Geography warm-up · 15 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 1,564,000 km² and has no coastline.
- It shares a land border with 2 countries.
- The main language is named after the country or its people.
- The money is the tögrög.
- It is in Eastern Asia.
- Its capital starts with "U" and has 11 letters.
Question of the day
Ireland
What was the Titanic's last port of call before it crossed the Atlantic in April 1912?
- ACobh (then Queenstown)
- BGalway
- CDún Laoghaire
- DWaterford
Cobh (then Queenstown), in Cork Harbour, was the last stop on 11 April 1912. 123 passengers boarded there.