How many countries are there in the world?

Study World Map includes 197 countries: the 193 UN member states, its two observer states (Vatican City and Palestine), Taiwan and Kosovo. Other territories, such as Greenland or Puerto Rico, appear on the map but are not part of the quizzes.

Which countries have more than one capital?

Some split their functions between cities: Bolivia (Sucre is the constitutional capital and La Paz the seat of government), South Africa, the Netherlands or Sri Lanka. In the game any of them is accepted when you type the answer.

How can I learn the countries and capitals of the world?

By practising with spaced repetition: Study World Map asks more often about the countries you miss, repeats a miss three questions later and, between games, tracks each country with a Leitner box system until you have mastered it.

Is Study World Map free? Do I need to sign up?

It is free, with no ads and no accounts. Your progress is stored on your own device and the app works offline after the first visit.

Which geography games does it have?

Five challenges: locating countries on the map, saying which continent they are in, naming the highlighted country, capitals and flags. You can play with the whole world, by continent or with your own list of countries, which you can share with a link.

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Countries of the world and their capitals

The 197 countries of the world by continent, with their capital, flag and area. When you want to learn them, practise on the interactive map: it asks you more often about the ones you miss, until you know them.

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Games by continent:

List by continent:

Europe 45 countries

Country	Capital	Area
Albania	Tirana	28,748 km²
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	468 km²
Austria	Vienna	83,871 km²
Belarus	Minsk	207,600 km²
Belgium	Brussels	30,528 km²
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	51,209 km²
Bulgaria	Sofia	110,879 km²
Croatia	Zagreb	56,594 km²
Cyprus	Nicosia	9,251 km²
Czechia	Prague	78,865 km²
Denmark	Copenhagen	43,094 km²
Estonia	Tallinn	45,227 km²
Finland	Helsinki	338,424 km²
France	Paris	551,695 km²
Germany	Berlin	357,114 km²
Greece	Athens	131,990 km²
Hungary	Budapest	93,028 km²
Iceland	Reykjavík	103,000 km²
Ireland	Dublin	70,273 km²
Italy	Rome	301,336 km²
Kosovo	Pristina	10,908 km²
Latvia	Riga	64,559 km²
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	160 km²
Lithuania	Vilnius	65,300 km²
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	2,586 km²
Malta	Valletta	316 km²
Moldova	Chișinău	33,846 km²
Monaco	Monaco	2 km²
Montenegro	Podgorica	13,812 km²
Netherlands	Amsterdam	41,850 km²
North Macedonia	Skopje	25,713 km²
Norway	Oslo	323,802 km²
Poland	Warsaw	312,679 km²
Portugal	Lisbon	92,090 km²
Romania	Bucharest	238,391 km²
San Marino	San Marino	61 km²
Serbia	Belgrade	88,361 km²
Slovakia	Bratislava	49,037 km²
Slovenia	Ljubljana	20,273 km²
Spain	Madrid	505,992 km²
Sweden	Stockholm	450,295 km²
Switzerland	Bern	41,284 km²
Ukraine	Kyiv	603,500 km²
United Kingdom	London	242,900 km²
Vatican City	Vatican City	—

Europe and Asia 2 countries

Country	Capital	Area
Russia	Moscow	17,098,242 km²
Turkey	Ankara	783,562 km²

Asia 47 countries

Country	Capital	Area
Afghanistan	Kabul	652,230 km²
Armenia	Yerevan	29,743 km²
Azerbaijan	Baku	86,600 km²
Bahrain	Manama	765 km²
Bangladesh	Dhaka	147,570 km²
Bhutan	Thimphu	38,394 km²
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	5,765 km²
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	181,035 km²
China	Beijing	9,706,961 km²
Georgia	Tbilisi	69,700 km²
India	New Delhi	3,287,590 km²
Indonesia	Jakarta	1,904,569 km²
Iran	Tehran	1,648,195 km²
Iraq	Baghdad	438,317 km²
Israel	Jerusalem	20,770 km²
Japan	Tokyo	377,930 km²
Jordan	Amman	89,342 km²
Kazakhstan	Astana	2,724,900 km²
Kuwait	Kuwait City	17,818 km²
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	199,951 km²
Laos	Vientiane	236,800 km²
Lebanon	Beirut	10,452 km²
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	330,803 km²
Maldives	Malé	300 km²
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	1,564,110 km²
Myanmar	Naypyidaw	676,578 km²
Nepal	Kathmandu	147,181 km²
North Korea	Pyongyang	120,538 km²
Oman	Muscat	309,500 km²
Pakistan	Islamabad	881,912 km²
Palestine	Ramallah	6,220 km²
Philippines	Manila	342,353 km²
Qatar	Doha	11,586 km²
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	2,149,690 km²
Singapore	Singapore	710 km²
South Korea	Seoul	100,210 km²
Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte	65,610 km²
Syria	Damascus	185,180 km²
Taiwan	Taipei	36,193 km²
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	143,100 km²
Thailand	Bangkok	513,120 km²
Timor-Leste	Dili	14,874 km²
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	488,100 km²
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	83,600 km²
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	447,400 km²
Vietnam	Hanoi	331,212 km²
Yemen	Sanaa	527,968 km²

