Geography warm-up · 16 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 342,000 km².
- It shares no land border with any other country.
- People speak a language named after the country or its people, and also English.
- The money is the peso.
- It is in Southeast Asia.
- Its capital starts with "M" and has 6 letters.
Philippines
Question of the day
New Zealand
The Waitangi Treaty Grounds, where the Treaty was first signed, are in which region?
- AThe Bay of Islands
- BThe Bay of Plenty
- CHawke's Bay
- DGolden Bay
The Bay of Islands in Northland, next to the town of Paihia. Golden Bay is where Abel Tasman's ships anchored in 1642.