Find Country on Map Game

Find Country on Map is a simple game in which you have to click or tap on a map to locate countries. Read the instructions above the map and when asked to find a country you should click on the map where that country is. If you get the answer correct you will then be asked to find another country. Every time you get a country correct you get 1 point.

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Hint

You can zoom the map in for a better view. This will let you pin point areas more precisely.

How to Play

You will be prompted to find a country on the map. Click on the map to indicate where you think that country is located. You can always pan and zoom the map to make finding an accurate place to click more easy.

The game ends when you get the location of a country wrong or when you complete the game, you will then be asked to enter your name on to the high score list.

Click on restart game at any time to start again from the beginning.

Difficulty Ranking

This game will record everytime someone gets an answer right or wrong. By totalling up these values, it can then be determined which country's are generally harder to find than others. Then, when someone else comes along to play the game they will be presented with easier countries, and as the game proceeds the countries will get more difficult to find.

Therefore over time this game will have a better difficulty curve that will score players in a fairer way.

This Weeks High Scores

Pos	Name	Score
1	GolfTango	76
2	GolfTango	76
3	GABON...GABON......GABON....	68
4	WHY ISRAEL? WHYYYYYYYYYY?	49
5	Whitejoymk	44
6	I WAS THE FIRST TO DO THE QUIZ THIS WEEK	41
7	HEHE BOI	39
8	Renan Bravin	35
9	Renan Bravin	35
10	Japon	34
11	cristiano da souza akvarez jimenez de maria lopez	33
12	Japon	32
13	Japon	32
14	HEHE BOI	29
15	Ricky Martin	29
16	Japon	29
17	osas	28
18	Japon	28
19	Japon	28
20	Hendrik	26
21	8===D	25
22	ginger	24
23	AE	24
24	Japon	24
25	Japon	24
26	Whitejoymk	24
27	wasabi	23
28	Sheesh	23
29	Sheesh	23
30	Adam Stanislaus	23
31	Siiri	22
32	Marius	21
33	ollie	20
34	where is greece?	20
35	where is greece?	20
36	Japon	20
37	mks	19
38	Moody	19
39	csaba	19
40	csaba	19
41	WhyamIalive	15
42	minecrafplayer192	15
43	duck u chile	15
44	Japon	15
45	TÜRK	15
46	Sara Alduk	14
47	Jj	14
48	m	13
49	m	13
50	Japon	13
51	lalikos	13
52	luka	13
53	me dudu	12
54	me dudu	12
55	Japon	11
56	Japon	11
57	Japon	10
58	Japon	10
59	Yooo	10
60	bea	10
61	Japon	9
62	Japon	8
63	Antonio V	8
64	Japon	7
65	Japon	7
66	Kristina	7
67	Japon	6
68	Japon	6
69	spencer reid x	5
70	Japon	5
71	Japon	5
72	Bea	4
73	Japon	4
74	noob	3
75	Ayity	3
76	Sal	2
77	Sal	2
78	Japan	2
79	Japan	2
80	Japon	2
81	Japon	2
82	ush	1
83	Medhansh	1
84	Ayity	1
85	Ayity	1
86	Ayity	1
87	Ayity	1
88	Ayity	1
89	abbc	1
90	abbc	1
91	Lin	1
92	Japon	1
93	Japon	1
94	Japon	1
95	Japon	1
96	Japon	1
97	Japon	1
98	Japon	1
99	TÜRK	1
100	cake	1
101	cake	1
102	akr	1
103	Medhansh	0
104	Neena	0
105	gordan	0
106	yes japan	0
107	i am calm and its doctor	0
108	i am calm and its doctor	0
109	Japon	0
110	Japon	0
111	Japon	0
112	Japon	0
113	Japon	0
114	Japon	0
115	Japon	0
116	Japon	0
117	Japon	0
118	Japon	0
119	Japon	0
120	Japon	0
121	Japon	0
122	Japon	0
123	vietnam	0

How It Works

Put simply it uses Click for Country, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, AJAX and Leaftlet Maps.

For any other information regarding this game or if you notice any bugs with it, please contact Daft Logic.

Country Ratings

List of top 10 countries and thier relative rating in November 2018

Country	Rating
Australia	95811
United Kingdom	67022
Italy	65849
USA	65224
Canada	62519
Mexico	53612
Spain	51366
Ireland	42924
Japan	41574
France	39821

Version History

Version	Date	Description
1.0	10/01/2008	Basic game created
2.0	12/01/2008	Added high score list Added Difficulty Ranking feature
3.0	20/01/2008	Scroll wheel zoom function added
4.0	09/10/2008	Scroll wheel zoom function removed Fixed recent issue that stopped the country identification working Fixed issue where completing the game did not bring up a prompt to enter your name! Only getting a country wrong would make it appear Reset high score list Reset country list (it will now recreate itself automatically)
4.1	15/02/2009	Scores will reset every week
4.2	23/06/2009	Updated code for easier method to find county names
4.3	15/12/2009	Implemented geocoder.setBaseCountryCode('UK'); in attempt to make all country names return in the same language for all visitors.
5.0	10/11/2010	Implemented Google Maps API V3
5.1	15/12/2010	mapTypeControl is now hidden
6.0	18/01/2012	Implemented google.maps.Geocoder() which should give more consistant country names (Local language should not matter)
6.1	20/08/2016	Updates to the User Interface
7.0	12/09/2018	Leaflet maps implemented
7.1	15th September 2018	People's Republic of China (PRC) is now just known as China
7.2	11th October 2018	Bug fix : A click that could not be resolved to a country caused the game to hang. It now asks you to try again.
7.3	3rd October 2019	Minor user interface updates

