Northern Eurasia Map Quiz

Russia and 14 countries that shared one state with it until December 1991, on a map wide enough for Russia.

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Write the name of each numbered country.Answer key

Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Estonia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan

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

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Baltic states 3

Estonia Capital: Tallinn. The fewest people of the 15 republics in 1989. United Nations region: Northern Europe.
Latvia Capital: Riga. It declared its independence restored on 4 May 1990. United Nations region: Northern Europe.
Lithuania Capital: Vilnius. Declared independence first among Soviet republics, March 1990. United Nations region: Northern Europe.

Russia and Eastern Europe 4

Belarus Capital: Minsk. United Nations region: Eastern Europe. One of the three republics whose leaders signed the agreement of 8 December 1991 that declared the Soviet Union over.
Moldova Capital: Chișinău, spelled Kishinev on Soviet maps. United Nations region: Eastern Europe.
Russia Capital: Moscow. The largest of the 15 republics in area and population. United Nations region: Eastern Europe.
Ukraine Capital: Kyiv, spelled Kiev on Soviet maps. It had the second-largest population of the 15 republics in 1989. United Nations region: Eastern Europe.

Caucasus 3

Armenia Capital: Yerevan. The smallest of the 15 republics by area. United Nations region: Western Asia.
Azerbaijan Capital: Baku. It became a separate Soviet republic in 1936. That year the Transcaucasian federation was split in three. United Nations region: Western Asia.
Georgia Capital: Tbilisi. It became a separate Soviet republic in 1936. That year the Transcaucasian federation was split in three. United Nations region: Western Asia.

Central Asia 5

Kazakhstan Capital: Astana, which replaced Almaty in 1997. The largest landlocked country in the world, and the last republic to declare independence: 16 December 1991. United Nations region: Central Asia.
Kyrgyzstan Capital: Bishkek, which was called Frunze in Soviet times. United Nations region: Central Asia.
Tajikistan Capital: Dushanbe. It became a separate Soviet republic in 1929. United Nations region: Central Asia.
Turkmenistan Capital: Ashgabat, spelled Ashkhabad on Soviet maps. United Nations region: Central Asia.
Uzbekistan Capital: Tashkent. One of just two doubly landlocked countries on Earth. Every neighbor is landlocked as well. United Nations region: Central Asia.

How this list was compiled: The 15 countries are the states that were the union republics of the Soviet Union from 1956 until it was dissolved on 26 December 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_the_Soviet_Union (the 15 republics, the capitals and their Soviet-era spellings, areas and 1989 populations, the 1936 split of the Transcaucasian federation, the Tajik republic of 1929) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states (the 15 states today, their capitals, the declarations of 1990 and 1991), both checked 2026-09-19. All 15 are member states of the United Nations; the region in each detail line is the one the United Nations Statistics Division files the country under, Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49), https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/, checked 2026-09-19. The end of the Soviet Union, the agreement of 8 December 1991, Lithuania as the first republic to declare independence and Kazakhstan as the last: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union, checked 2026-09-19. Astana as capital since 1997 and Kazakhstan as the largest landlocked country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana, checked 2026-09-19. Uzbekistan as doubly landlocked and as the neighbor of all four other Central Asian states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan, checked 2026-09-19. The four groups are this site's own way of cutting the list: the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia as those names are commonly used, and Russia with the three other countries the UN files under Eastern Europe. The other 87 shapes of the drawing, among them every shape the points file flags, are not on this list and are never asked. Shapes and points come from the eurasia drawing as mapgen accepted it; the seven rings were placed again for this page, which draws 7 rings and not the 56 of the whole drawing, by the same rules (clear of every unringed point by twice the mark, clear of each other, off every small shape, leaders that cross no ring). Positions in the hints were read off the drawing. 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 45°N 80°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 13 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 Northern Eurasia map quiz asks 15 countries: Russia and the 14 others that were Soviet republics. The map runs from the Baltic Sea to the Bering Strait. Find it names one to tap. Name it lights one to type.

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Which 15 countries are asked

Northern Eurasia has no official list, so this page states its own: the 15 republics the Soviet Union had from 1956 to 1991, as today's countries. Three are Baltic, three lie in the Caucasus, five make up Central Asia, and Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine sit beside Russia. For a Russia and the Republics map quiz, check this list against your unit's.

Four rounds, seven rings and a tilted map

Four sets under Start from shorten the round and zoom in: Baltic states (3), Russia and Eastern Europe (4), Caucasus (3) and Central Asia (5). Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania and Moldova are too small to tap, so each has a ring. The map centers on Asia to fit Russia, so along the left edge north points to the upper right.

The Baltic states run upper right to lower left on this tilted map: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, north to south.
In the Caucasus, Georgia takes the Black Sea coast, Azerbaijan the Caspian shore, and landlocked Armenia touches neither.
Central Asia: Kazakhstan spans the top, Turkmenistan reaches the Caspian, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan lie toward China, Uzbekistan in the middle.

Questions and answers

Can I use this as a former Soviet Union map quiz?

Yes. Each of the 15 countries was one union republic of the USSR. The detail lines give today's capitals beside their Soviet-era spellings: Kyiv was Kiev, Chișinău was Kishinev and Ashgabat was Ashkhabad.

Why does the quiz ask 15 countries?

The Soviet Union had 15 republics from 1956, when a sixteenth, the Karelo-Finnish republic, was folded into Russia. Lithuania was the first to declare independence, in March 1990, and Kazakhstan the last, on 16 December 1991. The union was dissolved ten days later.

Does it ask the republics inside Russia?

No. Tatarstan, Sakha and the others are regions of one country and are not asked here. The 15 on this page are independent countries. For the inside of Russia, the Russia map quiz asks its eight federal districts and their centers.

Is there a Russia and Central Asia map quiz?

Yes, here. Pick Central Asia under Start from for a round on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan alone, or play the full round, where Russia is asked beside them. The Asia pages of this site cut Russia off at the edge.