🗺️ African Geography & Location Quiz
Neighbours, coastlines, distances and time zones — where things actually are.
54 countries across 5 subregions of Africa. 38 reach the sea and 16 are landlocked.
African Geography & Location Quiz at a glance
- Subregions
- Northern Africa, Middle Africa, Western Africa, Southern Africa…
- With a coastline
- 38 of 54 (70%)
- Landlocked
- 16
- Most land borders
- DRC — 9
Location against real people, on the same questions — no account needed. New location rooms start every 5 minutes, rotating through regions.
Subregions and coastlines of Africa
| Country | Subregion and coastline |
|---|---|
| Algeria | Northern Africa — coastal |
| Angola | Middle Africa — coastal |
| Benin | Western Africa — coastal |
| Botswana | Southern Africa — landlocked |
| Burkina Faso | Western Africa — landlocked |
| Burundi | Eastern Africa — landlocked |
| Cabo Verde | Western Africa — coastal |
| Cameroon | Middle Africa — coastal |
| Central African Republic | Middle Africa — landlocked |
| Chad | Middle Africa — landlocked |
| Comoros | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| Congo | Middle Africa — coastal |
| Djibouti | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| DRC | Middle Africa — coastal |
| Egypt | Northern Africa — coastal |
| Equatorial Guinea | Middle Africa — coastal |
| Eritrea | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| Eswatini | Southern Africa — landlocked |
| Ethiopia | Eastern Africa — landlocked |
| Gabon | Middle Africa — coastal |
| Gambia | Western Africa — coastal |
| Ghana | Western Africa — coastal |
| Guinea | Western Africa — coastal |
| Guinea-Bissau | Western Africa — coastal |
| Ivory Coast | Western Africa — coastal |
| Kenya | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| Lesotho | Southern Africa — landlocked |
| Liberia | Western Africa — coastal |
| Libya | Northern Africa — coastal |
| Madagascar | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| Malawi | Eastern Africa — landlocked |
| Mali | Western Africa — landlocked |
| Mauritania | Western Africa — coastal |
| Mauritius | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| Morocco | Northern Africa — coastal |
| Mozambique | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| Namibia | Southern Africa — coastal |
| Niger | Western Africa — landlocked |
| Nigeria | Western Africa — coastal |
| Rwanda | Eastern Africa — landlocked |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Middle Africa — coastal |
| Senegal | Western Africa — coastal |
| Seychelles | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| Sierra Leone | Western Africa — coastal |
| Somalia | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| South Africa | Southern Africa — coastal |
| South Sudan | Middle Africa — landlocked |
| Sudan | Northern Africa — coastal |
| Tanzania | Eastern Africa — coastal |
| Togo | Western Africa — coastal |
| Tunisia | Northern Africa — coastal |
| Uganda | Eastern Africa — landlocked |
| Zambia | Eastern Africa — landlocked |
| Zimbabwe | Southern Africa — landlocked |
About the African Geography & Location quiz
- How many countries are in the Africa quiz?
- 54 — every country in Africa with the data this quiz needs. Questions are drawn fresh from that pool each round, so no two rounds repeat.
- Which country here has the most neighbours?
- DRC, with 9. Countries with many borders are the ones worth learning first — they anchor everything around them.
- How much of the region is coastal?
- 38 of 54 countries reach the sea, about 70%. 6 are islands with no land border at all.
- How many landlocked countries are there in Africa?
- 16 of 54. The other 38 countries reach the sea.
- Which subregions does Africa cover?
- Northern Africa, Middle Africa, Western Africa, Southern Africa, Eastern Africa. Each country's subregion is listed in the table above.