Future Ideas

When a question is answered wrong, an outline of the country missed (or all the countries ?) is displayed

Comments For This Page

Guernsey has been removed
By Daft Logic on 6th April 2021

sup
On 7th January 2021

Hi Iodum, can you click on NZ for your answer to the first question, then post a message here soon after to confirm you have done it? We have setup logging to find the cause of this, but need you to test it and confirm when so that we can find the log entry. Thanks
By Daft Logic on 17th December 2020

New Zealand is still not working. Could it be I clicked on the wrong New Zealand? When you zoom out far enough you can see two New Zealand....I don't know what went wrong. I clicked right in the middle of the South Island.
By Iodum Rennium on 17th December 2020

TurkeyCookTime, not sure what went wrong. We have run some tests and New Zealand is getting detected as New Zealand. It's also a country with a consistent name.
By Daft Logic on 25th November 2020

I clicked right on New Zealand (in the middle of the South Island) and it said it was wrong. (Just so you know I actually know where New Zealand is: It is the far southeast country made up of two main islands, near Australia)
By TurkeyCookTime on 17th November 2020

I GOT 20 CORRET AND 1 WRONG
I ALSO LIKE THIS DAFT LOGIC QUIZ

On 28th June 2020

can you randomize countries set im tired on clicking over the same basic countries
On 23rd June 2020

What language did you code this in? And how did you come up with the logic for the code for this game?
On 5th April 2020

new zealand doesn't work
On 31st March 2020

Hold on I got to New Zealand yet when I touched it I got New Zealand wrong.
By Preston on 27th March 2020

Think there was a problem, I clicked the correct place for Alabama! however it said I was wrong
By ELB30 on 3rd March 2020

Hi, seems to be a slight glitch when it comes to selecting Japan - any of you other nerds experience this?

Best wishes,
Georgia Skinner
On 1st March 2020

"United States of America" has been deleted.
By Daft Logic on 12th February 2020

Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I got this: "Your Score = 134 : Q135) Tap where you think United States of America is."
By mj on 12th February 2020

Thanks mj, the extra DRC's have been removed.
By Daft Logic on 11th February 2020

OK, . I can see the XML file is a lot cleaner, and all of the bodies of water are gone now, but the DRC came up twice, and the other Congo is called Congo - Brazaville. I clicked directly on Brazza, but it didn't count. I know the area pretty well, because we have an office there.

Anyhow, from here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_world, it looks like there's something a little screwy about the way Openstreetmap provides country data in the addresses, vs. what is in the official addresses that come up when clicking.
By mj on 11th February 2020

This time it was: "Your Score = 132 : Q133) Tap where you think Territorial waters of Greece - Strofades is."
By mj on 10th February 2020

San Jorge Gulf has been removed. It won't appear again.
By Daft Logic on 10th February 2020

This is weird, the game asked me to identify a body of water: San Jorge Gulf, which AFAIK is part of Argentina... it seems like the other time I made it to 132 it was something else that I missed.
By mj on 10th February 2020

I messed up South Sudan which would be really embarrassing if people from work knew..
By mj on 5th February 2020

Wait ! I take it back. If you click on Tarawa it works !
By mj on 5th February 2020

It looks like OpenStreetMap doesn't have any data on Kiribati, or any of the Line Islands for that matter.
By mj on 5th February 2020

Thank you!
By mj on 4th February 2020

mj, Isle of Man has been removed to avoid this issue.
By Daft Logic on 3rd February 2020

Indeed, I tried clicking the Isle of Man for the second question (UK) and it counted as correct.
By mj on 3rd February 2020

This run was great because I got to solidify my understanding of the balkans, and also the baltic countries. I always knew that Latvia was north of Lithuania, but now I have a geographical tool to get it exactly right. Similarly Lake Skada for locating Montenegro, and Lake Victoria, and the two long lakes for Kenya Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.

But then I hit another bug: The Isle of Man. Maybe the scoring algorithm thinks it's part of the UK (I think it's a crown dependency).
By mj on 3rd February 2020

Thanks for the feedback mj . Your scores suggest you are in a different 'league' from most!, but this also has helped us identify bugs and fix issues as you have found them for the first time.
By Daft Logic on 3rd February 2020

Cool. Thank you!

I'm really enjoying how this game is helping me learn the real geographical features which can be used to find a given country. Islands are easy of course, but I never really understood before how close Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest are, for instance.
By mj on 3rd February 2020

Thanks MJ. You are correct. A mix of between DR Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Both the question and clicked location are now set to Democratic Republic of the Congo, so it should allow you to move on to ....Cape Verde!
By Daft Logic on 31st January 2020

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