How long did it take you to learn all the countries?

Submitted by FreeStater on January 24, 2026
How long did it take you guys to learn all the countries?

For me, it was so long ago that I can't remember. :P I'm guessing it took at least a few weeks for young me.

One thing I do remember is that I wanted to leave an angry comment on the CoTW quiz asking where Scotland was, but gave up when I saw I would have to create an account. Saved me the embarrassment.

27 Comments
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Level 56
Jan 24, 2026
I think I know all the countries, but whenever I do the COTW quiz, at least in the past 2 years, I always seem to miss a few (usually small obscure countries in Africa, Oceania or the Caribbean).

I think back in 2020 and 2021 I knew a "countries song" of some sort that listed off all the world's countries, and I used that to ace the quiz, but forgot it soon after. I believe it took about a week to memorize the song and ace COTW.

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Level 83
Jan 24, 2026
By the time I started using JetPunk around 2020 I believe I knew the countries for the most part, probably just struggled with the African nations and the Caribbean/Pacific island nations, which probably didn't take me too long to learn.

I had already learnt most of the countries via different sources, mainly Sporcle which I used for a year or so before I found JP.

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Level 82
Jan 24, 2026
Not that long all things considered. A trick that I found useful is to remember something about each country so you can associate it better in your mind.
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Level 45
Jan 24, 2026
I was a geography nerd by age seven so it took me like a month lol
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Level 72
Jan 24, 2026
I would say a few months.
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Level 68
Jan 24, 2026
I genuinely can't remember. Like Capy, I was a geography nerd, but I have no clue how long it took for me. Probably like 2 months.
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Level 63
Jan 24, 2026
a month?

oceania and n.a were last

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Level 33
Jan 24, 2026
Two weeks maybe
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Level 61
Jan 24, 2026
I never really tried learning them. Just constant exposure to countries on JetPunk did the work for me. This worked with shapes and flags too
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Level 62
Jan 24, 2026
I never really tried practicing naming every country, I just did a bunch of quizzes for around 5 months, and finally tried the countries of the world, and managed to name every one.
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Level 60
Jan 24, 2026
a few weeks probably

but there‘s a difference between knowing the names and knowing the locations

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Level 72
Jan 24, 2026
and knowing what they look like without the world map as a guide
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Level 39
Jan 24, 2026
A few months to learn, country, flag and capital
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Level 71
Jan 24, 2026
No idea. Before I started JetPunk, I already knew the European and Asian countries, so I just took the contriest by continent quizzes, and succeeded after 4-5 CotW attempts
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Level 76
Jan 24, 2026
I learned when I was 8 or 9 just by looking at a map, so I honestly have no idea. Probably a month or less though
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Level 61
Jan 24, 2026
I honestly don't know. Maybe a few rounds of Seterra, which I soon forgot, and then a few weeks here, which I remember
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Level 77
Jan 24, 2026
It's been about 10 years since I've learned them all so I'm not one hundred percent sure but I know I did over the period of a summer break.
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Level ∞
Jan 24, 2026
Confession. I didn't learn them all until 2015. I still can't do all the capitals.
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Level 61
Jan 24, 2026
*Gasps*
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Level 77
Jan 25, 2026
I don't know all the capitals either lol, it's those tiny island nations, man
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Level 73
Jan 25, 2026
Yeah me neither, the Caribbean always messes me up.
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Level 71
Jan 25, 2026
Same... I can never get the African capitals - hey, there's, like, more than 55.
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Level 68
Jan 25, 2026
somehow, I keep mixing Bridgetown Barbados with Bridgeport Connecticut. like, Bridgeport isn't even the capital of CT???
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Level 67
Jan 24, 2026
It took me an entire summer that I spent doing Geography quizzes 2 hours a day
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Level 81
Jan 25, 2026
Quizmaster will be proud of me...

I can't remember when I learnt all the countries, but for some reason I keep forgetting Belgium.

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Level 43
Jan 25, 2026
I was around 4, just spend my alleged naptime reading an atlas my parents had and just picked them up.
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Level 53
Jan 26, 2026
About a month. Learned all the countries and capitals back in high school to see if I could