Africa map quiz: find all 54 countries
Africa has more countries than any other continent, which makes it one of the hardest maps to learn. Work through all 54, from the big Saharan states to the small island nations off its coasts, and see which ones you keep mixing up.
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All 54 countries in this quiz
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- 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
Quick facts
- 54 countries, the most of any continent.
- Largest: Algeria. Smallest: Seychelles.
- Six island nations: Cape Verde, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Seychelles.
Easy to mix up
- Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea: the first two are neighbours on the west coast; Equatorial Guinea is further south, by Cameroon and Gabon.
- Republic of the Congo (smaller, west) and DR Congo (much larger, east) share a long river border.
- Niger and Nigeria are neighbours; Niger is the larger, landlocked one to the north.
- Gambia is a thin strip of land almost completely surrounded by Senegal.
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About the map
The quiz covers the 193 UN member states plus Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo and Taiwan. Other territories, such as Greenland or Puerto Rico, are drawn in grey for context but aren't asked. Borders follow Natural Earth's de facto boundaries; some are disputed.
Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). Map rendering: MapLibre. Country facts: Wikidata (CC0), population and GDP per capita from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), languages and currencies from mledoze/countries (ODbL; our derived country data is available under the ODbL). Flags: flag-icons (MIT). Exchange rates: exchange-api (CC0), approximate and for interest only.