🧩 African Country Shapes Quiz
Name the country from its outline, with no labels and no borders to help you.
54 country outlines from Africa, with no labels and no borders drawn in. 6 of them are islands with no land border at all, and 16 are landlocked.
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Borders and coastlines of Africa
| Country | Borders |
|---|---|
| Algeria | Coastal — 7 land borders |
| Angola | Coastal — 4 land borders |
| Benin | Coastal — 4 land borders |
| Botswana | Landlocked — 4 land borders |
| Burkina Faso | Landlocked — 6 land borders |
| Burundi | Landlocked — 3 land borders |
| Cabo Verde | Island — no land borders |
| Cameroon | Coastal — 6 land borders |
| Central African Republic | Landlocked — 6 land borders |
| Chad | Landlocked — 6 land borders |
| Comoros | Island — no land borders |
| Congo | Coastal — 5 land borders |
| Djibouti | Coastal — 3 land borders |
| DRC | Coastal — 9 land borders |
| Egypt | Coastal — 4 land borders |
| Equatorial Guinea | Coastal — 2 land borders |
| Eritrea | Coastal — 3 land borders |
| Eswatini | Landlocked — 2 land borders |
| Ethiopia | Landlocked — 6 land borders |
| Gabon | Coastal — 3 land borders |
| Gambia | Coastal — 1 land border |
| Ghana | Coastal — 3 land borders |
| Guinea | Coastal — 6 land borders |
| Guinea-Bissau | Coastal — 2 land borders |
| Ivory Coast | Coastal — 5 land borders |
| Kenya | Coastal — 5 land borders |
| Lesotho | Landlocked — 1 land borders |
| Liberia | Coastal — 3 land borders |
| Libya | Coastal — 6 land borders |
| Madagascar | Island — no land borders |
| Malawi | Landlocked — 3 land borders |
| Mali | Landlocked — 7 land borders |
| Mauritania | Coastal — 4 land borders |
| Mauritius | Island — no land borders |
| Morocco | Coastal — 3 land borders |
| Mozambique | Coastal — 6 land borders |
| Namibia | Coastal — 4 land borders |
| Niger | Landlocked — 7 land borders |
| Nigeria | Coastal — 4 land borders |
| Rwanda | Landlocked — 4 land borders |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Island — no land borders |
| Senegal | Coastal — 5 land borders |
| Seychelles | Island — no land borders |
| Sierra Leone | Coastal — 2 land borders |
| Somalia | Coastal — 3 land borders |
| South Africa | Coastal — 6 land borders |
| South Sudan | Landlocked — 6 land borders |
| Sudan | Coastal — 7 land borders |
| Tanzania | Coastal — 8 land borders |
| Togo | Coastal — 3 land borders |
| Tunisia | Coastal — 2 land borders |
| Uganda | Landlocked — 5 land borders |
| Zambia | Landlocked — 8 land borders |
| Zimbabwe | Landlocked — 4 land borders |
About the African Country Shapes 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.
- How many countries in Africa are islands?
- 6 countries have no land border with any other. A further 16 are landlocked, with no coastline at all.
- What makes a country hard to recognise from its outline?
- Usually the number of neighbours — DRC borders 9 countries, so its outline is shaped as much by other borders as by coastline.