Skopje in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🗿

The Skopje 2014 project put up hundreds of statues, fountains and facades, and the argument about it has not finished.

🌉

The Stone Bridge is Ottoman, survived the earthquake, and is the one old thing at the centre of all the new.

⛰️

Vodno rises above the city with a very large illuminated cross on top of it.

⛪

Mother Teresa was born here in 1910 and left at eighteen. The house is gone and a memorial stands on the site.

🎭

The rebuilt national theatre is a reconstruction of the one the earthquake destroyed, put back in the 2010s.

Skopje at a glance

Country

North Macedonia

Coordinates

42.00° N, 21.43° E

First played

21 June 2026

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Skopje.