World Capitals
Match countries to their capitals in a free, timed browser game. Twenty countries, four choices each.
GeographyFamous Landmarks
Landmarks are geography with a face on it: a tower, a temple, a wall. Below: the ones people mix up most, and the visual cues that make them recallable.
Choose your difficulty
Pick a level to start playing. You can switch at any time.
How to play
Read the landmark, then tap the country it stands in.
Tip: your progress and best score are saved in this browser only.
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GeographyWhat you are actually practicing
Landmarks are geography with a face on it. A tower, a temple, a wall, an opera house — and because they are visual, they stick better than a list of capitals does.
They also have a habit of being misplaced in memory. The Leaning Tower is in Pisa, not Venice; the Acropolis is in Athens, not Rome; and the Taj Mahal is in Agra, which is not even the capital.
How the game works
You are shown a landmark and four countries. Pick the country it stands in. A wrong pick reveals it immediately.
Easy uses the landmarks everyone has seen. Medium widens the set. Hard uses the full list, including the ones that get confused with a more famous neighbour.
The ones worth knowing
Neighbours people swap: the Colosseum (Rome) is not the Pantheon, and both are in Italy — but the Parthenon is in Athens.
Not in the capital: the Taj Mahal is in Agra, the Forbidden City is in Beijing but the Summer Palace is not, and the pyramids are at Giza, not Cairo.
Named for the place: Machu Picchu is in Peru, Chichén Itzá in Mexico, Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
Strategies that actually raise your score
Picture it, then place it. The visual route is the fast one. Imagine the curved roofs of the Sydney Opera House against water, and the country arrives with it.
Use the shape of the name. "Machu Picchu" sounds South American, "Angkor Wat" sounds Southeast Asian. Pronunciation is a surprisingly reliable continent cue.
Reject the famous neighbour. If the landmark is in Peru, Peru should be among the options — and if it is not, the question is about a different landmark entirely.
Learn landmarks in pairs. The Acropolis and the Parthenon are the same hill; the Colosseum and the Pantheon are the same city. Pairing them means half the questions answer each other.