Plain map and flag quizzes covering every continent, aimed at classrooms and quietly excellent for adults as well.
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World Geography Games sits in Geography Games under Play, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Street-view guessing, flag identification, country outlines and the entire Wordle-for-maps genre. Educational as an accident of being fun.
Yes. World Geography Games is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use World Geography Games without signing up for anything.
Yes. World Geography Games works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
The free, open-source answer to GeoGuessr, with unlimited rounds, a daily challenge and multiplayer that costs nothing.
Guess the country from its silhouette alone, with each miss handing you the distance and compass bearing to the real answer.
Video walks through a real city, and your job is to work out which one from the shopfronts, number plates and pedestrians.
A flag revealed six squares at a time, which sounds straightforward until you meet the fourth consecutive tricolour.
Widely reckoned the strongest reverse image search for faces, places and heavily cropped photos. Worth trying when TinEye finds nothing.
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The Norwegian met office's forecast, famously accurate across Scandinavia and unusually calm about admitting uncertainty everywhere else.
Satellite imagery refreshed through the day, with storm tracks, wildfire hotspots and rainfall radar layered over the top of it.
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