Photo location game · Americas
Mexico landmarks quiz: guess where 21 photos were taken
21 places in Mexico, each with a photo, a short fact and its spot on the map. Play five of them here, then look through the rest below.
★ 4.7 on Google Play· 60 ratings· 1000+ downloads· Free
Five photos from Mexico. Tap the map where you think each one was taken.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
21 on the mapAll 21 places
The stepped Maya pyramid of Kukulcán on the Yucatán plain.
Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A silver-mining city of rainbow houses stacked in a ravine.
Photo: Maria Cv99 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An ancient city with vast pyramids along a ceremonial avenue.
Photo: Daniel Case / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mayan ruins perched on a cliff above a Caribbean beach.
Photo: Blair Stirrett / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A pink neo-Gothic church spire over a colonial town.
Photo: Carlos Valenzuela / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mexico City's white marble opera house with an orange Art Nouveau dome.
Photo: Jeses / CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
The busiest land border crossing in the world, on the edge of San Diego.
Photo: Urbaner44 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Guadalajara's twin city, home of the basilica of the Virgin of Zapopan.
Photo: Another Believer / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of the largest cities in the world, built on the drained lake of the Aztec capital.
Photo: Gobierno CDMX / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A baroque colonial city with a 1.3-km aqueduct of 74 stone arches.
Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Maya city in the Chiapas jungle with a palace tower and a royal tomb.
Photo: Ljuba brank at Slovenian Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pico de Orizaba, Mexico's highest peak, a 5,636-metre volcano.
Photo: dinesh rao / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Maya city deep in the jungle, its great pyramid rising above the canopy.
Photo: Lugares INAH / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Zapotec capital on a flattened hilltop above Oaxaca, 2,500 years old.
Photo: Dacuauhtli / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Caribbean reserve of mangroves, lagoons and reef whose Maya name means 'origin of the sky'.
Photo: Oogstweg / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The last great Maya capital of Yucatán, with a pyramid modelled on Chichén Itzá's.
Photo: Globetrotteur17... Ici, là-bas ou ailleurs... / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A pre-Columbian city with a pyramid of 365 niches, one for each day of the year.
Photo: Photograph: Frank C. Müller, Baden-Baden / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A hilltop city with the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, from around AD 700.
Photo: Juan Francisco Contreras Fernández / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mexico's industrial capital, beneath the saddle-shaped Cerro de la Silla.
Photo: Nathaniel C. Sheetz / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Volcanic Pacific islands where sharks, rays and whales gather, the 'Mexican Galápagos'.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A colonial river port of pastel arcaded houses in Veracruz.
Photo: panza.rayada / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Tulum is the furthest east here, 3,250 km from Tijuana on the western side. Near the middle of the map, Palace of Fine arts, Mexico City and Xochicalco are all within 120 km of Teotihuacán. Revillagigedo Islands is the closest place to Tijuana, and it is still 1,600 km away.
By rating, the photos are four easy, eight medium and nine hard. The hard ones include Teotihuacán, Tulum and San Miguel de Allende. The easy ones are Chichén Itzá, Mexico City, Palenque and Citlaltepetl. Tajín Veracruz is a pre-Columbian city with a pyramid of 365 niches, one for each day of the year.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
Play the dailyQuestions & answers
How many places in Mexico are in the game?
21, from Tijuana in the north to Monte Albán in the south. A round on this page plays five of them.
Which photo from Mexico is the hardest?
The hard ones include Teotihuacán, Tulum and San Miguel de Allende. A pin 693 km outside the radius leaves 2,500 of the 5,000 points.
Which photo is the easiest to score full points on?
Several, including Guanajuato, Tijuana and Zapopan. They share the widest radius on this page, 35 km, and any pin inside it scores the full 5,000.