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Rivers and lakes of Italy quiz

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Data: Natural Earth About

Name 42 of Italy's main rivers and 17 of its lakes on a blank map, from the Po, the Adige and the Tevere to Lago di Garda, Lago Maggiore and Lago Trasimeno. Rivers are drawn in full, including the stretches in Switzerland and Slovenia.

Lakes can be named with or without Lago di, and English names such as Tiber or Lake Como are accepted. For the provinces, try the Italian provinces quiz.

The 42 rivers in this quiz

Adda

Adige

Aniene

Arno

Aterno-Pescara

Basento

Belice

Bradano

Brenta

Crati

Dora Baltea

Dora Riparia

Flumendosa

Isonzo

Lambro

Liri-Garigliano

Metauro

Mincio

Nera

Neto

Ofanto

Oglio

Ombrone

Panaro

Piave

Reno

Salso

Sangro

Secchia

Sele

Serchio

Sesia

Simeto

Tagliamento

Tanaro

Tevere

Ticino

Tirso

Trebbia

Tronto

Volturno

The 17 lakes in this quiz

Lago Maggiore

Lago Omodeo

Lago Trasimeno

Lago d'Idro

Lago d'Iseo

Lago d'Orta

Lago di Bolsena

Lago di Bracciano

Lago di Caldonazzo

Lago di Como

Lago di Garda

Lago di Lesina

Lago di Lugano

Lago di Resia

Lago di Varano

Lago di Varese

Lago di Vico

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.