Counties of England Map Quiz

Click the name of each highlighted English county.

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First submitted	April 11, 2014
Times taken	276,476
Average score	48.9%
Rating	4.94

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Select County

Bedfordshire

Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

City of Bristol

Cornwall

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

Dorset

Durham

East Riding of Yorkshire

East Sussex

Essex

Gloucestershire

Greater London

Greater Manchester

Hampshire

Herefordshire

Hertfordshire

Isle of Wight

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Merseyside

Norfolk

North Yorkshire

Northamptonshire

Northumberland

Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire

Rutland

Shropshire

Somerset

South Yorkshire

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

Tyne and Wear

Warwickshire

West Midlands

West Sussex

West Yorkshire

Wiltshire

Worcestershire

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81 Comments

+40

Level 69

May 8, 2014

Even if you live in England, this is very difficult

Level 67

Jun 4, 2015

So true

Level 33

Aug 2, 2015

Yeah my best is only 34

Level 23

Mar 8, 2018

true

Level 68

Jun 19, 2022

It’s not something that you are taught in school

Level 41

May 8, 2014

What about teeside just north of north yorkshire

Level 56

Aug 23, 2021

Teeside is just a part of County Durham.

+16

Level 53

May 8, 2014

The north and the south were easy but the middle is just one massive blur of Birmingham and friends

Level 44

Jan 4, 2020

Ha. I'm from the Midlands so that part was the easiest for me! It's the West side that I struggle with! Not the Southwest, obviously, that's a doddle!

Level 44

May 19, 2020

As a northerner the only region I massively struggle with is the south east. I know where Surrey, Kent and Essex are but all the other London-adjacent counties are a blur.

Level 65

Jan 16, 2021

I can get them all but I do have to think about which way round Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire go!

Level 52

May 2, 2024

I always mess those two up. The rest is not too difficult, what with having lived in the Southeast, the Southwest, the East Midlands, a wife from East Anglia and having studied in Merseyside.

Level 55

Dec 14, 2021

I live in London so most of the surrounding counties are as easy as pie as it just remembering train station order simply by commutive repetition. Those central ones however especially Leicestershire confuses me

Level 64

May 8, 2014

I'm a Yank and did atrociously. Cornwall is the peninsula, the Isle of Wight is the little isle off of the Southern coast. London is in the Southeast. I assumed Kent was adjacent because it's one of the counties I heard about. Same with Surrey.

How do you even pronounce some of these? Gloucestershire? Leicestershire?

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Level 67

May 14, 2014

If it helps any, Gloucestershire would be said a bit like "Gloster-shire"; Leicestershire like "Lester-shire"; Worcestershire like "Wooster-shire", Warwickshire like "Worrick-shire", Herefordshire like "Herry-f'd-shire"; and in all cases, the "shire" is less "The Shire" a la The Hobbit and pronounced more like a very short "sheer" or "sher". Oh, and Tyne and Wear would be pronounced more like Tine and Weir.

Level 76

Aug 30, 2015

Woostershire - I was born there!

Level 32

May 3, 2016

Wooster-shire, as a southerner from Hampshire

Level 68

Dec 26, 2016

I trace my family line back to Worcestershire 1775. And now I live in the Shire - land of the Hobbits!

Level 20

Oct 27, 2019

I'm from Gloucesterhire,

I didn't know how to say it until I was 7 though!

Level 29

Sep 14, 2020

And when did you learn how to spell it?

Level 82

Jun 22, 2021

Some time in the future ;)

Level 44

Aug 16, 2021

WOOSTER shire? All these years I have been pronouncing it "war cess ter shire"

Level 72

Mar 16, 2020

Further to the replies already posted, the counties with the "cester" element in the name are derived from the latin names of cities within the counties. The names having been bequeathed us by the romans. :-)

Level 61

Nov 6, 2022

I suppose that "cester" is derived from the word "castrum," or the old square fortified military camps that Roman soldiers would build which often developed into proper towns after they'd been posted there a while?

Level 64

May 8, 2014

Also, my misadventures of this American's attempt to take this quiz reminded me of this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/its-thanksgiving-so-we-asked-some-brits-to-label-the-us-stat

Level 46

May 9, 2014

I'm American and only got 5 - used up my guesses by clicking all the northern ones til I got North Yorkshire and all the coastal ones til I got Devon.

Level 93

Aug 28, 2014

Just curious, why did you omit the City of London? Was it a scaling issue?

Level ∞

Nov 8, 2014

Yes

Level 14

Oct 11, 2014

I know nothing about the uk

Level 70

May 29, 2015

At least you got the name right.

Level 77

Aug 18, 2017

Not even that it needs capitals

Level 72

Mar 4, 2020

Capitals are overrated ;)

Level 28

Nov 27, 2014

43/47 on first try - being a Northern lad I'm still somewhat shaky on the southern counties, especially to the west of London.

Level 51

Jul 19, 2015

I thought I'd be good at this but not having Wales as a guide really threw me!

Level 59

May 5, 2019

Me also. I got the border shires all wrong but wasn't doing well leaving Devon really. Been ages since I even tried, names all familiar, even pictures in my head of places in them even, but can I map them ... nope. Ah well, my next project perhaps.

Level 75

Nov 25, 2015

I only got 1, Bedfordshire, but only because I just kept putting it in randomly. In my defense, I'm a ten year old from Colorado.

Level 37

May 29, 2018

Many thanks from Bedfordshire! You should visit one day...

