Every Country Shape

A nearly impossible challenge. Try to name every country in the world based on its shape.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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Last updated: February 17, 2019
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Difficulty level: Impossible. Can you name these countries based on their shapes?
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100 Recent Comments
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Level 50
Feb 8, 2020
How about mixing up the order of where the countries appear each time we take the quiz? I can't imagine doing some of the Pacific islands this way, but.....I'm up for a challenge!
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Level 25
Mar 23, 2020
well this was very fun but hard, it took me a long time to recognize those maps
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Level 76
Mar 25, 2020
Kuwait is Darth Vader and UAE is a centaur, I know there is a great storyline in there somewhere! :D
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Level 69
May 1, 2020
195... those small island groups are really challenging to identify. I only missed Mauritius because I had no idea it was made of more than one island.
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Level 43
May 18, 2020
I was doing good and only struggled on honduras, ecuador, sao tome, grenada, and bolivia, until I failed on djibouti
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Level 67
Jun 3, 2020
195. I lost eswatini...
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Level 48
Jul 7, 2020
100% with 8:22 left :)
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Level 52
Aug 1, 2020
all the Countries i got wrong was Island/Micro Nations
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Level 55
Aug 10, 2020
2 correct first try i am 106 years old
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Level 47
Oct 14, 2020
80 out of 196 :) I'm 13 but I'm proud of myself
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Level 47
Jan 14, 2026
As a 13 yr old now, my score of 185/196 makes me feel a lot better about myself :).
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Level 43
Apr 19, 2026
As another 13 yr old, my score of 196/196 makes me proud of myself
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Level 47
Oct 14, 2020
also, SHEESH TheRealGrantma, very impressive!
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Level 62
Nov 3, 2020
Got them all, but not before being hung up on Mauritius. Never knew it was multiple islands. I could identify the other islands easily, but Mauritius was tricky!
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Level 29
Nov 10, 2020
173/196, 88 percent.

great..

reply if you got more than me..

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Level 68
Dec 2, 2020
I got more than you.
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Level 48
Nov 15, 2020
finally all! idk how many times i took this quiz!
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Level 71
Nov 22, 2020
Great quiz! Much harder than I thought it would be.
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Level 74
Dec 3, 2020
196 in the first attempt :-) Last one to find was Honduras
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Level 21
Dec 26, 2020
152 first time I'm actually much better at finding country shapes than I thought ahahha
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Level 72
Jan 7, 2021
135 not bad
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Level 27
Jan 18, 2021
Welp, I completely bombed that. Only got 48, much harder than I expected! Guess I have a lot of studying to do lol
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Level 46
Feb 1, 2021
Got 98
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Level 82
Feb 20, 2021
5th attempt – FINALLY got all!!
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Level 51
Mar 30, 2021
Wow how i got only 164 out of 196! What a shame!
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Level 39
Apr 25, 2021
193/196. Missed Tonga, Saint Lucia and Palau.
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Level 58
May 28, 2021
This was awesome... thanks for this quiz!

Since I often confused similar shapes, I tried to sort the arrangement a little bit:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1364561/similar-country-shapes

This way you can find (and remember) the little details that distinguish one from the other more easily. I hope you'll like it.

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Level 58
Jun 9, 2021
I am surprised more people didn't get Lesotho saying you could puzzle piece it using South Africa.
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Level 48
Jun 16, 2021
cyprus' shape is wrong... even if you recognize northern cyprus as part of cyprus, the british overseas territory of akrotiri and dhekelia ist still on there
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Level 72
Jun 17, 2021
Only missed Ecuador, Djibouti, Eswatini, Uruguay, Lesotho, and Andorra
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Level 17
Jul 22, 2021
148/196 is not bad for a first try. There were some countries that I should have got but just couldn't remember like South Africa, El Salvador and Tajikistan
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Level 63
Aug 29, 2021
You can try a more diverse quiz here:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1306568/geographical-shapes

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Level 40
Sep 1, 2021
no
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Level 71
Oct 9, 2021
I got 174, I mostly missed island nations and some small african countries
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Level 42
Oct 15, 2021
You should change the shape of Mauritius to just the main island (the big one seen in the bottom left). When people talk about Mauritius they always refer to the main island, the other islands are more like territories part of the country (kinda like the USA with Hawaii/Alaska or the UK with all its pacific and Atlantic territories, everyone referes to the British Islands when speaking of the UK). I live in Mauritius and I struggled to find it lmaoooo
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Level 38
Dec 5, 2021
Malta and Liechtenstein have white backgrounds when using Dark Mode for some reason.
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Level 51
Dec 9, 2021
i LOVE this quiz. i finally got it in one shot without pauses or any skipping.... next level for me would be if you could shuffle it, or make another version that is in a different order every time. THANKS MUCH!!!!
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Level 95
Jan 7, 2022
Took me 15 tries but I finally did it. Great quiz - thanks!
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Level 62
Jan 22, 2022
121. Did decent
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Level 60
Jan 26, 2022
194. Missed St Vincent and Uruguay
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Level 57
Feb 9, 2022
190... so close
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Level 71
Feb 10, 2022
Got them all with 9:06 left!
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Level 58
Mar 6, 2022
Part of what helps me is it's always in the same order. Maybe use random order to make it tougher and/or list the countries once guessed correctly to make it easier.
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Level 68
Mar 25, 2022
Someone definitely needs to create a randomized version of this quiz to increase the difficulty level (and make sure people actually know the shape, and not just the order).
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Level 33
Apr 14, 2022
Got 100% First try, I had 5:01 remaining. (Please don't give any hate comments)
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Level 32
May 11, 2022
Got 194 missed Kiribati and Barbados
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Level 57
May 26, 2022
Dang... 195/196... Uruguay escaped me :(
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Level 35
Sep 1, 2022
Same here
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Level 58
May 27, 2022
Whenever I get to Burundi, i hear the words, "Burundi looks quite like a heart, Qatar looks like a bean"
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Level 73
Jun 20, 2022
I thought Crimea was considered Ukrainian on Jetpunk?!
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Level 54
Sep 1, 2022
I missed 3, I forgot Samoa, which isn't too bad, but I missed El Salvador and Honduras. :(
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Level 31
Oct 2, 2022
Bro like how the hell do you memorize the goddamn islands.
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Level 4
Nov 7, 2022
Nice quiz! :)
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Level 36
Nov 20, 2022
Took me a while to realise it was Andorra, got all 10:32
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Level 69
Dec 12, 2022
"Nearly impossible". Yeah, right.
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Level 33
Dec 14, 2022
Only got 197 first time, hoping to get more for next time
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Level 69
Dec 20, 2022
pretty difficult. thought i could get them all easily, but ended up only getting 177. tricky little island nations and microstates
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Level 69
Feb 7, 2023
Done in 4:30.
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Level 62
Mar 6, 2023
3:54
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Level 54
Mar 13, 2023
Love this quiz! Is is possible to make it random? Or is there a randomized version somewhere already?

