Africa Map Quiz: click every African country on the map

Africa's borders, by the numbers

With 50 countries, Africa packs in more shared borders than either Europe or Asia in this quiz. The Democratic Republic of the Congo alone borders nine other countries in the pool: the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola. That makes it one of the most useful countries to place correctly first, since getting its shape right anchors most of Central Africa around it.

An unlabeled map, not a borderless one

No African country is named on the map itself. The names exist, but on demand only: hover a shape with a mouse, or focus it with a keyboard, and its name appears before you click. Leaving names permanently on screen would remove the part of the quiz that is actually hard.

Outlines are the opposite case. All 50 country shapes are drawn, because clicking a shape is how you answer, and a shape without edges cannot be clicked. So if you came here from a search for an africa no borders quiz, know that a borderless map in the strict sense, with the internal outlines gone and only the coastline left, is a different format that this page does not offer.

African countries that are easy to miss

A handful of countries reward an extra look before you click: the Gambia, Eswatini, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau are all small enough to sit tucked against a larger neighbour. Lesotho is a special case worth knowing in advance: it's a landlocked country entirely surrounded by South Africa, so it never touches the edge of the continent the way most other small countries do. Hovering or focusing a shape shows its name first, the fastest way to build a mental map of where each of these sits before you have to commit under time pressure.

How a round works here

Each Africa Map Quiz session is ten rounds. Every round names one of the 50 African countries and asks you to click its shape on the cropped map; hovering or focusing any shape first shows its name, so you can double-check before committing. A correct click updates your streak and score immediately, a miss resets the streak but never ends the session, and after ten rounds you get a results screen with your score, your accuracy as a percentage, and a short review list of anything you missed with the correct country named next to it.

Your best Africa Map Quiz score is saved locally in your own browser, kept separate from your worldwide Map Quiz score. See the privacy policy for exactly what that local storage does, and does not, touch.

Testing a different continent

The Europe Map Quiz and Asia Map Quiz use the same cropped-map engine, scoped to their own continent's country pool. All three share the same underlying map geometry and country data as the unscoped Map Quiz: sourced once, verified, and kept current rather than quietly left outdated.

The same African countries are also playable in the other two modes. The Africa Flag Quiz asks for them by flag, which is harder than it sounds because so many African flags share one palette.