The best sites of 2022 for online geography games.
A great way to expand your geographic knowledge is to play online geographic and mapping games. You can learn a lot by playing games that light up different places around the world.
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From multiple choice geography quizzes to more interactive world maps with Google Street View, we’ve put together a list of great online geography games that will quickly turn you into a geography expert.
1. Worldle
The release of the viral word game Wordle spawned an avalanche of other daily puzzle-inspired games, including Worldle. In this game, you have six attempts to guess the correct country or territory from its shape. For each attempt, Worldle will tell you how far your guess is from the target country in kilometers and a percentage that gets higher the closer you get to the correct answer.
Like Wordle, a new game is available every day and there is no need to install an app. Access Worldle in any web browser.
2. Globle
Globle will really test your knowledge of geography. Guess a new mysterious country every day. You won’t get any clues to start with, but every wrong guess will appear on a globe. “The hotter the color, the closer you are to the answer.”
Like Wordle, it will tell you how far you think the border of the mysterious country is. Play it every day and soon you will be familiar with all the countries of the world.
3. Citydle
Sasha Slutsker created Citydle. She says, “It’s a daily city-guessing game, similar to Wordle.” You will immediately notice the similarity. First guess the city. 1 – If your guess turns gray, your answer is in the wrong country or continent. 2 – If your guess turns orange, you’ll know you got the correct continent but the wrong country. 3 – If your answer is yellow, the country is correct, but the city you guessed is incorrect. The guess that turns green is correct.
For each attempt, Citydle will also tell you how different your answer is from the correct one. We found this to be one of the hardest geography games in the world.
4. Maphio
Entrepreneur Simon Sander came up with Maphio after playing – you guessed it – Wordle. When we asked what inspired him to create Maphio, he said he asked himself, “What if we take inspiration from Wordle and plug in images from all over the world, and instead of people guessing words, they guess places?” Soon the interactive game Maphio was born.
The correct answer could be anywhere on the world map. You find clues as you move around. You don’t need to know the name of the country – just click on the map to select a place to guess. A new game is available every day.
5. GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr is one of the most popular free online geography games with over 30 million users worldwide. You will be taken to the street view panorama. View the scene or walk around to find clues that will help you figure out where you are and then guess your location on the map. You can be anywhere from South America to Oceania!
One nice feature is that you can choose from a category like North America or Famous Places. The Geoguessr interface is sleek and polished, and in addition to a browser version, it’s available for iPhone and Android. Or try GeoGuess, an open source alternative you can host.
6. Sporcle
Sporcle is a quiz and quiz website that has a variety of geography quizzes. If you like map quizzes, try their Find the Countries of the World Quiz. If you like world flags, see if you can match a country’s old flag with its new one.
Sporcle organizes quizzes by category, and you can search for exactly the type of quiz you need, from US state capitals to currencies to bodies of water.
7. RubyCave
The Flags game by RubyCave is all about identifying flags. You have 30 seconds to guess which country the flag represents. If you choose to create an account, you can upload your account and win medals.
8. Degree Confluence Point
According to Wikipedia, “The Degree Confluence Project is a volunteer project based on the World Wide Web that aims to get people to visit each of the intersections of latitude and longitude in integer degrees on Earth by posting photos and reporting each visit online.
In this related game, you have to guess the location of the degree confluence point based on the physical features you see in its photo. To guess, enter the latitude and longitude.
9. Carmen Sandiego Games
Children and adults alike wondered, “Where is Carmen Sandiego?” for decades. The character has been featured in TV shows and video games since the original video game was released in 1985. These days, Carmen can be found in several geographic games Google Earth, Google Expeditions and Roblox.
The website has a great Resources section with perfect activities for high school students. In addition, for teachers, Google Expeditions allows the teacher to be a guide for students to explore the area using virtual reality.
10. JetPunk Quizzes
JetPunk is another quiz site that has a variety of geography quizzes. We especially liked the quiz “Countries of the world with a blank map”, where you need to name all the countries of the world. When you name a country, it appears on the map and in the list. You only have fifteen minutes to think about 196 countries.
11. Posio
Posio is a multiplayer geography game where you have to place cities on a map. After you make your guess, you will see your answer, the correct answer, and the closest answer anyone has guessed.
Build Bridges with Geography
A little knowledge of geography can go a long way in making connections with people all over the world. As Simon Sander, the creator of Maphio, said: “If you know a couple of other cities from a tiny country, and not just the capital, that’s a great conversation starter!”
The best sites of 2022 for online geography games
The best sites of 2022 for online geography games