Geography - Online Games
Reviews and ratings of quality, hand-picked, websites offering free online map and geography games
Want to brush up on your knowledge of countries and capitals?
The following websites feature map games, and geography quizzes.
Great fun for children and adults.
How well do you know your world?
The phrase "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" springs to mind. This is fast, furious and pretty difficult, especially on the later levels. Good fun, though! This game is from TravelPod.
Geosense
• www.geosense.net
And here is another game similar to the one above. This one even has a high score table.
How many countries can you name in 5 minutes?
• www.oneplusyou.com/bb/view2/countries
Well, there are around 200 so this is quite a tough challenge!
Rethinking Schools - Map Game
• www.rethinkingschools.org/
Learn the countries of the Middle East in this drag and drop map game. The Middle East stretches as far west as the Western Sahara in Africa, so you can brush up on your North Africa Countries as well. This is a drag-and-drop game you play by clicking the link or the map graphic. (All ages). Requires Flash. You can also print out the map when you have finished.
English Counties Quiz
• http://codebox.no-ip.net
You get 5 minutes to name all the English counties. There is a map that fills up with your correct answers. (Use the search to find the quiz)
TimedQuiz
• www.timedquiz.com/timed/us-states
How many US states can you name in 10 minutes?
National Geographic - Geospy
• www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy
You answer "Where is" questions by clicking on the map. You can choose the continents games, the Countries Games (you choose a continent first) or the states and provinces game which is confined to North America. The maps are a little small but the website is fairly slick.
Lizard Point - Test your Geography Knowlegde
• www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz
There are several quizzes that focus on different parts of the world plus you can choose to identify countries or country capitals. You get 3 goes to locate the country/city before you have to move on to the next question and you get a score at the end.
Sheppard Software
• www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm
Lots of geography games for the entire world - click on a region and choose from capitals, countries or landscape. The games are a great learning tool.
Purpose Games
• www.purposegames.com
Lots and lots of map games that are timed. Just check out the high score tables to see what you are up against!
Europe Quiz
• www.quia.com/mc/321370.html
Match up capital cities with their European country. No map but this is pretty compulsive until you have actually learned all the names!
Triviaplaza - World Geography Quizzes
• www.triviaplaza.com
The great thing about these is that you can keep on playing until you get all the answers right and get marked with an A plus! The questions are not identical each time, but reappear often enough so that you can get a perfect score if you remember the answers. Choose from world landmarks, mountains, capitals, countries, flags and the shapes of world regions.
Seterra - Learn Geography
• www.wartoft.nu/software/seterra/
This a freeware program you can download. It uses maps to test you on countries and capitals plus there are quizzes. A few hours with this program and you will be a geography egghead for sure! The dowload is quite small, only around 800kbs.
US States
There are a few drag and drop games for the US map.
• www.addictinggames.com/50states.html
Learn where all the 50 states of the US are in this drag and drop geography game. You are timed and get a percentage mark at the end.
• www.sheppardsoftware.com
This is very similar to the above game.
And if you feel like learning more about each state, head over to 50states.com or to theus50.com which have all the information you need.
If you need to do some learning first, try out www.scholastic.com/play/states.htm or http://www.yourchildlearns.com/us_map.htm
Map & Map Games
• www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF#
There are several map games from maps.com including games where you click a map and drag and drop games. There is even a map crossword puzzle.
