50 States Quiz

Tap or click each state it names on the blank map.

50 States Quiz

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Write the name of each numbered state.Answer key

  1. Maine
  2. New Hampshire
  3. Vermont
  4. Massachusetts
  5. Rhode Island
  6. Connecticut
  7. New York
  8. New Jersey
  9. Pennsylvania
  10. Ohio
  11. Indiana
  12. Illinois
  13. Michigan
  14. Wisconsin
  15. Minnesota
  16. Iowa
  17. Missouri
  18. North Dakota
  19. South Dakota
  20. Nebraska
  21. Kansas
  22. Delaware
  23. Maryland
  24. Virginia
  25. West Virginia
  26. North Carolina
  27. South Carolina
  28. Georgia
  29. Florida
  30. Kentucky
  31. Tennessee
  32. Alabama
  33. Mississippi
  34. Arkansas
  35. Louisiana
  36. Oklahoma
  37. Texas
  38. Montana
  39. Idaho
  40. Wyoming
  41. Colorado
  42. New Mexico
  43. Arizona
  44. Utah
  45. Nevada
  46. Washington
  47. Oregon
  48. California
  49. Alaska
  50. Hawaii

Drawn for this site from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023. Licence: public domain.

Each state is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a state is answered.

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New England 6

  1. Maine Its only neighboring state is New Hampshire. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland. 23rd state: admitted March 15, 1820. 39th largest state by total area.
  2. New Hampshire Neighbors, clockwise from north: Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont. Capital: Concord. Largest city: Manchester. 9th state: ratified the Constitution June 21, 1788. 46th largest state by total area.
  3. Vermont Neighbors, clockwise from north: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York. Capital: Montpelier. Largest city: Burlington. 14th state: admitted March 4, 1791. 45th largest state by total area.
  4. Massachusetts Neighbors, clockwise from north: New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Vermont. Capital and largest city: Boston. 6th state: ratified the Constitution February 6, 1788. 44th largest state by total area.
  5. Rhode Island Neighbors, clockwise from north: Massachusetts, Connecticut. Capital and largest city: Providence. 13th state: ratified the Constitution May 29, 1790. Smallest state by total area.
  6. Connecticut Neighbors, clockwise from north: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York. Capital: Hartford. Largest city: Bridgeport. 5th state: ratified the Constitution January 9, 1788. 48th largest state by total area.

Middle Atlantic 3

  1. New York Neighbors, clockwise from north: Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Capital: Albany. Largest city: New York City. 11th state: ratified the Constitution July 26, 1788. 27th largest state by total area.
  2. New Jersey Neighbors, clockwise from north: New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania. Capital: Trenton. Largest city: Newark. 3rd state: ratified the Constitution December 18, 1787. 47th largest state by total area.
  3. Pennsylvania Capital: Harrisburg. Largest city: Philadelphia. Neighbors, clockwise from north: New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio. 2nd state: ratified the Constitution December 12, 1787. 33rd largest state by total area.

East North Central 5

  1. Ohio Neighbors, clockwise from north: Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana. Capital and largest city: Columbus. 17th state: admitted March 1, 1803. 34th largest state by total area.
  2. Indiana Neighbors, clockwise from north: Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois. Capital and largest city: Indianapolis. 19th state: admitted December 11, 1816. 38th largest state by total area.
  3. Illinois Neighbors, clockwise from north: Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa. Capital: Springfield. Largest city: Chicago. 21st state: admitted December 3, 1818. 25th largest state by total area.
  4. Michigan Neighbors, clockwise from north: Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin. Capital: Lansing. Largest city: Detroit. 26th state: admitted January 26, 1837. 11th largest state by total area.
  5. Wisconsin Neighbors, clockwise from north: Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota. Capital: Madison. Largest city: Milwaukee. 30th state: admitted May 29, 1848. 23rd largest state by total area.

West North Central 7

  1. Minnesota Neighbors, clockwise from north: Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota. Capital: Saint Paul. Largest city: Minneapolis. 32nd state: admitted May 11, 1858. 12th largest state by total area.
  2. Iowa Neighbors, clockwise from north: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota. Capital and largest city: Des Moines. 29th state: admitted December 28, 1846. 26th largest state by total area.
  3. Missouri Neighbors, clockwise from north: Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska. Capital: Jefferson City. Largest city: Kansas City. 24th state: admitted August 10, 1821. 21st largest state by total area.
  4. North Dakota Neighbors, clockwise from north: Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana. Capital: Bismarck. Largest city: Fargo. 39th state: admitted November 2, 1889. 19th largest state by total area.
  5. South Dakota Neighbors, clockwise from north: North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana. Capital: Pierre. Largest city: Sioux Falls. 40th state: admitted November 2, 1889. 17th largest state by total area.
  6. Nebraska Neighbors, clockwise from north: South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming. Capital: Lincoln. Largest city: Omaha. 37th state: admitted March 1, 1867. 16th largest state by total area.
  7. Kansas Neighbors, clockwise from north: Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado. Capital: Topeka. Largest city: Wichita. 34th state: admitted January 29, 1861. 15th largest state by total area.

