Geography Games

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These games do not let you choose the region of the world.

• Identify Countries on a Map - Shows image of country within a regional map; user picks correct name of country from list of four.
• Capitals of the World - Displays name of a capital city and user must choose which of four countries it is the capital of.
• Flags of the World - Displays image of a flag, user must choose correct country from a list of four.

National Geographic GeoBee Challenge - Multiple choice geography quiz - fairly difficult. Questions relate to anywhere in the world.

National Geographic Quiz Your Noodle: Geography Facts - 10 general geography questions. Questions relate to anywhere in the world.

Lizard Point Geography Quizzes - Students can take quizzes about country locations and capitals within a continent or region. The country quiz gives students a country name and 3 tries to pick the country off a map. The capitals quiz gives students a city name and students have to click on the right country.

Geography Games/Quizzes that Use Adobe Flash

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World Geography Games - Uses Adobe Flash. 51 geography games. The games are simple identification games in which students are shown the name of a country, state, city, or geographic feature and then have to click on the correct locations. Students earn points for each correct answer. World Geography Games tracks how many attempts students make at correctly answering each question.

List of ten geography games that are based on Google Street View imagery

Sheppard Software Geography Games - Uses Adobe Flash. Games are divided up by continent and allow users to select practice drills or games about capitals, political divisions of countries, and physical geography.

Digital Dialects Geography Games - Uses Adobe Flash. Africa, Asia, and Europe, plus some physical features. Each separate game shows the area first and when the game launches, users are given a place name and have three options to choose from. After those three places are identified, the user gets their results and moves on to three more.

KidsGeo.com Games - Uses Adobe Flash. Provides Map Match games by continent, where students drop puzzle pieces of countries onto the correct location on a map, and also Capital Catch, which is less good. The latitude and longitude game gives an absolute location and asks students to choose which of two dots on a map represents this location.

GeoNet from Houghton Mifflin - Uses Adobe Flash. Can choose World or U.S. Geography. Users pick a continent and one of two levels, and then can do games based on location, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, or the uses of geography. It is really a set of self-correcting quizzes, rather than a "game."