Map quizzes / Africa Map
Africa has 54 countries, more than any other continent. This free Africa map quiz names a country and you click it on the map, 10 a round, or all of them in the Whole map round. Below the game are all 54 countries with their capitals, the ones people find hardest, and how to learn the continent region by region.
Learn it by region: North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa, each with a labelled map and its own quiz.
🖨️ Print a blank mapAfrica Map Quiz at a Glance
The Africa Map Quiz is a free map game from DodoThinks. A place is named and you click it on the map, 10 questions a round, across three difficulty levels. There are 55 places to learn, and it runs in any browser with no sign-up.
- Places to find
- 55
- Each round
- 10 questions
- Time limit
- None
- How you answer
- Click the map; drag the names or flags onto it; or play No borders, with no lines between countries and points by how close you click
- Levels
- Easy, Difficult and So Difficult
- Cost
- Free, no sign-up
Learn the Africa Map by Region
The fastest way to master the map of Africa is to split it into five regions:
North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt along the Mediterranean, plus Sudan.
West Africa: the coastal cluster from Senegal, Mali and Guinea across to Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. This is the hardest region to learn.
Central Africa: Cameroon, Chad, the Central African Republic and the two Congos around the continent's core.
East Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the Horn (Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti).
Southern Africa: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and their neighbours.
The Countries Hardest to Find
Most misses on the Africa map come from a few places:
The West African coast: Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo and Benin sit side by side, and Togo and Benin are thin strips.
The Gambia: a narrow river valley almost surrounded by Senegal.
Eswatini and Lesotho: two small kingdoms inside and beside South Africa. Lesotho is completely surrounded by it.
Djibouti and Equatorial Guinea: small coastal states easily lost next to Ethiopia and Cameroon.
The island nations: Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles are dots at sea. The circles on the map mark them.
Anchors and Common Mistakes
Use the big, recognisable countries as anchors and work outward. Egypt (top right), Nigeria (the West African giant), Ethiopia (the Horn) and South Africa (the tip) are easy to place and help you find their smaller neighbours.
The most common mistakes are swapping the small West African coastal states, confusing the two Congos (the Republic of the Congo and the much larger Democratic Republic of the Congo), and mixing up the landlocked Sahel countries: Mali, Niger and Chad.
Africa has 54 countries, the most of any continent. The easiest to place are the large ones (Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and South Africa), while the hardest are the tightly packed states of West Africa, the tiny kingdoms of Eswatini and Lesotho, and the island nations. Algeria is the largest country, Seychelles the smallest, and South Sudan, independent since 2011, the newest.
Quiz tip: West Africa is the trickiest part: a dozen countries from Senegal to Nigeria pack tightly along the coast and are easy to mix up.
Countries
54 sovereign nations
Largest
Algeria
Smallest
Seychelles
Newest
South Sudan (2011)
Trickiest region
West Africa
Easy anchors
Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa
The 54 Countries on the Africa Map and Their Capitals
A to Z. Tap a country for its flag, population and facts.
AlgeriaAlgiers
AngolaLuanda
BeninPorto-Novo
BotswanaGaborone
Burkina FasoOuagadougou
BurundiGitega
CameroonYaoundé
Cape VerdePraia
Central African RepublicBangui
ChadN'Djamena
ComorosMoroni
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)Yamoussoukro
DjiboutiDjibouti
DR CongoKinshasa
EgyptCairo
Equatorial GuineaMalabo
EritreaAsmara
Eswatini (Swaziland)Lobamba
EthiopiaAddis Ababa
GabonLibreville
GambiaBanjul
GhanaAccra
GuineaConakry
Guinea-BissauBissau
KenyaNairobi
LesothoMaseru
LiberiaMonrovia
LibyaTripoli
MadagascarAntananarivo
MalawiLilongwe
MaliBamako
MauritaniaNouakchott
MauritiusPort Louis
MoroccoRabat
MozambiqueMaputo
NamibiaWindhoek
NigerNiamey
NigeriaAbuja
Republic of the CongoBrazzaville
RwandaKigali
São Tomé and PríncipeSão Tomé
SenegalDakar
SeychellesVictoria
Sierra LeoneFreetown
SomaliaMogadishu
South AfricaPretoria
South SudanJuba
SudanKhartoum
TanzaniaDodoma
TogoLomé
TunisiaTunis
UgandaKampala
ZambiaLusaka
ZimbabweHarare
Also on the map, but not a UN member: Western Sahara (El Aaiún).
Frequently Asked Questions
How many countries are in Africa?
There are 54 countries in Africa recognised by the United Nations, more than any other continent. All 54 are in this quiz. Western Sahara, a disputed territory, is also on the map.
What is the largest country in Africa?
Algeria is the largest country in Africa by area, followed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Libya and Chad. Nigeria has the most people.
What is the smallest country in Africa?
Seychelles, an island nation in the Indian Ocean of about 460 square kilometres. On the mainland the smallest is The Gambia.
What is the newest country in Africa?
South Sudan, which became independent from Sudan in July 2011. It is also the newest country in the world.
Which African countries are hardest to locate?
The small West African coastal states (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo and Benin), The Gambia, the tiny kingdoms of Eswatini and Lesotho, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and the island nations such as Comoros, Mauritius and São Tomé and Príncipe.
What is the easiest way to learn the map of Africa?
Split the continent into five regions (North, West, Central, East and Southern Africa), anchor on the big countries (Egypt, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa), then fill in their neighbours one region at a time.
Is the Africa map quiz free?
Yes. It runs free in your browser with no download and no sign up. Sign in with Google only if you want to save your score.
Made by Kashif Sulehria in Lahore, Pakistan. Updated .