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Geography Quiz

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Find them on the map. Name them from memory.

Notes on the plates

What this atlas covers

203 countries and territories, each with its capital, its borders, and its flag. Five continents are drawn as clickable plates you can quiz yourself on directly: Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America. Oceania and a set of island territories are covered too, through the Letter Game and the flag rounds.

You can take a whole continent at once or narrow to a region, which is usually the better way in. Learning the eleven Balkan countries properly beats half-learning all forty-eight in Europe.

Continents and regions

ContinentCountriesRegions you can drill separately
Europe48Nordic, Baltic, Central, Western, Eastern, the Balkans, Mediterranean
Africa49Northern, Western, Central, Eastern, Southern
Asia41East, Southeast, South, Central, and West Asia / Middle East
North America17Northern, Central America, the Caribbean
South America14Northern, Southern
Oceania16Australasia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia
Other territories18Caribbean, African islands, Asian islands, Eurasia

Central America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East get their own zoomed plates, because on a whole-continent map the countries are too small to click honestly.

The eight game types

GameWhat it asks
CountriesA country is named. Click it on the map.
CapitalsA capital is named. Click the country it belongs to.
FlagsA flag appears. Click the country that flies it.
Identify CountriesA country is highlighted. Type its name.
Identify CapitalsA country is highlighted. Type its capital.
Identify FlagsA flag appears on its own. Type whose it is.
Pick the FlagSix flags, one country. The wrong five are chosen to look alike.
Letter GamePick a letter and name every country that starts with it, filling in a world map as you go.

Pick the Flag draws its decoys from genuinely confusable sets, so Chad turns up next to Romania and Indonesia next to Monaco. Getting those right means you actually know them.

Three ways to play

Normal keeps the countries you have answered coloured in, so the map fills as you work through a region once. Hard resets the map after every answer, which stops you navigating by elimination. Learning uses spaced repetition: the countries you keep missing come back more often, and a round only ends once you have mastered every one.

Typed answers are matched loosely. Accents, common abbreviations, alternate names, and ordinary typos are all accepted, so Cote d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, and a misspelling of either will pass. Hints cost three points. Miss a name narrowly and the chalkboard makes you write it out three times before moving on.