Geography Quiz
Misleading capitals, continents and maps that distort the world. Twelve questions to travel beyond automatic associations.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
A capital can surprise us more than a famous city, a desert can be white, and a map can enlarge what it describes. Twelve stops: choose your route, then discover the detail that changes your perspective.
Tap to make each choice. Your result is free.
An original geography quiz. The score concerns this selection of twelve questions, not a general assessment of your knowledge or abilities.
The world behind the story
National Capital Authority — Canberra’s beginnings ↗Go Türkiye — Istanbul’s Bosphorus ↗Visit Greenland — Greenland’s geography ↗South African Government — Lesotho and borders ↗Suez Canal Authority — the Suez Canal ↗USGS — plates and the Andes ↗Australian Antarctic Program — Antarctic geography ↗National Park Service — the Bering Strait ↗NOAA — latitude ↗NOAA — longitude ↗USGS — reading map projections ↗How this quiz works
12 choices or questions, taking about 5 minutes to read and answer. Reading your result takes additional time, at your own pace.
At the end, you get your score and an explanation for every answer. The time is an estimate: there is no countdown.
Your answers stay in the page’s memory. Read how the results are created.