Daily geography expedition
Farflung Expedition #16 answers for October 20, 2026: five geography prompts, gem countries, rare Farflung-tier picks and spoiler-safe reveals.
Today’s Farflung Expedition #16 has five geography prompts. Pin one valid country for each prompt before the clock runs out; familiar answers travel less, while rare picks carry the expedition farther.
Farflung is a daily geography trivia game where five valid country picks travel farther when fewer players choose the same answers.
Chart the rarest route
Move through all five prompts. Reveal the official gem first, then open the other Farflung-tier countries if you want more rare valid picks.
Try Switzerland — Three of its four languages keep a Z. French, with Suisse, does not.
What counts: The Z can be anywhere: Switzerland and Tanzania count. Current English short names only, so Eswatini, Swaziland until 2018, does not.
Reveal the gem when you are ready.
Herzegovina means the duke's land, after a duke of the 1400s.
The Z is hiding in Herzegovina, the country's southern region.
touristBrazil
travellerNew Zealand, Switzerland
wayfarerCzechia, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Belize, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan
unchartedMozambique
farflungBosnia and Herzegovina
Try Trinidad and Tobago — Its southwest tip sits barely a dozen kilometres from Venezuela.
What counts: The Bahamas and Barbados sit in the Atlantic, but both count. Puerto Rico and Martinique count for their countries, which are not island countries.
Reveal the gem when you are ready.
Its two islands are about three kilometres apart, across the Narrows.
The smallest country in the Americas, and Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis.
touristCuba
travellerJamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti
wayfarerTrinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Barbados
unchartedSaint Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
farflungSaint Kitts and Nevis
Try Croatia — Dubrovnik's old town walls played King's Landing from the second season.
What counts: Any filming counts, animals too: a wolf was filmed in Canada and a bear in the United States. Northern Ireland, home to its studios, is the United Kingdom.
Reveal the gem when you are ready.
Daenerys married Khal Drogo by Gozo's Azure Window, which fell in 2017.
Malta played King's Landing in the first season, until the filming moved to Dubrovnik.
touristUnited Kingdom
travellerCroatia, Iceland
wayfarerSpain, Morocco
unchartedCanada, United States
farflungMalta
Try Austria — In German, Vienna is Wien: a Wiener schnitzel is a Viennese cutlet.
What counts: The name should come from the city. Beef Wellington is presumably the duke's, but it shares his name with the capital, so New Zealand counts. The Jerusalem bagel counts for Israel and for Palestine, which both name the city their capital.
Reveal the gem when you are ready.
Damson comes from the Latin for the plum of Damascus.
Damson is worn down from damascene, the plum of Damascus, though the English fruit may never have grown there.
touristBelgium
travellerAustria, China, Russia
wayfarerUkraine, Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, Cuba, Ireland
unchartedIsrael, Portugal, Afghanistan, Spain, Netherlands, Philippines, Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Palestine, Indonesia, Cambodia, North Korea, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Denmark
farflungSyria
Try Germany — Victor brings the creature to life while a student at Ingolstadt.
What counts: Wherever Victor himself goes, from his birth at Naples in the 1831 text to the chase across Russia. Chamonix and Évian are in France today.
Reveal the gem when you are ready.
Victor spends over three months in an Irish prison before a grand jury clears him.
Adrift after sinking the remains of the creature’s mate, Victor lands in Ireland and is charged with Clerval’s murder.
touristSwitzerland
travellerGermany, United Kingdom
wayfarerFrance, Russia
unchartedItaly, Netherlands
farflungIreland
Farflung Expedition #16 answers (October 20, 2026):
Prompt 1 — Pin a country with a Z in its name:Gem Bosnia and Herzegovina; other Farflung-tier answers none.
Prompt 2 — Pin an island country in the Caribbean:Gem Saint Kitts and Nevis; other Farflung-tier answers none.
Prompt 3 — Pin a country where Game of Thrones was filmed:Gem Malta; other Farflung-tier answers none.
Prompt 4 — Pin a country whose capital gives its name to a kind of food or drink in English:Gem Syria; other Farflung-tier answers none.
Prompt 5 — Pin a country Victor Frankenstein sets foot in during Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein:Gem Ireland; other Farflung-tier answers none.
Travel farther
Correct is only the beginning. The strongest Farflung answer is a country that fits the prompt but occurs to as few other players as possible.
The first valid answer most players remember is often Tourist or Traveller tier. Keep searching for a less familiar country that still fits every word of the prompt.
Farflung prompts can include territories, historical links, shared islands, birthplace rules, or unusual exceptions. The note below each prompt defines what counts.
After naming one valid country, look across the same region and then another continent. Smaller states and island countries frequently appear among the rarest answers.
A gem is an especially apt rare answer highlighted by the official puzzle. The gem note explains why that country is a standout response to the prompt.
Logbook
Open an earlier expedition to review its five prompts and official gem countries.
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Quick answers about expeditions, gem countries, rarity tiers, and daily prompts.
Today’s Farflung answers are valid countries for five geography prompts. The reveal section shows each official gem and the other rare Farflung-tier answers without exposing them before you choose.
Read each prompt, place a pin on one valid country, and submit it before the clock expires. A rarer correct answer travels farther than a popular answer.
A gem is a particularly interesting rare country selected by the official puzzle. It comes with a short note explaining the geographic or cultural connection.
The answer tiers run from Tourist through Traveller, Wayfarer and Uncharted to Farflung. Farflung-tier picks are the least common accepted answers.
Every daily expedition contains five prompts, and each prompt accepts several countries.
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