Africa 54 countries

Country	Capital	Area
Algeria	Algiers	2,381,741 km²
Angola	Luanda	1,246,700 km²
Benin	Porto-Novo	112,622 km²
Botswana	Gaborone	582,000 km²
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	272,967 km²
Burundi	Gitega	27,834 km²
Cameroon	Yaoundé	475,442 km²
Cape Verde	Praia	4,033 km²
Central African Republic	Bangui	622,984 km²
Chad	N'Djamena	1,284,000 km²
Comoros	Moroni	1,862 km²
Djibouti	Djibouti	23,200 km²
DR Congo	Kinshasa	2,344,858 km²
Egypt	Cairo	1,002,450 km²
Equatorial Guinea	Ciudad de la Paz (until 2026, Malabo)	28,051 km²
Eritrea	Asmara	117,600 km²
Eswatini	Mbabane	17,364 km²
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	1,104,300 km²
Gabon	Libreville	267,668 km²
Gambia	Banjul	10,689 km²
Ghana	Accra	238,533 km²
Guinea	Conakry	245,857 km²
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	36,125 km²
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	322,463 km²
Kenya	Nairobi	580,367 km²
Lesotho	Maseru	30,355 km²
Liberia	Monrovia	111,369 km²
Libya	Tripoli	1,759,540 km²
Madagascar	Antananarivo	587,041 km²
Malawi	Lilongwe	118,484 km²
Mali	Bamako	1,240,192 km²
Mauritania	Nouakchott	1,030,700 km²
Mauritius	Port Louis	2,040 km²
Morocco	Rabat	446,550 km²
Mozambique	Maputo	801,590 km²
Namibia	Windhoek	825,615 km²
Niger	Niamey	1,267,000 km²
Nigeria	Abuja	923,768 km²
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	342,000 km²
Rwanda	Kigali	26,338 km²
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	964 km²
Senegal	Dakar	196,722 km²
Seychelles	Victoria	452 km²
Sierra Leone	Freetown	71,740 km²
Somalia	Mogadishu	637,657 km²
South Africa	Pretoria	1,221,037 km²
South Sudan	Juba	619,745 km²
Sudan	Khartoum	1,886,068 km²
Tanzania	Dodoma	945,087 km²
Togo	Lomé	56,785 km²
Tunisia	Tunis	163,610 km²
Uganda	Kampala	241,550 km²
Zambia	Lusaka	752,612 km²
Zimbabwe	Harare	390,757 km²

The Americas 35 countries

Country	Capital	Area
Antigua and Barbuda	St. John’s	442 km²
Argentina	Buenos Aires	2,780,400 km²
Bahamas	Nassau	13,943 km²
Barbados	Bridgetown	430 km²
Belize	Belmopan	22,966 km²
Bolivia	Sucre (seat of government: La Paz)	1,098,581 km²
Brazil	Brasília	8,515,767 km²
Canada	Ottawa	9,984,670 km²
Chile	Santiago	756,102 km²
Colombia	Bogotá	1,141,748 km²
Costa Rica	San José	51,100 km²
Cuba	Havana	109,884 km²
Dominica	Roseau	751 km²
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	48,671 km²
Ecuador	Quito	276,841 km²
El Salvador	San Salvador	21,041 km²
Grenada	St. George's	344 km²
Guatemala	Guatemala City	108,889 km²
Guyana	Georgetown	214,969 km²
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	27,750 km²
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	112,492 km²
Jamaica	Kingston	10,991 km²
Mexico	Mexico City	1,964,375 km²
Nicaragua	Managua	130,373 km²
Panama	Panama City	75,417 km²
Paraguay	Asunción	406,752 km²
Peru	Lima	1,285,216 km²
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	261 km²
Saint Lucia	Castries	616 km²
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	389 km²
Suriname	Paramaribo	163,820 km²
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	5,130 km²
United States	Washington, D.C.	9,372,610 km²
Uruguay	Montevideo	181,034 km²
Venezuela	Caracas	916,445 km²

Oceania 14 countries

Country	Capital	Area
Australia	Canberra	7,692,024 km²
Fiji	Suva	18,272 km²
Kiribati	Tarawa	811 km²
Marshall Islands	Majuro	181 km²
Micronesia	Palikir	702 km²
Nauru	Yaren	21 km²
New Zealand	Wellington	270,467 km²
Palau	Ngerulmud	459 km²
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	462,840 km²
Samoa	Apia	2,842 km²
Solomon Islands	Honiara	28,896 km²
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	747 km²
Tuvalu	Funafuti	26 km²
Vanuatu	Port Vila	12,189 km²

Frequently asked questions

How many countries are there in the world?: Study World Map includes 197 countries: the 193 UN member states, its two observer states (Vatican City and Palestine), Taiwan and Kosovo. Other territories, such as Greenland or Puerto Rico, appear on the map but are not part of the quizzes.
Which countries have more than one capital?: Some split their functions between cities: Bolivia (Sucre is the constitutional capital and La Paz the seat of government), South Africa, the Netherlands or Sri Lanka. In the game any of them is accepted when you type the answer.
How can I learn the countries and capitals of the world?: By practising with spaced repetition: Study World Map asks more often about the countries you miss, repeats a miss three questions later and, between games, tracks each country with a Leitner box system until you have mastered it.
Is Study World Map free? Do I need to sign up?: It is free, with no ads and no accounts. Your progress is stored on your own device and the app works offline after the first visit.
Which geography games does it have?: Five challenges: locating countries on the map, saying which continent they are in, naming the highlighted country, capitals and flags. You can play with the whole world, by continent or with your own list of countries, which you can share with a link.