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Write the name of each numbered country.Answer key

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Algeria
  3. Angola
  4. Argentina
  5. Australia
  6. Bangladesh
  7. Belarus
  8. Benin
  9. Bolivia
  10. Botswana
  11. Brazil
  12. Bulgaria
  13. Burkina Faso
  14. Cambodia
  15. Cameroon
  16. Canada
  17. Central African Republic
  18. Chad
  19. Chile
  20. China
  21. Colombia
  22. Cuba
  23. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  24. Ecuador
  25. Egypt
  26. Eritrea
  27. Ethiopia
  28. Finland
  29. France
  30. Gabon
  31. Germany
  32. Ghana
  33. Greece
  34. Guatemala
  35. Guinea
  36. Guyana
  37. Honduras
  38. Hungary
  39. Iceland
  40. India
  41. Indonesia
  42. Iran
  43. Iraq
  44. Italy
  45. Ivory Coast
  46. Japan
  47. Jordan
  48. Kazakhstan
  49. Kenya
  50. Kyrgyzstan
  51. Laos
  52. Liberia
  53. Libya
  54. Madagascar
  55. Malawi
  56. Malaysia
  57. Mali
  58. Mauritania
  59. Mexico
  60. Mongolia
  61. Morocco
  62. Mozambique
  63. Myanmar
  64. Namibia
  65. Nepal
  66. New Zealand
  67. Nicaragua
  68. Niger
  69. Nigeria
  70. North Korea
  71. Norway
  72. Oman
  73. Pakistan
  74. Papua New Guinea
  75. Paraguay
  76. Peru
  77. Philippines
  78. Poland
  79. Portugal
  80. Republic of the Congo
  81. Romania
  82. Russia
  83. Saudi Arabia
  84. Senegal
  85. Somalia
  86. South Africa
  87. South Korea
  88. South Sudan
  89. Spain
  90. Sudan
  91. Suriname
  92. Sweden
  93. Syria
  94. Tajikistan
  95. Tanzania
  96. Thailand
  97. Tunisia
  98. Turkey
  99. Turkmenistan
  100. Uganda
  101. Ukraine
  102. United Kingdom
  103. United States of America
  104. Uruguay
  105. Uzbekistan
  106. Venezuela
  107. Vietnam
  108. Yemen
  109. Zambia
  110. Zimbabwe

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Africa 39

  1. Algeria Capital: Algiers. The largest country in Africa by area. The tenth largest in the world. Joined the United Nations in 1962.
  2. Angola Capital: Luanda. Joined the United Nations in 1976.
  3. Benin Capital: Porto-Novo. The seat of government is in Cotonou, the largest city. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  4. Botswana Capital: Gaborone. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1966.
  5. Burkina Faso Capital: Ouagadougou. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  6. Cameroon Capital: Yaoundé. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  7. Central African Republic Capital: Bangui. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  8. Chad Capital: N'Djamena. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  9. Democratic Republic of the Congo Capital: Kinshasa. The second largest country in Africa by area. Number 15 by population: 105,789,731 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  10. Egypt Capital: Cairo. Number 14 by population: 114,535,772 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  11. Eritrea Capital: Asmara. Joined the United Nations in 1993.
  12. Ethiopia Capital: Addis Ababa. The most populous landlocked country in the world. Number 11 by population: 128,691,692 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  13. Gabon Capital: Libreville. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  14. Ghana Capital: Accra. Joined the United Nations in 1957.
  15. Guinea Capital: Conakry. Joined the United Nations in 1958.
  16. Ivory Coast Capital: Yamoussoukro, the official capital. Abidjan, the largest city, is the working seat of government, and both are accepted. The United Nations lists it as Côte d'Ivoire. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  17. Kenya Capital: Nairobi. Number 26 by population: 55,339,003 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1963.
  18. Liberia Capital: Monrovia. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  19. Libya Capital: Tripoli. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  20. Madagascar Capital: Antananarivo. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  21. Malawi Capital: Lilongwe. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1964.
  22. Mali Capital: Bamako. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  23. Mauritania Capital: Nouakchott. Joined the United Nations in 1961.
  24. Morocco Capital: Rabat. Joined the United Nations in 1956.
  25. Mozambique Capital: Maputo. Joined the United Nations in 1975.
  26. Namibia Capital: Windhoek. Joined the United Nations in 1990.
  27. Niger Capital: Niamey. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  28. Nigeria Capital: Abuja. Number 6 by population: 227,882,945 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  29. Republic of the Congo Capital: Brazzaville. The United Nations lists it as Congo. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  30. Senegal Capital: Dakar. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  31. Somalia Capital: Mogadishu. Joined the United Nations in 1960.
  32. South Africa Capitals: Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative) and Bloemfontein (judicial). Lesotho is surrounded by it on every side. Number 24 by population: 63,212,384 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  33. South Sudan Capital: Juba. Landlocked. The newest member of the United Nations. Joined the United Nations in 2011.
  34. Sudan Capital: Khartoum. Number 30 by population: 50,042,791 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1956.
  35. Tanzania Capital: Dodoma. Dar es Salaam, the largest city, is the former capital. Number 22 by population: 66,617,606 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1961.
  36. Tunisia Capital: Tunis. Joined the United Nations in 1956.
  37. Uganda Capital: Kampala. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1962.
  38. Zambia Capital: Lusaka. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1964.
  39. Zimbabwe Capital: Harare. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1980.

