GeoQuizz

Pronounce African Countries on the 3D Globe

Africa has 54 sovereign states. The globe spins, you say the highlighted name aloud, the browser checks it. No mouse, no signup, no install.

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Africa has 54 sovereign states, more than any other continent, and they sit on a landmass roughly three times the size of Europe. The globe rotates, one country lights up, and you say its name out loud. The browser does the rest. You will move from familiar shapes like Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa to trickier outlines: Eswatini wedged between Mozambique and South Africa, the long Sahel band running through Mali, Niger and Chad, the Horn with Djibouti and Eritrea, and small island states like Comoros, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe. Pronunciation matters more than spelling here, which is exactly the point.

The 57 countries — Africa

  • Flag of Algeria

    Algeria

    Algiers

  • Flag of Angola

    Angola

    Luanda

  • Flag of Benin

    Benin

    Porto-Novo

  • Flag of Botswana

    Botswana

    Gaborone

  • Flag of Burkina Faso

    Burkina Faso

    Ouagadougou

  • Flag of Burundi

    Burundi

    Gitega

  • Flag of Cameroon

    Cameroon

    Yaoundé

  • Flag of Cape Verde

    Cape Verde

    Praia

  • Flag of Central African Republic

    Central African Republic

    Bangui

  • Flag of Chad

    Chad

    N'Djamena

  • 🏴

    COI

    COI

  • Flag of Comoros

    Comoros

    Moroni

  • Flag of Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Kinshasa

  • Flag of Djibouti

    Djibouti

    Djibouti

  • Flag of Egypt

    Egypt

    Cairo

  • Flag of Equatorial Guinea

    Equatorial Guinea

    Malabo

  • Flag of Eritrea

    Eritrea

    Asmara

  • Flag of Eswatini

    Eswatini

    Mbabane

  • Flag of Ethiopia

    Ethiopia

    Addis Ababa

  • Flag of Gabon

    Gabon

    Libreville

  • Flag of Ghana

    Ghana

    Accra

  • Flag of Guinea

    Guinea

    Conakry

  • Flag of Guinea-Bissau

    Guinea-Bissau

    Bissau

  • Flag of Ivory Coast

    Ivory Coast

    Yamoussoukro

  • Flag of Kenya

    Kenya

    Nairobi

  • Flag of Lesotho

    Lesotho

    Maseru

  • Flag of Liberia

    Liberia

    Monrovia

  • Flag of Libya

    Libya

    Tripoli

  • Flag of Madagascar

    Madagascar

    Antananarivo

  • Flag of Malawi

    Malawi

    Lilongwe

  • Flag of Mali

    Mali

    Bamako

  • Flag of Mauritania

    Mauritania

    Nouakchott

  • Flag of Mauritius

    Mauritius

    Port Louis

  • Flag of Morocco

    Morocco

    Rabat

  • Flag of Mozambique

    Mozambique

    Maputo

  • Flag of Namibia

    Namibia

    Windhoek

  • Flag of Niger

    Niger

    Niamey

  • Flag of Nigeria

    Nigeria

    Abuja

  • Flag of Republic of the Congo

    Republic of the Congo

    Brazzaville

  • Flag of Rwanda

    Rwanda

    Kigali

  • Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe

    São Tomé and Príncipe

    São Tomé

  • Flag of Senegal

    Senegal

    Dakar

  • Flag of Seychelles

    Seychelles

    Victoria

  • Flag of Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone

    Freetown

  • Flag of Somalia

    Somalia

    Mogadishu

  • 🏴

    Somaliland

    Hargeisa

  • Flag of South Africa

    South Africa

    Pretoria

  • Flag of South Sudan

    South Sudan

    Juba

  • Flag of Sudan

    Sudan

    Khartoum

  • Flag of Tanzania

    Tanzania

    Dodoma

  • Flag of The Gambia

    The Gambia

    Banjul

  • Flag of Togo

    Togo

    Lomé

  • Flag of Tunisia

    Tunisia

    Tunis

  • Flag of Uganda

    Uganda

    Kampala

  • Flag of Western Sahara

    Western Sahara

    El Aaiún

  • Flag of Zambia

    Zambia

    Lusaka

  • Flag of Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe

    Harare

Tips to play better

  • Watch the coastline first

    Outline beats memory. A long Atlantic coast with a southern hook is Namibia. A funnel between Angola and Cameroon is the small wedge of Equatorial Guinea plus Gabon. Train your eye on shapes before reaching for names; the voice will follow.

  • Mind the tricky names

    Côte d'Ivoire is accepted in its French form and as Ivory Coast in English. DR Congo and Republic of Congo are different countries with capitals at Kinshasa and Brazzaville facing each other across the river. Burkina Faso is one word in spelling, two in speech.

  • Group the Sahel and the Horn

    Five Sahel states run east-west: Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad. The Horn juts into the Indian Ocean: Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti. Saying these in order a few times locks them in faster than studying the map silently.

  • Use a quiet room and a headset

    Browser speech recognition is sensitive to background noise. A wired headset with a boom mic gives the cleanest signal, especially for shorter names like Chad, Mali or Togo where one missing consonant changes the whole match.

Frequently asked questions

Are South Sudan and Sudan both included?

Yes. South Sudan became independent in 2011 and is the youngest sovereign state on the continent. Both appear separately, with Khartoum and Juba as their respective capitals. The voice engine accepts each name as its own answer.

What about disputed territories like Western Sahara?

The quiz follows widely recognised UN membership, so the 54 African Union states are the playable set. Western Sahara is not currently quizzed as a sovereign country, which keeps the answer list unambiguous for voice matching.

Why does my microphone miss short country names?

Names like Chad, Togo or Mali are only one syllable in English. Browser engines need a short pause before and after to lock onto them. Speak the name on its own, not inside a sentence, and articulate the final consonant clearly.

Do I need to know every island state?

Africa has six island countries: Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe. They appear in rotation on the globe. Cape Verde is also accepted as Cabo Verde, the form used at the United Nations.

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