Photo location game · Americas
Brazil landmarks quiz: guess where 12 photos were taken
Every place in Brazil that is in the game, 12 in all, with a photo, a short fact and its spot on the map. The round at the top uses five of them.
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Five photos from Brazil. Tap the map where you think each one was taken.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
12 on the mapAll 12 places
The Art Deco statue atop Corcovado mountain overlooking Rio.
Photo: Donatas Dabravolskas / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A colourful colonial old town of Baroque churches in Bahia.
Photo: Paul R. Burley / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
White sand dunes cradling turquoise rain lagoons.
Photo: Paulo Cattelan / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rio's famous 4-km beach with its black-and-white wave-pattern promenade.
Photo: Donatas Dabravolskas / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 396-metre granite dome at the mouth of Guanabara Bay, reached by cable car.
Photo: Ccarelo / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
São Paulo's great city park, with pavilions designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
Photo: Wilfredor / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sandstone cliffs with the largest concentration of prehistoric rock art in the Americas.
Photo: Paulo César Pamplona Barreto de Sousa / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of the largest forest reserves in South America, on a blackwater river of the Amazon.
Photo: Dalia McGill / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Venice of Brazil', a city of rivers and bridges with a famous beach at Boa Viagem.
Photo: Portal da Copa/ME / CC BY 3.0 br, via Wikimedia Commons
A plateau of quartz canyons and waterfalls in the heart of Brazil's cerrado.
Photo: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil / CC BY 3.0 br, via Wikimedia Commons
A museum suspended on four red pillars over an open plaza on Avenida Paulista.
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A colonial port of whitewashed houses and cobbled streets that flood at high tide.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Jaú National Park in the west and Recife in the east are 3,150 km apart. In the south, Copacabana and Sugarloaf Mountain are both within 120 km of Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro. Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park is the closest place to Jaú National Park, and it is still 2,100 km away.
Medium is the most common rating, with five of the twelve photos. The hard ones are Pelourinho, Salvador; Lençóis Maranhenses; and Ibirapuera Park. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro; Copacabana; Sugarloaf Mountain; and São Paulo Museum of Art are rated easy. Paraty is a colonial port of whitewashed houses and cobbled streets that flood at high tide.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many photos from Brazil are in the game?
12. The furthest north is Jaú National Park and the furthest south is Ibirapuera Park. Each round on this page picks five.
What is the hardest photo from Brazil?
Pelourinho, Salvador; Lençóis Maranhenses; and Ibirapuera Park are rated hard. You lose half the points for every 693 km you miss by.
Where is it easiest to get full points in Brazil?
Lençóis Maranhenses, Copacabana, Jaú National Park and Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park. They share the widest radius on this page, 60 km, and any pin inside it scores the full 5,000.