World Geography

Updated on March 9, 2017

Kids will have fun mastering world geography with these websites of games, quizzes and interactive maps.

Geosense

Geosense app

Test your knowledge of world geography.  Play alone or against other players.  With free registration, you can save your scores.  There are options for world, US, and Europe maps, as well as scrambled versions to make play more difficult.  Be…

GeoSpy

Play GeoSpy to practice your skills at finding continents, countries, or states and provinces in the U.S. and Canada.  Each game is timed and it keeps track of how many you get right.

World Capital Catch

Pick the capital for the country displayed. You get 21 capitals to guess per round. There’s a timer to help you try to improve your speed.

Worldmapper

From site:  Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters. The maps and data…

MrNussbaum.com World Geography

The site offers a broad variety of interactive maps to help students practice their world geography skills. There are sections on: Games with biomes, animals, facts Seven Continents interactive maps World Nations, a shorter version with 33 countries and a…

GeoNet

Select a region of the U.S. or a continent on the world map.  Then answer a series of questions about locations, physical and culture characteristics, their ecosystems, population and human activities that change the earth’s surface, humans interacting with their environment,…

Globetrackers Mission: Finding Dewey

Globetracker’s Mission engages students in grades 2-6 to learn geography, map skills, and world cultures through an episodic story. Each week, a new episode, in the format of a blog post, written by fictional teenagers Geo and Meri, appears on…

GeoBee Challenge

The National Geographic Bee takes place in the Spring.  The competition is for students in grades 4-8.  The site also has resources to help students learn world geography.

EarthPulse

From site:  Modern humans relate to our planet and to one another in ways that may seem simple on the surface, but when examined carefully, can be mind-bogglingly complex. Turn on a light switch, place a phone call, eat a…

Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World

From site:  Scientists have mapped 867 land-based ecoregions across the globe.  Instead of being defined by political boundaries, each is defined by its shared ecological features, climate, and plant and animal communities.  (This interactive map invites you to explore these ecoregions…

aaa: Geography of Nations of the World

This site offers interactive review and quizzes on the world’s nations, their capitals and flags.  Quizzes are in multiple choice and short answer format and countries are reviewed by regions within continents. 

Lizardpoint World Quizzes

Customize a world map to match your learning objectives. Maps range from an ocean and continent quiz for K-5, to maps identifying all the world’s countries, mountain ranges and more.   This is a point and click interactive to identify…