Geography warm-up · 24 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 86,600 km² and has no coastline.
- It shares a land border with 5 countries.
- People speak a language named after the country or its people, and also Russian.
- The money is the manat.
- It is in Western Asia.
- Its capital starts with "B" and has 4 letters.
Azerbaijan
Question of the day
Oman
Which of these countries does NOT share a land border with Oman?
- AQatar
- BSaudi Arabia
- CUnited Arab Emirates
- DYemen
Qatar does not border Oman. Oman's land neighbours are the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.