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The Europe Map Quiz
Twenty countries on the map of Europe, from Portugal in the west to Belarus in the east. Each answer comes with the capital and one fact worth knowing.
- 20 questions
- About 7 minutes
- Medium
- Every question is a map
About this quiz
The quiz covers twenty European countries, from the Atlantic coast to the borders of Russia. Each explanation gives the capital and one fact about the country's place in Europe's history, from a medieval alliance that is still in force to the human chain of 1989 and the wars that broke up Yugoslavia.
Most people get the big western countries right. The hard part is the east, where the three Baltic states, Slovakia and Slovenia, and the small countries of the Balkans are easy to mix up.
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