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Monsoon Asia Map Quiz

South, Southeast and East Asia on one map, with Central Asia drawn but switched off.

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Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
China
East Timor
India
Indonesia
Japan
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Vietnam

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Eastern Asia 5

China Capital: Beijing. Shanghai is the most populous city. The second most populous country in the world, after India.
Japan Capital: Tokyo. Four main islands and more than 14,000 smaller ones. It has 47 prefectures. About 75% of the land is mountainous.
Mongolia Capital: Ulaanbaatar. The second-largest landlocked country, after Kazakhstan. About 1.56 million square kilometers, with about 3.5 million people.
North Korea Capital: Pyongyang, the largest city. The Yalu and Tumen rivers run along its north side, where it meets China and Russia.
South Korea Capital: Seoul. About half the people live in the Seoul metropolitan area.

South-Eastern Asia 11

Brunei Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan. The only sovereign state entirely on Borneo. The Malaysian state of Sarawak splits it into two parts.
Cambodia Capital: Phnom Penh. Low plain where the Mekong meets the Tonlé Sap. That lake is the largest in Southeast Asia.
East Timor Capital: Dili, on the north coast. Also called Timor-Leste. It has the island of Timor's eastern half plus the exclave of Oecusse, in the northwest of the island.
Indonesia Capital: Jakarta. The largest archipelagic state in the world. It has 13,000 to 17,000 islands. More than half of its people live on Java.
Laos Capital: Vientiane. Five neighbors: Myanmar, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. The town of Luang Prabang is a World Heritage Site.
Malaysia Capital: Kuala Lumpur. A federation of 13 states and three federal territories. The South China Sea splits it into Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia.
Myanmar Capital: Nay Pyi Taw. Yangon is the largest city. Also called Burma. Mainland Southeast Asia's largest country by area.
Philippines Capital: Manila. About 7,641 islands in three groups. From north to south: Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.
Singapore Capital: Singapore. The country and its capital share a name. A main island and over 60 smaller ones, about one degree north of the equator.
Thailand Capital: Bangkok. Formerly known as Siam. About 513,000 square kilometers, with coasts on the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea.
Vietnam Capital: Hanoi. Along the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia. About 331,000 square kilometers. The 16th most populous country in the world.

Southern Asia 8

Afghanistan Capital: Kabul. The Hindu Kush range separates northern plains from southwestern ones. The UN files Afghanistan under Southern Asia. Units on Southwest and Central Asia often include it.
Bangladesh Capital: Dhaka. The eighth most populous country in the world. Area: about 148,000 square kilometers.
Bhutan Capital: Thimphu. A kingdom in the Eastern Himalayas with no coast. About 38,000 square kilometers.
India Capital: New Delhi. The world's largest country by population. The seventh-largest by area.
Maldives Capital: Malé. The smallest country in Asia. Its 26 atolls stretch across the equator, about 750 kilometers from the mainland.
Nepal Capital: Kathmandu. Mainly in the Himalayas. It has eight of the ten highest mountains in the world, Mount Everest among them.
Pakistan Capital: Islamabad. Karachi is the largest city. The fifth most populous country in the world.
Sri Lanka Capitals: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative) and Colombo (executive and judicial). Either is accepted. Formerly called Ceylon.

How this list was compiled: The 47 countries are the member states of the United Nations that the UN files under its five regions of 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. Capitals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Asia, checked 2026-09-19. One capital is left out because the source marks it as claimed; that country is asked by name only. Shapes of the drawing that are dependencies, that the points file flags as disputed, or that the top edge cuts off are not on this list and are never asked. Positions in the hints were read off the drawing. The two capitals of Sri Lanka, both accepted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka, checked 2026-09-19. Astana named Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana, checked 2026-09-19. 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 32°N 87°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 4 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 Monsoon Asia map quiz puts 24 countries on one blank map: the 8 of South Asia, the 11 of Southeast Asia and the 5 of East Asia. Find it names one to tap. Name it lights one to type.

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The 24 countries on the list

The United Nations has no region called Monsoon Asia, so this page states its own list. South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam. East Asia: China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea. Check them against your class list.

Three regions and five rings

Three sets under Start from shorten the round under their United Nations names: Eastern Asia (5 countries), South-Eastern Asia (11) and Southern Asia (8). Bhutan, Brunei, East Timor, Maldives and Singapore are too small to tap, so each has a numbered ring. The five countries of Central Asia are drawn and never asked.

Mainland Southeast Asia, west to east: Myanmar, Thailand, Laos stacked on Cambodia, then S-shaped Vietnam. Only Laos has no coast.
Three countries share Borneo: Indonesia holds most, Malaysia the north side, and ringed Brunei sits on the north coast.
Between India and China: narrow Nepal to the west, ringed Bhutan to the east. Bangladesh lies south of Bhutan.

Questions and answers

Which countries are in Monsoon Asia?

There is no official list. This page asks 24: eight in South Asia, eleven in Southeast Asia and five in East Asia. The list follows regions, not rainfall, so Afghanistan counts with South Asia and Mongolia with East Asia.

Why is it called Monsoon Asia?

Monsoon comes from the Arabic word mawsim, meaning season. It names winds that blow from the sea in summer and from the land in winter. In India the summer monsoon usually reaches the southwest coast in early June and covers the country by mid-July.

Is Iran part of Monsoon Asia?

Not on this page. The United Nations files Iran under Southern Asia, which gives that region nine countries. This page asks eight and leaves Iran to the map of Southwest and Central Asia. Afghanistan is asked on both pages.