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Qatar

Qatar's flag is 11 units tall and 28 wide. It began as red, but the local dye faded and darkened under the desert sun, and in 1936 the country adopted the deeper maroon for good.

Five things to know about Qatar

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.

  1. Where it is. It's Qatar, a small peninsula in the Gulf, joined by land only to Saudi Arabia. See Qatar on a map.
  2. Its capital is Doha, and in 2022 it hosted the first football World Cup held in the Middle East.
  3. It is a thumb of desert poking into the Gulf, with just one land neighbour.
  4. The flag's maroon recalls a purple-red dye that was made from shellfish on its coast in ancient times.
  5. Its flag is the only national flag that is more than twice as wide as it is tall.

Every line on this page is a clue or a fact from Geodar, drafted with AI and checked against a source. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.