Map quizzes / World Map
Can you find every country on a blank world map? This interactive quiz names a country and asks you to click it: a quick test of world geography, followed by tips for learning the whole map region by region.
🖨️ Print a blank mapWorld Map Quiz at a Glance
The World Map Quiz is a free DodoThinks game: a country is named and you click it on a blank map of the world. A round is 10 countries, across three difficulty levels from famous countries to rare ones. It runs in any browser, on a phone or a computer, with no sign-up.
- Places to find
- 202
- 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
How to Learn the World Map
Trying to memorise 195 countries in one go is overwhelming. The trick is to break the world into continents and learn one at a time: start with the region you know best, lock in its coastline and biggest countries, then fill in the interior by working outward from the borders you already know.
Coastlines and large neighbours are your anchors. Once you can place Brazil, you can find its ten neighbours by elimination; once you know the outline of Africa, the interior countries slot into place. Active recall, clicking the country from memory, cements the map far faster than staring at an atlas.
The Countries People Struggle to Place
A few regions cause most of the mistakes on a world map quiz:
West Africa: a dense cluster of countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin) that look similar in size and position.
The Balkans: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Albania are packed into southeastern Europe.
The Persian Gulf: Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the UAE are small and easy to confuse.
The Pacific and Caribbean: small island nations are the single hardest category to pinpoint.
There are 195 countries in the world. On a blank world map, the easiest to place are the large, familiar ones (the United States, Russia, China, Brazil, Australia), while the hardest are the small nations clustered in West Africa, the Balkans, the Gulf, and the Pacific. Learning the map region by region, using coastlines and continents as anchors, is far faster than memorising 195 countries at once.
Quiz tip: The hardest countries to locate are the small island nations and the cluster of states in West Africa, the Balkans, and the Persian Gulf, where many countries pack into a small area.
Countries in the world
195
Largest
Russia
Densest clusters
W. Africa, Balkans, Gulf
Best method
Learn by continent
Anchors
Coastlines & borders
Countries on the World Map
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), DR Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City (Holy See), Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many countries are there in the world?
There are 195 widely recognised sovereign countries: the 193 UN member states plus Vatican City and Palestine. Some map quizzes show fewer because very small island nations are hard to render at world scale.
What is the easiest way to learn the world map?
Learn it one continent at a time, anchor on coastlines and the largest countries, and use active recall: click each country on a blank map from memory rather than rereading an atlas.
Which countries are hardest to find on a world map?
The small, densely clustered countries: West Africa, the Balkans in southeastern Europe, the small Persian Gulf states, and the island nations of the Pacific and Caribbean.
What is the largest country in the world?
Russia is the largest country by land area, spanning eleven time zones across Europe and Asia. Canada, the United States, China, and Brazil round out the top five.
Is the world map quiz free?
Yes. It runs free in your browser with no download and no sign-up. Sign in with Google to save your score.
Made by Kashif Sulehria in Lahore, Pakistan. Updated .