Photo location game · Europe
Norway landmarks quiz: guess where 20 photos were taken
Every place in Norway that is in the game, 20 in all, with a photo, a short fact and its spot on the map. The round at the top uses five of them.
★ 4.7 on Google Play· 60 ratings· 1000+ downloads· Free
Five of the 20 places, one at a time. Put a pin where you think each photo was taken.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
16 on the mapAll 20 places
Wooden Hanseatic wharf houses on a Norwegian fjord harbour.
Photo: JoachimKohler-HB / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Red fishing huts beneath jagged peaks in the Arctic Lofoten islands.
Photo: Jörg Hempel / CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
Colourful houses in one of the world's northernmost settlements.
Photo: Buiobuione / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A deep blue fjord with waterfalls plunging down cliffs.
Photo: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A tiny village at the head of a fjord, end of a mountain railway.
Photo: Martin Falbisoner / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A flat cliff plateau 600 metres above a fjord.
Photo: Åsmund Heimark / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A thin rock tongue jutting out over a mountain lake.
Photo: Steinar Talmoen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Norway's largest coastal island, with the Vesterålen and Lofoten peaks.
Photo: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A backup vault for the world's crop seeds, dug into Arctic permafrost.
Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Norway's longest and deepest fjord, 205 km long and 1,300 metres deep.
Photo: Acediscovery / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The oldest stave church in Norway, from around 1130, on a fjord shore.
Photo: Bjørn Erik Pedersen / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest island of Svalbard, land of polar bears and midnight sun.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Norway's largest lake, sailed by the world's oldest paddle steamer still in service.
Photo: kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The northernmost medieval cathedral in the world, built over the grave of St Olav.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An uninhabited Svalbard island of glaciers and polar bears.
Photo: Hermanhi / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A medieval castle turned Renaissance palace guarding Oslo's harbour.
Photo: Pudelek (Marcin Szala) / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest glacier in mainland Europe, with blue tongues spilling into green valleys.
Photo: G.Lanting / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The world's northernmost active volcano, on the Arctic island of Jan Mayen.
Photo: Dreizung / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Arctic island of the North Cape, Europe's northern edge.
Photo: Lukas Beck / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Norway's second largest island, jagged peaks rising straight from the Arctic sea.
Photo: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
There are 1,500 km between the top and the bottom of the map, from Beerenberg down to Preikestolen. Flåm has company: Bergen, Trolltunga, Sognefjord, Urnes Stave Church and Jostedal Glacier are all less than 120 km away. Beerenberg is on its own, 890 km from the nearest other place, Reine, Lofoten. The round skips Longyearbyen, Svalbard; Svalbard Global Seed Vault; Spitsbergen; and Barentsøya, which lie beyond the edge of the map.
At least half the photos from Norway are rated hard or expert. Photos rated hard include Bergen; Reine, Lofoten; and Preikestolen. Spitsbergen is rated easy. Longyearbyen, Svalbard is the one photo rated expert. Longyearbyen, Svalbard counts any pin within 200 km as a direct hit, the most room on this page. Barentsøya is an uninhabited Svalbard island of glaciers and polar bears.
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 photos from Norway are in the game?
20. The furthest north is Spitsbergen and the furthest south is Preikestolen. Each round on this page picks five. Longyearbyen, Svalbard; Svalbard Global Seed Vault; Spitsbergen; and Barentsøya are off the map.
Which places in Norway are the hardest to find?
Longyearbyen, Svalbard is the only expert photo. Every 693 km of miss cuts the score in half.
Where is it easiest to get full points in Norway?
Longyearbyen, Svalbard, which has an accuracy radius of 200 km, the widest on this page.