Question 1

How many countries are in Africa Map Quiz?

Accepted Answer

Fifty-four. That covers every UN-recognised African country, grouped into five UN M49 subregions: Northern, Western, Central (Middle), Eastern, and Southern Africa.

Question 2

When does a new daily puzzle drop?

Accepted Answer

Every day at 00:00 UTC. The archive at /archive keeps the last 90 days; every /daily/YYYY-MM-DD URL is permanent.

Question 3

Why is Western Sahara not included?

Accepted Answer

Its sovereignty is disputed (claimed by Morocco, partially recognised as the SADR by 47 UN states). Most cartographic Africa maps in textbooks omit it as a separate country, and we follow that convention.

Question 4

Do I need to sign in?

Accepted Answer

No. Your progress for today is saved in your browser localStorage; nothing is sent to a server.

Question 5

How does Map Mode score me?

Accepted Answer

You have up to three clicks per country. A first-click hit is the best score; we track total correct and time-to-finish, then build a green/red emoji grid you can share.

Question 6

Why do my friend and I get the same puzzle?

Accepted Answer

The day's puzzle order is computed deterministically from the date, so everyone playing on /daily/2026-04-26 sees the same prompts in the same order.

Question 7

Is the map to scale?

Accepted Answer

Yes — generated from Natural Earth's 1:50m cartographic data, projected with a Lambert Conformal Conic centered on 20°E. Tiny island nations (Mauritius, Seychelles) are rendered as 6-pixel diamond markers at their true coordinates so they remain clickable.

Question 8

I see a country I don't recognise — is that a bug?

Accepted Answer

Probably not. The dataset includes every sovereign African nation including Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), São Tomé and Príncipe, and Cabo Verde. Hover the result for the country name.

Question 9

Why is the capital of South Africa Pretoria, not Cape Town or Bloemfontein?

Accepted Answer

South Africa has three capitals (executive: Pretoria, legislative: Cape Town, judicial: Bloemfontein). We use Pretoria as the answer because it hosts the President and most embassies, and it's the most-cited primary capital in international references.

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