| AZERBAIJAN | A republic in North West Asia, the capital of which is Baku (10) |
| ARMENIA | A republic in North West Asia, the capital of which is Yerevan (7) |
| BANGLADESH | A republic in South Asia, the capital of which is Dhaka (10) |
| IRAN | A republic in West Asia, the capital of which is Tehran (4) |
| SAUDIARABIA | Kingdom in south-west Asia, the capital and largest city of which is Riyadh (5,6) |
| VIETNAM | A republic in Southeast Asia, the capital of which is Hanoi (7) |
| AFGHANISTAN | Landlocked republic in Central Asia, the capital of which is Kabul (11) |
| COLOMBIA | A republic in North West South America colonised by Spain in the 16th Century (8) |
| ISRAEL | Country in Western Asia, the capital of which is Jerusalem (6) |
| MALAYSIA | Country in South-east Asia, the capital of which is Kuala Lumpur (8) |
| TIMORLESTE | In SE Asia, the 21st century's first new sovereign state |
| ALGERIA | A republic in North West Africa, on the Mediterranean (7) |
| EGYPT | A republic in North East Africa, on the Mediterranean and the Red Sea (5) |
| TUNIS | Capital of a republic in north Africa (5) |
| CHAD | A republic in North Central Africa that became independent from France in 1960 (4) |
| LIBYA | A republic in North Africa, on the Mediterranean (5) |
| AZERI | A citizen of a former Soviet republic whose national capital is Baku (5) |
| INDIANOCEAN | Large area of sea bordered by Africa in the West, Asia in the North and Australia in the East (6,5) |
| ARABIA | I am meeting up with two of my mates in a bar in the middle of Par to arrange our trip to a place in south-west Asia (6) |
| SUDAN | A Republic in north-east Africa (5) |
