Geography warm-up · 24 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.
South Africa
Question of the day
Israel
Which city on the Red Sea is Israel's southernmost city?
- AEilat
- BArad
- CBeersheba
- DHaifa
Eilat, on the Gulf of Aqaba, is Israel's southernmost city and a beach and diving resort.