Worth knowing
Brunei
Kampong Ayer, the 'water village', has houses, schools and mosques, all on stilts above the Brunei River. Early European mapmakers wrote the kingdom's name as 'Burneo', and it stuck to the whole island.
Where its story happens
Kampong Ayer, the water village, at 4.88°N, 114.94°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 Brunei
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 Brunei, on the north coast of Borneo, surrounded on land by Malaysia. See Brunei on a map.
- It is a tiny, oil-rich sultanate on the north coast of Borneo, split in two by a strip of Malaysia.
- Its sultan lives in a palace with 1,788 rooms, the largest lived-in palace in the world.
- The island of Borneo takes its name from this country, which now covers less than 1% of it.
- Magellan's crew reached its capital in 1521 and found a town built on stilts over the water. People still live there.