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Guess the Country
Four answers. One country. See where it takes you.
Four choices · No timer · Free to play
Can you recognise a country by its outline?
Answer to find the country on Earth.
How to play the outline quiz
You see the shape of one country in white and choose its name from four. After your answer the flag appears and the globe turns to the country, so the shape connects to a place on Earth.
- Study the outline. Look at the coast, the straight borders and any islands before reading the names. There is no countdown.
- Choose one answer. Your first selection locks the options and the correct name is shown.
- Find it on the globe. Drag the globe to see which region the country belongs to and what surrounds it.
- Continue when ready. Use Next after an answer, or Skip before answering. A skip changes neither total.
Ways to recognise a shape
- Start with the border type. Long straight lines often mark colonial-era or surveyed borders; ragged ones usually follow rivers or mountains.
- Look for a feature. A peninsula, an enclave, a long coastline or a scatter of islands narrows the field quickly.
- Remember the scale. Every outline is scaled to the same square, so a small country can look as large as a big one.
Which countries are included?
Outlines come from Eurostat GISCO, © EuroGeographics. Countries whose outline is too small to read are not used as questions but can still be wrong answers. Each question has four different names, and the previous country is skipped in the next round.
Keep discovering: try Guess the Flag or Guess the Capital, browse the list of countries, or visit the geography quiz hub.
Questions before you play
How many countries are in the outline quiz?
The quiz asks about countries and territories from Hookito’s list that have a clear outline. The very smallest, such as Monaco, Vatican City and Nauru, are left out as questions because their outlines would look like a dot. They can still appear as answer choices.
Where do the outlines come from?
They are drawn from Eurostat GISCO country boundaries at 1:10 million scale, © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries. Each is simplified and scaled to fit the same square, so the sizes you see are not comparable between countries.
Why does a country look different from the map I know?
Outlines are shown on their own, scaled to fill the square, without a projection grid or neighbours. A country that looks narrow or wide here can be quite different from how it appears on a globe. Overseas parts and islands are drawn as they are in the source data.
Is the outline quiz free, and is my score saved?
It is free with no account or download. Your correct and answered totals last for the current visit and reset when you reload or leave the page.
