World map with countries

How to use it

1. Explore the mapDrag, pinch or scroll to zoom, or jump to a continent. Tap a country for its flag, capital, continent and sub-region. Type a name in English, Russian, Spanish or French and the map flies there. The smallest countries are dots that stay easy to tap at every zoom.
2. Take the quizFind the country, name the country or find the capital, on the whole world or one continent, with 10, 20 or every question. Right answers turn green on the map; a miss shows where the country is. At the end, repeat only your mistakes.
3. Print a blank mapThe blank map tab draws a clean outline map of the world or of one continent, with no labels, with names or with numbers. Print it on A4 or download it as an SVG file that stays sharp at any size.

About this map

The outlines come from Natural Earth at a scale of 1:110 million (public domain) and are drawn in the Equal Earth projection, which keeps every area true to scale: Africa, about fourteen times the size of Greenland, looks it. Twenty-nine countries are too small for an outline at this scale, among them Monaco, Vatican City, Malta and the Maldives; they are shown as dots at their capitals.

The list follows UN membership: the 193 member states and the two observer states, the Holy See and the State of Palestine. Continents follow the UN M49 regions, with the Americas split into North America (with Central America and the Caribbean) and South America. Territories and areas outside the UN list, such as Greenland, Western Sahara or Taiwan, are drawn as grey land with no name and no quiz question.

Questions

Sources

1. Natural Earth — Admin 0 countries, 1:110m (public domain)
2. Šavrič, Patterson & Jenny (2018), The Equal Earth map projection, IJGIS 33:3
3. United Nations — Member States
4. UN Statistics Division — Standard country or area codes (M49)
5. Unicode CLDR — country names
6. Wikidata — capitals and coordinates (CC0)
7. flag-icons by Panayiotis Lipiridis (MIT License)

Related guides

• How many countries are there in the world? 195, and why other lists count moreThere are 195 countries: 193 UN member states plus the Holy See and Palestine. Why Taiwan or Kosovo change the count, and how many per continent.
• The 7 continents: names, sizes and how many continents there areThe 7 continents in order of size with their areas, why other countries count 6, 5 or 4, and how Russian schools split continents and parts of the world.
• Largest countries in the world by area: the top 10 in km²The 10 largest countries in the world by area in km², from Russia to Algeria, with UN figures, land versus water and why the US and China swap places.
• Smallest countries in the world: the top 10 by area, from Vatican City to MaltaThe 10 smallest countries in the world by area in km², from Vatican City at 0.44 km² to Malta, why microstates exist and how they show on a world map.

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