South America Map Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. After flowing east across the continent, the Amazon River reaches the Atlantic Ocean through which country?
Peru
Brazil
Colombia
Argentina
2. Patagonia extends across the southern portions of which two countries?
Argentina and Chile
Brazil and Uruguay
Paraguay and Argentina
Peru and Bolivia
3. Quito is the capital of which country on South America's Pacific side?
Peru
Colombia
Chile
Ecuador
4. Lake Titicaca sits on the border between which two countries?
Chile and Argentina
Peru and Bolivia
Ecuador and Colombia
Brazil and Paraguay
5. Which Atlantic coastal country lies between Argentina and Brazil and has Montevideo as its capital?
Paraguay
Chile
Suriname
Uruguay
6. Georgetown is the capital of which English-speaking South American country?
Guyana
Suriname
Venezuela
Paraguay
7. A long, narrow country stretches down the Pacific coast to the west of Argentina. Which country is it?
Uruguay
Peru
Chile
Bolivia
8. Which country on South America's northeastern Atlantic coast borders Guyana, Brazil, and French Guiana?
Colombia
Venezuela
Suriname
Uruguay
9. Which landlocked country has Sucre as its constitutional capital and La Paz as its seat of government?
Paraguay
Peru
Bolivia
Ecuador
10. The Andes follow much of South America's western side. Which pair of countries are both crossed by this mountain system?
Brazil and Uruguay
Chile and Ecuador
Guyana and Paraguay
Suriname and Uruguay
11. Caracas is the capital of which country on the Caribbean coast of South America?
Venezuela
Guyana
Colombia
Suriname
12. Lima is the capital of which South American country?
Bolivia
Paraguay
Ecuador
Peru
13. Which landlocked country shares borders with Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil?
Ecuador
Uruguay
Chile
Paraguay
14. Which country has Buenos Aires as its capital and borders both Chile and Uruguay?
Brazil
Paraguay
Argentina
Peru
15. On a political map of South America, which large eastern country is the continent's only sovereign state where Portuguese is the official language?
Brazil
Argentina
Suriname
Venezuela
16. Which South American country has coastlines on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean?
Venezuela
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana