Geography warm-up · 4 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 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
Oman
Which city turns green under monsoon mist, the khareef, from late June to September?
- ASalalah
- BMuscat
- CSohar
- DKhasab
In Salalah and the Dhofar hills the Indian Ocean monsoon brings mist and drizzle in summer, so the hills turn green while the rest of Oman is hot and dry.