican Republic
What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
- ASanto Domingo
- BSantiago de los Caballeros
- CPunta Cana
- DPuerto Plata
Santo Domingo, on the Caribbean coast, is the capital and by far the largest city.