Geography warm-up · 11 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 9,373,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 2 countries.
- People there speak English.
- The money is the dollar.
- On the map it lies above the equator and west of the prime meridian.
- Its capital starts with "W" and has 12 letters.
United States
Question of the day
Vietnam
Which of these countries does NOT share a land border with Vietnam?
- AThailand
- BChina
- CLaos
- DCambodia
Thailand is not a land neighbour: Laos and Cambodia lie between them. Vietnam's land borders are with China, Laos and Cambodia.