20 Countries on a Topological Map

Can you guess these 20 countries, highlighted in blue, on a topological map of the world?

A topological map is a type of diagram that has been simplified so that only vital information, such as borders, remains. Other details, such as size and shape, have been removed.

The black areas represent large bodies of water

Some island countries are omitted

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Country

Afghanistan

Algeria

Andorra

Brazil

Canada

Country

Chile

D. R. Congo

Greece

Guatemala

Indonesia

Country

Israel

Italy

Mongolia

Portugal

Saudi Arabia

Country

South Africa

South Korea

Turkey

Ukraine

Vietnam

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Level 57

Sep 21, 2020

Got em all first try! Nice quiz! You can make a randomised version of it!

Level 67

Sep 21, 2020

Here is the randomized version: Random Countries on a Topological Map. Go check it out!

Level 74

Sep 21, 2020

brilliant idea. please try to make similar quizzes

Level 67

Sep 21, 2020

Thanks! I have a few similar ones here. But I'll be making more similar quizzes so subscribe so you don't miss them :)

Level 85

Sep 21, 2020

Wow. This took me a while to figure out. But once I did, I really enjoyed it. Thanks!

+16

Level 86

Sep 21, 2020

Wow, 1 minute in and I'm thinking "what the h*ll is this all about? It makes no sense." Having gotten a couple through guessing and then examining those for clues, the light bulb slowly went on. Finished with ~20 seconds left. Very clever!!

Level 63

Sep 2, 2022

Same - finished with 17 seconds to spare.

+12

Level 84

Sep 21, 2020

18 of 20. My brain hurts.

+13

Level 57

Sep 21, 2020

Did you just throw some random shapes on a map and call each one a different country?

Level 57

Sep 22, 2020

These aren't just bunch of random shapes, each of them represent a unique country, and it's clearly stated in the first caveat.

Level 57

Sep 22, 2020

I realised that after taking this quiz twice and the map quiz of it once, at first i thought it was ridiculous that this quiz was featured, but after taking the map quiz, i began to love it, and now i see it as a masterpiece.

Level 87

Sep 21, 2020

That...was...trippy...I LOVE IT!!!

Level 57

Sep 21, 2020

Congratulations on the feature! A well deserved feature!

Level 51

Sep 21, 2020

Yeah, Congrats! I knew you could do it!

Level 67

Sep 21, 2020

Thanks everyone! Glad to finally get featured :)

Level 77

Sep 21, 2020

Wow, this was weird...and pretty great!

Level 71

Sep 22, 2020

I think everyone did what I did and that is typed in every country I could think of and hope something happened. I'm still not sure what happened and why?

Level 77

Sep 22, 2020

I made educated guessed base of the rough shape and location of the blue shapes etc., so that I finished with 1:39 remaining.

Level 59

Sep 22, 2020

Only borders(both land and sea) matters here.

Level 76

Oct 18, 2020

I'm with you Malbaby. I still don't get it, but congrats on the feature, zwerth.

Level 61

Nov 3, 2020

Every white or blue shape is a country. The blue ones are the ones you have to guess. The black lines are oceans or bodies of water like the Black Sea or Caspian Sea. Size and shape are 100% not to scale, just borders. For example, the very top left shape is Canada, below that is the US, and then Mexico, Guatemala, and little triangles of Belize and El Salvador.

Level 80

Dec 4, 2020

Thank you for the explanation. I absolutely could not figure out what the blue and white was.

Level 73

Sep 22, 2020

This is one of the best quizzes I've done on this site, just beautiful! Must have taken a lot of work!

Level 65

Sep 22, 2020

I loved this! I hope you can get featured the all countries!

Level 84

Sep 22, 2020

This was great. Once you get one, you start to see the pattern. Like South Africa with it's two little boxes representing Lesotho and ESwatini. Nice job!

Level 65

Sep 22, 2020

Phew, that was tough but interesting. Made me really think. Well done.

Level 71

Sep 22, 2020

Congratulations on your first feature.

Level 78

Sep 22, 2020

Took me until there was like 45 seconds left to finally figure out that I was supposed to guess the blue areas...

Level 70

Sep 22, 2020

this is one of the coolest quizzes I've seen

Level 73

Sep 22, 2020

20/20, it was interesting.

Level 84

Sep 23, 2020

Easy

Level 76

Oct 18, 2020

Hard

Level 70

Sep 23, 2020

Awesome quiz! I loved the challenge of figuring out the map. My only complaint is that it says that countries with no borders are omitted (which makes sense), but so are the Dominican Republic/Haiti and UK/Ireland, which do have a border. It would be possible to have them represented too (as two countries that only border each other and are surrounded by ocean).

Level ∞

Sep 23, 2020

Changed the caveat to "some island countries are omitted".

Level 75

Sep 25, 2020

wow, amazing!

Level 68

Sep 28, 2020

Very good quiz! A bit confusing at first sight, but finally very interesting!

Level 72

Sep 28, 2020

I guess I just don't get it. I typed in "Brazil", and a box lit up. I then typed in EVERY country that borders Brazil, and not one of the adjacent boxes lit up. I could get the occasional other country to show up randomly, but it would similarly lead to nothing else. Huh.

Level 67

Sep 28, 2020

Well, the idea of the quiz is to only type in the countries that are highlighted in blue. So, you have to determine which country is which by their borders and general geography. Hope this helped!

Level 72

Oct 1, 2020

Actually, you're right, it did help! Thanks!

Level 76

Oct 18, 2020

I'm pretty dense at this kind of quiz, but I think if you had said the answers were the countries in the blue boxes I could have understood it much better. I thought the blue boxes must be some sort of water feature. Now that I know those are the countries to get, it makes more sense.