Asia 31

  1. Afghanistan Capital: Kabul. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1946.
  2. Bangladesh Capital: Dhaka. Number 8 by population: 171,466,990 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1974.
  3. Cambodia Capital: Phnom Penh. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  4. China Capital: Beijing. One of the world's four largest countries by area. Number 2 by population: 1,422,584,933 people (United Nations, mid-2023, mainland China). The United Nations lists its membership from 1945.
  5. India Capital: New Delhi. The seventh largest country in the world by area. Number 1 by population: 1,438,069,596 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  6. Indonesia Capital: Jakarta. It borders Papua New Guinea. The United Nations treats that border as the line between Asia and Oceania. Number 4 by population: 281,190,067 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1950.
  7. Iran Capital: Tehran. The United Nations lists it as Iran (Islamic Republic of). Number 17 by population: 90,608,707 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  8. Iraq Capital: Baghdad. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  9. Japan Capital: Tokyo. Number 12 by population: 124,370,947 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1956.
  10. Jordan Capital: Amman. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  11. Kazakhstan Capital: Astana. The largest landlocked country in the world. The ninth largest of all, with land in both Europe and Asia. It left the Soviet Union in 1991. Joined the United Nations in 1992.
  12. Kyrgyzstan Capital: Bishkek. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1992. One of the 15 states that came out of the Soviet Union, which dissolved in 1991.
  13. Laos Capital: Vientiane. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1955. The United Nations lists it as the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
  14. Malaysia Capital: Kuala Lumpur. Joined the United Nations in 1957.
  15. Mongolia Capital: Ulaanbaatar. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1961.
  16. Myanmar Capital: Naypyidaw. Number 27 by population: 54,133,798 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1948.
  17. Nepal Capital: Kathmandu. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  18. North Korea Capital: Pyongyang. Joined the United Nations in 1991. The United Nations lists it as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
  19. Oman Capital: Muscat. Joined the United Nations in 1971.
  20. Pakistan Capital: Islamabad. Number 5 by population: 247,504,495 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1947.
  21. Philippines Capital: Manila. Number 13 by population: 114,891,199 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  22. Saudi Arabia Capital: Riyadh. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  23. South Korea Capital: Seoul. The United Nations lists it as the Republic of Korea. Number 29 by population: 51,748,739 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1991.
  24. Syria Capital: Damascus. The United Nations lists it as the Syrian Arab Republic. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  25. Tajikistan Capital: Dushanbe. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1992. One of the 15 states that came out of the Soviet Union, which dissolved in 1991.
  26. Thailand Capital: Bangkok. Number 20 by population: 71,702,435 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1946.
  27. Turkey Capital: Ankara. It has land in both Europe and Asia. The United Nations lists it as Türkiye. Number 18 by population: 87,270,501 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  28. Turkmenistan Capital: Ashgabat. Its only coast is on the inland Caspian Sea. One of the 15 states that came out of the Soviet Union, which dissolved in 1991. Joined the United Nations in 1992.
  29. Uzbekistan Capital: Tashkent. Doubly landlocked: every country it touches is landlocked too. It left the Soviet Union in 1991. Joined the United Nations in 1992.
  30. Vietnam Capital: Hanoi. The United Nations lists it as Viet Nam. Number 16 by population: 100,352,192 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1977.
  31. Yemen Capital: Sana'a. Joined the United Nations in 1947.

