Asia Map Quiz: Find Every Country on the Map

The quiz names a country and the answer is a tap on the map, one after another until all 48 areas have been asked. No account is needed. The list under the map is arranged by region and says how the map treats the disputed cases.

Asia is split here according to the United Nations: Central, Eastern, South-eastern, Southern and Western Asia, plus Taiwan, which the UN scheme does not list. The smallest countries carry a marker, and on a phone the map zooms in where a tap would otherwise miss.

How the Asia map quiz works

1. The prompt above the map reads "Find:" followed by a country name. The countries come in random order.
2. Tap or click the country on the map. With the keyboard, Tab moves between countries and Enter or Space gives the answer.
3. The country that was asked for turns green after a correct tap and red after a wrong one, so the right answer stays visible either way.
4. Very small countries get a marker. A tap near one of them zooms the map in by a factor of three, and a second zoom is possible if needed. In the zoomed view the tap on the country or its marker gives the answer, a Zoom out button returns to the full map, and after every answer the map goes back to the full view.
5. The score line shows the correct answers and the number of questions asked. At the end the quiz shows the result out of 48 and lists the countries to review. New round starts again with a fresh order.

The quiz runs in the browser and needs JavaScript. Without it the prompt says so, and the lists below the map remain readable.

Countries on the Asia map quiz

The UN geoscheme (M49) lists 50 entries for Asia: 5 in Central Asia, 7 in Eastern Asia, 11 in South-eastern Asia, 9 in Southern Asia and 18 in Western Asia. The UN states that such groupings are "for statistical convenience" and imply no political or other affiliation. The quiz drops three of the 50 and adds one. Hong Kong and Macau, both Special Administrative Regions of China, are not asked for separately, and Cyprus is part of the Europe quiz. Taiwan is added. That gives 50 − 3 + 1 = 48, spread over the regions as 5, 5, 11, 9 and 17, with Taiwan as the 48th.

Russia is not part of the quiz. The UN lists it in Eastern Europe, and it is not in the Europe map quiz either. Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are in the Asia quiz, as in the UN scheme. Names use common short forms: Turkey, where the UN writes Türkiye, and Palestine for the State of Palestine.

The regions are listed below with the countries as they appear on the map, each with its capital.

Borders and disputed cases on the map

The shapes are Natural Earth's, and Natural Earth shows borders according to their de facto status. On the Asia map those lines are used as they come. Kashmir is one case where that matters. The UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan has monitored the ceasefire between the two countries in the State of Jammu and Kashmir since January 1949. In Natural Earth's country data the Siachen Glacier is an area of its own, drawn in the grey background and not selectable, and there is no separate Kashmir area. The sea claims in the South China Sea are not part of the quiz, which asks for countries only.

Northern Cyprus is drawn as part of Cyprus, as in the Europe quiz. Security Council Resolution 541 of 1983 called the declaration of a state in the north legally invalid and asked states not to recognize any Cypriot state other than the Republic of Cyprus (text as reproduced on un-project.org). Hong Kong and Macau are separate areas in the map data and appear in the grey background, where they cannot be selected. The UN lists both as Special Administrative Regions, and the State Department's list of dependencies carries them under China with notes that describe a "semi-autonomous entity" that "maintains its own government apart from the People's Republic of China."

East and Southeast Asia map quiz

This part of the map holds five countries from Eastern Asia, eleven from South-eastern Asia and Taiwan. Several of them are island countries. Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines are each one shape on the map, so a tap on any of their islands counts for the country.

Taiwan is not in the UN geoscheme, which treats Taiwan Province of China as part of China (code 156) and cites Resolution 2758 of October 25, 1971. The U.S. State Department lists Taiwan under "Other" with Taipei as capital and notes that it is claimed by both the government of the People's Republic of China and the authorities on Taiwan, and administered by the latter. The quiz takes no position: Taiwan is a tap target of its own because the map needs an answer for that area.

South and Central Asia map quiz

The UN scheme counts nine countries in Southern Asia, among them Iran and the Maldives, and five in Central Asia. The table lists both regions with their capitals.

Southwest Asia (West Asia) map quiz

The UN calls this region Western Asia. It has 18 entries, and the quiz asks for 17 of them, because Cyprus is part of the Europe quiz. The list includes Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, which the quiz asks for here and not in the Europe quiz.

Southwest Asia and the Middle East are names used elsewhere, and the sets of countries behind them overlap with the UN's Western Asia without matching it. The quiz follows the UN list.

The State of Palestine is on the list as the UN geoscheme has it, although it is not among the 193 members on the UN member states page. General Assembly Resolution 67/19 of November 29, 2012 accorded Palestine the status of a "non-member observer State." The vote was 138 in favour, 9 against and 41 abstentions. Palestine is a tap target of its own.

Asia map quiz with capitals

The quiz asks for countries, not capitals. The capitals in the tables come from the U.S. State Department's list of independent states in the world, current on August 11, 2026, and the list is not free of disputes. A few entries carry notes.

• Malaysia: the State Department gives Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, the latter as administrative.
• Sri Lanka: Colombo is the capital, and Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is named as legislative.
• Myanmar: the list writes Burma and gives Rangoon and Nay Pyi Taw, the latter as administrative.
• Israel: the State Department lists Jerusalem. Security Council Resolution 478 of 1980 declared the Jerusalem Basic Law "null and void" (text as reproduced on un-project.org).
• Palestine: the State Department list does not include it. The Palestinian Basic Law names Jerusalem as capital in Article 3, in a translation on constituteproject.org.
• Taiwan: listed with Taipei, with the claim noted above.

How the map and the list were built

The country shapes come from Natural Earth, distributed as TopoJSON in the world-atlas package, version 4.1.0 of the data, under the ISC license. Natural Earth places its data in the public domain. The list of 48 follows the derivation in the countries section and matches the 48 selectable shapes on the map. Capitals come from the State Department list named above.