Geography warm-up · 2 August 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 164,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 2 countries.
- People there speak Arabic.
- The money is the dinar.
- It is in Northern Africa.
- Its capital starts with "T" and has 5 letters.
Question of the day
Cambodia
What does the Khmer word phnom, as in Phnom Penh, mean?
- AHill or mountain
- BRiver
- CMarket
- DIsland
Phnom means hill or mountain. Phnom Penh is 'Penh's hill', after the hill shrine of Wat Phnom.