Border Quiz

About Border Quiz

Borders are the relationships a map is actually made of. You can know every flag and capital and still have no idea that Turkey borders Georgia, or that China has fourteen land neighbours — more than any country except Russia, which has the same number.

The wrong answers are always drawn from the same continent and are never neighbours, so there is exactly one correct choice and no way to get there by elimination. On the harder levels that means four plausible countries from the same region, only one of which actually touches the target.

Thirty-nine countries never appear as the subject here because they have no land borders at all — island states like Japan, Iceland, Cuba and the Philippines, plus Australia. Their absence is itself worth noticing.

Difficulty and scoring

Easy, Medium and Hard run thirty questions. Easy covers the countries most people can already name; Hard reaches the ones that need real study. A correct answer is worth 100 points, with a bonus for answering inside five seconds and further bonuses at three, five and ten in a row. A wrong answer scores nothing and resets the streak, but never ends the round.

Expert is different. It has no fixed length and no second chances: questions keep coming from the hardest pool until you get one wrong, and that ends the run immediately. Your result is how many you survived. The full scoring breakdown is on the about page.

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