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Taiwan

Linguists trace the Austronesian languages, more than 1,200 of them, back to Taiwan. From about 3000 BC, seafarers carried them across two oceans, as far as Madagascar, Hawaii and New Zealand.

Five things to know about Taiwan

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.

  1. Where it is. It's Taiwan, an island off the southeast coast of China. See Taiwan on a map.
  2. Its Taipei 101 tower was the tallest building in the world when it opened in 2004.
  3. Bubble tea, the milky drink with chewy tapioca pearls, was invented here in the 1980s.
  4. Mountains fill the eastern two thirds of this island, with more than 200 peaks over 3,000 metres.
  5. The languages of Hawaii, Madagascar and Easter Island all trace back to seafarers who set out from this island.

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