Country shapes quiz

How to play the country shapes quiz

Each question shows the outline of a country as a solid shape. Choose the country it belongs to from four options by tapping a choice or pressing 1 to 4. The right answer lights up green at once, and Enter takes you to the next shape. Every outline is enlarged to fill the frame, so a small country looks as big as a large one: judge the shape, not the size.

1. Choose Practice or Daily challenge. The daily gives everyone the same 10 shapes today.
2. Pick a region to practice one continent, and a round length.
3. Look for clues: long coastlines, islands, lakes cut into the land, and straight borders drawn along lines of latitude.

Wrong options come from the same part of the world, so you have to know the actual shape. Some countries are famous for their outlines, like Italy's boot or Chile's long ribbon. Others, like many in Central Africa, take practice.

Which countries are left out?

A silhouette only works when the shape is clear. Very small countries and countries made of many tiny islands turn into a dot or a scatter of specks at this size, so they are not in this quiz. That includes Vatican City, Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Malta, Singapore, Bahrain, the Maldives, and most small island nations in the Caribbean, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Faraway overseas regions are also trimmed, so France appears as mainland France and Corsica, and the United States as the lower 48 states.

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