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100 Largest World Lakes

Name the 100 largest lakes in the world. No need to type in 'lake' as part of the answer.

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100 Tallest World Mountains By Prominence

Name the world's 100 highest summits according to prominence...Prominence is the elevation of a summit relative to the highest point to which one must descend before reascending to a higher summit. Think of it as the height of a mountain relative to the closest higher mountain. So a mountain that is the highest of anything nearby will have a high prominence, while nearby mountains that are close but not as tall will have a relatively low prominence. No need to type Mt/Mount/etc.

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100 Tallest World Mountains By Prominence Identifier

Double-click on the light-blue marker of the mountain listed (among the top 100 tallest by prominence - see note below). Correct guesses will change the marker to green – incorrect will not change any marker. Complete all mountains to save your score.

Prominence is the elevation of a summit relative to the highest point to which one must descend before reascending to a higher summit. Think of it as the height of a mountain relative to the closest higher mountain. So a mountain that is the highest of anything nearby will have a high prominence, while nearby mountains that are close but not as tall will have a relatively low prominence.

If by chance you don’t see markers, try refreshing the quiz.

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25 World Countries By Rotated Outline

Name the country for each of the 25 random world country outlines shown. However, each country outline has been rotated a random number of degrees. The faster you guess the more points you get.

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Commonwealth Of Nations Largest Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing ‘100’, ‘250’, '500', '1k', or ‘all’ – then try to achieve the highest population among the top Commonwealth 50K+ cities you chose. Quiz is not timed.

hugequiz Premium users have the option to choose any number of cities to play the quiz with (stats are processed but score isn't saved). Simply enter #(number of cities)# to play the quiz with any number of cities from 25 to the maximum. For example, to play the 300 largest cities, type #300# to begin the quiz and you will play it with the 300 largest cities. Entering #all# will play it with all cities - all cities will also be chosen for any number chosen above the total.

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NATO Largest Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', '1k', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among 50K+ cities within NATO member states including dependencies. Cities must also must be north of the Tropic of Cancer (NATO's 'Area of Responsibility').

hugequiz Premium users have the option to choose any number of cities to play the quiz with (stats are processed but score isn't saved). Simply enter #(number of cities)# to play the quiz with any number of cities from 25 to the maximum. For example, to play the 300 largest cities, type #300# to begin the quiz and you will play it with the 300 largest cities. Entering #all# will play it with all cities - all cities will also be chosen for any number chosen above the total.

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UNESCO World Heritage Site Parks

Name the parks which are classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. You only are looking to name the park (usually a National Park, but occasionally something smaller). Green markers are for Natural sites, yellow for Cultural, and orange for Mixed (Natural & Cultural). Occasionally a group of parks is counted as one World Heritage Site - you only need to name one of them.

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World 10 Circle Population Challenge

The object of this quiz is to place 10 circles of radius 1000 km on the map so that they contain the largest total population.

When you begin you'll be given a 1000-km radius circle centered on the map. Move it using the mouse and click SUBMIT. You will be given a score for that circle corresponding to the total population contained within it based on world population density at https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/index.php. Try to complete all 10 circles with the highest total score.

Any INTERSECTING areas are only counted one time, so no population will be counted more than once.

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World 100 Cities Locator

Double-click on the location of each of the 100 largest world cities. The closer you click, the more points you get (max 100).

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World 100 Closest Cities – Choose Any City

Begin by typing in any 50K+ world city in the format City, Country - i.e. 'Moscow, Russia'. Use 'Bosnia' for Bosnia & Herz, 'Czech' for Czech Republic, 'CAR' for Central Afr Republic, 'DRC' for Dem Rep of the Congo, 'UK' for United Kingdom, 'UAE' for United Arab Emirates, and 'US' for United States. There are a handful of cities with the same name in the same country. For those in the US, add the state in the format 'City, State, US' - i.e. 'Aurora, CO, US' - for other countries, add a number corresponding to the population rank for that city among similar-named cities in that country, i.e. for the largest Fuzhou, China, type 'Fuzhou, China1'. Then name the 100 closest cities to the one you chose.

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World 100 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

First choose any World 50K+ city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name ANY World 50K+ city in each 100km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring's largest correct answer at right (under 'Answer Stats' by your coordinates).

For example, if you choose 'Paris, France' - you will be shown a circle of radius 100km centered at Paris. Naming any 50K+ city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another 'ring' of radius 100km to appear outside that circle. You now need to name the any World 50K+ city in that ring (but not within any previous circles/rings). If a city is not within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until a city falls within it. So if a city doesn't fall within 200-300km, it will expand to be a 200-400km ring, then 200-500km and so on until a qualifying city is found within the ring.

Want to name the largest city in each ring, or more of a challenge with smaller rings?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City | World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

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World 100 Km Expanding Circles Any City Distance Challenge – Choose City

First choose any World 50K+ city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any World 50K+ city in each 100 km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice - NOTE - you must enter a period '.' at the end of the city to submit it. The first circle will include your city of choice as guessed. The object in this quiz is to guess the city in the next ring which is as close to the previous city as possible. The closest city will get you 100 points, the farthest away answer, 0 points.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring's closest correct answer at right.

For example, if you choose ‘Paris, France’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 100 km centered at Paris and Paris will be selected. You will also see a ring of radius 100 km outside that circle. Naming a city in this ring will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 100 km to appear outside that ring and you will get 0-100 points, depending how close to Paris your city was. If a city is not within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until a city falls within it. So if a city doesn’t fall within 100-200 kms, it will expand to be a 100-300 km ring, then 100-400 km and so on until a qualifying city is found within the ring.

Want to name the largest city in each ring, or more of a challenge with smaller rings?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City | World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

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World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City

First choose any World 50K+ city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name the largest World 50K+ city in each 100km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer if it is the largest 50K+ city in that area.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring's correct answer at right (under 'Answer Stats' by your coordinates).

For example, if you choose 'Paris, France' - you will be shown a circle of radius 100km centered at Paris. Naming the largest city in this circle (Paris in this case) will cause another 'ring' of radius 100km to appear outside that circle. You now need to name the largest World 50K+ city in that ring (but not within any previous circles/rings). If a city is not within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until a city falls within it. So if a city doesn't fall within 200-300km, it will expand to be a 200-400km ring, then 200-500km and so on until a qualifying city is found within the ring.

Too tough?
World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City

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World 100 Km Expanding Circles Largest City Challenge – Choose City

First choose any World 50K+ pop city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any World 50K+ city in each 100 km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice, trying to name LARGEST city in each circle. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer.

PLEASE NOTE - You must type a '.' (period) after each city to submit it to prevent answering another city with a name you would be have to type to get your answer. If multiple cities have the name you submitted, only the largest one will be counted.

You accumulate points based on the population of the city you named in relation to the largest city in the circle. Naming the largest city will get you 100 points. A smaller city’s point total will be the ratio of its population to the largest, so if you name a city of 75K people and the largest city has 100K, you get 75 points.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring’s largest correct answer at right (under ‘Answer Stats’ by your coordinates).

For example, if you choose ‘Paris’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 100 km centered at Paris. Naming any city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 100 km to appear outside that circle, however - you will want to try naming the LARGEST city you can to get more points (Paris will be 100 points). After completing that circle, you now need to name any 50K+ World city in the new ring (but not within any previous circles/rings), again trying to name as large a city as possible. If a city is not within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until a city falls within it. So if a city doesn’t fall within 100-200 km, it will expand to be a 100-300 km ring, then 300-400 km and so on until a qualifying city is found within the ring.

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World 100 Largest Cities Identifier

Double-click on the red marker of the World top 100 largest city listed. Correct guesses will change the marker to green – incorrect will not change any marker. Complete all cities to save your score.

If by chance you don’t see markers, try refreshing the quiz.

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World 100 Largest Islands Identifier

Double-click on the light-blue marker of the world island listed (among the top 100 largest islands by area). Correct guesses will change the marker to green – incorrect will not change any marker. Complete all islands to save your score.

If by chance you don’t see markers, try refreshing the quiz.

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World 1M City Coverage Challenge

Enter a World 1M+ city - all other 1M+ cities within 1000km will also fill in. Try to fill in all 1M cities in the smallest number of circles. Countries remaining will display when you have completed 80 countries. For Khartoum, enter 'khartoum.' with the period to prevent entering Khartoum North. For Hyderabad, there are two, so enter 'hyderabadin' for India and 'hyderabadpa' for Pakistan. Also there are 2 'Taizhou' cities in China. To name the southernmost (slightly larger) one, type 'taizhou1' - for the other type 'taizhou2'.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 1M+ Agglo Coverage

First enter a difficulty level by typing 'beg', 'int', 'adv' or 'exp'. Beginner is 500km, intermediate is 250km, advanced is 150km and expert is 100km. Every 1M+ pop agglomeration within that radius will fill in. I tried to include a few cities that may not be the main city of the agglo, but try to name the agglo's largest/main city.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

Try other World Agglo quizzes:
World Largest Agglomerations | World Closest Agglos To Your Location – Choose Number
World 1M+ Agglos Direction Challenge | World 50 Largest Agglomerations Elimination

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World 1M+ Agglomerations Name Link Challenge

The object of this quiz is to pick a world 1M+ agglomeration to start, then name successive 1M+ agglomerations such that the next agglo's first letter is the last letter of the current agglo and the next agglo is as close to the current agglo as possible. On this quiz alternates are generally accepted, however only the main (usually official) name is counted as it relates to naming the next agglo. Agglomerations of the same name will answer the closest one first. NOTE: You must type a '.' (period) after the agglo name to submit it. The same agglo cannot be used twice in this quiz.

For example, you start with 'Paris' - you are now trying to name a city starting with 'S' (the last letter of 'Paris') which is closest to Paris. If you answer 'Sevilla' - now you are trying to name the closest 1M+ agglo to Sevilla which starts with a 'A' and so on.

The quiz ends at the 25th agglo from the starting one. You get 100 points for naming the closest agglo on each step, and they decline based on the distance your agglo was from the closest. You get 15 minutes to complete the quiz.

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World 1M+ Agglos Direction Challenge

The object of this quiz is to name (see NAMING NOTE below) as many World 1M+ agglomerations as possible starting from the position you choose without skipping agglos moving in the opposite direction. For example, if you choose 'S' you 'start' at the South Pole to begin and you are aiming to name the most southern World 1M+ agglo, then the 2nd most southern, and so on as you move north. Naming correct agglos increases the population counter - the object is to get the highest total population among all agglos you name. However, once you move in a direction you can't name agglos already passed by (i.e. covered in the blue shaded region).

