Countries of Europe Map Quiz

Clicking a country on a blank map is a harder test than naming it from a list, because recognition and placement are different kinds of memory. Most people can name thirty European countries and place perhaps twenty.

The Balkans are where rounds fall apart. Six countries sit in the space most mental maps give to two, and Slovenia, Slovakia and Serbia are close enough in name that people click confidently and wrongly. The Baltic three are the other classic: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania run north to south in alphabetical order, which is the only mnemonic anyone needs.

Andorra, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Liechtenstein are left out: at this scale they are smaller than the cursor, and an unclickable answer is worse than a missing one.