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World map quiz for kids: find the country

In the game you find each country on a blank map, big ones first, then the small ones, and you can pick one continent at a time. This world map quiz for kids is played in the browser. The questions below are for reading out.

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An outline map of the world with every country drawn and none of them named
The game is played on a map like this one, in your browser. You tap the country you are asked to find.
23 questions in 2 groups, every one with its answer. Questions last changed: .

Which continent is it in?

  1. Which continent is Tanzania in?

    Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in Tanzania.

  2. Which continent is Morocco in?

    Africa. At the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco and mainland Spain are only about 14 km apart.

  3. Which continent is Laos in?

    Asia. Laos is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia.

  4. Which continent is Iceland in?

    Europe. Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where two of Earth's plates are slowly pulling apart.

  5. Which continent is Honduras in?

    North America. Honduras has coasts on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

  6. Which continent is Bolivia in?

    South America. Bolivia is one of only two landlocked countries in South America.

  7. Which continent is Venezuela in?

    South America. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world.

  8. Which continent is New Zealand in?

    Oceania. New Zealand has no native land snakes at all.

  9. Which continent is the Republic of the Congo in?

    Africa. The Republic of the Congo and DR Congo face each other across the Congo River.

  10. Which continent is Oman in?

    Asia. Part of Oman, the Musandam Peninsula, is cut off from the rest of the country.

  11. Which continent is Belarus in?

    Europe. Belarus is landlocked, with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia all around it.

  12. Which continent is Jordan in?

    Asia. Jordan has a tiny coastline on the Red Sea, at the port of Aqaba.

  13. Which continent is North Macedonia in?

    Europe. North Macedonia is landlocked, with Lake Ohrid on its border with Albania.

  14. Which continent is the Dominican Republic in?

    North America. The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.

  15. Which continent is Vanuatu in?

    Oceania. Vanuatu is a Y-shaped chain of more than 80 islands.

North to south, west to east

  1. Put these countries in order from north to south. Start with the one furthest north: South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland.

    Sweden → Switzerland → South Korea. Sweden takes up the eastern side of the Scandinavian Peninsula, with Norway to the west.

  2. Put these countries in order from west to east. Start with the one furthest west: India, Kenya, Poland.

    Poland → Kenya → India. Poland stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Carpathian Mountains in the south.

  3. Put these countries in order from west to east. Start with the one furthest west: Botswana, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria.

    Liberia → Nigeria → Botswana → Ethiopia. Botswana's Okavango Delta is a river delta that never reaches the sea.

  4. Put these countries in order from west to east. Start with the one furthest west: Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Togo.

    Sierra Leone → Togo → Namibia → Mozambique. Sierra Leone's name comes from the Portuguese for lion mountains.

  5. Put these countries in order from west to east. Start with the one furthest west: Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Ireland.

    Ireland → Belgium → Czechia → Estonia. The island of Ireland is shared by two countries: Ireland and the UK.

  6. Put these countries in order from west to east. Start with the one furthest west: Iraq, Mongolia, North Korea, Turkmenistan.

    Iraq → Turkmenistan → Mongolia → North Korea. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers both flow through Iraq.

  7. Put these countries in order from west to east. Start with the one furthest west: Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, Sudan.

    Senegal → Ghana → Cameroon → Sudan. The Blue Nile and the White Nile meet in Sudan, at the city of Khartoum.

  8. Put these countries in order from north to south. Start with the one furthest north: Finland, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania.

    Finland → Lithuania → Hungary → Greece. In the far north of Finland, inside the Arctic Circle, the summer sun does not set for weeks on end.

How to use these questions

These written questions are a warm-up for the real thing. Read them out with an atlas or a globe to hand, then press Play to find the same countries on the map. To see every answer at once, switch on Show all answers at the top of the list. The page also prints on A4 paper from your browser's own Print command: the questions come first and the answers follow on a separate sheet.

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