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South America map quiz
From the Caribbean coast to the tip of Patagonia, South America's countries come in every shape and size. Each of these 12 questions highlights one of them on the map. Can you name them all?
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 12South America mapMedium
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Natural Earth (map data) · Public domain Question 8 of 12South America mapHard
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Natural Earth (map data) · Public domain Question 10 of 12South America mapHard
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Natural Earth (map data) · Public domain Question 12 of 12South America mapHard
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- Which country is highlighted on this map? BrazilBrazil is the only country in South America where Portuguese is the official language.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? ColombiaColombia's Caño Cristales is nicknamed the 'River of Five Colors' because a riverbed plant turns its waters vivid shades of red.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? ArgentinaIn 1892 Argentine police became the first to identify a murderer from fingerprints, using a bloody print found at the crime scene.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? VenezuelaThe Catatumbo lightning over Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo strikes on 140 to 160 nights a year, the highest lightning density in the world.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? ChileChile's Atacama is the driest non-polar desert in the world, and some of its weather stations have never recorded rain.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? PeruMachu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel high in Peru's Andes, was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? BoliviaBolivia's Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, covering about 10,582 sq km (4,086 sq miles).
- Which country is highlighted on this map? ParaguayGuaraní, an Indigenous language, is an official language of Paraguay alongside Spanish and is spoken by most of the population.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? EcuadorEcuador's Galápagos Islands, visited by Charles Darwin in 1835, helped shape his theory of evolution by natural selection.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? GuyanaGuyana's Kaieteur Falls plunges 226 m (741 ft) in a single drop, about four and a half times the height of Niagara Falls.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? UruguayUruguay has about 12 million cattle for its 3.4 million people, nearly four for every resident.
- Which country is highlighted on this map? SurinameSuriname is the smallest sovereign country in South America, and around 95% of it is covered by forest, the highest share of any nation.
