BelarusCapital: Minsk. About 207,600 square kilometers, in six regions, with no coast.
BulgariaCapital: Sofia. South of the Danube and west of the Black Sea. The UN files it under Eastern Europe, though it lies in the Balkans. European Union member since 2007.
Czech RepublicCapital: Prague. Also called Czechia, and known in history as Bohemia. It has no coast. European Union member since 2004.
HungaryCapital: Budapest. Great lowland plains in the Carpathian Basin. Seven neighbors and no coast. European Union member since 2004.
MoldovaCapital: Chișinău, the largest city. About 33,800 square kilometers, with no coast.
PolandCapital: Warsaw. From the Baltic south to the Sudetes and Carpathian mountains. Sixteen voivodeships. European Union member since 2004.
RomaniaCapital: Bucharest. On the lower Danube, north of the Balkan Peninsula. The twelfth-largest country in Europe. The UN files it under Eastern Europe. European Union member since 2007.
RussiaCapital: Moscow. The largest country in the world, across eleven time zones.
SlovakiaCapital: Bratislava. Košice is the second-largest city. Mostly mountainous, with no coast. European Union member since 2004.
UkraineCapital: Kyiv. The second-largest country in Europe, after Russia.
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EstoniaCapital: Tallinn. The large islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa belong to it. So do more than 2,300 smaller ones. European Union member since 2004.
LatviaCapital: Riga, the largest city. About 64,600 square kilometers, a little smaller than Lithuania. European Union member since 2004.
LithuaniaCapital: Vilnius. About 65,300 square kilometers, a little larger than Latvia. European Union member since 2004.
How this list was compiled: The countries are the member states of the United Nations that the UN files under its four regions of Europe, plus Cyprus, a European Union member that the UN files under Western Asia: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states and United Nations Statistics Division, Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49), https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/, both checked 2026-09-19. The 27 members of the European Union and the year each joined: https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/eu-countries_en, checked 2026-09-19. Capitals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Europe, checked 2026-09-19. The Balkans group: there is no agreed list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans, checked 2026-09-19); this one is the former Yugoslav states, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. Shapes of the drawing that are dependencies, that the points file flags, or that are not member states are not on this list and are never asked. Positions in the hints were read off the drawing; the "largest shape" hint was checked against the areas of the drawn shapes. The second and later sentences of each detail line were read on 2026-09-19 in the lead of that country's article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ followed by the country's name as the quiz labels it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland for those two); no detail line names a flagged shape or describes a border that is contested. 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. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 53°N 15°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 6 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/)
How it works
This Eastern Europe map quiz asks 13 countries on a map of Europe zoomed in from the Czech Republic to Russia. Ten are the United Nations list of Eastern Europe. The other three are the Baltic states.
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Which countries this Eastern Europe quiz asks
The United Nations files ten countries under Eastern Europe: Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine. It files Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania under Northern Europe, but wider lists of Eastern Europe count the Baltic states, so all three are asked. No one list is agreed: the narrowest keeps only Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
What an east Europe map quiz leaves to other pages
The Balkan countries south of Hungary, such as Serbia and Croatia, are filed under Southern Europe and are asked on that page. Russia runs off the right-hand edge of this map; any part of it that shows can be tapped. Under Start from, Eastern Europe asks the United Nations ten alone.
Poland and Ukraine are the two large shapes. Belarus sits above Ukraine, between Poland and Russia.
Moldova is the small country with Romania on its west side and Ukraine around the rest.
The Baltic states, north to south: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
Questions and answers
Is Russia in Europe or in Asia?
Both. The Ural Mountains mark the eastern edge of Europe, and Russia carries on across Asia. The United Nations files the whole country under Eastern Europe, so it is asked here, though this map shows only its western part.
Why are the Czech Republic and Hungary on an Eastern Europe countries quiz?
The United Nations list puts both under Eastern Europe, with Poland and Slovakia. Lists that treat Central Europe as a region of its own place these four there. The quiz follows the United Nations so that the list has a source anyone can check.
Does the quiz accept Czechia?
Yes. The map prints Czech Republic and counts Czechia as correct when you type the name. Russian Federation counts for Russia, and Republic of Moldova for Moldova.
Can I print a blank map of Eastern Europe?
Yes. Open More options and press Print blank: the map prints with a number on each of the 13 countries and a line to write each name on. The print button beside it adds the answer key.