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Test your knowledge with the World 50 Country Centroid Locator Quiz. Challenge yourself and see how well you can pinpoint the geographic centers of different countries.

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World 50 Country Centroid Locator

Directions

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.

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Hippa

4 months ago

Really cool quiz, would like to see where the actual answers were though

waltermitty

1 year ago

Fun quiz!