NAMING NOTE: You must end each agglo name with a period - i.e. 'Tokyo.' - this prevents naming an agglo whose name is a partial name of the agglo you want to answer. If you name an agglo that has multiple answers, only the closest upcoming one will be answered for you, so you won't name the farther away agglo from the one you are trying to guess.

You don't start with a ton of time, however there is a 30 second time bonus for naming the next agglo in order, and a 15 second bonus for naming the 2nd or 3rd next one in order. So if you name well you can accumulate a lot of extra time.

hugequiz Premium members will see up to the largest 25 agglos missed when the quiz ends - they will be pink markers you can mouseover to see agglo details.

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World 2+ Word 50K Cities Coverage

First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 1000 km radius, Intermediate 500 km, Advanced 250 km, and Expert 100 km. Then, enter World two or more word cities (words being anything separated by a space or hyphen) with at least 50K population and all 50K+ other 2+ word cities within that radius will automatically fill in.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 2+ Word 50K+ Cities Closest Coverage

First choose a difficulty by typing 'beg', 'int', 'adv, or 'exp' - Beginner is 100 cities, Intermediate 50 cities, Advanced 25 cities, and Expert 10 cities. Then, enter any World 50K+ place with 2+ words and the closest N places (where N is the number based on your difficulty) that also have 2+ words automatically fill in. 2+ words for the purpose of this quiz mean any cities with a space or hyphen.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

Premium members can now also play a 3-hour time limit 'custom' coverage quiz of any number of cities from 5 to 200, simply enter the number of cities followed by a '.' instead of choosing from one of the four levels, i.e. '150.' Quiz score is not recorded for the custom coverage option.

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World 2+ Word Closest 50K+ Cities To Your Location – Choose Number

Begin by entering a number of cities – ’25’, '50' or '100' – then name the closest World 50K+ cities of at least 2 words to your geographic location (as determined by your browser’s location function). For purposes of this quiz, 'words' are strings separated by a space or hyphen in the city name. To use this quiz you will have to choose ‘Allow’ if your browser asks to share your current location – you also may have to restart the quiz after choosing this. If your browser does not allow getting your location the quiz will not load.

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World 20 Circle Population Challenge

The object of this quiz is to place 20 circles of radius 1000 km on the map so that they contain the largest total population.

When you begin you'll be given a 1000-km radius circle centered on the map. Move it using the mouse and click SUBMIT. You will be given a score for that circle corresponding to the total population contained within it based on world population density at https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/index.php. Try to complete all 20 circles with the highest total score.

Any INTERSECTING areas are only counted one time, so no population will be counted more than once.

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World 200 Km Expanding Circles Any City Distance Challenge – Choose City

First choose any World 50K+ city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any World 50K+ city in each 200 km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice - NOTE - you must enter a period '.' at the end of the city to submit it. The first circle will include your city of choice as guessed. The object in this quiz is to guess the city in the next ring which is as close to the previous city as possible. The closest city will get you 100 points, the farthest away answer, 0 points.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring's closest correct answer at right.

For example, if you choose ‘Paris, France’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 200 km centered at Paris and Paris will be selected. You will also see a ring of radius 200 km outside that circle. Naming a city in this ring will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 200 km to appear outside that ring and you will get 0-100 points, depending how close to Paris your city was. If a city is not within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until a city falls within it. So if a city doesn’t fall within 200-400 kms, it will expand to be a 200-600 km ring, then 200-800 km and so on until a qualifying city is found within the ring.

Want to name the largest city in each ring, or more of a challenge with smaller rings?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City | World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

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World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City

First choose any World 50K+ city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name the largest World 50K+ city in each 200km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer if it is the largest 50K+ city in that area.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring's correct answer at right (under 'Answer Stats' by your coordinates).

For example, if you choose 'Paris, France' - you will be shown a circle of radius 200km centered at Paris. Naming the largest city in this circle (Paris in this case) will cause another 'ring' of radius 200km to appear outside that circle. You now need to name the largest World 50K+ city in that ring (but not within any previous circles/rings). If a city is not within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until a city falls within it. So if a city doesn't fall within 200-400km, it will expand to be a 200-600km ring, then 200-800km and so on until a qualifying city is found within the ring.

Want more of a challenge?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge - Choose City

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World 200 Km Expanding Circles Top 3 Challenge – Choose City

First choose any World 50K+ city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name the top 3 largest World 50K+ cities in each 200km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer if it is in the top 3 largest 50K+ city in that area. As you enter cities you will see their rank within the current ring (1st, 2nd or 3rd largest) above their marker.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring's largest correct answer at right (under 'Answer Stats' by your coordinates).

For example, if you choose 'Paris, France' - you will be shown a circle of radius 200km centered at Paris. Naming the 3 largest cities in this circle (such as Paris) will cause them to appear as green markers and when all 3 are named another 'ring' of radius 200km to appear outside that circle. You now need to name the 3 largest World 50K+ cities in that ring (but not within any previous circles/rings). If no city qualifies within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until at least one city falls within it. So if a city doesn't fall within 200-400km, it will expand to be a 200-600km ring, then 200-800km and so on until at least one qualifying city is found within the ring.

Want only one city per ring?
World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge - Choose City

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World 200 Km Expanding Circles Top 5 Challenge – Choose City

First choose any World 50K+ city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name the top 5 largest World 50K+ cities in each 200km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer if it is in the top 5 largest 50K+ city in that area. As you enter cities you will see their rank within the current ring (1st, 2nd, 3th, 4th or 5th largest) above their marker.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring's largest correct answer at right (under 'Answer Stats' by your coordinates).

For example, if you choose 'Paris, France' - you will be shown a circle of radius 200km centered at Paris. Naming the 5 largest cities in this circle (such as Paris) will cause them to appear as green markers and when all 5 are named another 'ring' of radius 200km to appear outside that circle. You now need to name the 5 largest World 50K+ cities in that ring (but not within any previous circles/rings). If no city qualifies within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until at least one city falls within it. So if a city doesn't fall within 200-400km, it will expand to be a 200-600km ring, then 200-800km and so on until at least one qualifying city is found within the ring.

This quiz is only available to Premium members.

Want only one city per ring?
World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge - Choose City

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World 250 Closest Cities – Choose Any City

Begin by typing in any 50K+ world city in the format City, Country - i.e. 'Moscow, Russia'. Use 'Bosnia' for Bosnia & Herz, 'Czech' for Czech Republic, 'CAR' for Central Afr Republic, 'DRC' for Dem Rep of the Congo, 'UK' for United Kingdom, 'UAE' for United Arab Emirates, and 'US' for United States. There are a handful of cities with the same name in the same country. For those in the US, add the state in the format 'City, State, US' - i.e. 'Aurora, CO, US' - for other countries, add a number corresponding to the population rank for that city among similar-named cities in that country, i.e. for the largest Fuzhou, China, type 'Fuzhou, China1'. Then name the 250 closest cities to the one you chose.

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World 250 Km Population Challenge

In 15 minutes name the World cities of 250K+ population trying to get the highest population. Population will only count when all other 250K cities within 250 km are guessed.

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World 50 1M+ Agglomerations Identifier

You will be shown a map with red markers for all 1M+ world agglomerations. Double-click on the one specified to answer it. If you click on the correct agglo, the marker will turn green. Otherwise no change will be made to the markers. 50 randomly chosen agglos will be given. A handful of agglos have the same name as another agglo in a different country - for these the country will be specified.

Note - you may want to zoom in if agglos are close to one another to make sure you are clicking on the correct one.

If the red markers do not appear when the quiz is loaded, try refreshing the page.

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World 50 Closest Cities To Your Location – Choose Letter

Begin by entering any letter except 'Q', 'U' or 'X' (they have less than 100 total cities) - then name the 50 closest 50K+ World cities to your geographic location (as determined by your browser's location function) which begin with that letter. To use this quiz you will have to choose 'Allow' if your browser asks to share your current location - you also may have to restart the quiz after choosing this. If your browser does not allow getting your location the quiz will not load.

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World 50 Closest Cities With Same First Letter – Choose Any City

Begin by typing in any 50K+ World city/town/etc which doesn't start with 'X' in the format City, Country - i.e. 'Moscow, Russia' Use 'Bosnia' for Bosnia & Herz, 'Czech' for Czech Republic, 'CAR' for Central Afr Republic, 'DRC' for Dem Rep of the Congo, 'UK' for United Kingdom, 'UAE' for United Arab Emirates, and 'US' for United States. There are a handful of cities with the same name in the same country. For those in the US, add the state in the format 'City, State, US' – i.e. 'Aurora, CO, US' – for other countries, add a number corresponding to the population rank for that city among similar-named cities in that country, i.e. for the largest Fuzhou, China, type 'Fuzhou, China1'. That city will appear as a pink marker and the 50 closest cities (not including the one you chose) that begin with the same letter as your city (using most common English spelling) will also appear. 'Closest Cities' on bottom left shows the top number of closest cities in a row you have completed (i.e. a '3' if you have the 3 closest but not the 4th). Object is highest population among 50 closest, not total places.

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World 50 Country Centroid Locator

Double-click on the map as close as possible to each of the 50 World country's geographic center (centroid) that shows up on the right. The closer you click, the more points you get (max 100). Geographic centers do not include overseas territories, you are locating the centroid of the main land mass of the country. Centroids occasionally do not lie within the country itself or on land. You may have to zoom in to click an area next to an existing marker if the cursor is hovering by the existing marker.

Want to try every country?
World Country Centroid Locator

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World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

First choose any World 50K+ city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name ANY World 50K+ city in each 50km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring's largest correct answer at right (under 'Answer Stats' by your coordinates).

For example, if you choose 'Paris, France' - you will be shown a circle of radius 50km centered at Paris. Naming any 50K+ city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another 'ring' of radius 50km to appear outside that circle. You now need to name the any World 50K+ city in that ring (but not within any previous circles/rings). If a city is not within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until a city falls within it. So if a city doesn't fall within 50-100km, it will expand to be a 50-150km ring, then 50-200km and so on until a qualifying city is found within the ring.

Want larger rings?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge - Choose City

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World 50 Largest Cities By Country – Choose Country

First name a country by entering it and clicking the auto-fill result, then name the 50 largest cities in the country. Object is highest total population, not cities. Only countries for which I have current data for their 50 largest cities are included. Quiz is not timed.

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World 500 Km 50-Circle Coverage Challenge

You start with a blank map. Double-click on the map to create a circle of 500km radius centered on that location. All World 50K+ cities within that circle will appear and count toward your total cities. The object is to cover as many cities as possible in 50 circles. You can click within an already-created circle as well, however you may have to zoom in slightly so you aren't clicking on an existing city marker.

