Geography Quiz · Africa

Africa Map Quiz

Find 51 places on the map of Africa: every mainland country plus Madagascar, Western Sahara and Somaliland. See the continent laid out, then test how well you know it.

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Ten countries to find on the map below. Tap the right one.

Countries to find

55 total
Tap a country to name it

How to learn the map of Africa

Work in rows. Across the top: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt. The Sahel row below it: Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan. Then West Africa's coast in order from the west: Senegal (with The Gambia inside it), Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria. Niger is the big landlocked one above Nigeria.

Central Africa has the two Congos: the Republic of the Congo is the small one on the west bank of the river, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the giant. Equatorial Guinea is the small coastal country between Cameroon and Gabon. In the east, the Horn is Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia. Down the east coast: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique; inland, the lakes cluster of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The south is Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, with Lesotho entirely inside South Africa and Eswatini on its eastern edge.

Did you know?

Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest man-made structure in the world for 3,800 years, from 2560 BC until Lincoln Cathedral was completed in 1311 AD.
Kenya's Great Rift Valley is the geological seam where Africa is slowly splitting apart. In about 50 million years it will become a new ocean.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with more than 230 million people. Its film industry, Nollywood, is the world's second-largest by output.
South Africa has three capital cities: Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative), and Bloemfontein (judicial), the only country with three.

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Questions & answers

How many countries are in Africa?

Africa has 54 recognised sovereign states, the most of any continent. Five small island states (Cape Verde, Comoros, Mauritius, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles) are too small to tap on this map.

What is the largest country in Africa?

Algeria is the largest country in Africa by area, followed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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