Bulgaria(capital: Sofia)Capital: Sofia, below the Vitosha mountain.
Serbia(capital: Belgrade)Capital: Belgrade, where the Sava River meets the Danube.
Croatia(capital: Zagreb)Capital: Zagreb, on the Sava River in the north.
Bosnia and Herzegovina(capital: Sarajevo)Capital: Sarajevo, on the Miljacka River among the Dinaric Alps.
Albania(capital: Tirana)Capital: Tirana, in the center of the country among hills.
North Macedonia(capital: Skopje)Capital: Skopje, on the Vardar River in the north.
Slovenia(capital: Ljubljana)Capital: Ljubljana, the country's largest city.
Montenegro(capital: Podgorica)Capital: Podgorica, where the Ribnica and Morača rivers meet.
How this list was compiled: Shapes and points: the site's own map drawing as it stood on 2026-10-01 (Natural Earth 5.1.2, credited under the drawing). Which states are asked: the ten of the drawing's shapes that are member states of the United Nations, https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states, read 2026-10-01 (all ten are on the list). That the Balkans have no agreed list, and which countries the usual and the wider definitions take in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans, read 2026-10-01. Capitals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals, raw wikitext read 2026-10-01. Each detail line: the opening of the city's own Wikipedia article, read 2026-10-01, in the site's own words. The CIA World Factbook is retired and was not used. Licence: own work
The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 41.5°N 21.5°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This Balkan countries map quiz asks ten countries on a blank map of the peninsula: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. Tap the country each question names.
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Which countries this Balkans map quiz asks
The Balkans have no agreed list. This page asks the ten member states of the United Nations drawn on its map. Most lists count Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia; wider ones add Romania and Slovenia. Turkey, Hungary and Moldova are gray land at the edges.
A Balkan capitals quiz in the same round
Choose Name it and each country is followed by its capital: Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Podgorica, Tirana, Skopje, Athens, Sofia or Bucharest. A question scores only when both answers are right.
Montenegro is the small country on the coast between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania.
Serbia and North Macedonia have no coast.
Bulgaria and Romania are the two on the Black Sea.
Questions and answers
Is this a Balkan Peninsula map quiz or a quiz of the Balkan states?
Both names fit. The map is the peninsula, bordered by the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean and Black seas, and the questions are countries. Romania and Slovenia lie partly or wholly north of the peninsula and are on wider lists of the Balkans.
Is Kosovo on the map?
Kosovo is drawn as the map source draws it and is not asked. Some borders on this map are disputed. The map follows Natural Earth, a public-domain map source, and does not take a side.
Where does the name Balkans come from?
From the Balkan Mountains, which run across Bulgaria. That is one reason many lists of the Balkans include Bulgaria.