Countries, flags and capitals · ages 8–14
Country, flag and capital quiz games for kids
Find a country on the world map, tap its neighbours and its capital city, then guess the flag. Country Explorer has 10 countries to explore, each with 10 levels, and levels 1 and 2 of every country are free to play, with no account and no sign-up.
The countries your child can explore
Country Explorer is one game for each country: Australia, Azerbaijan, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. Every country has the same 10 levels, built from its own map, cities, flag and facts, so a child who finishes one country can start the next and meet a new part of the world.
It is not a countries of the world quiz that runs through every country on the globe. It goes deeper on fewer countries: where each one is, what borders it, its capital and biggest cities and its flag, then the flags and capitals of the countries around it. Across all 10 games, that is the flags of 31 countries.
Open a country's game page:
Which levels ask about flags, capitals and maps
Each level below is in every one of the 10 country games, except Seven Lands, Five Seas, which is in Waymark Isles, our map skills game. Here is what each level asks and whether it is free.
Where in the World
Country Explorer, level 1Free, no accountA world map. Your child finds the country, and the continents it isn't part of, so they learn where it sits in the world before anything else.
Neighbours
Country Explorer, level 2Free, no accountA map of the country's region. Your child taps each neighbour: the countries that share a border with it and, for some countries, the ones across the sea.
Capital and Cities
Country Explorer, level 3Free with an accountThe country's own map, with its capital and 4 of its biggest cities. Your child taps each one as the game names it, so the capital is learned as a place on the map, not only as a word.
Flags
Country Explorer, level 4Free with an accountGuess the flag. First the flags of the country and 3 of its neighbours are shown one by one, each with its name. Then the game names each country and your child picks its flag from 6 flags, 2 of which are extra flags of other countries.
Neighbours' Capitals
Country Explorer, level 9SubscriptionA capital cities quiz on the countries around it. Each question names a neighbour and your child picks its capital from a short list. The wrong answers are usually the capitals of other neighbours, the ones easiest to mix up.
Explorer's Challenge
Country Explorer, level 10SubscriptionA mixed quiz on the country itself, with questions such as its capital, its highest mountain, its longest river and its money.
Seven Lands, Five Seas
Waymark Isles, level 4Free with an accountA world map quiz on continents and oceans. Your child taps each continent and the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans as the game names them.
How the map and flag questions work
Map questions are answered on the map itself. The game names a place, a country, a neighbour, a city or a continent, and your child taps it. Before the questions start, your child can explore the map, where every place is labelled; nothing is scored until they start the quiz. Each map question in Country Explorer has a 25-second timer.
After each answer the game says what the place is, for example that it is the capital city or that it shares a land border, so a wrong tap is also a moment to learn the right one. In Flags, the flags are shown with their names before the round, and your child has 60 seconds to match the whole set.
Getting at least 60% right opens the next level, and each level earns up to three stars for accuracy, which gives children a reason to come back to a country and beat their own score.
How it differs from a flags of the world quiz
A flags of the world quiz usually shows one flag after another from all over the globe. Here, each flag your child is asked to find belongs to a country they have just found on the map, next to the neighbours they have just tapped, so a flag is tied to a place rather than learned as a picture on its own.
The trade-off is range: today the games cover 10 countries and the flags of 31, not every country in the world. If your child wants to know where countries are, which ones are next to each other and what their capitals are, that depth is the point.
What's free
Levels 1 and 2 of every country, Where in the World and Neighbours, are free to play with no account, no sign-up and no email address. The capital and flag levels, Capital and Cities and Flags, are levels 3 and 4: free too, once your child has a free account. From level 5 onwards, including Neighbours' Capitals, levels are part of the subscription. In Waymark Isles, Seven Lands, Five Seas is level 4, so it is free with an account.
Which age these geography quizzes suit
Country Explorer is made for ages 8 to 14 and Waymark Isles for ages 8 to 12. A younger child, or one who finds maps hard, can start with Waymark Isles: its first levels teach the compass and a map key, and it has 18 levels of map skills in all.
A child who already reads maps can start with any country, for example the one they live in, if it is one of the 10, or one they are learning about at school. In Country Explorer, children can also choose a home country from the 10, and questions that compare countries, by size or population, then put the country they are exploring next to their own.
Country, flag and capital quizzes: questions parents ask
Is this a countries of the world quiz?
Not of every country. Country Explorer has 10 countries today: Australia, Azerbaijan, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. Each one has 10 levels, from finding it on the world map to its flag, its capital and the capitals of its neighbours.
Can my child practise guessing flags?
Yes. Level 4 of every country, Flags, asks your child to pick each country's flag from 6. Across the 10 countries, that is the flags of 31 countries. It is free with a free account.
Is there a capital cities quiz?
Yes, two kinds. Level 3, Capital and Cities, asks your child to find the capital and the biggest cities on the country's own map; it is free with an account. Level 9, Neighbours' Capitals, asks for the capitals of its neighbours and is part of the subscription.
What can my child play for free?
Levels 1 and 2 of every country, finding it on the world map and finding its neighbours, are free with no account. Levels 3 and 4, the capital and the flags, are free with an account. Later levels are part of the subscription.
Does my child have to type the answers?
No. Children tap the place on the map, the flag or the answer they choose, so the games work the same on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
What age are these geography quizzes for?
Country Explorer is for ages 8 to 14 and Waymark Isles, which teaches reading a map, for ages 8 to 12.
Pick a country and start with the map
Open any country's game and play Where in the World, level 1. It takes a few minutes and needs no account, and the levels after it lead to the country's capital and its flag.