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World 500 Km Coverage Challenge

Choose any 50K+ World city, then continue naming 50K+ cities which are within 500 km of any previously named city. Please note - North/South America and the rest of the world are considered separate sections on this quiz. The game will not end if you haven't begun one of them and then 'jump' over to it to begin working on it. So you get one free city to choose outside of the 500km distance if you want to start working on the section you haven't started. But once you have started both NA/SA and Rest of World, you cannot guess a city outside a 500km circle or the quiz will end.

Naming notes: many places have similar names. For example, “Brest” is not unique. To choose Brest, France, simply type “brestfr”, using the first two letters of the country name...another example is "londonun". Also, some answers require typing in other answers you may not want to guess. In this case, if you want to answer “Hamburg”, simply type it..”Ham, Belgium” will not be chosen. If you want simply “Ham” type ‘ham.’ with the period at the end. One other issue is multiple cities in the US with the same name, for these type in the state abbreviation and 'us' at the end - i.e. 'jacksonvilleflus' - if a place name outside the US has multiple locations in a country you can use 'fuzhouch1', 'fuzhouch2' etc for the Fuzhou's in China.

Other Coverage Challenges
Europe 200 Km Coverage Challenge | US 200 Mile Coverage Challenge

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World 500K+ Cities Locator Timed Challenge

The object of this quiz is to click on 500K+ city locations as quickly and accurately as you can. You get 25 random World cities from among all World 250K+ cities. You will be scored based on Time, Distance, and Closest Cities. Closest Cities refers to how many cities (among ALL 50K+ cities, not just 500K+ ones) are located closer to the actual city's location than where you clicked. Upon clicking START you will see cities listed one at a time in the upper right on the side of the map. Double-click where that city is as fast and accurately as possible. You will then get a score of 0-100 based on those 3 factors. Also, up to 10 of the closest cities to the target city that you weren't within will be displayed. Click NEXT CITY to continue on.

To make things easier, you will get at most 2 cities from each country each time you play.

NOTE – For cities with the same name, you are trying to click on the LARGEST city of that name.

For Premium members, this quiz is much easier to play on Google Maps full screen mode.

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World 50K+ City Coverage

First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 1000km radius, Intermediate 500km, Advanced 250km, and Expert 100km. Then, enter 50K+ population cities and all 50K+ population cities within that radius will automatically fill in. When you have at least 160 countries, the countries remaining will be shown.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

NEW: Premium members can now also play a 3-hour time limit 'custom' coverage quiz of any distance from 50km to 2500km, simply enter the distance followed by a '.' instead of choosing from one of the four levels, i.e. '1500.' Quiz score is not recorded for the custom coverage option.

Try a different geography:
Africa Coverage | Asia Coverage | Europe 10K+ City Coverage
North America 10K+ City Coverage | South America Coverage | US 1K+ City Coverage

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World 50K+ City Coverage No Repeats

First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 1000km radius, Intermediate 500km, Advanced 250km, and Expert 100km. Then, enter 50K+ population cities and all 50K+ population cities within that radius will automatically fill in.

HOWEVER, for this 'No Repeats' quiz you cannot name a city which has already been covered in blue - makes for a bit more of a challenge to cover the countries!

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Grid Blackout

Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 15-degree grid, hard is a 10-degree grid. Then, name any 50K+ World city in each grid square which fits the category label for each square.

LETTER: means the city starts with that letter.
NUMBER RANGE: (such as 2-5, 10+) means the city contains that many letters (excluding spaces and special characters).
POPULATION RANGE: (such as 250-500K) means the city has that range for its population.
2+ WORDS means the city name has 2 or more words (words denoted by a space or hyphen).

At the end of the quiz the largest population missed answer will show in each square.

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World 50K+ City Grid Challenge

Choose a number of cities by typing '3', '5', or '10'. Then, enter the largest number of 50K+ population cities you chose in each 15-degree grid square. For example if you choose '5' you are only naming the 5 largest cities in each square. Only green squares contain answers. When you have 2 left to go in a square it will fill in faintly yellow, 1 left it will be orangish, and all done it turns red. A time bonus is given for completing a square (it is greater for higher levels).

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Latitude Coverage

First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 1 degree latitude, Intermediate 0.5 degrees, Advanced 0.25 degrees, and Expert 0.1 degrees. Then, enter 50K+ population cities and all 50K+ population cities within that latitude will automatically fill in.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

Try other geographies:
Africa City Latitude Coverage | Asia City Latitude Coverage
Europe City Latitude Coverage | US 5K+ City Latitude Coverage

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World 50K+ City Latitude Grid

Choose a level by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv’, or ‘exp’ – then name the largest city of 50K+ population within each latitude range. Beg level is 5 degree width, Int is 2.5 degrees, Adv 1 degrees, and Exp is 0.5 degrees.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Latitude Grid Blackout

Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 5-degree range, hard is a 2.5-degree range. Then, name any 50K+ World city in each latitude range which fits the category label for each square.

LETTER: means the city starts with that letter.
NUMBER RANGE: (such as 2-5, 10+) means the city contains that many letters (excluding spaces and special characters).
POPULATION RANGE: (such as 250-500K) means the city has that range for its population.
2+ WORDS means the city name has 2 or more words (words denoted by a space or hyphen).

At the end of the quiz the largest population missed answer will show in each range.

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World 50K+ City Latitude Grid Challenge

Choose a number of cities by typing '3', '5', or '10'. Then, enter the largest number of 50K+ population cities you chose in each 5-degree latitude range. Only green ranges contain answers. When you have 2 left to go in a range it will fill in faintly yellow, 1 left it will be orangish, and all done it turns red. A time bonus is given for completing a square (it is greater for higher levels).

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Latitude Grid Top 3 Challenge

Choose a level by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv’, or ‘exp’ – then name the 3 largest 50K+ World cities within each latitude range. Beg level is 5 degree width, Int is 2.5 degree, Adv 1 degrees, and Exp is 0.5 degrees. Latitude ranges will fill in a light yellow when 2 answers remain, light orange with one remaining, and red when completed.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Longitude Coverage

First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 2 degrees longitude, Intermediate 1 degree, Advanced 0.5 degrees, and Expert 0.25 degrees. Then, enter 50K+ population cities and all 50K+ population cities within that longitude will automatically fill in.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

Try other geographies:
Africa City Longitude Coverage | Asia City Longitude Coverage
Europe City Longitude Coverage | North America City Longitude Coverage

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World 50K+ City Longitude Grid

Choose a level by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv’, or ‘exp’ – then name the largest city of 50K+ population within each longitude range. Beg level is 10 degree width, Int is 5 degrees, Adv 2.5 degrees, and Exp is 1 degrees.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Longitude Grid Blackout

Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 10-degree range, hard is a 5-degree range. Then, name any 50K+ World city in each longitude range which fits the category label for each square.

LETTER: means the city starts with that letter.
NUMBER RANGE: (such as 2-5, 10+) means the city contains that many letters (excluding spaces and special characters).
POPULATION RANGE: (such as 250-500K) means the city has that range for its population.
2+ WORDS means the city name has 2 or more words (words denoted by a space or hyphen).

At the end of the quiz the largest population missed answer will show in each range.

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World 50K+ City Longitude Grid Challenge

Choose a number of cities by typing '3', '5', or '10'. Then, enter the largest number of 50K+ population cities you chose in each 10-degree longitude range. Only green ranges contain answers. When you have 2 left to go in a range it will fill in faintly yellow, 1 left it will be orangish, and all done it turns red. A time bonus is given for completing a square (it is greater for higher levels).

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Longitude Grid Top 3 Challenge

Choose a level by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv’, or ‘exp’ – then name the 3 largest 50K+ World cities within each longitude range. Beg level is 10 degree width, Int is 5 degrees, Adv 2.5 degrees, and Exp is 1 degree. Longitude ranges will fill in a light yellow when 2 answers remain, light orange with one remaining, and red when completed.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Name Link Challenge

The object of this quiz is to pick a city to start, then name successive cities such that the next city's first letter is the last letter of the current city and the next city is as close to the current city as possible. On this quiz alternates are generally accepted, however only the main (usually official) name is counted as it relates to naming the next city. Cities of the same name will answer the closest city first. NOTE: You must type a '.' (period) after the city to submit it. Cities must be a minimum of 50k population. The same city cannot be used twice in this quiz.

For example, you start with 'Paris' - you are now trying to name a city starting with 'S' (the last letter of 'Paris') which is closest to Paris. If you answer 'Strasbourg' - now you are trying to name the closest city to Strasbourg which starts with a 'G' and so on.

The quiz ends at the 25th city from the starting one. You get 100 points for naming the closest city on each step, and they decline based on the distance your city was from the closest. You get 15 minutes to complete the quiz.

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World 50K+ City Random Grid Blackout

Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 15-degree grid, hard is a 10-degree grid. Then, name any 50K+ World city in each grid square which fits the category label for each square. Grid will be randomly placed each time the quiz is played.

LETTER: means the city starts with that letter.
NUMBER RANGE: (such as 2-5, 10+) means the city contains that many letters (excluding spaces and special characters).
POPULATION RANGE: (such as 250-500K) means the city has that range for its population.
2+ WORDS means the city name has 2 or more words (words denoted by a space or hyphen).

At the end of the quiz the largest population missed answer will show in each square.

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World 50K+ City Random Latitude Grid

Choose a level by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv’, or ‘exp’ – then name the largest city of 50K+ population within each latitude range. Beg level is 5 degree width, Int is 2.5 degrees, Adv 1 degrees, and Exp is 0.5 degrees. Grid will be placed randomly each time quiz is taken.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Random Longitude Grid

Choose a level by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv’, or ‘exp’ – then name the largest city of 50K+ population within each longitude range. Beg level is 10 degree width, Int is 5 degrees, Adv 2.5 degrees, and Exp is 1 degrees. Grid will be placed randomly each time quiz is taken.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 50K+ City Shrinking Coverage Challenge

You begin with a radius of 1500km. Enter World 50K+ city names and all 50K+ World cities within that radius will fill in, HOWEVER each time you use a circle the radius will shrink by 5%. Try to cover as many cities as possible as the circles get smaller. Time is not part of the score on this quiz.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

Notes for this quiz: answering a city that has the same name in multiple locations will reduce the circle 5% in radius for each unique city that matches, so if you enter 'Brest' - it will fill one of the 2 with whatever radius you are at, then shrink it 5% and fill the other, and again shrink it 5% more until you make your next guess. So it may not be wise to use a common city name. Also, to enter a city such as 'Mexico City' without entering 'Mexico' (a city in Philippines) you can simply type for example "xmexicocity" then delete the x, thereby preventing you from typing 'mexico' - there are a handful of cities like this.

