North America Map Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which statement correctly locates the remaining two sovereign island countries of the southeastern Caribbean?
Barbados lies just off Venezuela, while Trinidad and Tobago lies east of the main Windward island chain.
Both Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago are part of the Greater Antilles between Cuba and Hispaniola.
Barbados lies north of The Bahamas, while Trinidad and Tobago lies directly south of Cuba.
Barbados lies east of the main Windward island chain, while Trinidad and Tobago lies just off northeastern Venezuela.
2. Which country is directly south of Mexico and west of Belize, with coastlines on both the Pacific and Caribbean sides?
Guatemala
Honduras
Belize
El Salvador
3. A traveler crosses the northern border of the contiguous United States without crossing an ocean. Which country does the traveler enter?
Cuba
Mexico
Greenland
Canada
4. Which sequence places these eastern Caribbean sovereign states correctly from north to south?
Saint Kitts and Nevis; Antigua and Barbuda; Dominica
Dominica; Antigua and Barbuda; Saint Kitts and Nevis
Antigua and Barbuda; Dominica; Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis; Dominica; Antigua and Barbuda
5. Identify the small country on the Caribbean coast that lies east of Guatemala and south of Mexico, with no Pacific coastline.
El Salvador
Belize
Guatemala
Honduras
6. Moving south through the eastern Caribbean, which sequence is geographically correct?
Grenada; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Saint Lucia; Grenada
Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Grenada
Saint Lucia; Grenada; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
7. Which country occupies the section of the Central American isthmus between Nicaragua and Panama?
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Belize
Panama
8. Which sovereign island country lies south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola?
The Bahamas
Jamaica
Barbados
Dominican Republic
9. Traveling south through Central America, which country comes after Honduras and before Costa Rica?
Nicaragua
Panama
Honduras
Costa Rica
10. Which country includes Alaska, located west of Canada, as well as 48 contiguous states mainly south of Canada?
Canada
United States
Mexico
Denmark
11. Which country lies directly south of the United States, with coasts on both the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico?
Guatemala
Belize
Panama
Mexico
12. Which country lies east of Guatemala, north of El Salvador, and west of Nicaragua, with access to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Fonseca?
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
13. The island of Hispaniola is shared by two sovereign countries. Which pair correctly names the country on the west followed by the country on the east?
Cuba; Jamaica
Dominican Republic; Haiti
Haiti; Jamaica
Haiti; Dominican Republic
14. A country borders Guatemala and Honduras and has a Pacific coast but no Caribbean coast. Which country is it?
Belize
Honduras
El Salvador
Guatemala
15. Complete the spatial description: ___ is the large island country south of Florida, while ___ is the archipelagic country east of Florida and north of Cuba.
Jamaica; The Bahamas
Cuba; The Bahamas
Cuba; Jamaica
Hispaniola; Cuba
16. Which country forms the southeastern end of Central America, connecting Costa Rica with Colombia in South America?
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Panama
Nicaragua