The atlas
Know the world before you guess it
Every country leaves fingerprints: the script on the signs, the shape of the roofs, the plants at the roadside. These guides collect them — so the next reveal makes sense.
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15 countries verified against the footage, each with its episode.
Afghanistan
Central & South Asia · 1 episode
A landlocked crossroads of empires, home to lapis lazuli mines worked for 6,000 years.
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Albania
Southeast Europe · 1 episode
The land of eagles — Europe's last wild riviera between mountains and the Adriatic.
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Algeria
North Africa · 1 episode
Africa's largest country, four-fifths Sahara, forged by a costly fight for independence.
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Andorra
Southern Europe · 1 episode
A Pyrenean micro-state that stayed neutral through every European war.
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Angola
Southern Africa · 1 episode
Offshore oil rebuilt a capital that broke colonial rule after decades of resistance.
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Antigua and Barbuda
Caribbean · 1 episode
A twin-island nation in the West Indies with a beach for every day of the year.
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Argentina
South America · 1 episode
Named after silver, running from subtropical falls to the ice fields of Patagonia.
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Armenia
Caucasus · 1 episode
The first Christian nation, where chess is a school subject and wine is 6,000 years old.
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Australia
Oceania · 1 episode
A continent-sized country named for a mythical unknown southern land.
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Austria
Central Europe · 1 episode
The imperial heart of Europe, shaped by the Danube and the Habsburg dynasty.
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Azerbaijan
Caucasus · 1 episode
Land of eternal fire — its 1900 oil boom supplied half the planet's supply.
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Bahamas
Caribbean · 1 episode
700 islands over the world's third-largest barrier reef, with pink flamingo salt flats.
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Bahrain
On the map · 1 episode
Everything worth knowing about Bahrain — and the clues that give it away.
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Bangladesh
On the map · 1 episode
Everything worth knowing about Bangladesh — and the clues that give it away.
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Barbados
On the map · 1 episode
Everything worth knowing about Barbados — and the clues that give it away.
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Study ahead
Guides for countries still to come — learn the clues before the episode drops.
Japan
East Asia
A country of 14,000 islands that turned scarcity of land into a design philosophy.
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Peru
South America
Desert coast, Andes spine and Amazon basin — three climates in one border.
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Morocco
North Africa
Where Atlantic surf, Atlas snow and Sahara dune sit within a day's drive.
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Iceland
Northern Europe
A country still being built by the volcanoes underneath it.
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India
South Asia
The most populous country on Earth, and one of the most linguistically dense.
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Brazil
South America
Half of South America, and the lungs of a whole hemisphere.
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Norway
Northern Europe
A coastline so folded that, stretched flat, it would wrap much of the planet.
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Egypt
North Africa
A desert nation living almost entirely along one green river line.
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New Zealand
Oceania
The last large landmass humans reached — and it shows in the wildlife.
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Kenya
East Africa
The equator, the Rift Valley and a mobile-money revolution in one country.
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Italy
Southern Europe
A country that was a hundred city-states before it was one nation.
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Canada
North America
The second-largest country on Earth, with almost everyone living near one border.
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