Southern Africa Country Shapes Quiz
Name all 5 Southern African countries from their outline alone — no colour, no borders, no labels.
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About the shapes of Southern Africa
Stripped of colour and context, 5 Southern 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: South Africa at 1,221,037 km² and Eswatini at 17,364 km² are both scaled to fill the same box, so you are judging form alone.
Coastline does most of the work in Southern Africa. Countries with a distinctive peninsula or island chain are recognised quickly; compact inland shapes are the ones that stall people.
All 5 outlines from Southern Africa appear in the rotation, and the full country list is below with links to each profile.
All 5 countries of Southern Africa
| Flag | Country | Capital | Population | Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Botswana | Gaborone | 2,562,122 | 582,000 km² |
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Eswatini | Mbabane | 1,256,174 | 17,364 km² |
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Lesotho | Maseru | 2,363,325 | 30,355 km² |
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Namibia | Windhoek | 3,092,816 | 825,615 km² |
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South Africa | Pretoria | 64,747,319 | 1,221,037 km² |
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How many countries are in this quiz?
This quiz covers all 5 entries in Southern Africa. Questions are drawn from the full set, and the complete list appears in the table on this page.
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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.
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