Find on map · Whole world
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Find this country
Sweden
Click the map, or pick from the list.
Countries found, by region0 of 97
Americas
0/18
Europe
0/32
Africa
0/19
Asia
0/24
Oceania
0/6
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A world map quiz over 97 countries that builds a map instead of a score. Locate them by clicking the real Natural Earth outlines, match capitals, recognise flags — filtered to one continent when you want to work on a gap — and watch the countries you have found stay filled in on the map across sessions. Countries you have never located are dealt first, so a session is not a reshuffle of the ten you already know.
Step by step
01Choose what you are recalling
Find-on-map asks for a location, capitals ask for a name-to-city link, flags ask for recognition. They are three different memories of the same country, which is why switching modes is more useful than repeating one.
02Narrow to a region
The whole world is the default, but a session can be limited to the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, or Oceania. A filtered session also draws its wrong answers from that region, so you are separating neighbours rather than continents.
03Answer on the map or from the list
In find-on-map mode, click the country directly — every country in the current pool is a real target with a keyboard focus state. If the shape is too small to hit, the dropdown beside the map takes the same answer.
04Read the fact before moving on
Each answer reveals the capital, the region, and one geographic anchor: Italy's peninsula, Kenya on the equator, Japan east of the Korean Peninsula. Those anchors are what make the next retrieval easier.
Why this one
The map remembers what you found
Countries you have correctly located in any past session stay shaded on the map. Progress is a filling-in map rather than a number, and the gaps are visible at a glance — which is exactly the thing a score cannot show you.
Region filters, with honest distractors
Filtering to Europe would be pointless if the wrong answers still came from Asia. The choice builder draws from the same pool as the question, so a European session is genuinely harder than a world one.
Real boundaries, not a simplified cartoon
The map is the Natural Earth 4.1.0 dataset at 1:110m scale, projected with Natural Earth I. You are learning the shapes and relative positions that appear on real maps.
A per-region ledger
Under the map, each continent shows how many of its countries you have found out of how many are stocked. That is where you notice you know Europe and have never once placed anything in Africa.
Sessions are reproducible
Countries are drawn from a seed in the URL, so a shared link is the same quiz and the repeat button re-runs the same countries. Two people can compare, and a second attempt measures learning rather than luck of the draw.
Keyboard reachable
Every playable country is focusable and answers to Enter or Space, so the quiz does not require pointing accurately at Luxembourg-sized targets.
FAQ
Work outward from anchors instead of memorising a list. Start with countries you already place confidently, then attach their neighbours one at a time — Italy points into the Mediterranean, Poland faces the Baltic, Kenya sits on the equator. Use one region at a time until it feels solid, then run a whole-world session to check the connections held.
Country boundaries come from Natural Earth 4.1.0 at 1:110 million scale, distributed through the World Atlas dataset, drawn in the Natural Earth I projection. Boundaries are rendered from the source geometry rather than a hand-drawn approximation.
Yes. The region control limits both the questions and the wrong answers to the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, or Oceania. Europe stocks the most at 32; Oceania is the smallest at six, so a session there caps at six rather than pretending to have more.
Every find-on-map question also has a dropdown containing every country in the current pool, and each map country is keyboard focusable. Neither path is treated as easier — the answer is graded the same way.
In this browser only. Session totals, your best set, and the list of countries you have located live in localStorage on this device. Nothing syncs, nothing uploads, and clearing site data resets the map to empty.
Free-text recall of spellings like Brasília or Reykjavík tests transliteration more than geography. Four options drawn from the same region keep the difficulty in the association being tested rather than in the keyboard.
The quiz and the map run entirely in your browser. Answers are never transmitted, found countries stay in localStorage on this device, and the share link carries only the mode, region, length, and seed.