South Atlantic 8

  1. Delaware Neighbors, clockwise from north: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland. Capital: Dover. Largest city: Wilmington. 1st state: ratified the Constitution December 7, 1787. 49th largest state by total area.
  2. Maryland Neighbors, clockwise from north: Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia. Capital: Annapolis. Largest city: Baltimore. 7th state: ratified the Constitution April 28, 1788. 42nd largest state by total area.
  3. Virginia Neighbors, clockwise from north: Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia. Capital: Richmond. Largest city: Virginia Beach. 10th state: ratified the Constitution June 25, 1788. 35th largest state by total area.
  4. West Virginia Neighbors, clockwise from north: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio. Capital and largest city: Charleston. 35th state: admitted June 20, 1863. 41st largest state by total area.
  5. North Carolina Neighbors, clockwise from north: Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee. Capital: Raleigh. Largest city: Charlotte. 12th state: ratified the Constitution November 21, 1789. 28th largest state by total area.
  6. South Carolina Neighbors, clockwise from north: North Carolina, Georgia. Capital: Columbia. Largest city: Charleston. 8th state: ratified the Constitution May 23, 1788. 40th largest state by total area.
  7. Georgia Neighbors, clockwise from north: North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee. Capital and largest city: Atlanta. 4th state: ratified the Constitution January 2, 1788. 24th largest state by total area.
  8. Florida Neighbors, clockwise from north: Georgia, Alabama. Capital: Tallahassee. Largest city: Jacksonville. 27th state: admitted March 3, 1845. 22nd largest state by total area.

East South Central 4

  1. Kentucky Neighbors, clockwise from north: Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. Capital: Frankfort. Largest city: Louisville. 15th state: admitted June 1, 1792. 37th largest state by total area.
  2. Tennessee Capital and largest city: Nashville. Neighbors, clockwise from north: Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri. 16th state: admitted June 1, 1796. 36th largest state by total area.
  3. Alabama Neighbors, clockwise from north: Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi. Capital: Montgomery. Largest city: Huntsville. 22nd state: admitted December 14, 1819. 30th largest state by total area.
  4. Mississippi Neighbors, clockwise from north: Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas. Capital and largest city: Jackson. 20th state: admitted December 10, 1817. 32nd largest state by total area.

West South Central 4

  1. Arkansas Neighbors, clockwise from north: Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. Capital and largest city: Little Rock. 25th state: admitted June 15, 1836. 29th largest state by total area.
  2. Louisiana Neighbors, clockwise from north: Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas. Capital: Baton Rouge. Largest city: New Orleans. 18th state: admitted April 30, 1812. 31st largest state by total area.
  3. Oklahoma Neighbors, clockwise from north: Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado. Capital and largest city: Oklahoma City. 46th state: admitted November 16, 1907. 20th largest state by total area.
  4. Texas Neighbors, clockwise from north: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston. 28th state: admitted December 29, 1845. 2nd largest state by total area.

Mountain 8

  1. Montana Neighbors, clockwise from north: North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho. Capital: Helena. Largest city: Billings. 41st state: admitted November 8, 1889. 4th largest state by total area.
  2. Idaho Neighbors, clockwise from north: Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington. Capital and largest city: Boise. 43rd state: admitted July 3, 1890. 14th largest state by total area.
  3. Wyoming Neighbors, clockwise from north: Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Idaho. Capital and largest city: Cheyenne. 44th state: admitted July 10, 1890. 10th largest state by total area.
  4. Colorado Neighbors, clockwise from north: Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah. Capital and largest city: Denver. 38th state: admitted August 1, 1876. 8th largest state by total area.
  5. New Mexico Neighbors, clockwise from north: Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona. Capital: Santa Fe. Largest city: Albuquerque. 47th state: admitted January 6, 1912. 5th largest state by total area.
  6. Arizona Neighbors, clockwise from north: Utah, New Mexico, California, Nevada. Capital and largest city: Phoenix. 48th state: admitted February 14, 1912. 6th largest state by total area.
  7. Utah Neighbors, clockwise from north: Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada. Capital and largest city: Salt Lake City. 45th state: admitted January 4, 1896. 13th largest state by total area.
  8. Nevada Neighbors, clockwise from north: Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, California. Capital: Carson City. Largest city: Las Vegas. 36th state: admitted October 31, 1864. 7th largest state by total area.

Pacific 5

  1. Washington Neighbors, clockwise from north: Idaho, Oregon. Capital: Olympia. Largest city: Seattle. 42nd state: admitted November 11, 1889. 18th largest state by total area.
  2. Oregon Neighbors, clockwise from north: Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California. Capital: Salem. Largest city: Portland. 33rd state: admitted February 14, 1859. 9th largest state by total area.
  3. California Neighbors, clockwise from north: Oregon, Nevada, Arizona. Capital: Sacramento. Largest city: Los Angeles. 31st state: admitted September 9, 1850. 3rd largest state by total area.
  4. Alaska No state touches it: its only land border is with Canada. Capital: Juneau. Largest city: Anchorage. 49th state: admitted January 3, 1959. Largest state by total area.
  5. Hawaii A chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean. No state touches it. Capital and largest city: Honolulu. 50th state: admitted August 21, 1959. 43rd largest state by total area.

