Country Quiz on a Map - Germany

Hallo! Let's test your knowledge on Germany! In this unique quiz, all the answers to geographical, historical, and cultural questions will be somewhere on the map. Hals- und Beinbruch!
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Last updated: June 28, 2024
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First submittedJuly 11, 2020
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Bordering Countries
Austria
Belgium
Czechia
Denmark
France
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Poland
Switzerland
 
Bordering Seas and Oceans
Baltic Sea
North Sea
 
Rivers
Elbe
Rhine
Danube
 
Mountain Range
Alps
Largest Cities by Population
3,677,472
Berlin
1,853,935
Hamburg
1,487,708
Munich
1,073,096
Cologne
759,224
Frankfurt am Main
 
 
Other Cities
City that doesn't exist, according to the Internet
Bielefeld
Former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Bonn
Home of a football team called "Borussia 09"
Dortmund
City famous for hosting the post-World War II trials
Nuremberg
Cradle of the automobile industry
Stuttgart
Regions
Largest German state by land area
Bavaria
Historical region divided between Poland and Germany
Pomerania
Modern Land whose territory was administered by the League of Nations between 1920 and 1936
Saarland
 
 
Monuments
Castle built in honor of Richard Wagner that inspired Walt Disney
Neuschwanstein Castle
Palace in Potsdam commissioned by Frederick the Great, translating to "Carefree" in French
Sanssouci
Tallest church in the world
Ulm Minster
 
 
Natural Wonders
Lake at the border between Switzerland and Germany
Constance Lake
Largest German island, famous for its chalk cliffs
Rügen Island
Famous People
Aachen: This emperor was enthroned there
Charlemagne
Leipzig: This composer, one of the "Three Bs" is buried there
J.S. Bach
Kiel: This father of quantum theory, whose constant is denoted by h , taught here
Max Planck
 
 
Pieces of Art
Bayreuth: This music drama is performed annually in this city as the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle
Die Walküre
Bremen: This Grimms' fairy tale tells the story of four animals coming to this town
Town Musicians of Bremen
East Berlin: Daniel Brühl stars in this film where a mother falls into a coma just before the Wall falls
Good Bye, Lenin!
 
 
Battles
9: Major Roman defeat by Germanic tribes
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
1945: Aerial destruction of a city
Bombing of Dresden
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57 Comments
+6
Level 79
Jul 3, 2021
Cologne's dot doesn't work

Underrated map though

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Level 52
Jul 3, 2021
Oops! I changed that :) Thanks
+4
Level 33
Jul 3, 2021
Nice Map! Really detailed!
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Level 56
Jul 5, 2021
Europa Park doesn't light up on the map.
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Level 72
Nov 15, 2022
Konstanz should be an accepted answer.
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Level 67
Mar 10, 2023
Bodensee and Obersee should also be accepted. These are the common German names.
+8
Level 79
Apr 30, 2024
Obersee is just a (big) part of the lake.

Konstanz should not be accepted. It's the German spelling of the city of Constance, as in Germany no one refers to the lake as "Lake Konstanz", the German spelling is irrelevant as a type-in.

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Level 88
Apr 29, 2023
Great quiz thanks. The word compositor should be composer. Nominated.
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Level 83
May 6, 2023
Good quiz, but too much time IMO. Please accept Mönchengladbach as a type-in for "home of the football team called Borussia."
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Level 80
May 6, 2023
The dot on the map indicates Dortmund though. Mönchengladbach is farther southwest.
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Level 83
May 7, 2023
Hmm - absolutely right. I did not even look at the map when answering most questions and felt disappointed because my Borussia wasn't accepted. My bad!
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Level 86
Mar 4, 2024
I also did this
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Level 89
Apr 23, 2024
It still is a rather bad clue though if only the dot on the map (which could be any of the dots) distinguishes the cities.
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Level 58
May 6, 2023
you should slow schwarzwald instead of black forest lol
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Level 74
May 6, 2023
It should be made clear that German names don't work in this quiz - or was it just the few that I tried?

However, the time limit was luckily generous enough to always try different spellings, so I managed 41/41 points in the end.

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Level 67
May 26, 2024
Thing is in some cases it is accepted, in others not. Bodensee works for the lake, Bremer Stadtmusikanten works for the Art piece, but Pommern doesn't for the historical German/Polish region.

I guess either make German answers always work or never? (I'd prefer making them count)

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Level 62
May 6, 2023
For this question: Bremen: this Grimms' fairy tale tells the story of four animal coming to this town

The town asked for is Bremen, but it doesn't work. Question should ask for the title of the story, not the location.

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Level 96
Apr 22, 2024
Its in the art section and so it is the work that is needed not the town which is already given. There are two ‘this’ words so it is a little confusing.
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Level 39
May 8, 2023
Good format

Note - Bach was a composer not a compositor !

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Level 72
May 9, 2023
Big factual mistake!

