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Africa Country Shapes Quiz

Name all 54 African countries from their outline alone — no colour, no borders, no labels.

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The same countries split three ways, by how often people actually get them wrong. Start easy and work up — each level keeps its own progress.

Level 2 Medium Where scores usually start to slip. 21 countries Level 3 Hard The ones that decide whether you really know the world. 30 countries All levels Every country at once, difficulties mixed. 54 countries

About the shapes of Africa

Stripped of colour and context, 54 African countries are surprisingly hard to name. Each outline below is drawn to the same frame, so relative size gives nothing away.

The extremes tell you why: Algeria at 2,381,741 km² and Seychelles at 452 km² are both scaled to fill the same box, so you are judging form alone.

Coastline does most of the work in Africa. Countries with a distinctive peninsula or island chain are recognised quickly; compact inland shapes are the ones that stall people.

The pairs that actually cost people points in Africa are Algeria–Tunisia, Benin–Ghana and Burkina Faso–Ghana. There are 11 look-alike pairings inside this region, so it is worth learning the one detail that separates each pair rather than the general impression.

All 54 countries of Africa

Every country outline in Africa, with capital, population and land area.
Flag Country Capital Population Area
Flag of Algeria Algeria Algiers 47,435,312 2,381,741 km²
Flag of Angola Angola Luanda 39,040,039 1,246,700 km²
Flag of Benin Benin Porto-Novo 14,814,460 112,622 km²
Flag of Botswana Botswana Gaborone 2,562,122 582,000 km²
Flag of Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 24,074,580 272,967 km²
Flag of Burundi Burundi Gitega 14,390,003 27,834 km²
Flag of Cameroon Cameroon Yaoundé 29,879,337 475,442 km²
Flag of Cape Verde Cape Verde Praia 527,326 4,033 km²
Flag of Central African Republic Central African Republic Bangui 5,513,282 622,984 km²
Flag of Chad Chad N'Djamena 21,003,705 1,284,000 km²
Flag of Comoros Comoros Moroni 882,847 1,862 km²
Flag of Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 32,711,547 322,463 km²
Flag of Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti 1,184,076 23,200 km²
Flag of DR Congo DR Congo Kinshasa 112,832,473 2,344,858 km²
Flag of Egypt Egypt Cairo 118,365,995 1,002,450 km²
Flag of Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea Malabo 1,938,431 28,051 km²
Flag of Eritrea Eritrea Asmara 3,607,003 117,600 km²
Flag of Eswatini Eswatini Mbabane 1,256,174 17,364 km²
Flag of Ethiopia Ethiopia Addis Ababa 135,472,051 1,104,300 km²
Flag of Gabon Gabon Libreville 2,593,130 267,668 km²
Flag of Gambia Gambia Banjul 2,822,093 10,689 km²
Flag of Ghana Ghana Accra 35,064,272 238,533 km²
Flag of Guinea Guinea Conakry 15,099,727 245,857 km²
Flag of Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau Bissau 2,249,515 36,125 km²
Flag of Kenya Kenya Nairobi 57,532,493 580,367 km²
Flag of Lesotho Lesotho Maseru 2,363,325 30,355 km²
Flag of Liberia Liberia Monrovia 5,731,206 111,369 km²
Flag of Libya Libya Tripoli 7,458,555 1,759,540 km²
Flag of Madagascar Madagascar Antananarivo 32,740,678 587,041 km²
Flag of Malawi Malawi Lilongwe 22,216,120 118,484 km²
Flag of Mali Mali Bamako 25,198,821 1,240,192 km²
Flag of Mauritania Mauritania Nouakchott 5,315,065 1,030,700 km²
Flag of Mauritius Mauritius Port Louis 1,243,741 2,040 km²
Flag of Morocco Morocco Rabat 38,430,770 446,550 km²
Flag of Mozambique Mozambique Maputo 35,631,653 801,590 km²
Flag of Namibia Namibia Windhoek 3,092,816 825,615 km²
Flag of Niger Niger Niamey 27,917,831 1,267,000 km²
Flag of Nigeria Nigeria Abuja 237,527,782 923,768 km²
Flag of Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Brazzaville 6,484,437 342,000 km²
Flag of Rwanda Rwanda Kigali 14,569,341 26,338 km²
Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé 240,254 964 km²
Flag of Senegal Senegal Dakar 18,931,966 196,722 km²
Flag of Seychelles Seychelles Victoria 122,730 452 km²
Flag of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Freetown 8,819,794 71,740 km²
Flag of Somalia Somalia Mogadishu 19,654,739 637,657 km²
Flag of South Africa South Africa Pretoria 64,747,319 1,221,037 km²
Flag of South Sudan South Sudan Juba 12,188,788 619,745 km²
Flag of Sudan Sudan Khartoum 51,662,147 1,886,068 km²
Flag of Tanzania Tanzania Dodoma 70,545,865 945,087 km²
Flag of Togo Togo Lomé 8,591,626 56,785 km²
Flag of Tunisia Tunisia Tunis 12,348,573 163,610 km²
Flag of Uganda Uganda Kampala 51,384,894 241,550 km²
Flag of Zambia Zambia Lusaka 21,913,874 752,612 km²
Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Harare 16,950,795 390,757 km²
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Frequently asked questions

How many countries are in this quiz?

This quiz covers all 54 entries in Africa. Questions are drawn from the full set, and the complete list appears in the table on this page.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up and no login. Your score stays in your own browser and is never sent anywhere.

How are the wrong answers chosen?

Deliberately, not at random. Each question prefers flags that are genuinely confusable with the right answer, then countries from the same sub-region, so guessing by elimination does not work.

Is it free?

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