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World 50K+ Closest Cities To Your Location In Order – Choose Number

Begin by entering a number of cities - '50', '100', '250' or '5h' - then name the closest world cities of 50K+ population to your geographic location (as determined by your browser's location function) IN ORDER - meaning you have to name the closest first, then the 2nd closest, etc. Your location will show up as a bright purple marker, and the location you need to name (the closest unnamed one) will show up as a larger marker color-coded according to its population.

To use this quiz you will have to choose 'Allow' if your browser asks to share your current location - you also may have to restart the quiz after choosing this. If your browser does not allow getting your location the quiz will not load.

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World 50K+ Closest Coverage

First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 100 cities, Intermediate 50 cities, Advanced 25 cities, and Expert 10 cities. Then, enter 50K+ world cities and the closest N 50K+ cities based on the difficulty you chose will fill in.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

Premium members can now also play a 3-hour time limit 'custom' coverage quiz of any number of cities from 5 to 200, simply enter the number of cities followed by a '.' instead of choosing from one of the four levels, i.e. '150.' Quiz score is not recorded for the custom coverage option.

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World 50K+ Expanding Circle Population Challenge – Your Location

First enter a level by typing '25M', '10M', '5M', or '1M' - you begin with that population figure (shown by 'Population Remaining'...the bigger the number the easier the quiz). The quiz will center in on your location - you must have your browser's location figure on. A pink marker will be placed at this location.

The object of this quiz is to accumulate 'Population Gotten' by typing in world 50K+ cities (see naming note below) moving outward from your marker without skipping cities. Any 50K+ city skipped will count against your Population Remaining. Any 50K+ city guessed correctly counts toward your Population Gotten. Population Gotten is your score for this quiz, this is the number you want to have as high as possible - it is the sum of the population of all your guesses.

Naming Note: You must add a '.' at the end of each city name for it to take - this is to prevent typing in another city name which is the first few letters of the city you wanted to type. There are a good number of these so to make it easiest I am simply requiring a '.' after each name you enter.

There are no time bonuses on this quiz.

A circle will be drawn going out to your last guess and showing that guess as a green marker and any missed cities that were closer as a red marker. All members can mouseover the green markers to see what their name, population and rank in terms of closeness to your location (i.e. #10 is 10th closest 50K+ city). hugequiz Premium members can hover over the red markers as well to see the missed cities and their info.

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World 50K+ Latitude Coverage Challenge

First choose a difficulty by typing 'beg', 'int', 'adv, or 'exp' - Beginner is 2 degrees latitude, Intermediate 1 degrees, Advanced 0.5 degrees, and Expert 0.25 degrees. Then, enter 50K+ population cities and all 50K+ population cities within that latitude will automatically fill in.

HOWEVER - for this quiz you can enter any 50K+ city for your first choice, but successive cities must be already within a blue band for you to answer them, so you must 'expand' the blue area in the north and south directions, you can't start a new blue band with a gap away from a currently blue shaded area.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 50K+ Longitude Coverage Challenge

First choose a difficulty by typing 'beg', 'int', 'adv, or 'exp' - Beginner is 5 degrees longitude, Intermediate 2.5 degrees, Advanced 1 degrees, and Expert 0.5 degrees. Then, enter 50K+ population cities and all 50K+ population cities within that longitude will automatically fill in. PLEASE NOTE: Your first two selections must be one in each of the two separate regions - the Americas and Eurasia/Africa/Oceania. So if your first guess is 'New York' that covers the Americas, and your second guess must be a city in the Eurasia/Africa/Oceania section. Then you will have two bands you can expand independently as you play the quiz.

HOWEVER - for this quiz you can enter any 50K+ city for your first choice, but successive cities must be already within a blue band for you to answer them, so you must 'expand' the blue area in the east and west directions, you can't start a new blue band with a gap away from a currently blue shaded area.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World 50K+ Population Coverage

First choose a level by typing 'beg', 'int', 'adv' or 'exp' - beginner is 50,000,000, intermediate is 10,000,000, advanced is 5,000,000 and expert 1,000,000. Then, begin naming cities. All cities of 50K+ population starting with the city you chose and moving outward will begin filling in until you've hit a total population equal to or greater than your chosen level's threshold. For example, if you choose 'int' - the threshold is 10 million. If you choose 'paris', then Paris will fill in and because its population is under 10 million, successive cities moving outward from Paris will fill in until the total population reaches at least 10 million. If you chose Tokyo, only it would fill in as its population already meets your threshold.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

Premium members can now also play a 3-hour time limit 'custom' coverage quiz of any population from 500,000 to 100,000,000, simply enter the population followed by a '.' instead of choosing from one of the four levels, i.e. '750000.' Quiz score is not recorded for the custom coverage option.

Try other geographies:
Africa Population Coverage | Asia Population Coverage
Europe 10K+ Population Coverage | South America Population Coverage

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World 50K+ Population Radius Coverage

First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’. Then, enter 50K+ population cities and all 50K+ population cities within a radius based on the population of the city you guessed will fill in. When you have at least 160 countries, the countries remaining will be shown. In other words, a large city will have a bit larger radius to cover other cities than a smaller city would.

A higher difficulty level means smaller circles, but still in the same size proportion to each other based on populations.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

There is also the option to play a 3-hour (basically untimed) version of each level. Simply enter a 'u' before a level choice to play a 3-hour version, for example 'ubeg' or 'uadv' - your score will not be saved for these.

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World Administrative Divisions

Name the world country first order (state, province) administrative divisions. You will have to be pretty exact naming these divisions, and this quiz will not be up to date for all countries - it depends on how often the source (Natural Earth) updates their data and boundaries. The countries counter on the right side is over 197 as a few categories such as Disputed are not part of any country.

Quiz will take a few moments to load all the boundaries - zooming in/out may be slightly slow.

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World All Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter

First choose any letter – then try to achieve the highest population among the 50K+ World cities beginning with that letter. Quiz is not timed.

Try other geographies:
Europe All Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter | US All Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter
UK Largest 1K+ Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter | France Largest Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter

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World All Cities By Last Letter – Choose Letter

First choose any letter – then try to achieve the highest population among the 50K+ World cities ending with that letter. Quiz is not timed.

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World Bordering Administrative Divisions Challenge

Name world country first order (state, province) administrative divisions and that division plus all bordering divisions will fill in. You will have to be pretty exact naming these divisions, and this quiz will not be up to date for all countries – it depends on how often the source (Natural Earth) updates their data and boundaries.

PLEASE WAIT for the outlines to fill in before answering - quiz will take a few moments to load all the boundaries – zooming in/out may be slightly slow.

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World Bordering Countries Area Challenge – 25 Countries

The object of this game is to click on successive bordering countries to 'travel' through up to 25 countries with the objective of accumulating the highest total land area among all countries traveled through. Borders are land borders only, including causeways but not including only man-made structures. Borders include dependent territory borders, areas also include territories.

For example, you can begin by clicking Russia - your next country can be any country bordering Russia, such as Ukraine. After clicking Ukraine you can choose any country bordering Ukraine except a country you have already visited (in this case just Russia). You must continue along your path and can't click a bordering country from a previously-clicked country unless it borders the country you just clicked.

The more challenging 50-country version of this quiz:
World Bordering Countries Area Challenge – 50 Countries

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World Bordering Countries Area Challenge – 50 Countries

The object of this game is to click on successive bordering countries to 'travel' through up to 50 countries with the objective of accumulating the highest total land area among all countries traveled through. Borders are land borders only, including causeways but not including only man-made structures. Borders include dependent territory borders, areas also include territories.

For example, you can begin by clicking Russia - your next country can be any country bordering Russia, such as Ukraine. After clicking Ukraine you can choose any country bordering Ukraine except a country you have already visited (in this case just Russia). You must continue along your path and can't click a bordering country from a previously-clicked country unless it borders the country you just clicked.

The 25-country version of this quiz:
World Bordering Countries Area Challenge – 25 Countries

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World Bordering Countries Minimum Area Challenge – 25 Countries

The object of this game is to click on successive bordering countries to 'travel' through up to 25 countries with the objective of accumulating the smallest total land area among all countries traveled through. Borders are land borders only, including causeways but not including only man-made structures. Borders include dependent territory borders, areas also include territories. You must complete 25 countries for your score to save - so for example you can't get 'stuck' somewhere like South Korea with no other countries available to click on unless it happens to be your 25th country clicked.

For example, you can begin by clicking Russia - your next country can be any country bordering Russia, such as Ukraine. After clicking Ukraine you can choose any country bordering Ukraine except a country you have already visited (in this case just Russia). You must continue along your path and can't click a bordering country from a previously-clicked country unless it borders the country you just clicked.

The more challenging 50-country version of this quiz:
World Bordering Countries Minimum Area Challenge – 50 Countries

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World Bordering Countries Minimum Area Challenge – 50 Countries

The object of this game is to click on successive bordering countries to 'travel' through up to 50 countries with the objective of accumulating the smallest total land area among all countries traveled through. Borders are land borders only, including causeways but not including only man-made structures. Borders include dependent territory borders, areas also include territories. You must complete 50 countries for your score to save - so for example you can't get 'stuck' somewhere like South Korea with no other countries available to click on unless it happens to be your 50th country clicked.

For example, you can begin by clicking Russia - your next country can be any country bordering Russia, such as Ukraine. After clicking Ukraine you can choose any country bordering Ukraine except a country you have already visited (in this case just Russia). You must continue along your path and can't click a bordering country from a previously-clicked country unless it borders the country you just clicked.

The 25-country version of this quiz:
World Bordering Countries Minimum Area Challenge – 25 Countries

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World Bordering Countries Minimum Population Challenge – 25 Countries

The object of this game is to click on successive bordering countries to 'travel' through up to 25 countries with the objective of accumulating the smallest total population among all countries traveled through. Borders are land borders only, including causeways but not including only man-made structures. Borders include dependent territory borders, populations also include territories. Population in millions is shown. You must complete 25 countries for your score to save - so for example you can't get 'stuck' somewhere like South Korea with no other countries available to click on unless it happens to be your 25th country clicked.

For example, you can begin by clicking Russia - your next country can be any country bordering Russia, such as Ukraine. After clicking Ukraine you can choose any country bordering Ukraine except a country you have already visited (in this case just Russia). You must continue along your path and can't click a bordering country from a previously-clicked country unless it borders the country you just clicked.

The more challenging 50-country version of this quiz:
World Bordering Countries Minimum Population Challenge – 50 Countries

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World Bordering Countries Minimum Population Challenge – 50 Countries

The object of this game is to click on successive bordering countries to 'travel' through up to 50 countries with the objective of accumulating the smallest total population among all countries traveled through. Borders are land borders only, including causeways but not including only man-made structures. Borders include dependent territory borders, populations also include territories. Population in millions is shown. You must complete 50 countries for your score to save - so for example you can't get 'stuck' somewhere like South Korea with no other countries available to click on unless it happens to be your 50th country clicked.

