Megan Moran

Country shapes: Europe quiz

Could you name a European country from its outline alone? Some are famous shapes and some are blobs that will test your map-reading. Twenty silhouettes, each drawn to its true shape, with a fact after every answer.

A free quiz from Megan Moran, author of The Mighty Geography Quiz Book.

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  1. Silhouette of a boot-shaped peninsula with two large islands
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    Question 1 of 20Country shapes: EuropeEasy

    Which country has this shape?

  2. Silhouette of one large island with a smaller landmass to its west and many small islands
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    Question 2 of 20Country shapes: EuropeEasy

    Which country has this shape?

  3. Silhouette of a roughly six-sided country
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    Question 3 of 20Country shapes: EuropeMedium

    Which country has this shape?

  4. Silhouette of a rounded island with a ragged west coast and a piece missing in the north-east
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    Question 4 of 20Country shapes: EuropeEasy

    Which country has this shape?

  5. Silhouette of a long country with a very jagged coastline that widens at the bottom
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    Question 5 of 20Country shapes: EuropeMedium

    Which country has this shape?

  6. Silhouette of a large, blocky country with a strip missing down its western side and small islands to the east
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    Question 6 of 20Country shapes: EuropeEasy

    Which country has this shape?

  7. Silhouette of a narrow, upright rectangle-shaped country with a coastline on its west and south
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    Question 7 of 20Country shapes: EuropeMedium

    Which country has this shape?

  8. Silhouette of a mainland with a large southern peninsula ending in finger-like points, and many scattered islands
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    Question 8 of 20Country shapes: EuropeEasy

    Which country has this shape?

  9. Silhouette of a compact country with a short coastline at the top
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    Question 9 of 20Country shapes: EuropeMedium

    Which country has this shape?

  10. Silhouette of a roughly square country with a short coast at the top
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    Question 10 of 20Country shapes: EuropeHard

    Which country has this shape?

  11. Silhouette of a single rounded island with deeply indented fjords on its north-west coast
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    Question 11 of 20Country shapes: EuropeEasy

    Which country has this shape?

  12. Silhouette of a peninsula pointing north with a cluster of islands to its east
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    Question 12 of 20Country shapes: EuropeMedium

    Which country has this shape?

  13. Silhouette of a country with a wide eastern half and a long, thin tail stretching west
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    Question 13 of 20Country shapes: EuropeHard

    Which country has this shape?

  14. Silhouette of a crescent-shaped country with a long, island-dotted coast
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    Question 14 of 20Country shapes: EuropeMedium

    Which country has this shape?

  15. Silhouette of a long, narrow country running north to south with one large island off its south-east coast
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    Question 15 of 20Country shapes: EuropeMedium

    Which country has this shape?

  16. Silhouette of a landlocked country, wider than it is tall, with a bulge in the north
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    Question 16 of 20Country shapes: EuropeHard

    Which country has this shape?

  17. Silhouette of a country shaped like a figure with a raised arm in the north-west
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    Question 17 of 20Country shapes: EuropeMedium

    Which country has this shape?

  18. Silhouette of a small country with a short, straight coastline in the north-west and a long point to the south-east
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    Question 18 of 20Country shapes: EuropeHard

    Which country has this shape?

  19. Silhouette of a small coastal country with a chain of islands off its north coast and a ragged, island-strewn south-west corner
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    Question 19 of 20Country shapes: EuropeMedium

    Which country has this shape?

  20. Silhouette of a landlocked country, wider than it is tall, with a smooth southern edge
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    Question 20 of 20Country shapes: EuropeHard

    Which country has this shape?

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Show all the answers, with the facts behind them
  1. Which country has this shape? ItalySicily lies just off the toe of Italy's 'boot', with Sardinia further out to the west.
  2. Which country has this shape? United KingdomGreat Britain is the largest island in Europe and the ninth-largest in the world.
  3. Which country has this shape? FranceFrance is nicknamed 'l'Hexagone' because of its roughly six-sided shape.
  4. Which country has this shape? IrelandThe piece missing from the north-east is Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.
  5. Which country has this shape? NorwayCounting all its fjords and islands, Norway has one of the longest coastlines in the world.
  6. Which country has this shape? SpainSpain's Balearic Islands lie off its east coast; the Canary Islands, off north-west Africa, aren't shown.
  7. Which country has this shape? PortugalPortugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe; Cabo da Roca is its western tip.
  8. Which country has this shape? GreeceGreece has up to 6,000 islands and islets, depending on how they're counted, but only around 200 are inhabited.
  9. Which country has this shape? GermanyGermany shares land borders with nine countries.
  10. Which country has this shape? PolandAfter the Second World War, Poland's borders were shifted west: it lost eastern lands to the Soviet Union and gained German territory.
  11. Which country has this shape? IcelandIceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the North American and Eurasian plates pull apart.
  12. Which country has this shape? DenmarkMost of mainland Denmark is the Jutland peninsula, but the capital, Copenhagen, is on the island of Zealand.
  13. Which country has this shape? AustriaAustria's long western tail is made up of the states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
  14. Which country has this shape? CroatiaCroatia's crescent wraps around Bosnia and Herzegovina, and its coast has more than 1,000 islands, islets and rocks.
  15. Which country has this shape? SwedenSweden stretches about 1,600 km from north to south, and its far north lies inside the Arctic Circle.
  16. Which country has this shape? CzechiaCzechia is made up of the historic lands of Bohemia, Moravia and part of Silesia.
  17. Which country has this shape? FinlandFinland has about 188,000 lakes, earning it the nickname 'land of a thousand lakes'.
  18. Which country has this shape? BelgiumBelgium's North Sea coastline is only about 66 km long.
  19. Which country has this shape? NetherlandsAbout a quarter of the Netherlands lies below sea level.
  20. Which country has this shape? HungaryHungary is landlocked, and the River Danube flows through its capital, Budapest.
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