About Geography Master

What this site is

Geography Master is a small web app for learning the world — the countries, the capitals, the flags, the shapes you only half-recognise. There are four quiz modes (Find it on the Map, Guess the Flag, Guess the Capital, and Guess the Shape), plus a Discover mode for exploring the world map at your own pace and reading basic facts about each country. Every game is ten short rounds with three difficulty levels, so you can squeeze a session in between meetings without committing to a 45-minute marathon.

It runs in the browser, works on phones, has a dark mode, doesn't require an account, and doesn't store anything personal. There is no leaderboard, no streak counter, no “sign up to save your progress.” If you close the tab, the score is gone. That's by design — the goal is to help you learn the world, not to keep you on the page.

Why I built it

I'm a software engineer, and like a lot of software engineers I'm embarrassingly bad at geography. I can name every country in Western Europe and most of the Americas, but ask me to point to Kyrgyzstan on a blank map and I'll guess somewhere between Iran and Mongolia and hope for the best. The existing geography quiz sites I tried either felt like flashcards from 2008, were buried under ads, or wanted me to register before I could play a single round. I wanted something that started instantly, looked good, and didn't treat me like a metric.

So I built it. The first version was a weekend project: an SVG world map and a list of countries. Then I added flags, then capitals, then shapes, then a difficulty selector because “easy mode” without one was a bit of a lie when Liechtenstein and Brazil showed up with equal probability. The country shapes mode came last and is genuinely hard — even on easy difficulty I still get caught out by the boot of Italy versus the boot of, well, several other countries that also kind of look like boots.

How the quizzes work

Each game picks ten countries from a pool filtered by the difficulty you choose. Easy sticks to widely-recognised countries (think G20 plus the regulars you'd see on a wall map in a primary school classroom). Medium opens up to most of the world, leaving out a few of the smallest and most obscure entries. Hard includes everything — you'll meet microstates, disputed territories, and a few countries you'll genuinely have to look up afterwards. The country list, capitals, populations, areas, and flag images live in a single bundled JSON file, and the world map is a single SVG with a path per country. Nothing is fetched from a server while you play.

About the author

I write the articles in the Learn section myself. They're original pieces — opinions, mnemonics, and bits of geography history that I've either picked up while researching the quizzes or spent the evening Wikipedia-rabbit-holing into. Sources are cited inline; if you spot something wrong, please email me — I'd much rather fix a mistake than leave it up.

Suggestions, bug reports, hellos

The fastest way to reach me is the email address above — it's also on the Contact page. I read everything, even if I take a few days to reply. If you want to know what data the site collects (very little) and which cookies it sets (mostly Google's), see the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy.