Even geography buffs are stumped by these trivia questions. How many can you get right?
115 Geography Trivia Questions to Test Your Global Knowledge
Updated on Mar. 25, 2025
Easy geography trivia
1. Question: What is the largest ocean in the world?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
2. Question: Which countries border the United States?
Answer: Mexico and Canada
3. Question: What is the capital of France?
Answer: Paris
4. Question: What is the tallest mountain range in the world?
Answer: The Himalayas
5. Question: What is the world’s southernmost continent?
Answer: Antarctica
6. Question: What country is home to the Pyramids of Giza?
Answer: Egypt
7. Question: What is the capital of the United States?
Answer: Washington, D.C.
8. Question: In what country will you find the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata?
Answer: India
9. Question: On which continent will you find the Alps mountain range?
Answer: Europe
10. Question: Ontario is a province located in which country?
Answer: Canada
11. Question: What continent is also a country?
Answer: Australia
12. Question: Which ocean lies between the United States and Europe?
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean
13. Question: Which country has the highest population in the world?
Answer: India
14. Question: Which continent is home to the Nile River?
Answer: Africa
15. Question: What country is home to the Kremlin?
Answer: Russia
16. Question: In which country is Machu Picchu located?
Answer: Peru
17. Question: Who is the ruling monarch of the United Kingdom?
Answer: King Charles III
18. Question: What country is shaped like a boot?
Answer: Italy
19. Question: Tokyo is the capital of which country?
Answer: Japan
20. Question: Morocco is located on which continent?
Answer: Africa
Hard geography trivia
21. Question: Gambia is surrounded by which country?
Answer: Senegal
22. Question: What country has the fourth-highest population in the world?
Answer: Indonesia
23. Question: What is the highest point in Zimbabwe?
Answer: Mount Inyangan
24. Question: What is the world’s largest cave?
Answer: Hang Son Doong, in Vietnam
25. Question: Which countries border Oman?
Answer: Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia
26. Question: Which country has the most pyramids in the world?
Answer: Sudan
27. Question: What is the name of the only sea without a land boundary?
Answer: The Sargasso Sea
28. Question: What are the names of South Africa’s three capital cities?
Answer: Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative, and Bloemfontein (judicial)
29. Question: How many time zones does Australia have?
Answer: Three
30. Question: What is the largest city in North America?
Answer: Mexico City
31. Question: What is the shortest river in the world?
Answer: The Roe River in Montana
32. Question: What is the most densely populated city in the world?
Answer: Manila, Philippines
33. Question: What is the largest active volcano in the world?
Answer: Mauna Loa in Hawaii
34. Question: What is the flattest country in the world?
Answer: The Maldives
35. Question: What percentage of Earth’s water is not held in oceans?
Answer: 3%
36. Question: How many countries are there in Africa?
Answer: 54
37. Question: The Java Trench is located in which ocean?
Answer: Indian
38. Question: How many countries sit on the equator?
Answer: 13
39. Question: Which country’s flag features a sinking ship?
Answer: Bermuda
40. Question: What is the largest museum in the world?
Answer: The Louvre in Paris
Geography questions about landmarks
41. Question: What is the name of the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world?
Answer: Angel Falls
42. Question: What country is home to Mount Everest?
Answer: Nepal
43. Question: What is the highest man-made structure ever built?
Answer: Burj Khalifa in Dubai
44. Question: Where is the world’s largest desert located?
Answer: Antarctica
45. Question: What country is home to the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
Answer: Italy
46. Question: The Cape of Good Hope can be found in which country?
Answer: South Africa
47. Question: The Taj Mahal is located in which country?
Answer: India
48. Question: Which city is home to La Sagrada Família?
Answer: Barcelona
49. Question: What is the name of the statue at the top of Mount Corcovado overlooking Rio de Janeiro?
Answer: Christ the Redeemer
50. Question: Which German castle located in Schwangau inspired Disney’s castles in “Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty”?
Answer: Neuschwanstein Castle
51. Question: Which city is home to the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia?
Answer: Istanbul
52. Question: The ancient city of Petra is located in which country?
Answer: Jordan
53. Question: Stonehenge is located in which English town?
Answer: Salisbury
54. Question: What is the highest palace in the world?
Answer: The Potala Palace
55. Question: What is the name of the French medieval Benedictine monastery that sits atop a small island in the Normandy region?
