Seas of Europe

Try to name the seas that border Europe.

For this quiz, a sea is anything that is called a sea. Doesn't include gulfs, bays, straits, channels, etc...

Some seas are part of other seas.

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First submitted	September 22, 2014
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Sea
Sea of Azov
Baltic Sea
	Sea of Åland
	Archipelago Sea
	Bothnian Sea
Barents Sea
	Pechora Sea
	White Sea

Sea
Black Sea
Cantabrian Sea
Caspian Sea
Celtic Sea
Greenland Sea
Sea of the Hebrides
Irish Sea
Iroise Sea
Kara Sea
Sea of Marmara

Sea
Mediterranean Sea
	Aegean Sea
		Myrtoan Sea
		Thracian Sea
	Adriatic Sea
	Alboran Sea
	Balearic Sea
	Sea of Crete
	Ionian Sea
	Ligurian Sea
	Sea of Sardinia
	Tyrrhenian Sea

Sea
North Sea
	Wadden Sea
Norwegian Sea

Level 91

Sep 23, 2014

A map would do this quiz a world... or at least a continent... of good

+19

Level ∞

Oct 17, 2016

Added a map!

Level 91

Nov 22, 2016

Yay! Thanks QM!

Level 64

Nov 22, 2016

wow! Completely redone!

Level 57

Sep 30, 2014

How about Zuider Zee, to keep the Dutch happy?

Level 58

Oct 26, 2014

Since the Afsluitdijk has been build, it is not called Zuiderzee any more, but IJsselmeer (IJssel Lake)

+22

Level 55

Nov 22, 2016

@ponnuki you can't just make up words

Level 65

May 11, 2019

What do you mean? His username?

Level 78

Nov 27, 2020

@DeusCaritasEst I don't think he's making up words.

Level 43

Oct 2, 2021

it was a joke

Level 68

Oct 26, 2014

Got twenty-- pretty proud of myself.

Level 85

Oct 26, 2014

Hard quiz indeed, but most people will get more than two. The stats clearly show that there are seven easy answers ;).

+11

Level ∞

Oct 27, 2014

JetPunk users are really smart compared to average people!

Level 59

Apr 24, 2020

Yes, this site is full of amazing people

Level 40

Jan 23, 2022

i agree (:

Level 68

Nov 24, 2016

Got 8. Never heard of most of the others. I have never travelled all around Europe.

Level 63

Feb 11, 2021

I got 18, which I thought wasn't a lot, but beat 90% of people.

Level 74

Oct 26, 2014

Bothnia is considered a "Gulf of" in most languages

Level 46

Oct 26, 2014

Gulf of Bothnia consists of Bay of Bothnia (Perämeri in Finnish), Kvarken (Merenkurkku) and Bothnian Sea (Selkämeri)

Level 53

Feb 4, 2020

OK I bow down in respect. My hunch is that you didn't even need a map to tell us that.

Level 66

Oct 26, 2014

You forgot the Iroise Sea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroise_Sea

Level ∞

Oct 27, 2014

Added

Level 75

Oct 30, 2014

Since you're doing indents to show which seas are subsets of other seas, you may want to indicate that Iroise Sea is contained inside the Celtic Sea.

Level ∞

Oct 31, 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroise_Sea

Level 75

Nov 22, 2016

This map shows the extent of the Celtic Sea (the red dashed line), showing that it contains the Iroise Sea.

Level 65

Feb 15, 2019

It sounds like someone trying to say Irish, with an accent haha

Level 55

Oct 26, 2014

And Cantabrian Sea (Mar Cantábrico, in Spain), in Bay of Biscay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Biscay

Level ∞

Oct 17, 2016

Added!

Level 50

Oct 27, 2014

Where's the Channel?

Level 45

Nov 25, 2015

lol

Level 66

Aug 8, 2018

over the Chunnel

Level 9

Oct 29, 2014

There are seas missing like areal, Arabian, China sea, bering

Level 59

Apr 24, 2020

Europe

Level 43

Feb 13, 2015

Great quiz. How about a "Seas of Asia"?

Level 82

Nov 22, 2016

Too many seas in Indonesia :)

Level 64

Mar 28, 2015

The Cantabrian Sea is the coastal sea of the Atlantic Ocean that washes the northern coast of Spain and the southwest side of the Atlantic coast of France; ...

No further comment just hate being picky!

Level 64

Aug 20, 2015

Quiz master gave up on Cantabrian Sea just wondering why?

Level 67

Mar 4, 2020

he added it now.

