Worth knowing
Slovenia
The olm lives its whole life in the dark and can go years without eating. When floods washed olms out of the caves, people believed they were the young of a dragon.
Where its story happens
Postojna Cave, at 45.78°N, 14.20°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 Slovenia
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 Slovenia, south of Austria, between Italy and Croatia. See Slovenia on a map.
- Its capital is Ljubljana, and its Lake Bled has a church on a tiny island.
- It was part of Yugoslavia until 1991, and it has less than 50 km of sea coast.
- The white Lipizzaner horses of Vienna's Spanish Riding School come from a stud farm founded here in 1580.
- A blind, pale salamander that can live for 100 years swims in its caves. Locals once took it for a baby dragon.