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Geography quizzes: countries, capitals, flags, US states

Every ready-made set in Geowl: 56 quizzes over the map, capitals, flags, outlines, population and area, the regions of Poland, Germany and the USA, and sweeps where you name every country of a continent. Each one is playable in the app; this page says what it asks and how you answer.

Countries on the map

Find a country by its name, or name the one shown. The blind map at the hard tier has no borders and no labels.

  • First steps

    ten countries everybody knows

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Find the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Europe to start with

    the continent's biggest states

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Africa to start with

    from Egypt to South Africa

    Scope
    Africa
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Warm-up

    map, names and flags, unhurried

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country · Country from its flag
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • States of Asia

    find it on the map or name it

    Scope
    Asia
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Outlines of the world

    a country cut out of the map – both ways

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Country from its outline · Outline of the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Roughly

    population and area on a slider – close enough counts

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    How many people · How large
    Answer
    Slider
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Around the world

    point at every country on the map

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Find the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • States of Europe

    find it on the map or name it

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • States of Africa

    find it on the map or name it

    Scope
    Africa
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • The Americas

    from Canada to Chile

    Scope
    North & Central America, South America
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • The world with territories

    territories and microstates too

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Blind map

    no borders, no names, no mercy

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Find the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Hard

Capitals

Capital from the country, country from the capital, and the capital found on the map – Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and the whole world.

  • Capitals to start with

    the capitals you have heard of

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Name the capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Capitals of the Americas

    capital and country, both ways

    Scope
    North & Central America, South America
    Questions
    Name the capital · Country from its capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Capitals of the world

    capital and country, both ways

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Name the capital · Country from its capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Capitals of Europe

    name the capital, find its country

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    Name the capital · Find it by its capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Capitals of Asia

    capital and country, both ways

    Scope
    Asia
    Questions
    Name the capital · Country from its capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Capitals of Africa

    capital and country, both ways

    Scope
    Africa
    Questions
    Name the capital · Country from its capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Capitals, no help

    both ways, and never corrected

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Name the capital · Country from its capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Hard

Flags

Country from its flag, and the flag picked for a country shown on the map.

  • Flags to start with

    the best-known flags in the world

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Country from its flag
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Flags of Africa

    fifty-odd states, one palette

    Scope
    Africa
    Questions
    Country from its flag
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Flags of the world

    whose flag is this?

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Country from its flag
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Flags, no help

    flags only, and little time

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Country from its flag
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Hard

Outlines

A country cut out of the map, with nothing around it.

  • Outlines of Europe

    small, irregular, no sea to help

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    Country from its outline
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Easy

Population and area

Which of two is bigger, an estimate on a slider, and ten countries put in order.

  • Which is bigger?

    people and area – two tiles

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    More people · Larger area
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Europe ranking

    ten countries, no clock – population or area

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    Rank by population · Rank by area
    Answer
    Ordering
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Population of the world

    which country has more people

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    More people
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Area of the world

    which country is larger

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Larger area
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • World ranking

    ten countries, largest first

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Rank by population · Rank by area
    Answer
    Ordering
    Difficulty
    Medium

Written and from letters

The name typed on the keyboard or assembled from a tray of letters, with no tiles to choose from.

  • Europe from memory

    you write the name; typos forgiven

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    Name the country
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Europe from letters

    you assemble the name from a tray

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    Name the country
    Answer
    Letters
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Capitals from letters

    you assemble the capital from a tray

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    Name the capital
    Answer
    Letters
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Capitals from memory

    the country is given, you write its capital

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Name the capital
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Dictation

    written, and spelled to the letter

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Name the country · Capital from the map
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Hard

Exams

Every kind of question in one round.

  • The matrix

    every question type, once each

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Find the country · Find it by its capital · Name the country · Country from its capital · Country from its flag · Flag from the map · Name the capital · Capital from the map · Country from its outline · Outline of the country · More people · Larger area · How many people · How large · Rank by population · Rank by area
    Answer
    Mixed · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • All of Europe

    every kind of question at once

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    Find the country · Find it by its capital · Name the country · Country from its capital · Country from its flag · Flag from the map · Name the capital · Capital from the map
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • The great exam

    every kind of question at once

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Find the country · Find it by its capital · Name the country · Country from its capital · Country from its flag · Flag from the map · Name the capital · Capital from the map
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • The legend's exam

    everything at once, on a blank map

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    Find the country · Find it by its capital · Name the country · Country from its capital · Country from its flag · Flag from the map · Name the capital · Capital from the map
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Hard

Regions of a country

The 16 voivodeships of Poland, the 16 German Länder and the 50 US states with their capitals – found, named and typed.

  • Regions of Poland

    sixteen voivodeships – find and name them

    Scope
    Poland
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • German states

    sixteen Länder and their capitals

    Scope
    Germany
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country · Name the capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Voivodeship capitals

    Katowice, Rzeszów, Olsztyn – which is where

    Scope
    Poland
    Questions
    Name the capital · Capital from the map · Country from its capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • US states

    fifty states on the map

    Scope
    USA
    Questions
    Find the country · Name the country
    Answer
    Answer tiles · location on the map
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • State capitals

    Sacramento, not Los Angeles

    Scope
    USA
    Questions
    Name the capital · Capital from the map · Country from its capital
    Answer
    Answer tiles
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Voivodeships – typed

    name and capital from memory, no hints

    Scope
    Poland
    Questions
    Name the country · Capital from the map
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Hard

Name them all

No questions: a whole continent to exhaust. Write every country of Europe, place every state on a blank map, add a capital to every labelled country.

  • Countries of Europe

    name as many as you can – every hit lands on the map

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    every country, written from memory
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Capitals of Africa

    the countries are labelled – fill in their capitals

    Scope
    Africa
    Questions
    every capital, written under a labelled country
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Europe from the bag

    take a name, point at the country, no clock

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    every country, placed on a blank map
    Answer
    Point at the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Africa from the bag

    take a name, then point at the country

    Scope
    Africa
    Questions
    every country, placed on a blank map
    Answer
    Point at the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Countries of the world

    the whole list, no clock – one name at a time

    Scope
    Whole world
    Questions
    every country, written from memory
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Name the voivodeships

    all sixteen – each hit lands on the map

    Scope
    Poland
    Questions
    every country, written from memory
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Place the voivodeships

    sixteen names, a blank map of Poland

    Scope
    Poland
    Questions
    every country, placed on a blank map
    Answer
    Point at the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Place the states

    fifty names, a blank map

    Scope
    USA
    Questions
    every country, placed on a blank map
    Answer
    Point at the map
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • State capitals – name them

    the map names the states, you give the capitals

    Scope
    USA
    Questions
    every capital, written under a labelled country
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Easy

  • Capitals onto the map

    Ljubljana goes on Slovenia – two facts per chip

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    every capital, placed on the map
    Answer
    Point at the map
    Difficulty
    Medium

  • Capitals of Europe from memory

    nothing is labelled, and the spelling has to be exact

    Scope
    Europe
    Questions
    every capital, written under a labelled country
    Answer
    Type it
    Difficulty
    Hard

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