How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-09-26. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf
The drawing: Drawn for this site from U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_county_5m (scale 1:5,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_county_5m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_state_5m (scale 1:5,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_state_5m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19. Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 90.1°W, standard parallels 31°N and 34.2°N. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf
How it works
This Mississippi county map quiz asks all 82 counties of Mississippi on a blank map: Find it names one to tap, Name it lights one for you to name, and Study shows them all.
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3 areas of Mississippi
The areas under Start from split them into North Mississippi (24), Central Mississippi (28) and South Mississippi (30), so a round can be one part of the state at a time.
Typing a name
Under Name it you can type Adams or Adams County: the word County is optional, and accents or capitals do not matter.
Learn the counties around Jackson first, then work out to the borders with Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee.
Questions and answers
How many counties are in the Mississippi county map quiz?
All 82 of Mississippi, from Adams County to Yazoo County, each asked once per round in a new order.
Where is Hinds County on the map?
Hinds County, around the capital, Jackson, is in the Central Mississippi area; it also has the most people in the state.
Which county names does Mississippi share with Tennessee?
Twenty-five: Benton, Carroll, Claiborne and Clay among them are names in both states; here every one is the Mississippi county, so a name alone is enough.
Which county is the hardest to tap?
Alcorn, the smallest shape on the map. Yazoo is the biggest shape and the easiest.