Oceania Country Shapes Quiz

About this quiz

Some countries are famous for their shape: the boot of Italy, the long thin ribbon of Chile along the Pacific, the jagged coast of Norway. Others are much harder. Could you tell Paraguay from Uruguay, or Chad from Niger, by their outline alone? In this quiz you see the shape of one country, with no names, borders or neighbours, and choose the right country from four, all from the same part of the world.

Each outline has north at the top and keeps the islands close to the mainland, such as Sicily and Sardinia with Italy or Corsica with France; lands far away, such as Alaska, Hawaii or French Guiana, are left out. Very small countries and tiny island nations, which would be little more than a dot, are not in this quiz. At the end of the round you see every shape you missed, with its flag.

Oceania

Oceania is mostly ocean, and most of its countries are scattered islands too small for this quiz. What is left is a short but varied round: Australia, the only country that covers a whole continent, the two long main islands of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, and the island groups of Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

Map outlines: Natural Earth (public domain).