Worth knowing
Malawi
Lake Malawi may hold as many as 1,000 kinds of fish. UNESCO rates its cichlids as valuable to science as the finches Darwin studied in the Galápagos.
Where its story happens
Lake Malawi National Park, at 14.03°S, 34.88°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 Malawi
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 Malawi, in southeast Africa, between Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique. See Malawi on a map.
- A great lake that shares its name runs down most of its eastern side, and its capital is Lilongwe.
- A 14-year-old here built a windmill from scrap to power his family's home, a story told in a book and a film.
- One lake here is home to more kinds of fish than any other lake on Earth.
- Most of them are cichlids, a family of fish that evolved here into hundreds of species found nowhere else.