Name the highlighted country

Here the map does the pointing and you do the naming. One country glows in yellow, the map moves in close enough to see it with some of its neighbours, and four names appear below. Tiny states get a ring around them so they cannot hide between the borders.

It sounds easier than finding a country, and on the Easy level it is. On Hard the wrong options are the nearest neighbours of the right answer, so you are choosing between four countries that share borders or a stretch of sea, and the shape of the coast suddenly matters.

How it works

• Each question highlights one country; choose its name from four options.
• Keys 1 to 4 pick an answer, or move with the arrows and press Enter.
• The hint removes two wrong names and halves the points of that question.
• After every answer the right name is shown, so a miss still teaches you something.

Tips from the window seat

• Look at the coastline first. Whether a country touches the sea, and which sea, rules out half the options on its own.
• Count the neighbours you can see. A country squeezed between two large ones and one you recognise is easier to pin down than it looks.
• Zoom out once if the close view is confusing; seeing the whole continent around the yellow shape often settles it.
• Do a round on Hard after a round on Medium in the same region. Neighbours as wrong options teach the borders better than anything else here.

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