Map quizzes / Oceania Map
Oceania is a scatter of 14 countries across the Pacific Ocean. This interactive quiz covers the main landmasses — Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and the larger island nations — and names each one for you to click.
🖨️ Print a blank mapOceania Map Quiz at a Glance
The Oceania 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 7 places to learn, and it runs in any browser with no sign-up.
- Places to find
- 7
- Each round
- 10 questions
- Time limit
- None
- How you answer
- Click the map
- Levels
- Easy, Difficult and So Difficult
- Cost
- Free, no sign-up
Learn the Oceania Map
Oceania splits into a few natural groups:
Australia and New Zealand — the two large, familiar nations that anchor the map. Australia is the giant; New Zealand sits to its southeast.
Melanesia — the islands north and east of Australia: Papua New Guinea (the largest island nation), the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji.
Micronesia and Polynesia — the small, scattered nations of the central and eastern Pacific (Palau, Nauru, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu). Many are too small to render at map scale, so this quiz focuses on the larger landmasses.
Why Oceania Is Different
Oceania is the odd continent out for map quizzes: most of its countries are small islands spread across a huge area of ocean, and the tiniest — Nauru, Tuvalu — barely register at any scale.
That makes the click-map here shorter than the other continents: it covers the landmasses you can reliably see — Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. For the full set of Pacific nations and their capitals, the capitals quiz is the better drill.
Oceania has 14 sovereign countries, but two — Australia and New Zealand — dominate the map. Papua New Guinea is the third-largest, and the rest are small Pacific island nations. The Melanesian cluster north and east of Australia (Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji) is where most of the difficulty lies.
Quiz tip: Beyond Australia and New Zealand, the island nations — Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu — are the hardest to place; the smallest Pacific microstates are too tiny to show at map scale.
Countries
14 sovereign nations
Largest
Australia
Hardest
Pacific island nations
Main landmasses
Australia, NZ, PNG
Note
Microstates too small to map
The 6 Countries on the Oceania Map and Their Capitals
A to Z. Tap a country for its flag, population and facts.
AustraliaCanberra
FijiSuva
New ZealandWellington
Papua New GuineaPort Moresby
Solomon IslandsHoniara
VanuatuPort Vila
Also on the map, but not a UN member: New Caledonia (Nouméa).
Frequently Asked Questions
How many countries are in Oceania?
Oceania has 14 sovereign countries. Most are small Pacific island nations; this map quiz focuses on the larger landmasses that render clearly at scale, such as Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.
What is the largest country in Oceania?
Australia is by far the largest country in Oceania — it is both a country and a continental landmass — followed by Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.
Which Oceania countries are hardest to locate?
The Melanesian island nations — Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji — are the hardest of the ones shown; the tiny Micronesian and Polynesian states are too small to render at map scale.
What is the easiest way to learn the map of Oceania?
Anchor on Australia and New Zealand, then learn the Melanesian cluster (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji) to the north and east. Use the capitals quiz for the smaller Pacific nations.
Is the Oceania map quiz free?
Yes — it runs free in your browser with no download or signup. Sign in with Google to save your score.
Made by Kashif Sulehria in Lahore, Pakistan. Updated .