Level 56

Feb 21, 2016

Got there, finally. The home counties always get me, and I took a long while not to get Berks and Bucks the wrong way round. My county of Durham looks so small next to Northumberland and North Yorks!!

Level 70

Mar 18, 2016

•The first highlighted country is in the far bottom left .........

Should read 'County'.

Level ∞

Mar 19, 2016

Fixed

Level 82

Sep 18, 2016

Well, it took me eight attempts, but I got there.

Level 65

Nov 25, 2016

I'm intrigued as to why the map appears to show a tidal bit of the River Hull, and some random river in Lincolnshire, as if they're very important...?

Level 41

Dec 24, 2016

I am so bad, I actually got 0%

Level 68

Dec 26, 2016

I admire your honesty!

Level 71

Dec 29, 2016

Durham is not the county, it is the city. The county is called "County Durham". It's the same as missing the "shire" from the others. (that and its the only one in the country to be called County something...)

Level 44

Feb 15, 2017

Took me a while to get all the southern ones right, but I got there in the end

Level 44

Apr 5, 2017

Being from the north, the north and midlands are fairly easy but the south is a blur. There's so many tiny counties down there, some of them look more like cities.

Level 14

Apr 15, 2017

Got them all right on the 13th try (American Here). I used strategies to remember. For example, there aren't any "shire" endings on the western peninsula and outside of the Yorkshires and Lancashire, none north of Manchester. Also began correlating county shapes to objects (ex- Staffordshire looks like Boris Johnson), etc. Interior England was what was toughest on me though.

Level 70

Sep 3, 2017

Wiltshire looks like Washington (the man) and Lancashire looks like Fred Flinstone.

Level 43

Apr 6, 2018

Warwickshire looks like a fish

Level 23

Aug 23, 2017

Gosh ! English (Brits) pronunciation is Damn Hard

Level 47

Dec 11, 2017

If you liked this, try this https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/266516/coastal-counties-of-britain

Level 81

Jan 4, 2018

I always get Staffordshire and Shropshire the wrong way round

Level 23

Mar 8, 2018

got them all wrong apart from south Yorkshire

Level 37

May 29, 2018

The Midlands kills me... I can do all the East Coast , I live in Cambridgeshire... The West is DEATH

Level 59

May 5, 2019

That's what I found too. The East is much easier.

Level 66

Jun 1, 2018

12/46. I'm impressed with myself. I have never been to England. I live in MI.

Level 83

Jul 26, 2018

I got five right. The only one I was remotely sure about was Cornwall.

Level 66

Sep 25, 2020

39/47 now. Whee

Level 66

Jun 20, 2022

41/47. I call that progress

Level 34

Jan 30, 2019

These are of course merely the administrative districts dreamed up in 1974 in a local government reform, which were stupidly named 'counties' by the government and now everyone knows these truncated units better than the 1000+ year old Anglo-Saxon shires they overlay.

Level 63

Feb 7, 2019

how do you make a map quiz

Level 49

Mar 2, 2019

I'm a Brit and got 66%. The South I find easy but am so ignorant of anything North of Birmingham. Must do some homework!

Level 31

Mar 30, 2019

#MakeMiddlesexExistAgain

Level 80

Apr 22, 2019

I'm proud to say that I got nine (I'm an American)

Level 72

Mar 4, 2020

Wow went from 9 to 31 :) and didnt even really studied them. Just flicked through the answers quickly and went ow -ssexes are south an yorks are northeast. And apparently quite a lot just stuck :)

Level 72

Mar 4, 2020

Now I wíll actively study the ones I missed ; Berkshire is a fallen birch with a guy Will to the left of it (or the tree is wilting for Wiltshire) and well, there is an ox fallen on top of it ;) so Oxfordshire. Now on to the rest :)

Efit: Hert and Bed together look like a heart. Unfortunately chesire does not look like cat.

Level 56

Jul 24, 2020

43% as someone who has never been to England. I am satisfied :)

Level 53

Nov 24, 2020

Could you make a different quiz with historic (not ceremonial) counties, please?

Level 66

May 24, 2021

To an American, these names are interesting. Everything seems like "West Blestforthenshireford" to me

Level 82

Jun 22, 2021

I got 44/47 this time. Same as last time. it's the ones in the midlands counties that I struggle with.

Level 82

Feb 8, 2023

Got 'em all this time.

Level 44

Aug 16, 2021

Did it repetitively until I got a 100%...loss count of how many that was. The periphery is easier than the middle, especially west of London. This helps understand the geography of Jane Austen's books better, provided the locations have not changed or been renamed in the past 150 years...

Level 60

Aug 21, 2021

These guys sure are obsessed with the Hobbit and LOTR!

Level 68

Sep 22, 2021

This took me forever, but I finally got them all correct (American here)! Thanks for a brilliant quiz!

Level 53

Oct 30, 2021

Getting all of the three counties playing ring around the rosie around the West Midlands correctly took me way longer than I'd like to admit.

Level 68

Jun 19, 2022

Why isn’t the City of London included?

Level 70

Jun 19, 2022

Too small to be visible probably. That said, I'm sure I have seen the Vatican City on quizzes like this before. Maybe because it would give away which county is Greater London?

Level 46

Nov 27, 2022

Do some of them end in "-shire"?

Level 46

Jan 30, 2023

44 out of 47 and i managed to miss london

Level 28

Apr 25, 2024

I only got Worcestershire 😭

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