The November Revolution was 1918. Goodbye Lenin plays during the fall of the Berlin Wall, which was 1989. Though it also happened in November, the "November revolution" is the one in 1918

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Level 66
May 19, 2023
Bodensee is still not working.
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Level 74
May 19, 2023
Saar Basin should be accepted in lieu of Saarland. This is the only one I missed, as I was always taught the former....and Wiki does the same.
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Level 72
Feb 23, 2024
Hi, love the quiz and I will nominate it. But one thing, pls make the thing for City Musicians of Bremen a bit more tolerant. Use „Bremer Stadtmusikanten“ as well, because its the more well known original name, or except things like Bremer city musicians and Bremen city musicians. I literally somehow typed everything except the right thing.
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Level 74
Feb 29, 2024
HOW IS THIS STILL NOT FEATURED?? nominated!
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Level 77
Mar 3, 2024
Lake Constance is very badly placed. It borders Austria too…
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Level 57
Mar 4, 2024
Great quiz but a small spelling error: Mountain is missing a u as it says Montain atm
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Level 74
Mar 5, 2024
Deutsche qualität

nominated

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Level 69
Mar 5, 2024
Cant believe the "Bremer Stadtmusikanten" are actually called the Town musicians :D Felt like a cheap word for word translation but it worked
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Level 74
Mar 19, 2024
Rügen doesn't light up when it's guessed, apart from that: Great quiz. Nominated :)
+4
Level 55
Apr 22, 2024
In a table leaf for Rugen doesnt light up upon guessing
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Level 69
Apr 22, 2024
Armenia next please!
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Level 72
Apr 22, 2024
I guess it's not technically correct, but could you accept "The Musicians of Bremen"?
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Level 61
Oct 28, 2025
Until now I've never seen the title as anything other than "The Musicians of Bremen" in English. I'm afraid I actually cheated and looked it up
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Level 68
Apr 22, 2024
Pommern should be accepted, otherwise great quiz!
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Level 72
Apr 22, 2024
Agree. Pommern
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Level 96
Apr 23, 2024
Monchengladbach is also home of a football team called 'Borussia'.
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Level 75
Apr 23, 2024
1. Dortmund is not the only city that is a home to a football team called "Borussia". E.g. Mönchengladbach is also such a city. Currently there are in total more than a dozen cities that are a home to a Borussia. Please be more specificor accept all these cities.

2. If you accept German names in other questions, like Nürnberg for Nuremberg or München for Munich, you have to accept it in all other questions. So please accept Pommern for Pomerania.

3. The Ring of the Nibelung isn't perform annualy. There are years, where it isn't performed at all. And why just Walküre??? Why not the whole cycle? Or other parts as well (Rheingold, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung)?

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Level 71
Apr 23, 2024
agree
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Level 95
Apr 27, 2024
The dot for the Borussia question is located exactly at Dortmund, so your gripe is unfounded
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Level 70
May 26, 2024
Besides Dortmund and Gladbach there are also Neunkirchen, Fulda, Friedrichsfelde, Bocholt, Freialdenhoven and Lindenthal-Hohenlind who have Borussia in its name.

Also it is not the point knowing where the city lies but to answer the question and these can be the answers for that question.

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Level 71
Apr 23, 2024
The second green leaf (island question) doesnt change colour when guessed correctly.
+3
Level 56
Apr 29, 2024
Please accept additional type-ins for the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

It's commonly referred to as varian disaster or varian defeat. Or if you want the german name it's Varusschlacht

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Level 87
May 4, 2024
Please also accept “Varus(schlacht)” (Battle of Teutoburg Forest).
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Level 50
May 26, 2024
I tried Hitler, Adolf Hitler, WWII, and WW2. When those didn't work, I gave up.
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Level 71
May 26, 2024
I said it on the Italy quiz already, but I'll reiterate – the map design is just... not good. The usual standard on Jetpunk is that guessed items turn bright green, like the battles category in this quiz. But the colour coding is all over the place here, which makes it really hard to figure out what you're missing in the end. In some items the colour change is basically undetectable (castles), some don't change colour at all (seas and neighbouring countries), and those colours that do change seem picked at random (why not turn everything green?). The design also doesn't make it clear that neighbouring countries are even being asked for until you scroll down to the answer boxes, and the Alps are barely visible against the background colour. Other than that, fun quiz, but standardising the design would be a major QoL upgrade.
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Level 52
Jun 24, 2024
Hello Sulfuratus,

I tried to improve the maps of this series as much as possible to keep them beautiful and pleasant to fill out. For example, by adding descriptions directly in SVG to avoid scrolling every 2 seconds.

Why not keep Jetpunk's standard green? Because I tried it and it’s ugly and not very intelligible for this kind of map in my opinion (you end up with just one big green blob). I agree to some extent about the color of the castles however, which I could make greener.

You're also not the first to forget the bordering countries, maybe I'll add a 'don't forget' mention in the description? I don't see any other way to make it more obvious.

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Level 76
Nov 18, 2025
I like your maps and once you have done one you know you need to guess the countries. (And otherwise it does not take much to realize). I think these are great
+1
Level 72
May 28, 2024
I knew my random Disney knowledge would be useful somewhere!
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Level 50
May 28, 2024
Mönchengladbach should also count at the Borrussia City, because they also have a first League Borussia Team
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Level 49
May 29, 2024
bielefeld exists
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Level 76
May 30, 2024
Oh no, one of THEM!
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Level 74
Jun 13, 2024
The island lights up on the map but not on the legend.
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Level 65
Aug 2, 2024
You should accept Ruegen, the extra e is an easy alternative for the umlaut on the 'u'.
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Level 65
Dec 29, 2025
Nice quiz! can you accept konstanz for lake constance?
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Level 81
Feb 23, 2026
I should have gotten Good Bye, Lenin. My German teacher had a poster of it framed on the wall.
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Level 20
Mar 10, 2026
Ulm Munster, not Minster ;)
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Level 53
Mar 21, 2026
Could you consider accepting Bodensee?