I know sporcle has one, but only one country after another. I like the "clean" look of jetpunk.

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Level 48
Mar 27, 2023
after two tries i got 161, first time i got 144. im doing better, can not for the life of me get most of the islands, for some reason got Cape Verde ,Solomon islands, Nauru Tuvalu,
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Level 61
Mar 27, 2023
This is super easy because I grew up learning countries from a very young age and during that time I learned us capitals flags outlines and country outlines and associated a color fr each of them.
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Level 17
Apr 11, 2023
134/196 first try
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Level 45
Aug 26, 2023
What order are the countries in? It seems like it might be easiest to hardest? It would be better if it were a different order (randomly chosen) every time you do that quiz. Because otherwise I find that, if I do the quiz over and over, I am memorizing the order rather than the shapes.
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Level 48
Sep 21, 2023
Ukraine and Kazakhstan looks almost identical. Same with Burkina Faso and CAR. I always mix those two pairs up.
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Level 64
Sep 25, 2023
i got all but one... eswatini... i didn't wanna look through all the other ones but now that i have it wrong i totally realize
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Level 54
Oct 15, 2023
All 196 in 9 minutes, sweet!
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Level 58
Nov 1, 2023
done in 7:28
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Level 66
Nov 2, 2023
It would make it more challenging if the order of the countries changed each time one took the test. Plus, the learning process would benefit.
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Level 22
Nov 27, 2023
178 first try, only 11
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Level 47
Dec 20, 2023
I did All and I’m 11
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Level 51
Jan 24, 2024
Wow, much harder than I had expected. 108/196
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Level 39
Mar 29, 2024
i got st vincent, but not kazakhstan🤦‍♂️
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Level 58
Aug 21, 2024
the islands are torture, but I've kind of memorized the order. Would really be a challenge if you mixed up the order.
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Level 66
Sep 3, 2024
I got there, but Palau gave me some trouble...
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Level 39
Dec 11, 2024
Got all of them 1st try lol
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Level 34
Jan 5, 2025
100% first try lessgo
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Level 58
Feb 20, 2025
My final one was Grenada with 4 seconds to spare; this is an awesome quiz!
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Level 28
Apr 3, 2025
192/196
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Level 34
May 8, 2025
Can you randomise the answers please?
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Level 46
Jan 11, 2026
I've created one that's identical but randomised! https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/2100274/every-country-shape-copy-random
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Level ∞
Jan 29, 2026
Yes, they are randomized now.
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Level 41
May 18, 2025
195/196 missed bhutan
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Level 45
Jun 13, 2025
93/196 without thinking cus Im lazy
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Level 54
Sep 5, 2025
Impossible eh? I done it in 7 minutes.
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Level 66
Sep 6, 2025
Wdym with impossible
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Level 49
Sep 11, 2025
how dare they not put hawaii and alaska for usa. I almost didn't get it!!

(78/196)

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Level 20
Sep 23, 2025
i always thought mauritius was one island not like 4
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Level 46
Oct 6, 2025
168/196 cant bother to learn island shapes
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Level 47
Jan 14, 2026
I keep guessing San Marino for Uruguay
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Level 42
Jan 23, 2026
Im actually impressed how many I got.

I got 123 for reference.

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Level 71
Jan 31, 2026
I love it that the order changes all the time. I had the order kind of memorized, and now I actually have to recognize them.
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Level 51
Feb 12, 2026
Why is nauru's border like that on this quiz?
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Level 56
Mar 2, 2026
it literally just looks like that on a map. very small island country with smooth beaches, if it were bigger it might be a more complex shape
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Level 66
Mar 10, 2026
What did you expect exactly?
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Level 71
Mar 10, 2026
I love that the order changes so if I take it multiple times I can't memorize the order instead of actually learning the shapes.
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Level 19
Mar 13, 2026
164 correct

Ecuador got me! It looked so much like an island chain i didn't even consider it!

Great quiz with some damn difficult countries, i love it!

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Level 60
Mar 17, 2026
Ahhhh they made the order different I was so used to all the island countries being at the end 😭
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Level 46
Apr 3, 2026
This was pretty easy for me being someone who first learned these countries based on their shape. Finished it in my first try in about 8 minutes
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Level 96
Apr 14, 2026
For some reason Tonga is showing in the answers as "Arrived" and Palau as "Palace"