For example, you can begin by clicking Russia - your next country can be any country bordering Russia, such as Ukraine. After clicking Ukraine you can choose any country bordering Ukraine except a country you have already visited (in this case just Russia). You must continue along your path and can't click a bordering country from a previously-clicked country unless it borders the country you just clicked.

The 25-country version of this quiz:
World Bordering Countries Minimum Population Challenge – 25 Countries

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World Bordering Countries Population Challenge – 25 Countries

The object of this game is to click on successive bordering countries to 'travel' through up to 25 countries with the objective of accumulating the highest total population among all countries traveled through. Borders are land borders only, including causeways but not including only man-made structures. Borders include dependent territory borders, populations also include territories. Population in millions is shown.

For example, you can begin by clicking Russia - your next country can be any country bordering Russia, such as Ukraine. After clicking Ukraine you can choose any country bordering Ukraine except a country you have already visited (in this case just Russia). You must continue along your path and can't click a bordering country from a previously-clicked country unless it borders the country you just clicked.

The more challenging 50-country version of this quiz:
World Bordering Countries Population Challenge – 50 Countries

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World Bordering Countries Population Challenge – 50 Countries

The object of this game is to click on successive bordering countries to 'travel' through up to 50 countries with the objective of accumulating the highest total population among all countries traveled through. Borders are land borders only, including causeways but not including only man-made structures. Borders include dependent territory borders, populations also include territories. Population in millions is shown.

For example, you can begin by clicking Russia - your next country can be any country bordering Russia, such as Ukraine. After clicking Ukraine you can choose any country bordering Ukraine except a country you have already visited (in this case just Russia). You must continue along your path and can't click a bordering country from a previously-clicked country unless it borders the country you just clicked.

The 25-country version of this quiz:
World Bordering Countries Population Challenge – 25 Countries

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World Bordering Countries Travel Challenge

Begin in any country that has a land border with another country by clicking on it. Travel to successive countries by clicking on a country bordering the current country you are in, but without going back to a previously clicked country. Borders are land borders only, including causeways but not including only man-made structures. Borders include dependent territory borders. Attempt to travel to the most countries before you can no longer proceed as there are no further new countries to click on which border the country you are in.

Please note - Western Sahara is not considered part of any country in this quiz, even though it will highlight with Morocco.

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World Capital Coverage Challenge

Enter a world capital - all capitals within 1000km will also fill in. Try to fill in all capitals in the smallest number of circles.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World Capital Satellite View Challenge

You will be given a satellite view zoomed in on one of 10 of the world capital cities, focused randomly within a km or so of the city center. Name the city you are looking at within one minute. I left some road and other labels in as hints, but most have been removed. Panning and zooming are disabled.

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World Capitals

Name the capitals of the world. Countries will fill in when their capital is named. Use administrative capital if there are multiple. 'Top' categories on bottom right refer to the population of the capital city. Red markers are also added for Oceania/Caribbean countries whose outlines are difficult to see - the markers are near the country centroids, not necessarily right where the capital is. You do only start with 5 minutes, but there are time bonuses. Quiz may take a few moments to load.

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World Capitals Identifier

Double-click on the red marker of the world capital listed. Correct guesses will change the marker from red to green - incorrect will not change any marker. Complete all capitals to save your score.

Note - you may have to zoom in if a couple capitals are close to each other to make sure you click on the correct one.

If by chance you don't see red markers, try refreshing the quiz.

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World Capitals Name Link Challenge

The object of this quiz is to pick a world country capital to start, then name successive captials such that the next capital's first letter is the last letter of the current capital and the next capital is as close to the current capital as possible. NOTE: You must type a '.' (period) after the capital name to submit it. The same capital cannot be used twice in this quiz.

For example, you start with 'Paris' - you are now trying to name a capital city starting with 'S' (the last letter of 'Paris') which is closest to Paris. If you answer 'Sofia' - now you are trying to name the closest capital to Sofia which starts with a 'A' and so on.

The quiz ends at the 25th capital from the starting one. You get 100 points for naming the closest capital on each step, and they decline based on the distance your capital was from the closest. You get 15 minutes to complete the quiz.

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World Circle Population Guess Challenge

You will be shown 10 different circles of radius 250-2000 km. Using the slider (or manually typing into the box below the slider), guess the population contained within each circle then click SUBMIT for each one. Populations are based on world population density at https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/index.php.

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World Circle Population Selection Challenge

The object of this quiz is to click on the circle containing the largest population. When you begin you'll be shown 2 circles with radii between 100 and 2500 km on the map which do not intersect. Click on the one with the larger population within it (based world population density info) then 'Submit' - if you are correct you'll move on. One incorrect round and the quiz is over. Every 5 rounds the number of circles on the map will increase by 1. Try to build the longest streak of correct circles. Circles displayed will always be non-intersecting.

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World Circle Radius Population Challenge

The object of this quiz is to adjust each circle's radius so it contains the target population shown at the right. When you click Start you will be shown a marker on a random populated world grid square (there are over 800K 10x10 km grid squares used for the data, courtesy of https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/index.php). Also you will see an adjustable circle of radius 500 km to start. Adjust the circle's radius by dragging it until it contains the target number of people shown - this target will be between 2.5 and 250 million people. Then click submit. You are scored on how close your circle's population is to the target.

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World Cities Grid Identifier Challenge

The object of this quiz is to double-click the grid square where cities are located (the centroid of the city is used). When you begin you will have a grid randomly placed with size 15 degrees latitude by 15 degrees longitude. You will be told which city to locate – simply double-click on that city’s grid square and you will move on to the next city. Each time you go to a new city the squares are randomly redrawn and with a size 10% smaller. The first 10 cities will be 5M+, the next 10 2.5-5M, next 10 1-2.5M and the balance (until you run out of time or guess wrong) will be 500K-1M. When you guess wrong the correct location will be shown as a pink marker.

You will not get more than one city per country in the first 3 groupings of 10, however for the final balance (when the cities are 500K-1M) there is no limit to how many cities in one country you will get.

You do get a break if you are within 2 km of the city but in the wrong square – you will not get credit for the guess but will get another chance at that level.

After the quiz is over you can click RESTART to retry it without refreshing the page.

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World Cities Locator Streak Challenge

The object of this quiz is to locate as many of the top World cities in a row you can without going over the maximum allowable distance away. The max distance allowed is 25 km for 1M+ cities and 10 km otherwise. Double-click to locate each city in order of population. If you are under the max distance allowed you will move on to the next city. When you double-click farther away than the max distance allowed the quiz will end.

PLEASE NOTE - To identify a city, click on the 'downtown' area to avoid clicking on a suburb or outer edge of the city. The distance will generally be measured from close to the center of a city's 'downtown.'

You begin with 10 minutes (or 5 for non-Premium members) and get 10 seconds added every time you double-click to locate a city.

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World City Grid

Choose your difficulty level: 'beg' 'int' 'adv or 'exp' with the grid size of 15, 10, 5, and 2.5 degrees respectively. Identify the largest city (population above 50K) within each grid square. Green squares indicate answers.

hugequiz Premium users can view the top 25 most missed cities marked by purple indicators after completing the quiz.

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World City Grid – All Cities

Choose a level by typing 'beg', 'int', 'adv', or 'exp' - then name any city of 50K+ population within each square. Beg level is 15 degree squares, Int is 10 degrees, Adv 5 degrees, and Exp is 2.5 degrees. Map may take a minute to display grid on adv and exp levels. When you reach 160 countries you will see the remaining ones left to complete.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities (in unique squares, so not more than one city per square) at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World City Grid 2nd Largest City Challenge

Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 15-degree grid, hard is a 10-degree grid. Then, try to name the SECOND LARGEST city in each grid square. To name a city, you must first click on the grid square to make it have a GREEN border. Then, type in the city answer for that square followed by a '.' (a period). You are given a score from 0 to 100 based on your answer's population compared to the 2nd largest city accepted in that square (100 being you named the 2nd largest city). If you guess the largest city it will be based on the ratio of the 2nd largest city's population to the largest.

At the end of the quiz the 2nd largest city will show in each unanswered square, and for those answered the 2nd largest city will be listed next to your score if you didn't answer it.

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World City Grid Blackout Largest City Challenge

Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 15-degree grid, hard is a 10-degree grid. Then, try to name the LARGEST city in each grid square which fits the category label for each square. To name a city, you must first click on the grid square to make it have a GREEN border. Then, type in the city answer for that square followed by a '.' (a period). You are given a score from 0 to 100 based on your answer's population compared to the largest city accepted in that square (100 being you named the largest city).

LETTER: means the city starts with that letter.
NUMBER RANGE: (such as 2-5, 10+) means the city contains that many letters (excluding spaces and special characters).
POPULATION RANGE: (such as 50-100K) means the city has that range for its population.
2+ WORDS means the city name has 2 or more words (words denoted by a space or hyphen).

At the end of the quiz the largest population missed answer will show in each unanswered square, and for those answered the largest city will be listed if you didn't answer it.

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World City Grid Challenge – Advanced

Choose a number of cities by typing ‘3’, ‘5’, or ’10’. Then, enter the largest number of 50K+ world cities you chose in each 10-degree grid square. Only green squares contain answers. When you have 2 left to go in a square it will fill in faintly yellow, 1 left it will be orangish, and all done it turns red. A time bonus is given for completing a square (it is greater for higher levels).

For example, if you choose '3' for your number of cities to start the quiz, only the 3 largest cities in each grid square will be accepted as answers.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World City Grid Small City Challenge

First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 15 degrees, Intermediate 10 degrees, Advanced 5 degrees, and Expert 2.5 degrees. Then, try to enter the smallest cities (min 50K population) in each grid square of the size based on your difficulty. Green squares contain answers. Adv and Exp levels may take a few moments to load.

PLEASE NOTE - You must type a '.' (period) after each city to submit it to prevent answering another city with a name you would be have to type to get your answer. If multiple cities have the name you submitted, only the smallest one will be counted.

You accumulate points based on the population of the city you named according to the following scale:
50K - 99,999 - 10 pts
100K - 149,999 - 8 pts
150K - 249,999 - 6 pts
250K - 499,999 - 4 pts
500K - 749,999 - 3 pts
750K - 999,999 - 2 pts
1M+ - 1 pt

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 smallest missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World City Letter Grid – Choose Letter

First choose a letter. Then, enter the largest 50K+ city beginning with that letter in each 15 degree by 15 degree grid square. Green squares contain answers.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World City Letter Grid Advanced – Choose Letter

First choose a letter. Then, enter the largest 50K+ city beginning with that letter in each 10 degree by 10 degree grid square. Green squares contain answers.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World City Letter Grid Expert – Choose Letter

First choose a letter. Then, enter the largest 50K+ city beginning with that letter in each 5 degree by 5 degree grid square. Green squares contain answers.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World City Population Blitz

You begin with 2 minutes - name as many of the world 1000 largest cities as you can trying to achieve the highest total population. You receive a 1 second bonus for every city named correctly. There are no time bonuses except the 1 second per city.

