Geography warm-up · 3 June 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 270,000 km².
- It shares no land border with any other country.
- People speak a language named after the country or its people, and also English, Māori.
- The money is the dollar.
- It is in Oceania.
- Its capital starts with "W" and has 10 letters.
New Zealand
Question of the day
Dominican Republic
Which country shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic?
- AHaiti
- BCuba
- CJamaica
- DPuerto Rico
Haiti occupies the western part of Hispaniola, and the Dominican Republic the eastern five-eighths.