Geography warm-up · 17 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 1,964,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 3 countries.
- People there speak Spanish.
- The money is the peso.
- It is in North America.
- Its capital starts with "M" and has 10 letters.
Question of the day
Kazakhstan
In which city stands the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi?
- ATurkistan
- BAlmaty
- CAktau
- DKaraganda
The mausoleum stands in Turkistan in the south. In 2003 it became Kazakhstan's first World Heritage Site.