Geography warm-up · 12 May 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 447,000 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 soʻm.
- It is in Central Asia.
- Its capital starts with "T" and has 8 letters.
Uzbekistan
Question of the day
Montenegro
What do the names Montenegro and Crna Gora both mean?
- ABlack Mountain
- BGreen Valley
- CBlue Sea
- DWhite Rock
Both names mean Black Mountain, after the dark forests that once covered Mount Lovćen.