Geography warm-up · 2 April 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 1,221,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 6 countries.
- People speak a language named after the country or its people, and also English, Northern Sotho, Swazi.
- The money is the rand.
- On the map it lies below the equator and east of the prime meridian.
- Its capital starts with "P" and has 8 letters.
South Africa
Question of the day
Oman
Which festive Omani dish is cooked for a day or more in a pit of hot coals under the ground?
- AShuwa
- BHarees
- CBalaleet
- DMishkak
Shuwa is spiced meat wrapped in leaves and a sack, then buried in a pit of hot coals and cooked slowly, above all for Eid.