Worth knowing
North Korea
Mount Paektu's eruption in 946 sent ash as far as Japan, where a temple chronicle recorded white ash falling like snow. The crater it left now holds a lake known as Heaven Lake.
Where its story happens
Mount Paektu, at 41.99°N, 128.08°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 North Korea
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 North Korea, the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, between China and South Korea. See North Korea on a map.
- Its capital is Pyongyang, and it shares its peninsula with one neighbour to the south.
- A medieval kingdom called Goryeo ruled from its city of Kaesong and gave the whole peninsula its English name.
- Cold buckwheat noodles in chilled broth are the signature dish of its capital.
- Around the year 946 its highest mountain erupted in one of the most violent volcanic blasts of the last 2,000 years.