Countries of the World Quiz: All 193 Nations

Type your answers. Small typos are forgiven.

The countries of the world quiz is the full inventory: every one of the 193 UN member states, in one continuous run. No region filter, no curated shortlist. It’s the quiz every other quiz on this site is secretly training you for.

One number, honestly earned

Percentages on partial quizzes always carry an invisible asterisk. This one doesn’t. When the pool is all 193 countries, your score is a straight census of your world knowledge, gaps included. First-timers usually discover the world has about forty more countries than their mental map does, and they’re rarely the countries you’d predict. Everyone remembers India exists. It’s the Comoros and Eswatinis of the world that quietly go missing.

The run supports all three modes, and they’re three different achievements. Multiple choice is a knowledge check. Map-click is a geography exam. Type-in, where you conjure 193 names from nothing, is the version people put in their bio.

Strategy for the long haul

Don’t attempt mastery in one heroic sitting; the full run is a test, and tests need training between attempts. The proven loop: attempt the full quiz, note which regions your misses cluster in, then spend the week drilling those regions in the continent quizzes. Africa misses go to the Africa map quiz, Pacific misses to the Oceania map quiz, and so on. Reattempt the full run weekly and watch the number climb. Players who cycle like this typically go from 55% to 90% inside a month.

Mental chunking helps too. 193 countries is unmanageable; six continents of 54, 46, 44, 23, 12, and 14 is just six medium lists. Walk the world in a consistent order every attempt, and the order itself becomes a memory aid.

More map quizzes

World Map QuizClick thirty countries anywhere on the world map.Europe Map QuizFind all 44 European countries, microstates included.Africa Map QuizAll 54 African countries on one map, the big test.Asia Map QuizClick all 46 Asian countries, Cyprus to Japan.South America Map QuizTwelve countries. The friendliest map quiz on the site.North America Map Quiz23 countries from Canada down through the Caribbean.Oceania Map QuizFourteen countries scattered across the Pacific.Country Shape QuizName the country from its outline alone.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries count as “countries” here?

The 193 UN member states, the least arguable list available. Observer states and territories aren’t in the quiz pool. If you’re wondering why the pub-quiz answer is sometimes 195 or 197, the how many countries are there page unpacks the whole dispute.

How long does a full run take?

Plan on 20 to 40 minutes depending on mode, with type-in at the slow end. Progress isn’t lost to interruptions, so a run can survive a lunch break. Speed comes naturally with repetition: veterans clear multiple choice in well under fifteen minutes.

What’s a respectable score?

Cold first attempts average 50% to 65% for people who “know geography” and less for everyone else. Above 85% reflects real, deliberate study. Naming all 193 in type-in mode is the site’s single hardest standard achievement, and yes, it’s been done.

Is this the same as the world map quiz?

Close cousins. The world map quiz is location-first: prompts ask you to click countries on the map. This quiz is completion-first: get through every nation, in whichever mode suits you. Serious players use the map quiz as training and this one as the exam.