About
About Geography Games
Geography Games is a free collection of browser games about the world: flags, borders, capitals, country outlines and the statistics that separate one nation from another. No account, no download, no paywall. Open a game and play.
What you'll find here
Every game is built around one idea: you learn a place far better by trying to recall it than by reading a list. So instead of flashcards, you get a daily challenge, a timer, a leaderboard, or an opponent.
Daily
Guess the Flag
One flag a day, six guesses, with distance and direction hints after every miss.
1v1 Live
Multiplayer Flag Battle
Real-time races against another player, with the server refereeing every guess.
Drawing
Draw the Country
Sketch a country outline from memory and get scored on how close you came.
Drawing
Paint the Flag
Rebuild a flag from a palette of real and deliberately misleading colours.
Maps
Map & States Quizzes
Find countries on a world map, or name all 50 US states against the clock.
Learn
Geography Facts
Articles on landlocked countries, microstates and capitals, plus free CSV datasets.
That's the short list. Browse everything from the home page, or start from a category like flag games, map quizzes or daily games.
Who makes this
One person. I'm Ziga, a developer based in the EU, and Geography Games is a side project I build and run on my own: the code, the artwork, the game design, the articles and the server bills.
That means new games arrive when they're ready rather than on a schedule. It also means a bug report or a data correction goes straight to the person who can fix it. I read everything sent to me.
Get in touchHow the site works
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Free, with no sign-up
There is no account to create and no login wall. Streaks, personal bests and daily locks are remembered in your own browser, so clearing your browser data resets them. Accounts are being built so your scores can follow you between devices, and they will stay optional.
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Built for phones too
Every game is playable on a phone screen, not just a desktop. Drawing and painting games are designed for a fingertip first.
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The server keeps score
In multiplayer and on leaderboards the server validates each guess and stores the result, so a match is decided by what actually happened rather than by whatever a browser claims.
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One puzzle a day, for everyone
Daily games use the same challenge worldwide, generated from the date, so you and everyone else are solving the identical puzzle.
Where the data comes from
Country data, meaning names, capitals, flags, areas, populations and regions, comes from the REST Countries API. It is cached on our own servers so the games stay fast and keep working if the upstream API is down. Interactive maps are rendered with Leaflet using OpenStreetMap data and Stamen Design tiles.
Articles in the Learn section are checked against published references such as encyclopedias, statistical agencies and official government pages. Each article lists its own sources at the bottom so you can verify a number rather than take my word for it. The free CSV datasets are built from those same checked lists.
Found a mistake?
Borders move, capitals change and datasets go stale. If a country, flag or figure looks wrong, please tell me. Corrections are the most useful mail I get.
How it's paid for
Everything on Geography Games is free, and I'd like to keep it that way. Hosting, the database and the data feeds cost real money, so the site carries advertising served through Google AdSense, and there's a Buy Me a Coffee page for anyone who wants to chip in directly.
Ads are kept to fixed, reserved slots so they can't shove the game around mid-round. What advertising means for your data is spelled out in the privacy policy.
Ready to play?
Start with today's flag. One country, six guesses, with distance and direction hints after every miss.
About This Game
We are using the REST Countries API for the game logic.
Interactive map powered by Leaflet. Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0.
Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL.