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World City Random Grid

First choose a difficulty by typing 'beg', 'int', 'adv, or 'exp' - Beginner is 15 degrees, Intermediate 10 degrees, Advanced 5 degrees, and Expert 2.5 degrees. A grid of your chosen square size will be placed randomly on the map. Then, enter the largest city (min 50K population) in each grid square of the size based on your difficulty. Green squares contain answers. Adv and Exp levels may take a few moments to load.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World City Random Grid Blackout Largest City Challenge

Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 15-degree grid, hard is a 10-degree grid. Then, try to name the LARGEST city in each grid square which fits the category label for each square. The grid will be placed randomly each time. To name a city, you must first click on the grid square to make it have a GREEN border. Then, type in the city answer for that square followed by a '.' (a period). You are given a score from 0 to 100 based on your answer's population compared to the largest city accepted in that square (100 being you named the largest city).

LETTER: means the city starts with that letter.
NUMBER RANGE: (such as 2-5, 10+) means the city contains that many letters (excluding spaces and special characters).
POPULATION RANGE: (such as 50-100K) means the city has that range for its population.
2+ WORDS means the city name has 2 or more words (words denoted by a space or hyphen).

At the end of the quiz the largest population missed answer will show in each unanswered square, and for those answered the largest city will be listed if you didn't answer it.

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World City Random Grid Challenge

Choose a number of cities by typing '3', '5', or '10'. A random 15-degree by 15-degree grid will be placed on the map. Enter the largest number of cities you chose in each square (min 10K population). Only green squares contain answers. When you have 2 left to go in a square it will fill in faintly yellow, 1 left it will be orangish, and all done it turns red. A time bonus is given for completing a square (it is greater for higher levels).

For example, if you choose '3' for your number of cities to start the quiz, only the 3 largest cities in each grid square will be accepted as answers.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World City Random Letter Grid – Choose Letter

First choose a letter. Then, enter the largest 50K+ city beginning with that letter in each 15 degree by 15 degree grid square. Grid randomly placed on the map after choosing the letter. Green squares contain answers.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World Closest 250K+ City Random Location Challenge

The object of this quiz is to name to closest World 250K+ city to each purple marker that appears. When you begin the quiz you will be placed in a random location within a continent and between 60 North and 55 South latitude (might be over a body of water, but won't be over an ocean) which will be denoted by a purple marker. Name the closest 250K+ World city to this marker by typing in the city name followed by a '.' (period). You will then be given a score up to 100 (100 being the closest 250K+ city) based on how far away your city is in relation to how far away the closest one is. You get 25 cities for a maximum of 2500 points. If you name a city that has the same name as another possible answer, don't worry - the closest city of that name will be chosen.

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World Closest 50K+ Cities To Your Location Identifier – Choose Number

First, enter '25', '50', or '100' - then double-click on the red marker of that number of closest World 50K+ cities to your geographic location (as determined by your browser's location function). To use this quiz you will have to choose 'Allow' if your browser asks to share your current location - you also may have to restart the quiz after choosing this. If your browser does not allow getting your location the quiz will not load.

Correct guesses will change the marker to green – incorrect will not change any marker. Complete all cities to save your score.

If by chance you don’t see markers, try refreshing the quiz.

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World Closest Agglos To Your Location – Choose Number

Begin by entering a number of agglos - '25', '50' or '100' - then name the closest World agglos of 1M+ population to your geographic location (as determined by your browser's location function). To use this quiz you will have to choose 'Allow' if your browser asks to share your current location - you also may have to restart the quiz after choosing this. If your browser does not allow getting your location the quiz will not load.

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World Closest Cities To Your Location – Choose Number

Begin by entering a number of cities - '50', '100', '250', '5h' or '1k' - then name the closest World 50K+ cities to your geographic location (as determined by your browser's location function). To use this quiz you will have to choose 'Allow' if your browser asks to share your current location - you also may have to restart the quiz after choosing this. If your browser does not allow getting your location the quiz will not load.

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World Countries

Name the countries of the world. 'Top' categories on bottom right refer to the population. Red markers are also added for Oceania/Caribbean nations whose outlines are not as easy to see. You do only start with 5 minutes, but there are time bonuses. Quiz may take a few moments to load.

Try other geographies:
Africa Countries | Asia Countries
Europe Countries | North America Countries & Capitals

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World Countries Identifier

You will be given country outlines along with red markers for smaller countries. Double-click on each world country (either within the outline or on the red marker if the country has a marker) as it is listed. Clicking on the correct country will change the country/marker green. Clicking incorrectly will cause no change.

If the red markers do not load immediately, try refreshing the quiz.

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World Countries Identifier Challenge

Double-click on the World country listed – there are no outlines on the map to make this a little more challenging. Complete all countries or click End Quiz to save your score.

Quiz may take a moment to load.

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World Country Centroid Locator

Double-click on the map as close as possible to each World country's geographic center (centroid) that shows up on the right. The closer you click, the more points you get (max 100). Geographic centers do not include overseas territories, you are locating the centroid of the main land mass of the country. Centroids occasionally do not lie within the country itself or on land. You may have to zoom in to click an area next to an existing marker if the cursor is hovering by the existing marker.

Don't want to do every country?
World 50 Country Centroid Locator

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World Country Centroid Locator Streak

Double-click on the map as close as possible to each World country's geographic center (centroid) that shows up on the right. The closer you click, the more points you get (max 100). You must get at least 85 points to continue to the next country, otherwise the quiz will end. Object is most countries completed, not points.

Geographic centers do not include overseas territories, you are locating the centroid of the main land mass of the country. Centroids occasionally do not lie within the country itself or on land. You may have to zoom in to click an area next to an existing marker if the cursor is hovering by the existing marker.

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World Country Drawing Challenge

Time for you to show what you've really got. You'll be freehand drawing countries of the World. When the quiz loads on the right side you will be told which country to draw. To begin drawing a country, click Draw or right-click anywhere in the map to enter drawing mode. Click and drag the mouse to make an outline of the country. Release the mouse to 'close' the country and it will appear green. If happy and ready to submit, click submit or double-click the drawn country. Click erase or right-click the country to erase it and try again. You may have to wait a few moments for your score to calculate on larger countries.

PLEASE NOTE: you will see a red line at 180 degrees longitude. When drawing Russia do NOT cross over this line, it messes up the area calculation and you will have to redraw the shape.

You are only drawing the main portion of each country - do not worry about any disjointed islands, etc. Island countries (or predominantly island countries) are not included.

When you submit a country you are scored on the % of your country which contains the actual country (shown as '% In Country') and the % of the actual country contained in your country (shown as '% Of Country'). These average out to create your points for that country.

Complete all countries or click End Quiz at any time to save your score. Don't forget to take a screenshot of your beautifully drawn World!

hugequiz Premium members will see the actual outlines of the countries when the quiz is over.

A streak version of this quiz World Country Drawing Challenge Streak

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World Country Drawing Challenge – 10 Countries No Map

You will be given 10 countries to draw the outlines of. You do not get to see the map to help you with this version of the quiz.

When the quiz loads on the right side you will be told which country to draw. To begin drawing a country, click Draw or right-click anywhere in the map to enter drawing mode. Click and drag the mouse to make an outline of the country. Release the mouse to 'close' the country and it will appear green. If happy and ready to submit, click Submit or double-click the drawn country. Click Erase or right-click it to erase it and start over. After completing a country you will need to click NEXT COUNTRY above the map to go on to the next one. Your score may take a few moments to calculate for larger countries.

You will see a white box when you begin drawing a country. You can zoom in/out and pan to prepare before you start drawing. The farthest north, south, east, and west points of the country you are drawing will touch the top, bottom, right and left sides of the rectangle.

You are only drawing the main portion of each country – do not worry about any disjointed islands, etc.

When you submit a country you are scored on the % of your country which contains the actual country (shown as '% In Country') and the % of the actual country contained in your country (shown as '% Of Country'). These average out to create your points for that country.

Complete 10 countries or click End Quiz at any time to save your score. You will then see a satellite view of the World with your countries in place.

hugequiz Premium members will see the actual outlines of the countries when the quiz is over.

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World Country Drawing Challenge Streak

First enter 'beg', 'int', 'adv', or 'exp' to begin. Beginner corresponds to 60 points, intermediate to 70 points, advanced to 80 points and expert to 90 points. This is the number of points you will need to score drawing each country to get to continue on to the next country. The object is to complete as many countries as you can.

You'll be freehand drawing the countries of the World. When the quiz loads on the right side you will be told which country to draw. To begin drawing a country, click Draw or right-click anywhere in the map to enter drawing mode. Click and drag the mouse to make an outline of the country. Release the mouse to 'close' the country and it will appear green. If happy and ready to submit, click submit or double-click the drawn country. Click erase or right-click the country to erase it and try again. You may have to wait a few moments for your score on larger countries.

You continue to the next country as long as your points for the last country meet the minimum (60, 70, 80, or 90) based on the level you chose. Otherwise the game is over.

You are only drawing the main portion of each country – do not worry about any disjointed islands, etc. Island countries (or predominantly island countries) are not included.

When you submit a country you are scored on the % of your country which contains the actual country (shown as '% In Country') and the % of the actual country contained in your country (shown as '% Of Country'). These average out to create your points for that country.

hugequiz Premium members will see the actual outlines of the countries when the quiz is over.

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World Country Satellite Zoom Challenge

Click Start to begin. You will be given Google satellite view zoomed in near the center of 20 different World 500K+ population cities. The view will start being zoomed in fully and zoom out every 5 seconds. Name the country you are in by typing it (some abbreviations accepted). The faster you answer, the more points you get. Max of 25 points per location. NOTE: No country will be used more than once, you will get 20 different countries.

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World Dependent Territories Identifier

Double-click on the red marker of the territory listed. Correct guesses will change the marker from red to green - incorrect will not change any marker. Complete all territories to save your score.

Some of these territories may have a different legal status than others, and often territories that are made up of multiple entities have been split into those entities.

Note - you may have to zoom in if a couple territories are close to each other to make sure you click on the correct one.

If by chance you don't see red markers, try refreshing the quiz.