Level 77

Oct 28, 2015

Caspian Sea? Pretty sure that's well into Asia.

Level 83

Nov 2, 2016

If the Urals and the Caucasus divide the continents, then some of the Caspian definitely borders Europe.

Level 82

Nov 22, 2016

Urals - River Ural - Caspian Sea - Caucasus - Black Sea - Bosphorus - Sea of Marmara - Dardanelles - Aegean Sea

All of Volga (it flows into Caspian sea) and Astrakhan are in Europe.

Level 65

Nov 9, 2015

A map to go along with this quiz, like the Countries of the Word quiz, would be very helpful.

Level ∞

Oct 17, 2016

Done!

Level 32

Dec 9, 2015

I love geography, it's gotten to the point where I can name every country in the world, it's capital and tell you where it's located. This was very refreshing, knowing that even now there are still a lot of places in our world to learn about.

Level 73

Jan 23, 2016

If you include the Myrtoan and Thracian seas, you must also add Icarian Sea (contained in the Aegean Sea), Levantine Sea (south of Anatoila), Cilician Sea (north of Cyprus, included in the Levantine Sea) and Libyan Sea (between Libya and Crete. They're all contained in the Mediterranean Sea.

You could even add the Karpathian Sea, but that would be kind of a stretch since it's rarely mentioned in English.

Level 82

Nov 22, 2016

Some of these don't border Europe

Level 64

Feb 24, 2016

cantabrian sea, menor sea...

Level 75

Feb 26, 2016

Apparently any two contiguous drops of water in Europe constitute a "sea."

Level 82

Nov 22, 2016

Nope, in Croatia there's only Adriatic sea. Similarly in other archipelagoes , there could be many more in Scotland, Finland, Estonia etc.

Level 36

Mar 9, 2016

Please mention if Greenland is included. Even though I got all of them right, please mention.

Level 71

Oct 2, 2023

Greenland isn't included, but Iceland (and to some extent maybe Svalbard) is.

Level 68

Jun 27, 2016

greenland is part of north america so doesn't the greenland sea not count

Level 83

Nov 2, 2016

I think because it borders Iceland and Svalbard - both of which are considered parts of Europe - it is included here.

Level 22

Aug 8, 2016

Tasman Sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_Sea

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Level 83

Sep 16, 2016

Yes, that is the name of a sea that is nowhere near Europe. Your point?

Level 43

Feb 25, 2019

The Tasman Sea borders New Caledonia, so they probably thought that should be included. Territories aren't included though.

Level 76

Oct 23, 2016

Fine solution :)

Level 67

Nov 22, 2016

please accept "cretan" for "sea of crete" and "sardinian" for "sea of sardinia"

Level 83

Nov 22, 2016

In Arabic, the Mediterranean Sea is known as the White Sea.

Level 82

Nov 22, 2016

Turkish also - Ak+deniz

Level 66

Nov 22, 2016

What about the Gulf of Finland or the Sea of Murmansk?

Level 55

Nov 22, 2016

When in doubt....guess colors.

Level 64

Nov 22, 2016

and compass directions!

Level 67

Dec 13, 2021

and islands

Level 70

Nov 22, 2016

Damn - tried "Hebridean" and didn't get the Sea of the Hebrides. Had the right idea but not the right wording :P

Level 59

Jul 14, 2020

You were not the only one!

Level 75

Nov 22, 2016

Got my "ic" and "an" mixed up on some of them - I said Ionic instead of Ionian, etc.

Level 65

Feb 15, 2019

Same here, tried it a few times, even a variation, but not the right way. Also nearly typed Norwegian but didn't, but had tried Icelandic... same with crete

Level 82

Nov 22, 2016

What about Libyan Sea south of Crete?

Level 65

Nov 22, 2016

The Wadden Sea is an ecosystem of the intertidal zone, found on many coasts around the world. It's not a strictly defined topological region like the other seas in this quiz.

Level 58

Nov 23, 2016

No, the Wadden Sea is a specific area, between the Frisian islands and the mainland coast. The term 'wadden' is sometimes also used for any considerable intertidal area, but Wadden Sea is still the name of the sea area, not a mere description.

Level 66

Jan 27, 2017

Brilliant quiz please make more!

Level 65

Feb 15, 2019

More seas? (Wanna sea more ? ;) )

Level 71

Jan 31, 2017

Good quiz, like it that you can sea the answers by pointing at the red dots if needs be, good help to learning. Could have given me Hebridean Sea and Cretan Sea I feel.

Level 74

Feb 24, 2017

The Malin Sea off the north coast of Ireland and west coast of Scotland?

