Are the small countries included?

Yes — the tiny ones get a circle you can click, and you can zoom in for them.

A name appears above the map: click or tap that place. Right answers turn green; after three misses the answer is shown. Skipped places come back at the end, and the ones you missed can be practised again.

Why does the quiz ask 56 places and not 54?

Western Sahara and St. Helena are on the map as places of their own, so the find quiz asks them too: the 54 countries plus those two. The capitals quizzes leave them out, as they have no capital to ask.

Which capitals does the Africa quiz use?

The capitals schools teach, some of them not the largest city: Yamoussoukro for Côte d’Ivoire, Abuja for Nigeria, Dodoma for Tanzania, Porto-Novo for Benin, Rabat for Morocco, Pretoria for South Africa.

Do I need an account?

No. The quiz runs in your browser with nothing to sign up for, and your scores are not stored anywhere.

Africa map quiz

Every country of Africa, one click at a time.

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Example

Africa map quiz: 56 places to find, and the look-alikes that cost points

The counter starts at “56 left”: the 54 countries plus Western Sahara and St. Helena, each asked once in random order. Click the place named above the map: right turns it green, a wrong click flashes the country you hit in red with its name, and the third miss shows the answer. The score counts only places found at the first try.

Congo-Kinshasa is the large one; Congo-Brazzaville is the smaller country west of it, across the Congo River.
Guinea and Guinea-Bissau are neighbours on the west coast; Equatorial Guinea is far away, between Cameroon and Gabon.
Niger is the large country north of Nigeria; Sudan lies north of South Sudan; Gambia is the narrow strip inside Senegal.
Mauritius, the Seychelles, the Comoros, Cape Verde and São Tomé & Príncipe are islands off the coast: zoom in or use their circles.

Quiz	Questions	Left out
Find the place (the default)	56	Nothing; places too small to tap get a circle
Find it from its capital	48	Djibouti, Tunisia, the two Congos, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé & Príncipe (the capital gives the name away), Western Sahara and St. Helena
Choose the capital	54	Western Sahara and St. Helena, which have no capital in the quiz

Every place not found at the first try is listed at the end with your score out of 56 and your time; “Practise the ones I missed” replays only those, in a new order, until the end shows “Perfect — no mistakes!”.

How it works

Choose whether to find the countries or find them from their capitals.
Click or tap each place as its name appears; zoom in for the small ones.
At the end, see your time and score, then practise only the ones you missed.

Frequently asked questions

Are the small countries included?: Yes — the tiny ones get a circle you can click, and you can zoom in for them.
How does it work?: A name appears above the map: click or tap that place. Right answers turn green; after three misses the answer is shown. Skipped places come back at the end, and the ones you missed can be practised again.
Why does the quiz ask 56 places and not 54?: Western Sahara and St. Helena are on the map as places of their own, so the find quiz asks them too: the 54 countries plus those two. The capitals quizzes leave them out, as they have no capital to ask.
Which capitals does the Africa quiz use?: The capitals schools teach, some of them not the largest city: Yamoussoukro for Côte d’Ivoire, Abuja for Nigeria, Dodoma for Tanzania, Porto-Novo for Benin, Rabat for Morocco, Pretoria for South Africa.
Do I need an account?: No. The quiz runs in your browser with nothing to sign up for, and your scores are not stored anywhere.