Question 1 of 20Asia mapEasy
Asia map quiz
From giant nations stretching across thousands of miles to tiny Himalayan kingdoms and sprawling island chains, East, South, Southeast and Central Asia are a real test of map skills. Each question highlights one country: name it, then pick up a fact.
A free quiz from Megan Moran, author of The Mighty Geography Quiz Book.
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Natural Earth (map data) · Public domain Question 2 of 20Asia mapEasy
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Natural Earth (map data) · Public domain Question 3 of 20Asia mapMedium
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- Which country is highlighted on this map? ChinaThe Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world's largest power station by installed capacity, at 22,500 megawatts.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? IndiaIndia became the world's most populous country in 2023, according to United Nations estimates.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? KazakhstanYuri Gagarin's 1961 flight, the first human journey into space, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Kazakhstan's southern steppe.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? JapanA 2023 recount by the national mapping agency found 14,125 islands, more than double the 6,852 officially recognized since 1987.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? ThailandThailand is the only country in Southeast Asia that was never colonized by a European power.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? IndonesiaKomodo dragons, the world's largest lizards, live in the wild only on a handful of islands here, including Komodo, Rinca and Flores.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? South KoreaThe Korean alphabet, Hangul, was created in 1443 under King Sejong the Great so that ordinary people could learn to read and write.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? MongoliaIts capital, Ulaanbaatar, is the coldest national capital in the world, with an average annual temperature below freezing.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? PakistanK2, the world's second-highest mountain at 8,611 meters (28,251 feet), rises in the Karakoram range in the country's far north.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? KyrgyzstanThe Kyrgyz national epic, the Epic of Manas, runs to roughly half a million lines in its longest versions, making it one of the longest poems ever recorded.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? VietnamSon Doong, explored by British and Vietnamese cavers in 2009, is the world's largest known cave passage by volume.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? NepalEight of the world's 14 recognized peaks above 8,000 meters, including Everest, lie wholly or partly within Nepal.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? TajikistanThe Nurek Dam on the Vakhsh River, 300 meters (984 feet) high, was the tallest dam in the world from 1980 until 2013.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? Sri LankaCommercial tea growing here began in 1867 on the Loolecondera estate, and the island's tea is still sold worldwide as Ceylon tea.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? PhilippinesThe country's national mapping agency counted 7,641 islands in 2016, about 500 more than the long-quoted figure of 7,107.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? UzbekistanSamarkand's Registan square is framed by three grand madrasas built between the 15th and 17th centuries, covered in glazed tilework.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? MyanmarMore than 3,500 temples, stupas and monasteries survive on the plain of Bagan, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? BhutanBhutan's constitution requires that at least 60% of the country's land remain under forest cover for all time.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? BangladeshUNESCO's International Mother Language Day, 21 February, honors students killed in Dhaka in 1952 while campaigning for Bengali to become an official language.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? LaosThe Plain of Jars, scattered with more than 2,000 ancient stone jars thought to be linked to burial rites, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
