Worth knowing
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's year has twelve months of 30 days and a thirteenth of five or six. It welcomed the year 2000 in September 2007.
Where its story happens
Hadar, where Lucy was found, at 11.10°N, 40.58°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 Ethiopia
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, north of Kenya. See Ethiopia on a map.
- It beat an invading Italian army in 1896 and kept its independence while Europe carved up Africa.
- Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of a human ancestor, was found here in 1974.
- Coffee comes from its highlands, where the plant still grows wild.
- Its calendar has 13 months and runs seven to eight years behind most of the world's.