Answer: Mont-Saint-Michel
56. Question: What country is home to the spa town of Baden Baden?
Answer: Germany
57. Question: How long is the Great Wall of China?
Answer: 13,171 miles
58. Question: The Chichen-Itza Mayan ruins are located in which country?
Answer: Mexico
59. Question: Which Greek island is best known for its white buildings with blue roofs in the city of Oia?
Answer: Santorini
60. Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site showcases the remains of the capital of the Khmer Empire from the ninth to 15th centuries?
Answer: Angkor Wat
U.S. geography trivia
61. Question: How many time zones are in the United States?
Answer: Four
62. Question: Which river flows through the Grand Canyon?
Answer: The Colorado River
63. Question: Which U.S. states border the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
64. Question: What is the southernmost point in the continental U.S.?
Answer: Key West, Florida
65. Question: Which states make up the Great Plains?
Answer: Portions of Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
66. Question: Which U.S. state has the lowest population?
Answer: Wyoming
67. Question: Which state is home to the Bonneville Salt Flats?
Answer: Utah
68. Question: What is the capital of Ohio?
Answer: Columbus
69. Question: Which states did the Oregon Trail pass through?
Answer: Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
70. Question: Which are the top-two corn-producing states?
Answer: Illinois and Iowa
71. Question: Which state is home to Mount Rushmore?
Answer: South Dakota
72. Question: Lake of the Ozarks is located in which state?
Answer: Missouri
73. Question: Which state is home to the Verde Valley Wine Trail?
Answer: Arizona
74. Question: What state is home to Grand Teton National Park?
Answer: Wyoming
75. Question: The Green Mountains are located in which state?
Answer: Vermont
76. Question: What is the capital of Montana?
Answer: Helena
77. Question: What state is home to the Finger Lakes?
Answer: New York
78. Question: What are the names of the five Great Lakes?
Answer: Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario
79. Question: Mackinac Island is part of which state?
Answer: Michigan
80. Question: Which state is nicknamed “The Garden State”?
Answer: New Jersey
World capitals geography trivia questions
81. Question: What is the capital of Peru?
Answer: Lima
82. Question: Bangkok is the capital of which country?
Answer: Thailand
83. Question: What is the capital of Slovenia?
Answer: Ljubljana
84. Question: Minsk is the capital city of which country?
Answer: Belarus
85. Question: What is the capital of Ghana?
Answer: Accra
86. Question: What is the capital of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
87. Question: What is the capital city of New Zealand?
Answer: Wellington
88. Question: Beijing is the capital of which country?
Answer: China
89. Question: What is the capital of Senegal?
Answer: Dakar
90. Question: What is the capital of Turkey?
Answer: Ankara
91. Question: What is the capital of Guatemala?
Answer: Guatemala City
92. Question: What is the capital of Latvia?
Answer: Riga
93. Question: Kinshasa is the capital of which country?
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo
94. Question: What is the capital of Pakistan?
Answer: Islamabad
95. Question: What is the capital of Switzerland?
Answer: Bern
96. Question: Buenos Aires is the capital of which country?
Answer: Argentina
97. Question: What is the capital of Iran?
Answer: Tehran
98. Question: What is the capital of Mongolia?
Answer: Ulaanbaatar
99. Question: What is the capital of Libya?
Answer: Tripoli
100. Question: Tegucigalpa is the capital of which country?
Answer: Honduras
Superlatives geography questions
101. Question: Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Answer: Canada
102. Question: What is the smallest country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
103. Question: What is the deepest river in the world?
Answer: The Congo River
104. Question: What is the largest island in the world?
Answer: Greenland
105. Question: What is the lowest spot in the world on dry land?
Answer: The Dead Sea depression
106. Question: What is the oldest lake in the world?
Answer: Lake Baikal
107. Question: What is the world’s deepest freshwater cave?
Answer: Hranice Abyss
108. Question: What is the highest point on Earth as measured from the Earth’s center?
Answer: Mount Chimborazo
109. Question: What is the location of the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth?
Answer: Furnace Creek, California
110. Question: What is the location of the longest dry spell in recorded history?
Answer: Arica, Chile
111. Question: What is the largest lake in the world?
Answer: The Caspian Sea
112. Question: What is the largest country in the world (by area)?
Answer: Russia
113. Question: What is the largest fjord in the world?
Answer: Scoresby Sund in Greenland
114. Question: What is the smallest inhabited island in the world?
Answer: Just Room Enough Island in New York
115. Question: What is the smallest continent on Earth?
Answer: Australia
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