An interactive world map quiz for every continent
This world map quiz names a country and asks you to find it on a blank map — or highlights a country and asks you to name it. It covers 197 countries and territories, from Russia and Canada down to Nauru, Tuvalu and Vatican City, and you can play the whole world or one continent at a time.
Every country gets three tries: three points for a first-time find, two for the second, one for the third. After three misses the answer flashes so you learn where it is. Countries too small to click on a world map — Luxembourg, Singapore, the Caribbean islands, the Pacific atolls — get a ring you can tap, and you can zoom and pan just like a phone map.
The map is drawn in your browser from the open Natural Earth outlines; nothing about your answers leaves your device.
How to use the World Map Quiz
- Pick a mode: Find the country (click the country named at the top) or Name the country (choose the name of the highlighted one from four options).
- Choose a Region and how many countries you want: 10, 20 or every country in the region. The map zooms to frame that region and greys out the rest.
- In Find mode, click or tap the country. A wrong country turns red and its name is shown, so even a miss teaches you something. Small countries have a ring around them — tap inside the ring.
- Use the zoom buttons, the mouse wheel or a two-finger pinch to zoom; drag to pan; press the target button to fit the region again.
- When the round ends, check your points, time and the list of countries to review, then press New quiz.
World Map Quiz features
Two ways to play
Find mode tests whether you can locate a country; Name mode tests whether you recognise its shape and position, with answer options drawn from the same continent so you cannot guess by geography alone.
Fair scoring
Three points for a first-try find, two for a second, one for a third. A tap outside the chosen region, or on a country you already found, never costs a try.
Tiny countries you can actually hit
Countries smaller than a few pixels at world scale, and 29 island and microstates that are too small for the 1:110 million outlines, are marked with tappable rings that stay the same size on screen as you zoom.
Real map interaction
Smooth zoom to each region, wheel and pinch zoom anchored under your cursor or fingers, and drag panning that never registers as a click.
Timer and best scores
A running timer that pauses when you switch tabs, and a saved best score for each mode, region and round length.
Light and fast
One 108 KB map file is fetched once and turned into vector outlines with a Natural Earth projection — no map library and no tracking.
How the map is drawn
The outlines come from Natural Earth’s 1:110 million “Admin 0” countries, a public-domain dataset, packaged as TopoJSON by the world-atlas project (ISC licence). This tool decodes the TopoJSON arcs itself and draws them with the Natural Earth I projection, a compromise projection designed by Tom Patterson, Bojan Šavrič and Bernhard Jenny that keeps the poles flattened and land shapes familiar. Antarctica is left out to give the inhabited continents more room.
Natural Earth draws a few areas separately from the country that the UN recognises as sovereign; here Northern Cyprus counts as part of Cyprus and Somaliland as part of Somalia. Greenland, Western Sahara, Puerto Rico, New Caledonia, the Falkland Islands and the French Southern Lands are drawn in a darker grey but are not asked about. Including or grouping an area is not a political statement — it simply follows the list of 193 UN member states plus Kosovo, Palestine, Taiwan and Vatican City.
Tips for learning the map faster
- Learn a region in small rounds of 10 before attempting every country — Africa has 54 countries and is the hardest to finish without mistakes.
- Anchor on big, easy shapes first (Brazil, India, Egypt, Kazakhstan), then learn their neighbours clockwise.
- Use Name mode to fix shapes and positions in memory, then switch to Find mode to test recall.
- Watch the red feedback: when you click the wrong country, its name tells you what you confused it with — often a neighbour, which is a useful pair to learn together.
- Pair this with the flag quiz, which uses the same list of countries, and look up any country’s capital, currency and calling code in the country information lookup.
World Map Quiz FAQ
How many countries are on this world map quiz?
197: the 193 UN member states plus Kosovo, Palestine, Taiwan and Vatican City. By region there are 54 in Africa, 49 in Asia, 45 in Europe, 23 in North and Central America with the Caribbean, 12 in South America and 14 in Oceania.
How do I click very small countries?
Small countries have a ring drawn around them; tapping anywhere inside the ring counts. You can also zoom in with the buttons, the mouse wheel or a pinch — the rings stay a comfortable size on screen as you zoom.
Why is Russia part of Europe and Turkey part of Asia?
The quiz groups each country into one region, following the same table as the rest of this site: Russia by its capital and most of its population in Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus countries in Asia, and Central America and the Caribbean with North America.
Does a wrong click outside the region count?
No. Clicking a greyed-out country shows its name and does not use a try. Clicking a country you have already found in this round is ignored too.
Can I play on a phone?
Yes. Drag with one finger to pan and pinch with two to zoom. Taps only register when your finger has not moved, so panning never selects a country by accident. A taller 4:3 map is used on narrow screens.
Is the map accurate?
It is a simplified 1:110 million map, ideal for a quiz but not for measuring borders. Very small islands are shown as rings rather than outlines, and shapes are slightly generalised.