Geography warm-up · 21 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 65,600 km².
- It shares no land border with any other country.
- People there speak Sinhala, Tamil.
- The money is the rupee.
- It is in Southern Asia.
- Its capital starts with "C" and has 7 letters.
Question of the day
Thailand
In 1767 the great capital of Ayutthaya was captured and burned by an army from which country?
- ABurma
- BCambodia
- CVietnam
- DChina
An army from Burma, today's Myanmar, took Ayutthaya after a siege of 14 months. General Taksin drove the Burmese out within months.