Geography warm-up · 19 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 1,221,000 km².
It shares a land border with 6 countries.
People speak a language named after the country or its people, and also English, Northern Sotho, Swazi.
The money is the rand.
On the map it lies below the equator and east of the prime meridian.
Its capital starts with "P" and has 8 letters.

Question of the day

Serbia

In Belgrade, the Sava flows into which great river?