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World Enclaves & Exclaves

Name the world national enclaves and exclaves (including semi-enclaves/semi-exclaves and a few pene-enclaves/exclaves) shown on the map. For some you will need the locality, some the region, and occasionally just a country name if the entirety of the enclave does not fall under a name. This is not meant to be a complete list. Enclave/exclave may be a body of water.

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World Expanding Circles Challenge – Your Location

First choose a level by typing '50.', '100', '250' or '500' - (need the period after '50' so 500 can be typed) then name the largest World 50K+ city in the circle/ring of that distance range (in km) as the rings expand outward from your location. You need to have your browser's location function working or the quiz will not load.

You MUST have a city within the initial distance you choose for your level - so this quiz will not work if you are not within a 50K+ city at the distance you chose to begin with.

When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring's correct answer at right (under 'Answer Stats' by your coordinates).

For example, if you choose '250' - you will be shown a circle of radius 250 km centered at your location. Naming the largest city in this circle will cause another 'ring' of radius 250 km to appear outside that circle. You now need to name the largest World 50K+ city in that ring (but not within any previous circles/rings). If a city is not within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until a city falls within it. So if a city doesn't fall within 250-500 km (assuming your level is 250 km), it will expand to be a 250-750 km ring, then 250-1000 km and so on until a city is found within the ring.

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World Grid Head To Head City Capture

This quiz is only available in Head-To-Head mode.

First, choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 15 degrees, Intermediate 10 degrees, Advanced 5 degrees, and Expert 2.5 degrees. Then, take turns entering the largest city (min 50K population) in each grid square of the size based on your difficulty. Green squares contain answers. There will be a white (Player 1) and a black (Player 2) competitor - when you answer a square it will fill in with your color.

When you have a square with your color surrounded in all directions (north, south, east, west - whichever are available) by other squares also of your color, it becomes 'captured' and the city in that surrounded square has its population added to your score.

The player with the highest score at the end of the quiz wins.

So for example in this World quiz, Black has scored on Chicago (circled) and Anchorage, and white has scored on Madrid (circled) and Reykjavik.

hugequiz Premium members will see the top 25 missed cities at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

World Grid Path Challenge – All Cities

Choose a level by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv’, or ‘exp’ – beg level is 15 degree squares, int 10 degrees, adv 5 degree, and exp 2.5 degrees. Then, name any 50K+ World city to start with by entering it (cities with the same name will choose the largest city of that name first). The grid square you are starting in will turn yellow - you now must name any city in any one of the adjacent grid squares (not including diagonal) - so any grid square directly north, south, east or west of the yellow one. Naming a city in one of these squares will turn your original square red and the current newly named city square yellow - continue in the same way trying to make a path of as many squares as you can. You are not allowed to return to a red square, and if you get 'boxed in' with no squares left to complete the quiz will also end.

Be aware that as you name cities it will answer the largest city first, so if you are trying to answer a city in a square to the east but a larger city of that name occurs a square to the north, the north one will be answered.

PLEASE NOTE: You get TWO separate 'paths' to create - one within the Americas and one within Europe/Africa/Asia/Oceania. You can start on either side and hop over to the other side whenever, in which case you will have 2 yellow squares to continue paths on.

Obviously, due to the layout and separation of squares it will be impossible to complete all of them.

hugequiz Premium members will see the largest missed city in each possible next square at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World Grid Population Challenge

First choose a grid size by typing '30', '20', or '10'. A grid of that size lat/long will be placed on the map (so if you choose '20' the grid width and height will be 20 degrees). Then, double click on the grid square with the highest population within it (based on world 10km x 10km population density estimates). The highest-population remaining square will give you 100 points, all the way down to 0 for the one with the smallest population. Try to obtain the most points by successively double-clicking on the highest-populated grid square.

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World Gulfs & Bays

Name the world gulfs and bays designated by the markers on the map. Some are classified as harbors/fjords as well.

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World Landlocked Countries Placement Challenge

The object of this quiz is to drag the 44 landlocked countries into their correct positions on the map. More northern countries will appear at the beginning lined across the top, southern countries along the bottom. When you drag on a country you will see that country's name on the right of the map. Double-click the country to 'lock' it in place and you will obtain a score up to 100 based on how close the center of the country is to the actual center coordinates. Four small European countries begin placed in the Mediterranean between Spain and Italy (right above the white rectangle).

You can end the quiz at any time or double-click on all 44 countries to place them to end the quiz as well. There may be a couple instances of a country with portions that are disjointed (Azerbaijan for instance) - only the larger portion of the country is shown in this quiz.

hugequiz Premium users will see the correct outlines of the countries when the quiz is ended.

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World Largest 10-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 10-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

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World Largest 11-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 11-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

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World Largest 12-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '50', '100', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 12-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

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World Largest 2+ Words Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', '1k', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 50K+ population cities with two or more words that you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names - words can be separated by either a space or a hyphen for this quiz.

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World Largest 5-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 5-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

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World Largest 6-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 6-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

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World Largest 7-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 7-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

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World Largest 8-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 8-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

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World Largest 9-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 9-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

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World Largest Agglomerations

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among 1M+ world agglomerations. Quiz is not timed.

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World Largest Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', '1k', '2.5k', '5k' or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among the top world cities you chose. Quiz is not timed.

hugequiz Premium users have the option to choose any number of cities to play the quiz with (stats are processed but score isn't saved). Simply enter #(number of cities)# to play the quiz with any number of cities from 25 to the maximum. For example, to play the 300 largest cities, type #300# to begin the quiz and you will play it with the 300 largest cities. Entering #all# will play it with all cities - all cities will also be chosen for any number chosen above the total.

Premium member? Connect guessed and missed answers with World Cities Learning

Try one of the continents:
Africa Largest Cities | Asia Largest Cities | Europe Largest Cities
North America Largest Cities | South America Largest Cities | Oceania Largest Cities

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World Largest Cities Blitz

First choose a number of cities to begin - '100', '250' or '500'. You begin with 30 seconds for 100, 1 minute for 250, and 3 minutes for 500. Name as many of the largest World cities you can (based on how many you chose), gaining 1 second on the clock for each city you name. Object is to name as many cities as you can before time runs out. There are no time bonuses except the 1 second per city.

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World Largest Cities By Continent – Choose Number

First enter the number of cities by typing '25.' (with the period), '50', '100', or '250' - then name that number of largest cities in each continent. Minimum 50K+ population. Objective is the highest total population of the cities, not number of cities.

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World Largest Cities By Country – Choose Number

First choose the number of cities by typing '1', '3', '5', '010' (so as not to choose 1), or '25' - then type in the largest N cities per country where N was the number you chose. I have the largest city for every country regardless of population. For the rest of the cities I had a minimum pop of 10K for every continent (incl Oceania) except Asia & Africa which have a 50K minimum population.

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World Largest Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter

First choose any letter – then try to achieve the highest population among the top 100 (or less for a few letters) World 50K+ cities beginning with that letter. Quiz is not timed.

Try other geographies:
US Largest Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter | Europe Largest Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter
Italy Largest Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter | Germany Largest Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter

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World Largest Cities By First Letter By Country – Choose Letter

First choose any letter – then try to achieve the highest population among the largest 50K+ World city beginning with that letter in each country. Quiz is not timed.

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World Largest Cities By Latitude Range – Choose Latitude

Begin by choosing a latitude from -40 thru 60 by entering it (only multiples of 10). Then, name the 50K+ world cities within 5 degrees north or south of that latitude trying to achieve the highest total population.

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World Largest Cities By Longitude Range – Choose Longitude

Begin by choosing a longitude from -160 through 180 by entering it (only multiples of 20). Then, name the 50K+ world cities within 10 degrees east or west of that longitude trying to achieve the highest total population.

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World Largest Cities On Islands

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among 50K+ world cities located on islands. Quiz is not timed. City must be entirely on an island to count.

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World Largest Cities With Same First & Last Letter – Choose Number

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among the top World 50K+ cities having the same first and last letter in their name. Quiz is not timed.

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World Largest Cities With Short Names

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 2-4 letter cities of 50K+ population that you chose. I tried to use only the most common English spelling to get name length (so 'Koln' is not on this quiz).

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World Largest Coastal Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing ‘100’, ‘250’, ‘500’, or ‘all’ – then try to achieve the highest population among the top World 50K+ population coastal cities you chose. For purposes of this quiz, coastal refers to cities whose coordinate I use is within a certain distance of a detailed world coastlines boundary shape. Cities must be within 25km for 1M+ pop, 20km 500K-1M, 15km 250-500K, 10km 100-250K, and 5km for 50-100K. Quiz is not timed. Map is only zoomable to a certain level, otherwise city labels would appear.

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World Largest Double Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 50K+ double letter cities you chose. Double letter refers to the city name containing two letters in a row (not separated by a space or other punctuation). Tried to use most common English spellings.

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World Largest Eastern Hemisphere Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', '1k', '2.5k', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among the top eastern hemisphere world cities you chose. Quiz is not timed.

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World Largest Northern Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among 50K+ cities north of 50 degrees latitude. Quiz is not timed.

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World Largest Southern Hemisphere Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among 50K+ cities in the southern hemisphere. Quiz is not timed.

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World Largest Western Hemisphere Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', '1k', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among the top western hemisphere world cities you chose. Quiz is not timed.

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World Last Letter Coverage – Choose Letter

First choose any letter except B, C, F, J, P, Q, V, W, X or Z (less than 100 places) by typing it. Then, enter World 50K+ cities ending with that letter and all others within 1000 km and also ending with that letter will automatically fill in.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

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World Letter Coverage – Choose Letter

First choose any letter except Q, U or X (less than 100 places) by typing it. Then, enter World 50K+ cities beginning with that letter and all others within 1000 km and also beginning with that letter will automatically fill in.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

Try other geographies:
Europe Letter Coverage – Choose Letter | US Letter Coverage – Choose Letter
UK 1K+ Letter Coverage – Choose Letter

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World Mapper

Name the countries, territories, and other political features. Notes: two Pacific island groups are labeled according to their collective name (be it a country, territory, etc) and also have labels for separate island groups within them. Countries are the 197 sovereign states. Dep Terr are dependent territories. Adm Divisions are integral parts of countries, be they administrative divisions or Sections of a Sovereign State. De Facto State refers to a non-UN member state recognized as independent to some degree not included in the countries list. Other refers to a handful of special designations. Some of the entities may be disputed. I tried to make the typing easy by shortening the names unless a longer name is needed to accurately name the entity. IF AN ANTARCTIC CLAIM IS NOT NAMED TYPE (Country Name) followed by “Antarctica” to name the answer. If it has a name (other than so-and-so Antarctic Territory) you must type the name of the claimed Antarctic region. Antarctic claims are all below 60 deg South and DO NOT count toward any other category except Uninhabited. Uninhabited refers to entities which have no permanent settlement not including a base of revolving inhabitants (i.e. there needs to be a permanent year-round population of the same people). UN Non Self Gov refers to territories on the UN’s Non Self-Governing Territories List.

