Guess the Country by Its Shape
See a country's outline, pick its name from four choices. Ten questions a round from 158 country silhouettes, the whole world or one continent at a time, with the capital and land borders shown after each answer.
10 questions from 158 countries, four choices each. A new mix every round.
How the shape quiz works
Each question shows one country's silhouette: its main landmass plus nearby large islands, drawn to its true proportions (the map is corrected for latitude, so Norway isn't stretched and Indonesia isn't squashed). Pick the country from the four names. The wrong choices come from the same continent wherever possible, so you are telling Peru from Bolivia, not Peru from Japan.
After every answer you see the right country's capital and every country it shares a land border with. Those borders are the fastest way to fix a shape in memory: once you know that the small wedge between Austria and Croatia is Slovenia, you will recognise it next time.
How to get better at country shapes
Learn the outlines in neighbourhoods rather than one by one. Pick a continent, play rounds until you can name the big countries without thinking, then come back for the small ones. Coasts are the strongest clue (peninsulas, gulfs and island chains are unique), while landlocked countries with straight borders, like those across the Sahara and Central Asia, are the hardest.
Very small countries (Singapore, the Pacific atolls, the European microstates) aren't in the shape quiz: their outlines are too small to recognise. They are all in the flag quiz.
Questions people ask
How many countries are in the shape quiz?
158 of the 195 countries. The other 37 are too small to recognise from an outline (microstates, small island nations and atolls), so they appear only in the flag and borders quizzes.
Are the shapes to scale with each other?
No. Each outline is scaled to fill the frame, so Russia and Rwanda appear the same size. Their proportions are true: each shape is corrected for latitude so it isn't stretched.
Where do the outlines come from?
Natural Earth's public-domain country boundaries, simplified for the screen. The same silhouettes are used in Funzzle Word's Geo mode.
Is there a daily version?
Yes: Funzzle Word · Geo gives everyone the same country each day. You get six guesses, and each wrong guess tells you how far away and in which direction the answer is.