The geography guides
Playing helps you remember; understanding helps you remember faster. These guides explain what sits behind the game's questions — why the number of countries is not fixed, where flag colours come from, and how to learn all of it without losing your evenings.
Everything is free to read, with no account. Each guide stands alone: start with whichever title intrigues you.
The in-depth guides
How many countries are there in the world?
193, 195, 197, 249: none of these is wrong. What each source actually counts, and which to use when.
The flags of the world: families and lookalikes
Nordic crosses, tricolours, pan-African and pan-Arab colours, crescents. The great families, the pairs everybody confuses, and the one-of-a-kind flags.
The capitals of the world and their traps
Why Canberra and not Sydney, why South Africa has three, and why some countries built theirs in the desert.
Land borders: records and curiosities
Fourteen neighbours each for China and Russia, two doubly landlocked countries, and a Belgian-Dutch village cut into thirty pieces.
Memorising the flags in 4 weeks
Grouping by families, active recall, spaced repetition: a concrete plan, fifteen minutes a day.
Studying geography in 20 min a day
What order to learn countries in, how to remember their position on the map, and which confusions to fix first.
Continent by continent
The complete lists, generated from the game's own data: flags in pictures, capitals, population, area and number of neighbours. Six continents, three angles each.
| Continent | Flags | Capitals | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe (45) | View | View | View |
| Africa (54) | View | View | View |
| Asia (47) | View | View | View |
| North America (23) | View | View | View |
| South America (12) | View | View | View |
| Oceania (14) | View | View | View |
The curiosities
The flags people confuse all the time
Chad and Romania, Monaco and Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand: a dozen pairs, and how to separate them in a second.
The hardest countries to place
The thirty countries almost nobody can locate, why they slip out of memory, and how to learn them in blocks.
The micro-states
Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu: they fit inside a city district and yet weigh nearly a tenth of a quiz.
Landlocked countries
Forty-four countries with no access to the sea, and two landlocked squared: their neighbours are cut off too.
Countries that changed their name
Eswatini, Türkiye, Czechia, North Macedonia: what changed, when, and which form to use today.
Disputed territories
Kosovo, Taiwan, Western Sahara: why they are not in the game, and why Palestine is.
The game modes
One page per mode, with its rules and its reference table.
| Mode | What you do |
|---|---|
| Flags | Name the country behind a flag. |
| Capitals | Find a country’s capital among four options. |
| 3D Globe | Locate a country by spinning a 3D globe. |
| Silhouettes | Identify a country from its outline alone. |
| Borders | Link two countries border by border. |
| Guess the Country | Find a mystery country from successive clues. |
| Rankle | Spread eight countries across eight ranking criteria. |
| Higher or Lower | Say which of two countries ranks higher. |
| Daily Challenge | A daily run, identical for every player. |
| Online Duels | Live duels and matches for up to eight players. |
| Ranked Mode | ELO ladder with tiers and seasons. |
| Story Mode | A starred level campaign around the world. |
And for the practice?
GeoG brings together 12 game modes — flags, capitals, a 3D globe, outlines, borders, rankings — and a daily challenge shared by every player in the world.
Play the daily challenge