This quiz is only available to Premium members.

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World Mapper Identifier

Double-click on the colored marker of the location (country, territory, etc) listed. Correct guesses will change the marker to green - incorrect will not change any marker. You can complete all locations to save your score or click End Quiz at any time also to save it.

Note - you may have to zoom in if a couple locations are close to each other to make sure you click on the correct one. Also - Antarctic claim markers are placed at the midpoint of their longitude range for overlapping claims.

If by chance you don't see markers, try refreshing the quiz.

NOTES: two Pacific island groups are labeled according to their collective name (be it a country, territory, etc) and also have labels for separate island groups within them. Countries are the 197 sovereign states. Dep Terr are dependent territories. Adm Divisions are integral parts of countries, be they administrative divisions or Sections of a Sovereign State. De Facto State refers to a non-UN member state recognized as independent to some degree not included in the countries list. Other refers to a handful of special designations. Some of the entities may be disputed. Antarctic claims are all below 60 deg South and DO NOT count toward any other category except Uninhabited. Uninhabited refers to entities which have no permanent settlement not including a base of revolving inhabitants (i.e. there needs to be a permanent year-round population of the same people). UN Non Self Gov refers to territories on the UN’s Non Self-Governing Territories List.

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World Random Grid Path Challenge – All Cities

Choose a level by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv’, or ‘exp’ – beg level is 15 degree squares, int 10 degrees, adv 5 degree, and exp 2.5 degrees. A randomly placed grid of that size will then be placed on the map. Then, name any 50K+ World city to start with by entering it (cities with the same name will choose the largest city of that name first). The grid square you are starting in will turn yellow - you now must name any city in any one of the adjacent grid squares (not including diagonal) - so any grid square directly north, south, east or west of the yellow one. Naming a city in one of these squares will turn your original square red and the current newly named city square yellow - continue in the same way trying to make a path of as many squares as you can. You are not allowed to return to a red square, and if you get 'boxed in' with no squares left to complete the quiz will also end.

Be aware that as you name cities it will answer the largest city first, so if you are trying to answer a city in a square to the east but a larger city of that name occurs a square to the north, the north one will be answered.

PLEASE NOTE: You get TWO separate 'paths' to create - one within the Americas and one within Europe/Africa/Asia/Oceania. You can start on either side and hop over to the other side whenever, in which case you will have 2 yellow squares to continue paths on.

Obviously, due to the layout and separation of squares it will be impossible to complete all of them.

hugequiz Premium members will see the largest missed city in each possible next square at the end of the quiz as purple markers.

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World Sea Areas

Name the 101 world sea areas per the International Hydrographic Organization. Seas may refer to oceans, gulfs, bays, etc. You typically do not have to type in such things as 'sea of' or 'ocean'.

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World Sights By Image Locator

You will be given images for 20 selected world sights (attractions, natural features, etc) from over 300 total. You can click on 'Show Image' at right to view each sight then click 'Back to Map' to return to the map. For each sight, double-click on the map with the location of it. The closer you click, the more points you earn (max 100). You can zoom in/out on the map as well to place the markers. The map will reset to its initial location and zoom after you double-click. You can mouseover a red marker to see the distance that marker was off, and mouseover a green marker to see the name of the location at that marker.

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World’s Largest Urban Centres – Choose Number

First, choose type '100', '250', '500' or 'all' to choose the number of urban centres you want to choose - then name that many of the world's largest urban centres according to the European Commission trying to achieve the highest total population. Keep in mind names of urban centres are not always a city name, can also be an area/district name as well. Info on the definition of an urban centre is below:

https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ghs_stat_ucdb2015mt_r2019a.php

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100 Largest World Lakes Name the 100 largest lakes in the world. No need to type in 'lake' as part of the answer.

25 World Countries By Rotated Outline Name the country for each of the 25 random world country outlines shown. However, each country outline has been rotated a random number of degrees. The faster you guess the more points you get.

World 100 Cities Locator Double-click on the location of each of the 100 largest world cities. The closer you click, the more points you get (max 100).

Want to name the largest city in each ring, or more of a challenge with smaller rings? World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City | World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

Want to name the largest city in each ring, or more of a challenge with smaller rings? World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City | World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

Too tough? World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City

Try other World Agglo quizzes: World Largest Agglomerations | World Closest Agglos To Your Location – Choose Number World 1M+ Agglos Direction Challenge | World 50 Largest Agglomerations Elimination

Want to name the largest city in each ring, or more of a challenge with smaller rings? World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City | World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

Want more of a challenge? World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge - Choose City

Want only one city per ring? World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge - Choose City

Want only one city per ring? World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge - Choose City

World 250 Km Population Challenge In 15 minutes name the World cities of 250K+ population trying to get the highest population. Population will only count when all other 250K cities within 250 km are guessed.

Want to try every country? World Country Centroid Locator

Want larger rings? World 100 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge - Choose City

Other Coverage Challenges Europe 200 Km Coverage Challenge | US 200 Mile Coverage Challenge

Try a different geography: Africa Coverage | Asia Coverage | Europe 10K+ City Coverage North America 10K+ City Coverage | South America Coverage | US 1K+ City Coverage

Try other geographies: Africa City Latitude Coverage | Asia City Latitude Coverage Europe City Latitude Coverage | US 5K+ City Latitude Coverage

Try other geographies: Africa City Longitude Coverage | Asia City Longitude Coverage Europe City Longitude Coverage | North America City Longitude Coverage

Try other geographies: Africa Population Coverage | Asia Population Coverage Europe 10K+ Population Coverage | South America Population Coverage

Try other geographies: Europe All Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter | US All Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter UK Largest 1K+ Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter | France Largest Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter

World All Cities By Last Letter – Choose Letter First choose any letter – then try to achieve the highest population among the 50K+ World cities ending with that letter. Quiz is not timed.

World Capital Coverage Challenge Enter a world capital - all capitals within 1000km will also fill in. Try to fill in all capitals in the smallest number of circles. hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

World City Population Blitz You begin with 2 minutes - name as many of the world 1000 largest cities as you can trying to achieve the highest total population. You receive a 1 second bonus for every city named correctly. There are no time bonuses except the 1 second per city.

Try other geographies: Africa Countries | Asia Countries Europe Countries | North America Countries & Capitals

World Countries Identifier Challenge Double-click on the World country listed – there are no outlines on the map to make this a little more challenging. Complete all countries or click End Quiz to save your score. Quiz may take a moment to load.

Don't want to do every country? World 50 Country Centroid Locator

World Gulfs & Bays Name the world gulfs and bays designated by the markers on the map. Some are classified as harbors/fjords as well.

World Largest 10-Letter Cities First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 10-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 11-Letter Cities First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 11-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 12-Letter Cities First choose the number of cities by typing '50', '100', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 12-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 5-Letter Cities First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 5-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 6-Letter Cities First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 6-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 7-Letter Cities First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 7-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 8-Letter Cities First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 8-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

100 Largest World Lakes

Name the 100 largest lakes in the world. No need to type in 'lake' as part of the answer.

25 World Countries By Rotated Outline

Name the country for each of the 25 random world country outlines shown. However, each country outline has been rotated a random number of degrees. The faster you guess the more points you get.

World 100 Cities Locator

Double-click on the location of each of the 100 largest world cities. The closer you click, the more points you get (max 100).

Want to name the largest city in each ring, or more of a challenge with smaller rings?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City | World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

Want to name the largest city in each ring, or more of a challenge with smaller rings?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City | World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

Too tough?
World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City

Try other World Agglo quizzes:
World Largest Agglomerations | World Closest Agglos To Your Location – Choose Number
World 1M+ Agglos Direction Challenge | World 50 Largest Agglomerations Elimination

Want to name the largest city in each ring, or more of a challenge with smaller rings?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge – Choose City | World 50 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge – Choose City

Want more of a challenge?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Challenge - Choose City

Want only one city per ring?
World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge - Choose City

Want only one city per ring?
World 200 Km Expanding Circles Challenge - Choose City

World 250 Km Population Challenge

In 15 minutes name the World cities of 250K+ population trying to get the highest population. Population will only count when all other 250K cities within 250 km are guessed.

Want to try every country?
World Country Centroid Locator

Want larger rings?
World 100 Km Expanding Circles Any City Challenge - Choose City

Other Coverage Challenges
Europe 200 Km Coverage Challenge | US 200 Mile Coverage Challenge

Try a different geography:
Africa Coverage | Asia Coverage | Europe 10K+ City Coverage
North America 10K+ City Coverage | South America Coverage | US 1K+ City Coverage

Try other geographies:
Africa City Latitude Coverage | Asia City Latitude Coverage
Europe City Latitude Coverage | US 5K+ City Latitude Coverage

Try other geographies:
Africa City Longitude Coverage | Asia City Longitude Coverage
Europe City Longitude Coverage | North America City Longitude Coverage

Try other geographies:
Africa Population Coverage | Asia Population Coverage
Europe 10K+ Population Coverage | South America Population Coverage

Try other geographies:
Europe All Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter | US All Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter
UK Largest 1K+ Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter | France Largest Cities By First Letter – Choose Letter

World All Cities By Last Letter – Choose Letter

First choose any letter – then try to achieve the highest population among the 50K+ World cities ending with that letter. Quiz is not timed.

World Capital Coverage Challenge

Enter a world capital - all capitals within 1000km will also fill in. Try to fill in all capitals in the smallest number of circles.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.

World City Population Blitz

You begin with 2 minutes - name as many of the world 1000 largest cities as you can trying to achieve the highest total population. You receive a 1 second bonus for every city named correctly. There are no time bonuses except the 1 second per city.

Try other geographies:
Africa Countries | Asia Countries
Europe Countries | North America Countries & Capitals

World Countries Identifier Challenge

Double-click on the World country listed – there are no outlines on the map to make this a little more challenging. Complete all countries or click End Quiz to save your score.

Quiz may take a moment to load.

Don't want to do every country?
World 50 Country Centroid Locator

World Gulfs & Bays

Name the world gulfs and bays designated by the markers on the map. Some are classified as harbors/fjords as well.

World Largest 10-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 10-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 11-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 11-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 12-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '50', '100', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 12-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 5-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 5-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 6-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 6-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 7-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 7-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.

World Largest 8-Letter Cities

First choose the number of cities by typing '100', '250', '500', or 'all' - then try to achieve the highest population among World 8-letter 50K+ population cities you chose. Tried to use most common English spelling for city names.