Photo location game · Asia
Vietnam landmarks quiz: guess where 10 photos were taken
The 10 places in Vietnam from the game, with their photos and facts. Play a round first, then read about them below.
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Five photos from Vietnam. Tap the map for each one and see how far off you were.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
10 on the mapAll 10 places
A riverside trading town glowing with silk lanterns at dusk.
Photo: Steffen Schmitz (more photos) / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thousands of limestone karst islands rising from jade water.
Photo: Pasztilla aka Attila Terbócs / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stepped green rice paddies climbing misty highland slopes.
Photo: Eerin25 / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Limestone karst towers and river caves, the 'Halong Bay on land'.
Photo: Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Roof of Indochina', Vietnam's highest peak at 3,147 metres.
Photo: Vivu Vietnam / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vietnam's tallest building, a 461-metre bamboo-bundle tower on the Saigon River.
Photo: Christine und Hagen Graf / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 14th-century citadel of huge stone blocks, the only one of its kind in Southeast Asia.
Photo: Loi Nguyen Duc / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The imperial heart of Hanoi for 13 centuries, with its flag tower and gates.
Photo: Grenouille vert / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A karst park hiding Son Doong, the largest cave passage on Earth.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Red-brick Hindu towers of the Champa kingdom in a jungle valley.
Photo: Chainwit. / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
It is 1,300 km from Sa Pa Rice Terraces, the northernmost place here, to Landmark 81, the southernmost. Tràng An has company: Citadel of the Hồ Dynasty and Imperial Citadel of Thang Long are both less than 120 km away. Nothing else is within 570 km of Landmark 81. The nearest is Mỹ Sơn.
Medium is the most common rating, with eight of the ten photos. Tràng An is rated hard. The easy one is Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park. Fansipan is the 'Roof of Indochina', Vietnam's highest peak at 3,147 metres.
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 Vietnam are in the game?
10. They run from Sa Pa Rice Terraces down to Landmark 81, and a round picks five at random.
Which photo from Vietnam is the hardest?
Only Tràng An is rated hard. On any photo the score halves for every 693 km you are outside the accuracy radius.
Where is it easiest to get full points in Vietnam?
Ha Long Bay, with a 50 km radius. A pin anywhere inside it scores the full 5,000.