Geography, one map at a time
Every strange border has a story.
Enclaves, exclaves, straight lines through deserts and towns split down the middle of a café. We map them, explain them and turn them into a daily game.
Daily Challenge · today
Five questions. One streak.
A silhouette, a capital, a border, a headcount and a neighbor count. New questions every day at midnight, your time.
StartBorder of the week
Lesotho's only neighbor surrounds it
Lesotho shares a land border with exactly one country: South Africa, which wraps all the way around it. Only three countries in the world are completely surrounded by a single other country.
Read the story →The atlas
197 countries. Tap one to open its file.
40countries with no land border at all
3countries entirely surrounded by one other: Lesotho, San Marino and Vatican City
