CLUE ONE

You and your group members need to work together to figure out the answer to the riddle below. You are not allowed to "meet and talk" in person, you need to use an online collaborate tool.  You can communicate through Edmodo, through email, through a Google doc, through comments on this blog, through Diigo, or any other appropriate collaborative tool.  Your job is to talk together, research, share ideas and thoughts digitally to come up with answer to this riddle. 

Clue One: WHERE?

Read the information below. This describes a location somewhere in the world. Research to find out which location best fits this information.

Area: 41,526 sq. km. (16,485 sq. mi.); about half the size of South Carolina.
Terrain: Coastal lowland.
Climate: Northern maritime, with cool summers and mild winters.

Population: 16.6 million

Parliamentary democracy with a monarch.
Constitution: 1814.

Natural resources: Natural gas, petroleum, fertile soil.
Agriculture: dairy, poultry, meat, livestock, flower bulbs, cut flowers, vegetables and fruits, sugar beets, potatoes, wheat, barley.

Inhabited by Germanic tribes in the first century B.C

During WWI, the Battle of Flanders was fought near here.