Worth knowing
Mali
The Great Mosque of Djenné is made of sun-baked mud. Every year the whole town turns out to replaster its walls by hand, in a festival.
Where its story happens
Timbuktu, at 16.77°N, 3.01°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 Mali
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 Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, south of Algeria. See Mali on a map.
- Its city of Timbuktu was once a famous centre of learning on the edge of the Sahara.
- The largest mud-brick building in the world, a great mosque, stands here.
- Its 14th-century emperor is often called the richest person who ever lived.
- On his pilgrimage to Mecca he gave away so much gold that prices in Egypt took years to recover.