Worth knowing
North Macedonia
Lake Ohrid has had well over a million years to itself, and it shows: more than 200 kinds of plants and animals there are found nowhere else on Earth.
Where its story happens
Lake Ohrid, at 41.03°N, 20.72°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 Macedonia
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 North Macedonia, a landlocked country in the Balkans, north of Greece. See North Macedonia on a map.
- Its capital is Skopje, and its flag is a golden sun with eight rays on a red field.
- Mother Teresa was born in its capital in 1910.
- Its lakeside town of Ohrid is said to have once had 365 churches, one for every day of the year.
- A lake on its border is thought to be the oldest in Europe: about 1.4 million years old.