Cartograph Country Quiz (capitals, flags, shapes, map — printable)
Make a geography quiz on capitals, flags, shapes or the map, with a printable sheet and answer key.
How it works
Makes a multiple-choice geography quiz for a region or the whole world: capitals, countries of capitals, flags, country shapes, or “find it on the map”. The same seed always gives the same questions, so a class can share one quiz. You get the questions with the answer key, a printable PDF quiz sheet (flag questions print the flag’s written description, map questions print a numbered blank map), and Markdown flashcards for Deckwright Study Cards. It is the quiz engine of the Cartograph app, which also schedules spaced reviews.
- Countries: 193 UN member states, the observers Holy See and Palestine, and Kosovo and Taiwan. Capital questions leave out Israel and Palestine (disputed capitals) and accept other official capitals and spellings when typed in the app (La Paz or Sucre, Pretoria, Cape Town or Bloemfontein …). Shape questions use the 177 Natural Earth outlines; map questions draw smaller countries as a dot at their capital.
- Questions are drawn with a seeded generator (sfc32): the same quiz, region, number of questions, choices and seed give the same questions and the same option order everywhere.
- Wrong options are plausible on purpose: flags with similar colours and layout for flag questions, countries of a similar size for shapes, and the same region for capitals and countries.
- The PDF is laid out with the Printshop engine (vector PDF, embedded Noto fonts). Flag pictures are not embedded: flag questions print the flag’s written description from The World Factbook. Map questions print a numbered blank map with lines for the names. The last page is the answer key.
- The Markdown cards use the Deckwright Study Cards format (Q:/A:), so the questions can be reviewed with spaced repetition there or in the Atlas tab of Cartograph.
Sources
- The World Factbook, final edition (archived February 2026; public domain), via the factbook.json mirror (Central Intelligence Agency (US Government))
- Wikidata — country items: ISO 3166-1 codes, UN membership, official languages, labels (CC0 1.0) (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Natural Earth 1:110m Cultural Vectors — Admin 0 Countries (public domain) (Natural Earth)
- flag-icons 7.6.0 — country flags in SVG (MIT licence) (Panayiotis Lipiridis and contributors)
- Small Fast Chaotic PRNG (sfc32), PractRand (C. Doty-Humphrey)
Part of Cartograph
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Cartograph Map posters, route art & atlas
Map prints, GPS-art routes, fair meeting points, true sizes, flags and country quizzes.
Related tools
- Cartograph Flag Finder (find a flag by its colours and layout) – Saw a flag and don’t know whose it is? Pick its colours, stripes and symbols to find the country.
- Cartograph Country Facts (capital, population, area, languages, neighbours) – A dated fact card for any country: capital, population, area, languages, neighbours and flag.
- Flashcards from Markdown, CSV or Anki Text – Turn notes into flashcards: Q:/A: pairs, term :: definition lines, cloze gaps, CSV or Anki text.
How to use the Cartograph Country Quiz
Make a seeded geography quiz on capitals, flags, country shapes or the map, with a printable PDF sheet, an answer key and flashcards.
What it is for
Teachers want a worksheet for Friday, quiz fans want a fair round with friends, and learners want to practise the capitals they keep mixing up. The Country Quiz makes a multiple-choice quiz from 197 countries in five kinds: Capitals, Countries of capitals, Flags, Country shapes and Find it on the map. You choose a region or the whole world, the number of questions (1–60) and the number of choices (2–6).
Each quiz is drawn from a seed. The same settings and seed always give the same questions in the same order, with the same options, so a whole class can work on one quiz, or you can repeat last week’s round exactly.
Worked example
Twenty world capitals with three choices and the seed friday start like this:
| # | Question | A | B | C | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is the capital of Afghanistan? | Yerevan | Kabul | Baku | B |
| 2 | What is the capital of India? | New Delhi | Kabul | Bandar Seri Begawan | A |
| 3 | What is the capital of Mongolia? | Ulaanbaatar | Baku | Bandar Seri Begawan | A |
The tool drew from 195 countries. Israel and Palestine are left out of capital questions because the status of their capitals is disputed.
The tool’s own example, eight flags of Africa with the seed class-7b, starts with Angola. Its question reads “Which country does this flag belong to? (two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem …)”: flag questions are printed as the flag’s written description, so a black-and-white sheet works too.
How to read the result
The table lists every question with its options and the answer letter. Below it you get two downloads:
- The quiz sheet (PDF): questions with tick boxes, a name and date line, and the answer key on the last page. Shape questions print the outline; map questions print a numbered blank map with lines for the names.
- Flashcards (Markdown): the same questions as
Q:/A:cards for Deckwright Study Cards.
For flags, shapes and map quizzes the result page also shows the pictures, numbered by question. Open in the app opens the quiz in the Atlas tab of Cartograph, where you click the answers and keep a review history.
Tips and common mistakes
- Wrong options are chosen to be tempting: similar flags for flag questions, countries of a similar size for shapes, the same region for capitals. Expect a real challenge, not obvious fillers.
- If you ask for more questions than a region has, every country comes once and a note tells you how many there are (South America has 12).
- Change one letter of the seed to get a different quiz with the same settings.
- For practice over weeks, use Spaced review in the Cartograph app: it asks the countries you missed again soon and the ones you know only now and then.
- Small countries that the world outline data leaves out (Malta, Singapore, Caribbean islands) appear as dots at their capital in map quizzes.
FAQ
Which capital counts when a country has several?
The quiz shows the main one from The World Factbook or Wikidata (La Paz for Bolivia, Pretoria for South Africa). When you type answers in the app, Sucre, Cape Town and Bloemfontein are accepted too.
Are the facts current?
Capitals and borders are from the final edition of The World Factbook (2025) with updates from Wikidata, such as Naypyidaw for Myanmar.
Can I print flags in colour?
Not yet. The printed sheet describes each flag in words; the app and the result page show the pictures.
Why is a country missing from shape questions?
Shapes use outlines at 1 : 110 million, where 29 small countries are too small to draw.
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For scripts and AI agents
- JSON API:
POST https://cartographcountryquiz.usefulweb.site/api/v1/calculate(same calculation as this page) - Interface description: OpenAPI 3.1 · AI guide: llms.txt
- MCP server (Streamable HTTP):
https://cartographcountryquiz.usefulweb.site/mcp· tool namecartograph_country_quiz
Example request
curl -s -X POST https://cartographcountryquiz.usefulweb.site/api/v1/calculate \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"kind":"capital","region":"europe","count":10,"seed":"europe"}'