Which country has this shape?
Country shape quiz
The app's own practice screen: ten questions, instant feedback, nothing to install.
Country shapes that look alike
We scaled every outline to the same box, as the quiz shows them, and measured how much each pair overlaps. These are the closest matches — the ones worth learning side by side.
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Sierra Leone 
Suriname 80% overlap
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Cambodia 
Nigeria 79% overlap
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Ivory Coast 
Poland 79% overlap
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Sri Lanka 
Luxembourg 78% overlap
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Gabon 
Lesotho 77% overlap
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Bulgaria 
Hungary 77% overlap
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Bhutan 
Czechia 77% overlap
All 195 country outlines
Browse the shapes by region. Each outline is scaled to fill its box, so size is not a clue — only the shape.
Country shapes of Africa
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Algeria -
Angola -
Benin -
Botswana -
Burkina Faso -
Burundi -
Cameroon -
Cape Verde -
Central African Republic -
Chad -
Comoros -
Congo -
Djibouti -
DR Congo -
Egypt -
Equatorial Guinea -
Eritrea -
Eswatini -
Ethiopia - Gabon
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Gambia -
Ghana -
Guinea -
Guinea-Bissau - Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho
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Liberia -
Libya -
Madagascar -
Malawi -
Mali -
Mauritania -
Mauritius -
Morocco -
Mozambique -
Namibia -
Niger - Nigeria
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Rwanda -
São Tomé and Príncipe -
Senegal -
Seychelles - Sierra Leone
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Somalia -
South Africa -
South Sudan -
Sudan -
Tanzania -
Togo -
Tunisia -
Uganda -
Zambia -
Zimbabwe
Country shapes of the Americas
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Antigua and Barbuda -
Argentina -
Bahamas -
Barbados -
Belize -
Bolivia -
Brazil -
Canada -
Chile -
Colombia -
Costa Rica -
Cuba -
Dominica -
Dominican Republic -
Ecuador -
El Salvador -
Grenada -
Guatemala -
Guyana -
Haiti -
Honduras -
Jamaica -
Mexico -
Nicaragua -
Panama -
Paraguay -
Peru -
Saint Kitts and Nevis -
Saint Lucia -
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname
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Trinidad and Tobago -
United States -
Uruguay -
Venezuela
Country shapes of Asia
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Afghanistan -
Armenia -
Azerbaijan -
Bahrain -
Bangladesh - Bhutan
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Brunei - Cambodia
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China -
Georgia -
India -
Indonesia -
Iran -
Iraq -
Israel -
Japan -
Jordan -
Kazakhstan -
Kuwait -
Kyrgyzstan -
Laos -
Lebanon -
Malaysia -
Maldives -
Mongolia -
Myanmar -
Nepal -
North Korea -
Oman -
Pakistan -
Palestine -
Philippines -
Qatar -
Saudi Arabia -
Singapore -
South Korea - Sri Lanka
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Syria -
Tajikistan -
Thailand -
Timor-Leste -
Turkmenistan -
Türkiye -
United Arab Emirates -
Uzbekistan -
Vietnam -
Yemen
Country shapes of Europe
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Albania -
Andorra -
Austria -
Belarus -
Belgium -
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria
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Croatia -
Cyprus - Czechia
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Denmark -
Estonia -
Finland -
France -
Germany -
Greece - Hungary
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Iceland -
Ireland -
Italy -
Latvia -
Liechtenstein -
Lithuania - Luxembourg
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Malta -
Moldova -
Monaco -
Montenegro -
Netherlands -
North Macedonia -
Norway - Poland
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Portugal -
Romania -
Russia -
San Marino -
Serbia -
Slovakia -
Slovenia -
Spain -
Sweden -
Switzerland -
Ukraine -
United Kingdom -
Vatican City
Country shapes of Oceania
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Australia -
Fiji -
Kiribati -
Marshall Islands -
Micronesia -
Nauru -
New Zealand -
Palau -
Papua New Guinea -
Samoa -
Solomon Islands -
Tonga -
Tuvalu -
Vanuatu
Questions
- Where do the country outlines come from?
- Natural Earth 5.1.2, the public-domain map dataset. Each outline is the country’s principal land group; distant territories may be left out and very small states are enlarged so they can be recognised.
- Which country shapes are easiest to recognise?
- Italy’s boot, Chile’s ribbon and the long curve of Vietnam. The hard ones are the square-ish countries of Africa and Central Asia, where the borders are straight lines.
- Is guess-the-country-by-shape free?
- Yes, here in the browser, and Country Shapes stays free forever in the OddSkills app.
- How many countries are in the shape quiz?
- 195: the 193 UN members plus the Holy See and Palestine.