Level 65

Oct 2, 2020

Wow ! Quite hard but really interesting :D

Level 54

Oct 13, 2020

That is an amazing idea

Level 88

Oct 18, 2020

I had trouble figuring this quiz out at first, but then once I understood it, it became a lot easier.

Level 71

Oct 18, 2020

The highlights aren't showing up for me? I'm using a Mac and the Opera browser. Other map quizzes don't have this problem

Level 67

Oct 18, 2020

Hmm, that's very odd. I'm not sure why this is happening... maybe try using a different browser? It works on chrome for me

Level 40

Oct 18, 2020

this hurts my brain

Level 67

Oct 18, 2020

I didn't really know what I was doing, but I must have because I kept guessing countries and getting them right all in a row! (they were educated guesses). Still don't get it though, despite the high scores!!

Level 69

Oct 18, 2020

It took me the longest time to figure out it's the blue areas you're supposed to guess. -_-

Level 70

Oct 18, 2020

Loved this, excellent logic exercise.

Level 63

Oct 18, 2020

mind-blowing, good one!

Thanks

Level 56

Oct 18, 2020

Very challenging quiz! Congratulations! I love it!

pls make a second part

Level 67

Oct 18, 2020

There actually is a second part already! Here it is: 20 Countries on a Topological Map #2. And go check out the rest of the series if you liked this one!

Level 39

Oct 18, 2020

This was a crazy challenge but I loved it! Got everything except one on the first go. The right-hand portion of the 'map' was the most challenging by far.

Level 45

Oct 18, 2020

Absolutely loved this quiz! Thank you for creating it :)

Level 74

Oct 18, 2020

This is such a cool idea! Also, this is abstract art and I want it framed on my wall

Level 52

Oct 18, 2020

dunno how i feel about mongolia being so small :((. love the quiz tho

Level 66

Oct 18, 2020

too small for Mongolia

Level 74

Oct 18, 2020

"A topological map is a type of diagram that has been simplified so that only vital information, such as borders, remains. Other details, such as size and shape, have been removed."

Level 56

Oct 18, 2020

Awesome quizz!

Level 63

Oct 18, 2020

Please make a quiz for all country polygons in this map.

Level 67

Oct 18, 2020

I've already made a map quiz for this: Topological Map of the World Quiz. You can also check out the whole series for other similar quizzes!

Level 66

Jun 20, 2021

That quiz won the nomination, but didn't get featured. Why not? And now we can't nominate it again.

Level 56

Oct 19, 2020

One of the best quizzes of the site

Level 80

Oct 19, 2020

Loved it!! Great, abstract, amazing

Level 35

Oct 19, 2020

Brilliant and original quiz! Congrats!

Level 72

Oct 19, 2020

Genius idea! loved it

Level 62

Oct 19, 2020

This is super weird! First time I've ever seen something like this, and I got 20/20

Level 68

Oct 19, 2020

Really cool quiz! Where did you find this map?

Level 67

Oct 20, 2020

I actually made this map myself, along with all the other topological maps in my other quizzes! I got the concept from here, but the actual design is all mine :)

Level 67

Oct 20, 2020

Great!

Level 43

Oct 20, 2020

Argh! So hard!

Level 61

Oct 20, 2020

Incredible! Really enjoyable. Thank you.

Level 56

Oct 20, 2020

This is such a good idea. Great quiz =)

Level 81

Oct 21, 2020

Didn't have a clue

Level 58

Oct 22, 2020

Congrats om the feature, but your “all countries of the world on a topological map” should be featured as well

Level 50

Oct 25, 2020

A wonderful concept!

Suggestion: Include in the description that the shapes for the answers are highlighted blue. This should remove the confusion a lot of people are experiencing, while not taking away from the challenge of the quiz. :)

Level 67

Oct 25, 2020

Yeah, that's a great idea. I'll go ahead and do that, thanks!

Level 45

Oct 26, 2020

This is... fun.

(No it actually IS really fun. Love it)

Level 62

Oct 29, 2020

Hi zwerth, I really liked this idea and so I made a few topological maps of Spain, France, Italy and Germany, just wanted to let you know. It was really fun to make so thanks for the inspiration!

Level 67

Oct 29, 2020

Wow! These are really awesome. I'm so glad I could inspire you to make some similar quizzes. I'll make sure to try all of them and nice job!

Level 62

Nov 5, 2020

ZWERTH!!!!! One of them got featured!!!! I got my first featured quiz!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU

Level 67

Nov 5, 2020

WOW awesome!!! That's amazing great job!!!!

Level 70

Nov 4, 2020

why would you do this

Level 58

Jan 27, 2021

What do you mean, this is a fun and interesting challenge imo.

Level 57

Dec 4, 2020

I'm starting to understand this type of quiz and it's one of the best I've ever seen!

Level 70

Dec 6, 2020

I recall taking this quiz not too long ago and being totally confused. Started to figure it out but time ran out. Just took it again and finally found the groove. Great quiz!

Level 87

Jan 16, 2021

After taking this quiz a few times I now appreciate the smart kid in the room I didn't understand at first.

Level 58

Jan 27, 2021

Just love this map! Amazing quiz.

Level 40

Feb 15, 2021

dafuq is this

Level 68

Mar 10, 2021

I think you should specific that you're trying to fill in the BLUE areas, not every white box. I was beyond confused when apparently the USA was not below Canada.

Level 67

Mar 10, 2021

That's already specified in the first sentence of the description :)

Level 54

Mar 19, 2021

I am dumb or is this really confusing

Level 57

Nov 2, 2021

Ive been sitting here reading the directions and looking at the map and I still don’t get it

Level 49

Feb 9, 2022

physiological horror

Level 52

Feb 14, 2022

How do you figure this out?

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