Europe 18

  1. Belarus Capital: Minsk. Landlocked. Joined the United Nations in 1945. One of the 15 states that came out of the Soviet Union, which dissolved in 1991.
  2. Bulgaria Capital: Sofia. In the European Union since 2007. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  3. Finland Capital: Helsinki. In the European Union since 1995. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  4. France Capital: Paris. Joined the United Nations in 1945. One of the six founders, in 1957, of what is now the European Union. Number 23 by population: 66,438,822 people (United Nations, mid-2023, metropolitan France).
  5. Germany Capital: Berlin. Joined the United Nations in 1973. One of the six founders, in 1957, of what is now the European Union. Number 19 by population: 84,548,231 people (United Nations, mid-2023).
  6. Greece Capital: Athens. In the European Union since 1981. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  7. Hungary Capital: Budapest. Landlocked. In the European Union since 2004. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  8. Iceland Capital: Reykjavík. Not a member of the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1946.
  9. Italy Capital: Rome. San Marino is surrounded by it. One of the six founders, in 1957, of what is now the European Union. Number 25 by population: 59,499,453 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  10. Norway Capital: Oslo. Not a member of the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  11. Poland Capital: Warsaw. In the European Union since 2004. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  12. Portugal Capital: Lisbon. In the European Union since 1986. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  13. Romania Capital: Bucharest. In the European Union since 2007. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  14. Russia Capital: Moscow. The largest country in the world by area. It has land in both Europe and Asia. Number 9 by population: 145,440,500 people (United Nations, mid-2023). The United Nations lists its membership from 1945.
  15. Spain Capital: Madrid. In the European Union since 1986. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
  16. Sweden Capital: Stockholm. In the European Union since 1995. Joined the United Nations in 1946.
  17. Ukraine Capital: Kyiv. Joined the United Nations in 1945. One of the 15 states that came out of the Soviet Union, which dissolved in 1991.
  18. United Kingdom Capital: London. It left the European Union on 31 January 2020. Number 21 by population: 68,682,962 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.

North America 7

  1. Canada Capital: Ottawa. The second largest country in the world by area. The Canadian Confederation dates from 1867. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  2. Cuba Capital: Havana. Independent since 1902. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  3. Guatemala Capital: Guatemala City. Independent from Spain since 1821. Part of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1823. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  4. Honduras Capital: Tegucigalpa. Independent from Spain since 1821. Part of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1823. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  5. Mexico Capital: Mexico City. Independent from Spain since 1821. Number 10 by population: 129,739,759 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  6. Nicaragua Capital: Managua. Independent from Spain since 1821. Part of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1823. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  7. United States of America Capital: Washington, D.C. Independence from the British Empire was declared in 1776. Number 3 by population: 343,477,335 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.

South America 12

  1. Argentina Capital: Buenos Aires. The eighth largest country in the world by area. Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, stands in its Mendoza Province. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  2. Bolivia Capitals: Sucre is the constitutional capital, La Paz the seat of government. One of the two landlocked countries of South America. The United Nations lists it as Bolivia (Plurinational State of). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  3. Brazil Capital: Brasília. The fifth largest country in the world by area. It touches every country in South America except Ecuador and Chile. Number 7 by population: 211,140,729 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  4. Chile Capital: Santiago. The legislature meets in Valparaíso. The country is a narrow strip of land between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  5. Colombia Capital: Bogotá. The Caribbean Sea lies to its north. The Pacific Ocean lies to its west, with Panama to the northwest. Number 28 by population: 52,321,152 people (United Nations, mid-2023). Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  6. Ecuador Capital: Quito, the capital nearest the equator. The name of the country is the Spanish word for equator. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  7. Guyana Capital: Georgetown. English is an official language here. Joined the United Nations in 1966.
  8. Paraguay Capital: Asunción. Landlocked, like Bolivia. Guarani is an official language alongside Spanish. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  9. Peru Capital: Lima. Joined the United Nations in 1945. Quechua and Aymara are official alongside Spanish in the areas where they are most spoken.
  10. Suriname Capital: Paramaribo. Independent from the Netherlands since 1975. Dutch is the official language. Joined the United Nations in 1975.
  11. Uruguay Capital: Montevideo. The Río de la Plata lies to its south. The Atlantic Ocean lies to its southeast. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  12. Venezuela Capital: Caracas. On the north coast of South America. It has islands of its own in the Caribbean Sea. Joined the United Nations in 1945.

