Worth knowing
Azerbaijan
At Yanar Dag, near Baku, natural gas seeping through the sandstone feeds flames up to three metres high. The hillside burns around the clock and never goes out.
Where its story happens
Yanar Dag, the burning hillside, at 40.50°N, 49.89°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Azerbaijan
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Azerbaijan, on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, north of Iran. See Azerbaijan on a map.
- Its capital, Baku, lies below sea level on the shore of the Caspian Sea.
- It is nicknamed the Land of Fire, for the natural gas that seeps out of its ground and burns.
- Around 1900, its oil fields pumped about half of all the oil in the world.
- It has hundreds of mud volcanoes, one of the greatest gatherings of them on Earth. Some erupt in fireballs.