Africa Map Quiz
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Find every country of Africa on a blank map, from Algeria to Zimbabwe. Play all 54 or one region at a time. Free, no sign-up.
How many countries are in Africa?
Africa has 54 countries that are members of the United Nations, and this quiz asks all of them. Lists that also count Western Sahara, a disputed territory, give 55. Western Sahara is drawn hatched on the map and is not asked.
- 54UN member states
- 5UN regions
- Algerialargest by area
- Seychellessmallest; Gambia on the mainland
The countries of Africa by region
The quiz follows the five regions of the UN geoscheme. Each region can be played on its own from the region menu, and after a full round the result names the region you missed most.
Northern Africa6
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia
Western Africa16
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Middle Africa9
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, São Tomé and Príncipe
Eastern Africa18
Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Southern Africa5
Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa
Hardest African countries to find
Most misses are the smallest countries. Zoom in, or tap close to one of them; the quiz takes the nearest small country.
- Small on the mainlandGambia, Guinea-Bissau, Eswatini, Lesotho, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti
- Islands at seaSão Tomé and Príncipe, Comoros, Seychelles, Mauritius, Cabo Verde
Names people mix up
- Niger · Nigeria
- Niger is the large Sahel country directly north of Nigeria.
- Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Equatorial Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau sits on Guinea's northwest coast; Equatorial Guinea is far away in Middle Africa, beside Cameroon and Gabon.
- Sudan · South Sudan
- South Sudan is the landlocked country directly south of Sudan.
- Republic of the Congo · DR Congo
- The Republic of the Congo is the smaller one to the west, across the Congo River from DR Congo.
How to learn the map of Africa
- Start with the anchors: Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa. Then add their neighbours.
- Play one region at a time from the region menu. The map zooms to that region and greys out the rest.
- Replay only your misses with Practice the ones you missed until a round is clean.
- Hide the borders for a harder round. You then place each country from the coastline and the countries you have already found.
Other names you may know
The quiz uses the names the United Nations lists in English, with two short forms, DR Congo for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo for its western neighbour. Côte d'Ivoire is also called Ivory Coast, Cabo Verde Cape Verde and Eswatini Swaziland.
Questions
Does the quiz work on a phone?
Yes. Tap a country to answer. Use two fingers, or the + and − buttons, to zoom and move the map; one finger scrolls the page. In full screen the map takes every gesture.
Why is Western Sahara not asked?
It is a disputed territory, not a UN member state. It is drawn hatched so the map has no gap, and clicking it does not count as an answer.
Is Somaliland in the quiz?
Not on its own. Somaliland is not a UN member state, so it is drawn as part of Somalia, and a click there counts as Somalia.
Where does the map come from?
The borders come from Natural Earth at 1:50m scale, a public-domain dataset, simplified so the map loads fast. Very small coastal details are smoothed out.
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