Geography warm-up · 9 March 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 9,373,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 2 countries.
- People there speak English.
- The money is the dollar.
- On the map it lies above the equator and west of the prime meridian.
- Its capital starts with "W" and has 12 letters.
United States
Question of the day
Botswana
What does the name 'Botswana' mean?
- ALand of the Tswana
- BLand of rain
- CPlace of diamonds
- DGreat river
Botswana means 'land of the Tswana', the country's largest ethnic group.