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Africa Map Quiz: the Countries of Africa

We name a country, you click it on the map. Can you find all 55?

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Africa Map Quiz: the Countries of Africa

55 countries. We name one, you click it on the map. Three tries each.

How to play

Press Start. A country name shows at the top of the map: click it. Right on the first try turns it green; right after a miss turns it amber; after three misses it turns red and the quiz moves on. The smallest places have a circle around them: click inside it. Use the zoom buttons for crowded corners of the map.

The 55 countries of Africa and their capitals

North Africa

  • Algeria Algiers
  • Egypt Cairo
  • Libya Tripoli
  • Morocco Rabat
  • Sudan Khartoum
  • Tunisia Tunis
  • Western Sahara

West Africa

  • Benin Porto-Novo
  • Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
  • Cabo Verde Praia
  • Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro
  • Gambia Banjul
  • Ghana Accra
  • Guinea Conakry
  • Guinea-Bissau Bissau
  • Liberia Monrovia
  • Mali Bamako
  • Mauritania Nouakchott
  • Niger Niamey
  • Nigeria Abuja
  • Senegal Dakar
  • Sierra Leone Freetown
  • Togo Lomé

Central Africa

  • Angola Luanda
  • Cameroon Yaoundé
  • Central African Republic Bangui
  • Chad N'Djamena
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa
  • Equatorial Guinea Malabo
  • Gabon Libreville
  • Republic of the Congo Brazzaville
  • São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé

East Africa

  • Burundi Gitega
  • Comoros Moroni
  • Djibouti Djibouti
  • Eritrea Asmara
  • Ethiopia Addis Ababa
  • Kenya Nairobi
  • Madagascar Antananarivo
  • Malawi Lilongwe
  • Mauritius Port Louis
  • Mozambique Maputo
  • Rwanda Kigali
  • Seychelles Victoria
  • Somalia Mogadishu
  • South Sudan Juba
  • Tanzania Dodoma
  • Uganda Kampala
  • Zambia Lusaka
  • Zimbabwe Harare

Southern Africa

  • Botswana Gaborone
  • Eswatini Mbabane
  • Lesotho Maseru
  • Namibia Windhoek
  • South Africa Pretoria

Study on paper first

Print the labeled map of Africa to study, then test yourself on the blank map of Africa: write in every country you know, check it against the labeled map, and play again here. There is a closer map of West Africa and a physical map of Africa too.

Questions

How many countries are in this quiz?

55: the 54 UN member states in Africa plus Western Sahara. Somaliland is drawn as part of Somalia, as the UN does.

Why are some disputed places in the quiz?

The quiz asks where places are on the map, not whether every country recognises them. Western Sahara is on most classroom maps, so it is asked like any other place.

Is Côte d'Ivoire the same as Ivory Coast?

Yes. Côte d'Ivoire is the name the country uses in English too. Eswatini was called Swaziland until 2018, and Cabo Verde used to be Cape Verde.

Why are there two Congos?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (capital Kinshasa) is the big one in the middle of Africa. The Republic of the Congo (capital Brazzaville) is its smaller neighbour to the west, across the Congo River.

How is the score worked out?

Your score is the share of places you found on the first try. A place you find on the second or third try turns amber and does not count toward the score; after three misses it turns red and the quiz moves on.

Can my class use this?

Yes, free, with no sign-up and no ads. At the end, students type their name and take a screenshot of the result card (map, score, time and date) to hand in.

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