Level 62

Apr 26, 2017

What about the Holy See? It's in Europe

Level 62

Apr 26, 2017

For what it's worth, this is what American children learn in grade school: Mediterranean, Baltic, Black, Caspian, Aegean, Adriatic, North.

Level 65

Feb 15, 2019

I think those are the exact ones we learned in Europe as well. Though ionean might but up there as well, not real sure though, might be learned that later

Level 65

Feb 15, 2019

(And not too sure we learned Baltic.. and we might ve learned barentszee but that might ve been with history about spitsbergen. Is and we also learned skaggerak and kattegat (which translates as cats hole in my language haha) I guess they aren't seas but I tried them anyway, cause they were stored in the same place (elementary school ) in my mind. Along with beringstrait and strait of Gibraltar which kept popping up in my mind)

Level 68

May 21, 2017

Got 16. Heard of about half of the ones I missed, not bad.

Level 61

Jul 25, 2017

What about the Libyan Sea? Pretty sure it borders southern Crete.

Level 71

Jul 28, 2017

I just earned 5 point for getting 64%!!!

Level 45

Sep 19, 2017

i missed Aegean sea,Ionian sea,sea of Marmara,Greenland sea,sea of crete,bothnian sea,sea of sardinia,liguarian sea,sea of the Hebrides,Cantabrian,Wadden,Thracian,Myrtoan , Iroise and archipelago.i guessed pechora sea .Cool Quiz!

Level 30

Oct 31, 2017

Geez... Even though I've been trying to study maps a lot, I guess the seas passed by me. I only knew of the Mediterranean, Aegean, Adriatic, Baltic... and I think that's it?

I only started really learning Geography in late August, but I'm still concerned by my lack of knowledge on the seas. That's crazy to think there are 33 of them, and that's just according to this quiz. Can't imagine how many there might be outside of this, too!

But great quiz :)

Level 64

Apr 24, 2018

Please accept "Cretan" sea

Level 74

Jun 27, 2018

pechora sea 1/100 got it right. It was you quizzmaster?

Level 75

Sep 6, 2018

Possibly a side-effect of the recent reformatting of quizzes - the grey-hatched countries now block out several of the answer panels, and the answers do not display, even after the end of the quiz. Also, Greenland seems to have been pushed unnaturally close to Iceland.

Level ∞

Sep 6, 2018

It works for me. I'm assuming that this is an Internet Explorer issue. I'll take a look when I get a chance. I'm pretty sure the distance between Greenland and Iceland is accurate.

Level 68

Sep 29, 2018

This quiz is a bit of a challenge. I got only 11 right and I'm above average!!

Level 68

Nov 28, 2018

Only got the Sea of Azov due to recent events!

Level 43

Feb 25, 2019

Quizmaster, could you make one of these for Asia? It'd be a great quiz!

Level 43

Feb 25, 2019

Damn I missed two :/

Level 58

Jun 2, 2019

Tell me right now who got the pechora sea

Level 80

Jul 25, 2019

Why is 'Azof' considered a mistake?

Level 61

Aug 11, 2019

I have been to most of them so not too bad.

Level 44

Dec 1, 2019

This is so cool, I knew less than half of these! Nice one :) :)

Level 50

Feb 5, 2020

Should have just put Crete and Hebrides, I kept doing Cretian, Creteian, Hebridean, etc.

Level 77

Oct 27, 2020

Wow! 18/33 gets me 4/5.

Level 41

Oct 27, 2020

I'd have done well to get a C...

Level 40

Jan 7, 2021

20 first try. Cool!

Level 66

Jan 2, 2022

Sheesh. The Caspian Sea is a lake.

Level 68

Apr 22, 2022

Anyone else get half of these from playing Diplomacy?

Level 76

Apr 26, 2022

Why does Jetpunk not recognize the Caspian for what it is--a lake.

Level 71

Nov 14, 2023

It does. That's why Jetpunk considers Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan as landlocked. The current definition in the caveats covers that.

Level 75

Jul 18, 2022

Psst! That plattitude fellow. He hasn't got the Wadden, Myrtoan, Thracian, Cantabrian, Iroise or Archipelago Seas on his 'Draw the World Map' quiz. Or the Seas of Aland, Hebrides or Sardinia. Keep it quiet please, people. I have nearly conquered his flaming quiz.

Level 44

Jul 21, 2022

Sea of Moyle?

Level 56

Nov 21, 2022

i think the boxes are a little wierd...

Level 59

Oct 11, 2023

The indents are to show which seas are part of another sea.

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