Filed under: Fun, Kids, Time-Wasters, Education
World Map geography tester
by Christina Clark Oct 28th 2008 at 12:00PM
If you're past all that school stuff and want to see how much geography you remember, check out the World Map by Game Design. You are given a world map and the names of 20 countries. You have about 10 seconds to find each country on the map.
If you are lucky to get some of the bigger countries it's quite easy, but once you have a few small African nations things become much more challenging. I'm not going to share my score. It's too embarrassing!
If you're good at naming countries but not finding them you can try the 192 UN recognized states in 10 minutes. Basically, once you load the page a timer starts to count down. You have 10 minutes to name as many UN recognized countries as you can.
When you type in a correct answer it is added to the list. So if you type something in and it doesn't disappear, it's not right. My biggest challenge was spelling some of the country names. I got about 70 countries entered before I ran out of time and had about 10 that I just couldn't figure out how to spell properly.
So, DLS readers, how are your geography skills?
[Via Eco Worldly]
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Richard said 12:25PM on 10-28-2008
84 points :p wtf is lesotho?
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Christina Clark said 12:26PM on 10-28-2008
Better than I did. I only got about 40 points my first time out!
Grant Robertson said 1:59PM on 10-28-2008
Can we get the POTUS/Vice-POTUS Candidates to take this and publish the scores?
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Christina Clark said 2:00PM on 10-28-2008
Nice idea Grant, I don't know that I personally have the contacts to make that one happen though!
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Lane said 10:10PM on 10-28-2008
I got 74 of the 192 countries!
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Jeff said 10:21PM on 11-02-2008
Kinda lame that they don't show you where it is when you get it wrong. Makes it kinda hard to learn something new.
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