Worth knowing
Eswatini
At Ngwenya, Stone Age people dug out red ochre and a sparkling iron ore to use as pigments. A modern iron mine opened on the same hill in 1964.
Where its story happens
Ngwenya Mine, at 26.20°S, 31.03°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 Eswatini
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 Eswatini, a small kingdom almost surrounded by South Africa, with Mozambique on its east side. See Eswatini on a map.
- In 2018 its king changed its name from Swaziland, partly to stop people mixing it up with Switzerland.
- Each year up to 40,000 young women carry cut reeds to the queen mother in its Reed Dance.
- It has two capitals: one for the government, and one for parliament and the queen mother.
- People dug red ochre from a hill here more than 40,000 years ago, the earliest mining known anywhere.