Worth knowing
Cuba
The bee hummingbird is about six centimetres long and weighs less than two grams. It lays eggs the size of coffee beans in a nest about as wide as a coin.
Where its story happens
Zapata Swamp, home of the bee hummingbird, at 22.40°N, 81.57°W. 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 Cuba
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the easy countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean, about 150 km south of Florida. See Cuba on a map.
- Its hand-rolled cigars are world famous, and 1950s American cars still cruise its capital, Havana.
- Ernest Hemingway lived here for about 20 years and wrote The Old Man and the Sea here.
- The mambo, the cha-cha-cha and the rumba were all born on this island.
- The smallest bird in the world lives only here: a hummingbird not much bigger than a bee.