Identify this country using the following clues:


About three quarters of the country is desert

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It has just one seaport

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It’s the location of two of the tallest freestanding flagpoles in the world

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Four per cent of the population is Christian – in 1950, it was 30 per cent

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About 95 per cent of the energy it consumes is imported


Competition details

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January's answer



Peru (Huacachina, Ica Region)