How this list was compiled: State list, the four regions and the nine divisions: U.S. Census Bureau, Census Regions and Divisions of the United States, https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf, checked 2026-09-19 (the District of Columbia, listed there in the South Atlantic division, is not a state and is not asked). Order and dates of ratification or admission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union, checked 2026-09-19. Capitals, and which capitals are also the largest city of their state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States, checked 2026-09-19. Largest cities: the infobox of each state's English Wikipedia article (for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho), all 50 checked 2026-09-19. Total area in square miles, and the area ranks worked out from it: U.S. Census Bureau, State Area Measurements and Internal Point Coordinates, https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/2010/geo/state-area.html, checked 2026-09-19. Neighboring states: listed for this site and checked on 2026-09-19 against the opening section of each state's English Wikipedia article and against the shapes of the map itself. States that meet only at a single point (Arizona and Colorado, New Mexico and Utah at the Four Corners) or only across open water (New York and Rhode Island, Michigan with Illinois and with Minnesota) are not counted as neighbors. Hints were written for this site. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_state_20m (scale 1:20,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/kml/cb_2023_us_state_20m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-18. Albers equal-area conic projection. Alaska is drawn at 35 percent of the scale of the other states and, like Hawaii, moved into an inset. Small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf

How it works

This 50 states quiz draws every state on one U.S. outline map. In Find it a state is named and you tap or click its shape. In Name it a state lights up and you pick or type its name. A wrong answer shows the right state on the map.

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A wrong tap that teaches

In Find it, tap the wrong shape and the quiz says which state you touched ("That was Vermont.") and lights the right one with its name. It counts as missed. Name it works as a "guess the state quiz": one shape lights up and you choose among four names, drawn from the same region first, or type the name.

Four regions, nine divisions, one numbering

The groups under Start from follow the U.S. Census Bureau: the Northeast (9 states), Midwest (12), South (16) and West (13), then the nine divisions inside them, from New England (6) to the Pacific (5). Pick one and the map zooms in and asks only for those states. All 50 turns it back into an all states quiz. Start again drops the round.

What the line after each answer teaches

Each detail line starts with the state's neighbors, read clockwise from north. Tennessee and Missouri each touch eight states, Maine touches one, and Alaska and Hawaii touch none. Then come the capital, the largest city, the date of statehood and the rank by area. In 17 states the capital is also the largest city, and Portland is the largest city of both Maine and Oregon.

  • Begin with one division. Open New England, six states, in Study, read the names once, then switch to Find it.
  • Five states stack north to south along the Mississippi River: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana. Their first letters spell MIMAL.
  • At the Four Corners, read clockwise from the upper left: Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona. Wyoming sits directly on top of Colorado.
  • Type it accepts two-letter postal codes. Eight states start with M, so typing MO, MS, MI and MN is a drill of its own.
  • At the end of a round, press Practise the 4 you missed to retry them.

Questions and answers

Where is Washington, D.C., and why are Alaska and Hawaii in boxes?

The quiz asks for the 50 states. The District of Columbia is a federal district, which the Census Bureau lists in the South Atlantic division: eight states here, nine entries on the Bureau's sheet. Puerto Rico and Guam are territories, not states. Alaska and Hawaii sit in boxes at the lower left so that all 50 fit one sheet, and Alaska is drawn at 35 percent of the scale of the rest. The outlines come from the Bureau's 2023 boundary file.

Which list of regions does this US states quiz follow?

The U.S. Census Bureau's four regions and nine divisions, checked on September 19, 2026. Until June 1984 the Bureau called the Midwest the North Central Region, and two divisions are still named East and West North Central. Classes may differ: Delaware and Maryland sit in the Census South but are often taught as Mid-Atlantic states.

Is this US map quiz fill in or multiple choice?

Both. Choose Name it, then Type it for fill-in: a state lights up, you write its name and press Check, and one slipped letter in a longer name is forgiven. The Name it button offers four names instead. It is not a "list the 50 states quiz", where names go in any order: each name must match the lit shape.

Is there a "states quiz no borders" version?

Not on this page. Every state is drawn with its outline in all three modes, and no setting hides the lines. The hardest round here is Name it with Type it.

Is there a United States map quiz printable for class?

Two. Print blank gives the map with a number on each state and 50 numbered lines, and Print labelled gives the answer key. Because the numbers run region by region, 1 to 9 can be the Northeast one week and 38 to 50 the West another.

Does it work as an interactive US map game on a classroom board?

Yes, with one note about the word game: there are no lives, levels or clock, only rounds of 12. Project the states quiz, pick a region and let students come up to tap. Share score then makes a link with the score, time and region for another class to beat.

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