Middle East and North Africa Map Quiz

North Africa and Southwest Asia on one map: 21 countries from Morocco across to Iran and down to Yemen.

Middle East and North Africa Map Quiz

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Write the name of each numbered country.Answer key

  1. Egypt
  2. Morocco
  3. Algeria
  4. Libya
  5. Tunisia
  6. Sudan
  7. Turkey
  8. Iran
  9. Iraq
  10. Syria
  11. Israel
  12. Jordan
  13. Lebanon
  14. Cyprus
  15. Saudi Arabia
  16. Yemen
  17. Oman
  18. United Arab Emirates
  19. Qatar
  20. Kuwait
  21. Bahrain

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

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

Next step Keep going east: Southwest and Central AsiaThe same map, all round the Mediterranean

All 21 countries on the diagram

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North Africa 6

  1. Egypt Capital: Cairo. In Africa's northeast corner, between Libya and the Red Sea.
  2. Morocco Capital: Rabat. In the Maghreb, at the northwest corner of Africa.
  3. Algeria Capital: Algiers. In the Maghreb, between Morocco and Tunisia.
  4. Libya Capital: Tripoli. In the Maghreb, between Tunisia and Egypt.
  5. Tunisia Capital: Tunis. A small Maghreb country between Algeria and Libya.
  6. Sudan Capital: Khartoum. South of Egypt, on the Red Sea.

From Turkey to Iran 8

  1. Turkey Capital: Ankara. Between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
  2. Iran Capital: Tehran. East of Iraq, the easternmost country on this quiz.
  3. Iraq Capital: Baghdad. Between Syria and Iran, north of Saudi Arabia.
  4. Syria Capital: Damascus. In the Levant, between Turkey and Jordan.
  5. Israel In the Levant, on the Mediterranean south of Lebanon. Asked by name only.
  6. Jordan Capital: Amman. In the Levant, east of Israel and south of Syria.
  7. Lebanon Capital: Beirut. A small Levant country on the Mediterranean, west of Syria.
  8. Cyprus Capital: Nicosia. An island in the Mediterranean, south of Turkey.

Arabian Peninsula 7

  1. Saudi Arabia Capital: Riyadh. It covers the largest part of the Arabian Peninsula.
  2. Yemen Capital: Sana'a. In the south of the Arabian Peninsula.
  3. Oman Capital: Muscat. In the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula.
  4. United Arab Emirates Capital: Abu Dhabi. On the Persian Gulf, between Saudi Arabia and Oman.
  5. Qatar Capital: Doha. A small peninsula that points into the Persian Gulf.
  6. Kuwait Capital: Kuwait City. At the head of the Persian Gulf, beside Iraq.
  7. Bahrain Capital: Manama. An island country in the Persian Gulf, northwest of Qatar.

How this list was compiled: No list of the Middle East and North Africa is standard: Wikipedia, Middle East and North Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_and_North_Africa, read 2026-10-01) says so, gives the other names of the region (West Asia and North Africa, South West Asia and North Africa) and says that Turkey is left out of some lists though it is almost always counted in the Middle East. This page states its own list: the member states of the United Nations that the United Nations Statistics Division files under Northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia) and under Western Asia apart from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (14 states), and Iran, which it files under Southern Asia (M49, https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/, read 2026-10-01). Capitals: Wikipedia, List of national capitals, read 2026-10-01; Israel is asked by name only and the dataset gives it no capital, as the sister datasets of this site do. The Maghreb as Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia; the Levant as Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine; the Arabian Peninsula with Saudi Arabia covering its largest part, Yemen in the south, Oman in the southeast, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in the east and the island country of Bahrain off the east coast, northwest of Qatar: Wikipedia, Maghreb, Levant and Arabian Peninsula, read 2026-10-01. Other positions in the notes were read off the drawing. Shapes of the drawing that are not member states of the United Nations are drawn, never asked and not described. Items made on 2026-10-01; names, ids, rings and accepted spellings are Natural Earth's. 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 30°N 23°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 2 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 Middle East and North Africa map quiz asks 21 countries on one blank map, from Morocco to Iran and south to Sudan and Yemen. It starts in North Africa and moves east a round at a time.

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The 21 countries, and where the list comes from

No list of this region is official, so the page states its own: the member states of the United Nations that it files under Northern Africa (six) and under Western Asia outside the Caucasus (14), and Iran. Schools often call the same region North Africa and Southwest Asia, so a North Africa and Southwest Asia map quiz asks these countries too.

Six rings for the smallest countries

Bahrain, Cyprus, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon and Qatar are too small to tap at this scale, so each has a numbered ring. The region is usually described as most of the Arab League and its neighbors. The neighbors asked here are Turkey, Iran, Israel and Cyprus.

  • Along the African coast, west to east: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt. Sudan is south of Egypt.
  • Saudi Arabia fills the middle of the peninsula. Yemen and Oman share its south, and the small Gulf states line its east.
  • For a North Africa and Middle East map quiz in class, learn the large shapes first: Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey.

Questions and answers

What does SWANA mean on a SWANA map?

SWANA stands for South West Asia and North Africa. It names the same region as the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, by where it lies. West Asia and North Africa, WANA, is a third name for it.

Is Turkey part of the Middle East and North Africa?

It depends on the list. Turkey is almost always counted in the Middle East, yet some lists of this region leave it out. This page asks it, along with Cyprus and Iran.

Which countries are in North Africa?

The United Nations files six member states under Northern Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia. The first round of the quiz asks those six.

Can I see a North Africa and Southwest Asia political map with the names on?

Yes. Press Show me the labels first and the map writes in the country names. The six smallest get a ring to tap instead. For paper, More options has a print with the answer key.

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