Name the Countries

Type as many countries as you can from memory before time runs out — no options, no hints, just what you actually know. Play all 195 at once, or pick a single starting letter.

All 195 Countries

The full free-recall race — fifteen minutes on the clock.

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Or pick a starting letter

Every country whose name starts with each letter, with its own shorter clock. 24 letters have at least one country — W and X have none.

A 11 countries B 17 countries C 16 countries D 5 countries E 8 countries F 3 countries G 11 countries H 3 countries I 9 countries J 3 countries K 5 countries L 9 countries M 18 countries N 11 countries O 1 country P 10 countries Q 1 country R 3 countries S 26 countries T 11 countries U 7 countries V 4 countries Y 1 country Z 2 countries

Or pick an ending letter

Every country whose name ends with each letter — the same game, the other end of the word. 18 letters have at least one country — B, F, J, P, V, W, X and Z have none.

A 74 countries C 2 countries D 8 countries E 14 countries G 1 country H 1 country I 9 countries K 1 country L 5 countries M 3 countries N 24 countries O 11 countries Q 1 country R 6 countries S 18 countries T 3 countries U 6 countries Y 8 countries

Or pick a name length

Every country whose name is exactly that many letters long, spaces and hyphens not counted — four-letter countries like Chad and Peru, up to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at twenty-eight.

4 10 countries 5 25 countries 6 30 countries 7 43 countries 8 25 countries 9 13 countries 10 21 countries 11 9 countries 12 3 countries 13 2 countries 14 3 countries 15 1 country 16 1 country 17 3 countries 18 3 countries 20 1 country 22 1 country 28 1 country

About Name the Countries

Every other game here shows you four options and asks you to recognise the right one. This is the opposite: a blank box and a clock, and nothing comes up unless you can actually produce it from memory. That is a much harder and much more honest test of what you know.

Common short names and spelling variants are accepted — type USA, America or United States and all three count, and the same goes for Ivory Coast, Czechia, Myanmar and a handful of other countries with more than one widely used name. There is no partial credit for a near-miss spelling of a name the list does not recognise, so precision still matters.

Most people stall somewhere between twenty and forty countries, usually after clearing the obvious ones — the large countries, the countries in the news, the ones they have visited. The next fifty come from Africa, the Pacific and Central Asia, and that is exactly the geography the rest of the site's games are built to fill in.

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