Hawaii Map Quiz

Tap the island each question names, from the Big Island to Kahoolawe.

Hawaii Map Quiz

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Write the name of each numbered island.Answer key

  1. Hawaii (Big Island)
  2. Maui
  3. Oahu
  4. Kauai
  5. Molokai
  6. Lanai
  7. Niihau
  8. Kahoolawe

Drawn for this site on 2026-10-05 from public domain map data, by a script that projects the data and draws nothing by hand: the coasts of the eight islands from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023. Licence: public domain: the coasts are a work of the United States government; the sea depths are Natural Earth data, public domain.

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

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All 8 islands on the diagram

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  1. Hawaii (Big Island) The largest island, at the southeast end of the chain.
  2. Maui The second largest island, northwest of the Big Island.
  3. Oahu The third largest island, home of Honolulu, the capital.
  4. Kauai The fourth largest island, near the northwest end.
  5. Molokai The fifth largest, a long island north of Lanai.
  6. Lanai The sixth largest, west of Maui, in Maui County.
  7. Niihau The westernmost of the eight, southwest of Kauai.
  8. Kahoolawe The smallest of the eight, southwest of Maui.

How this list was compiled: Outlines: U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file of counties at 1:500,000 (credited under the drawing), cut into islands by the map spec; the file itself says which county each island belongs to (Niihau is a part of Kauai County; Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe are parts of Maui County; the Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai is Kalawao County) and gives the order of the islands by area (Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, Kahoolawe; Hawaii larger than the other seven together). Every name, county and detail line was also read on 2026-10-01 in the opening of the island's English Wikipedia article (Hawaiian Islands for the eight major islands) and in the GeoNames gazetteer (https://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=Niihau and the same search for each island), which holds all eight as features of class island in Hawaii with their counties (Hawaii; Maui County for Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe; Honolulu for Oahu; Kauai for Kauai and Niihau) and gives Big Island as a name of the Island of Hawaii. Honolulu on Oahu: Wikipedia, Oahu (the state capital is on the island's southeastern coast) and Natural Earth's populated places, which mark Honolulu as the state capital at 21.3 N 157.9 W, on the south coast of the Oahu shape. Where an island lies in relation to another is read from the drawing and from the Wikipedia openings. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-05 from public domain map data, by a script that projects the data and draws nothing by hand: the coasts of the eight islands from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_county_500k (scale 1:500,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_county_500k.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19, with the five counties cut into islands; the tinted sea from Natural Earth 4.1.0 bathymetry, ne_10m_bathymetry_I_2000 and ne_10m_bathymetry_K_200 (the 2,000 metre and 200 metre depth lines), https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/tree/v5.1.2, public domain (Natural Earth terms of use). Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 157.5°W, standard parallels 19.5°N and 22°N. Outlines lightly simplified, depth lines smoothed; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain: the coasts are a work of the United States government (U.S. Census Bureau, 17 U.S.C. 105), https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf; the sea depths are Natural Earth data, public domain, https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/

How it works

This Hawaii map quiz asks the eight main islands of the state on a blank map: Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau and Kahoolawe. Tap the island each question names.

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How the quiz works

Each question names one island. Tap it on the map; you get two tries, then the island is shown with its name. Kahoolawe is small, so it also carries a ring at the end of a short line, and a tap on the ring counts.

The chain from northwest to southeast

The islands lie in a line. Niihau and Kauai are at the northwest end, then Oahu, then Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe and Maui close together, and the island of Hawaii alone at the southeast end.

  • Molokai is the long island north of Lanai; Kahoolawe is the small one southwest of Maui.
  • Maui County takes in four islands: Maui, Lanai, Kahoolawe and most of Molokai.

Questions and answers

What are the 8 main islands of Hawaii?

From northwest to southeast: Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Maui and Hawaii, which is often called the Big Island.

Which Hawaiian island is the biggest?

Hawaii, the Big Island, at the southeast end of the chain. It is larger than the other seven main islands put together. Maui is second and Oahu third.

Which island is Honolulu on?

Oahu. Honolulu, the capital of the state, is on the island's south coast.

How many counties does Hawaii have?

Five. Hawaii County is the Big Island, Honolulu is Oahu, Kauai County is Kauai and Niihau, Maui County is Maui, Lanai, Kahoolawe and most of Molokai, and small Kalawao County is a peninsula on Molokai.

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