Countries of the World Quiz

1. A traveler takes a ferry south across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain and arrives in Tangier. Which country have they entered?

2. Which landlocked South American country borders Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina?

3. Kyoto, once an imperial capital, is located in which country?

4. On a journey south through Central America, which country would you cross after Honduras and before Costa Rica?

5. Which country occupies the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, with Indonesian territory to its west?

6. Which country includes the Sinai Peninsula, creating a land connection between Africa and Asia?

7. Haiti occupies the western part of Hispaniola. Which country occupies the island’s eastern part?

8. Travel north from Germany onto the Jutland Peninsula. Which country do you enter?

9. An equatorial archipelago lies between the Indian and Pacific oceans and shares land borders with Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste. Which country is it?

10. Ottawa is the capital of which country?

11. Quito is the capital of which South American country?

12. Which Baltic country lies directly between Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south?

13. Which island country lies southeast of India, separated from it by the Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar?

14. A small country in the Pyrenees has land borders only with France and Spain. Which country is it?

15. Which country on the Horn of Africa borders Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya and has coasts on both the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean?

16. Which sovereign country is entirely enclosed by South Africa?