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GeographyFamous Mountains
A mountain on a map is often easier to place than a city, because peaks are drawn along borders in a way that makes the country obvious. Below: the links worth knowing.
Choose your difficulty
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How to play
Read the mountain, then tap the country it stands in.
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GeographyWhat you are actually practicing
Peaks are placed on maps in a way that makes their country obvious, which is why mountains are often easier to place than cities. Kilimanjaro is the tallest thing in Africa and it is in Tanzania. Fuji is the picture everyone carries of Japan. Elbrus is the high point of Europe and it is in Russia.
The set below is chosen so that every answer is uncontested. Border peaks and disputed summits are left out, because a question with two possible answers is a bad question.
How the game works
You are shown a mountain and four possible countries. Tap the one it stands in. A wrong pick shows the answer immediately.
Easy uses the seven peaks with the strongest associations. Medium widens the pool. Hard uses the full list.
The links worth knowing
Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the highest peak on the continent. Mount Kenya carries the name of the country it stands in.
Asia: Mount Fuji is Japan's highest mountain and the most photographed. Mount Elbrus is the highest peak of Europe, in Russia. Mount Kazbek stands on the border of Georgia and Russia, but its summit is in Georgia.
Europe: Mount Olympus in Greece was the home of the gods. Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius are the two active volcanoes everybody knows, both in Italy. Mount Teide is the highest peak of Spain and of the Canary Islands.
The Americas: Aconcagua in Argentina is the highest mountain outside Asia. Chimborazo in Ecuador is the point furthest from the centre of the Earth. Nevado del Ruiz is the volcano that produced the 1985 disaster. Pico de Orizaba is the highest peak of Mexico. Denali and Mount Whitney are the two highest points of the United States, and Mount Whitney is the highest in the lower forty-eight.
Oceania: Mount Cook in New Zealand and Mount Kosciuszko in Australia are the highest of their countries.
Others: Table Mountain overlooks Cape Town. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles, and Hvannadalshnukur is the highest in Iceland.
How to get faster
Anchor each peak to a range first, and the range already suggests the country. Kilimanjaro is in the Kilimanjaro Range in Tanzania; Elbrus is a Caucasus peak in Russia; Aconcagua is in the Andes.
A note on borders
Some peaks sit exactly on a line between two countries, and in those cases the answer depends on whether you mean the summit or the whole massif. The peaks here were picked so that one country clearly owns them, which is why Everest and Mont Blanc do not appear.