Country shapes
Country Shape Quiz
Guess the country by its shape: this quiz shows the outline of 194 countries, one at a time, with no map, no flag and no labels. Pick the right country from four choices and see how many shapes you really know.
How to play: look at the outline and tap the country, or press 1 to 4. The shapes are not to scale, so a small island can look as big as a continent. Outlines are drawn from Natural Earth map data, the same source as the Quiz Zoomies shape videos.
Country Shape Quiz
Pick one of four answers. Use the 1 to 4 keys on a keyboard.
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Famous country shapes
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Italy
Italy is the country shaped like a boot, kicking the island of Sicily.
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Chile
Chile is more than 4,000 km long from north to south but rarely wider than a few hundred kilometers.
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Gambia
The Gambia is a thin strip along the Gambia River, surrounded by Senegal except for its short Atlantic coast.
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Lesotho
Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa.
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Vietnam
Vietnam curves down the coast of Southeast Asia in a long S shape.
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Japan
Japan is a chain of islands, with four main islands and thousands of smaller ones.
All 194 countries in this quiz
Asia: 47 shapes
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Georgia
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Europe: 44 shapes
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Africa: 54 shapes
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
North America: 23 shapes
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
South America: 12 shapes
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Guyana
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Oceania: 14 shapes
- Australia
- Fiji
- Kiribati
- Marshall Islands
- Micronesia
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
Watch: guess the country by its shape
The Quiz Zoomies video with 50 country shapes, from easy to impossible.
Frequently asked questions
What country is shaped like a boot?
Italy. Its long peninsula looks like a boot kicking a ball, the island of Sicily. It is one of the easiest shapes in the quiz.
Which countries have the most unusual shapes?
Chile is extremely long and thin, The Gambia is a narrow strip along a river, Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, and Norway's outline is full of fjords. Island countries like Indonesia and the Philippines are spread over thousands of islands.
How many country shapes are in the quiz?
194: every one of the 195 countries except Vatican City, which is too small to draw as a recognizable shape.
Are the country shapes drawn to scale?
No. Every outline is scaled to fill the same frame, so tiny Malta looks as big as Russia. Use the shape, the coastline and the islands, not the size.
Where do the country shapes come from?
The outlines come from Natural Earth map data (public domain), the same source the Quiz Zoomies channel uses for its shape videos. Tiny islands far from the mainland are left out so each shape stays readable.
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