Oceania 3

  1. Australia Capital: Canberra. The sixth largest country in the world by area. One of the 14 member states of the United Nations in Oceania. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  2. New Zealand Capital: Wellington. One of the 14 United Nations member states in Oceania. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
  3. Papua New Guinea Capital: Port Moresby. It borders Indonesia. The United Nations treats that border as the line between Asia and Oceania. Joined the United Nations in 1975.

How this list was compiled: The 110 countries are the 110 largest member states of the United Nations by area on this drawing, which is equal-area; the smallest of them by real area is Jordan (89,318 square kilometers, after Hungary and Portugal), as ranked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area, checked 2026-09-19; on the drawing, which leaves out small islands, Portugal is the smallest shape. Membership, the names the United Nations uses and the years of joining: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states (193 member states), checked 2026-09-19. The two observer states, the Holy See and the State of Palestine, are not asked: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/non-member-states, checked 2026-09-19. Capitals: the Wikipedia lists of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Africa and the five pages named the same way, checked 2026-09-19. The 25 largest countries and the ranks by area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area, checked 2026-09-19. Landlocked and doubly landlocked countries, the largest and the most populous landlocked country, and Lesotho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlocked_country, checked 2026-09-19. The 15 post-Soviet states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states, checked 2026-09-19. The 14 member states in Oceania and the line between Asia and Oceania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Oceania, checked 2026-09-19. The 30 most populous countries, their order and their populations: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (https://population.un.org/wpp/), estimates for 1 July 2023 as tabled at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_(United_Nations), all 30 rows checked 2026-09-19; that table notes that the figure for China is for mainland China and the one for France for metropolitan France. The 2024 revision is the latest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Population_Prospects, checked 2026-09-19); check the order again when the next one is out. Tanzania: Dodoma is the capital and Dar es Salaam the former capital and largest city (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodoma, checked 2026-09-19). Ivory Coast and Benin, the official capital and the city the government works from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals, checked 2026-09-19; Abidjan is accepted as a typed capital, Cotonou is not. Quito as the capital city closest to the equator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito, checked 2026-09-19. Central America from 1821 to 1823: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Central_America, checked 2026-09-19. The detail lines for Europe and the Americas draw on the sources of european-countries-quiz, north-america-map-quiz and south-america-countries-quiz; those pages carry longer lines of their own about neighbors and coasts. The continents are those of Natural Earth, which files Russia under Europe and Turkey and Kazakhstan under Asia. Every shape that is not one of the 110, among them every flagged or disputed shape, is drawn and never asked. Positions in the hints were read off the drawing. Hints and detail lines written for this site. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Equal Earth projection centred on 11°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 66 places are too small to draw at this scale and shown as a dot. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

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This map of Earth prints blank, with every country's border and no names. Switch to numbers for a world map assignment: the 110 largest countries carry a number to write against. The named map is the answer key.

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A black and white world map print

The sheet is drawn in thin black lines on white, so it copies cleanly on any school printer. It prints landscape and, being drawn as lines, stays sharp from a letter page to a poster.

The map of the world blackline, numbered

Choose Numbers and the 110 largest countries get a number, Africa's 39 among them. The 66 smallest, from Andorra to Tuvalu, are dots, too small to write on. Antarctica is left off the sheet.

  • For a first test, print Numbered and ask one continent at a time: Africa has 39 of the 110 numbers, Europe 18.

Questions and answers

How many countries are there in the world?

The United Nations has 193 member states, plus two observer states, the Holy See and Palestine. This map draws every country's border and numbers the 110 largest; the smallest are dots.

Is this a high quality blank world map?

Yes. It prints from lines, not a picture, so the borders stay sharp on letter, A4 or a poster-size sheet. It uses the Equal Earth projection, which keeps every country's true size.

Why does Greenland look smaller than on other world maps?

Many classroom maps use the Mercator projection, which swells places near the poles. Equal Earth keeps areas true, so Greenland is shown at about one fourteenth of Africa's size, as it really is.

Can I print the map with country names on it?

Yes. Choose Named, then press Print this map. The 110 largest countries print with their names; the 66 smallest stay as dots, too small to name at this size.

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