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Africa map quiz

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Africa map quiz

Name all 55 countries of Africa on a blank map: the 54 sovereign states and Western Sahara. Island countries such as Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Comoros, Mauritius and the Seychelles get a circle so they are easy to find.

Both current and older names are accepted: Ivory Coast or Côte d'Ivoire, Eswatini or Swaziland, DR Congo or Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The 55 countries in this quiz

Algeria

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

DR Congo

Djibouti

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Ivory Coast

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Republic of the Congo

Rwanda

Senegal

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

South Sudan

Sudan

São Tomé and Príncipe

Tanzania

Togo

Tunisia

Uganda

Western Sahara

Zambia

Zimbabwe

How to play

Type names: select a place on the map and type its name. You can go back to change or remove any name. Small spelling mistakes are forgiven, and common alternative names are accepted.

Find on map: you get the names one at a time, in random order, and select where each one is. Select a place you already named to take its name back: it goes to the end of the list.

Nothing is marked right or wrong until you select Check answers. Then right answers turn blue, wrong ones red and unnamed ones amber. Fix mistakes clears the wrong names so you can try again. Your progress on each map is saved in this browser. Zoom with the buttons, the mouse wheel or two fingers.

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Data and licences

Country borders, US states and the land around Italy: Natural Earth (1:50m, public domain).

Italian provinces and regions: Istat, Confini delle unità amministrative a fini statistici (1 January 2026), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Converted to longitude and latitude, simplified and rounded for this game.

Rivers and lakes of Italy: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. The simplified shapes used here, italy-rivers-lakes.json, are available under the same licence.

Borders follow internationally recognised boundaries: territory annexed without recognition by the United Nations is shown as part of the country it was taken from, so Crimea belongs to Ukraine and the Golan Heights to Syria. Elsewhere, where no border has been agreed (as in Kashmir), the map follows Natural Earth's lines of actual control. Topoguesser is an independent project by Francesco Ballerin, not affiliated with any of these sources.