EXPLORE
Explore Geography.
Everything this site publishes, in one place: 64 pages across seven sections, from quizzes you can play in the browser to sourced explainers on why a canal or an island matters. Pick a section, or read the full index below it.
Seven ways in.
Quizzes
Five quizzes that run in the browser. No account, no scoreboard, and the full answer list at the end.
Tools
Two interactive tools that answer a question by showing you the data rather than describing it.
Explainers
One question, one calm answer, with the figures checked and the sources named.
Languages
Which countries speak a language, how it got there, and what the map looks like now.
Lists
Counted lists with the working shown: the smallest, the most, and every country that starts with a letter.
Compare
Two things people mix up, set side by side until the difference is obvious.
Learn
Longer reads, sourced end to end, on subjects that take more than a paragraph.
Every page, by section.
The complete index. Each of these is a standalone page with its own sources.
Explainers
- How many countries are in the world?
- How many countries are in Africa?
- How many countries are in Asia?
- How many countries are in Europe?
- How many countries are in North America?
- How many countries are in South America?
- Is Taiwan a country?
- Why is Taiwan so important?
- Why is Ukraine important?
- Which countries are in the EU?
- Why is the Suez Canal so important?
- Why is the Panama Canal so important?
- Why is Greenland so big on maps?
- Why is Greenland icy and Iceland green?
- Where does the Nile start and end?
- Where does the Amazon start and end?
- Where does lithium come from?
- Where does chocolate come from?
- Where does coffee come from?
- Where does your phone come from?
- Holland or the Netherlands?
- Why do countries have flags?
- Why was Africa called the dark continent?
- Why is Canberra the capital of Australia?
- Why does South Africa have three capitals?
- Why is Ottawa the capital of Canada?
- Does Switzerland have a capital?
- Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
- Why are there two Koreas?
Lists
- What is the smallest country in the world?
- Which country has the most islands?
- Which country has the most time zones?
- What is the most spoken language in the world?
- Countries with similar flags
- Countries and capitals of South America
- Countries that start with A
- Countries that start with E
- Countries that start with S
- Countries that start with M
- Countries that start with B
- Countries that start with C
- Countries that start with G
- Countries that start with N
- Countries that start with T
- Countries that start with P