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Southwest and Central Asia Map Quiz

The Arabian Peninsula, the Caucasus and Central Asia on one map, with Iran and Afghanistan between them.

Southwest and Central Asia Map Quiz

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Write the name of each numbered country.Answer key

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Armenia
  3. Azerbaijan
  4. Bahrain
  5. Cyprus
  6. Georgia
  7. Iran
  8. Iraq
  9. Israel
  10. Jordan
  11. Kazakhstan
  12. Kuwait
  13. Kyrgyzstan
  14. Lebanon
  15. Oman
  16. Qatar
  17. Saudi Arabia
  18. Syria
  19. Tajikistan
  20. Turkey
  21. Turkmenistan
  22. United Arab Emirates
  23. Uzbekistan
  24. Yemen

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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.

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Central Asia 5

  1. Kazakhstan Capital: Astana, named Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022. Almaty, the largest city, was the capital until 1997. The world's largest landlocked country.
  2. Kyrgyzstan Capital: Bishkek, close to the northern border with Kazakhstan. It lies in the Tian Shan and Pamir ranges. Formerly called Kirghizia.
  3. Tajikistan Capital: Dushanbe. Only Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor separates it from Pakistan.
  4. Turkmenistan Capital: Ashgabat. Has the fewest people of Central Asia's five republics.
  5. Uzbekistan Capital: Tashkent. One of just two doubly landlocked countries on Earth. Liechtenstein is the other. The most populous country of Central Asia.

Southern Asia 2

  1. 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.
  2. Iran Capital: Tehran. Known in history as Persia. The UN files Iran under Southern Asia; units on Southwest Asia and the Middle East include it.

Western Asia 17

  1. Armenia Capital: Yerevan, the largest city. It has no coast and lies in the Armenian highlands of the Caucasus.
  2. Azerbaijan Capital: Baku, the largest city. Part of the South Caucasus, where Western Asia meets Eastern Europe.
  3. Bahrain Capital: Manama. An archipelago of 33 natural islands. The King Fahd Causeway joins it to Saudi Arabia.
  4. Cyprus Capital: Nicosia. The Mediterranean's third-largest island. The UN files Cyprus under Western Asia, and it is a member of the European Union.
  5. Georgia Capital: Tbilisi, home to over a third of the people. In the Caucasus, where Eastern Europe meets Western Asia; the UN files it under Western Asia.
  6. Iraq Capital: Baghdad. Known in history as Mesopotamia. About 438,000 square kilometers.
  7. Israel Its west coast is on the Mediterranean. Its southern tip reaches the Red Sea. Asked by name only: this dataset gives it no capital.
  8. Jordan Capital: Amman, the largest city. Its only coast is a short one on the Red Sea, at the Gulf of Aqaba.
  9. Kuwait Capital: Kuwait City, where most of the people live. About 500 kilometers of coast at the head of the Persian Gulf.
  10. Lebanon Capital: Beirut. About 10,452 square kilometers. Cyprus lies a short distance off its coast.
  11. Oman Capital: Muscat. Its exclave of Musandam sits on the Strait of Hormuz. The United Arab Emirates cuts the exclave off.
  12. Qatar Capital: Doha, home to over 80% of the people. Its only land border is with Saudi Arabia.
  13. Saudi Arabia Capital: Riyadh. The fifth-largest country in Asia. About 2.15 million square kilometers.
  14. Syria Capital: Damascus, the largest city. About 185,000 square kilometers, in 14 governorates.
  15. Turkey Capital: Ankara. Most of the country is Anatolia, in Asia. A smaller part, East Thrace, is in Europe. Officially the Republic of Türkiye.
  16. United Arab Emirates Capital: Abu Dhabi. A federation of seven emirates. It lies at the Arabian Peninsula's eastern end.
  17. Yemen Capital: Sana'a. The second-largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. It has about 2,000 kilometers of coast. The Socotra islands belong to it.

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 Southwest and Central Asia map quiz asks 24 countries on one blank map, from Turkey and Yemen across to Kazakhstan and Afghanistan. Find it names a country to tap. Name it lights one to type or pick.

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The 24 countries, and where the list comes from

Two United Nations regions supply most of it. Western Asia, also called Southwest Asia, gives 17: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Central Asia gives 5: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Iran and Afghanistan are filed under Southern Asia but sit in the middle of this map, so both are asked.

Seven rings, and a button for each region

Armenia, Bahrain, Cyprus, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon and Qatar are hard to hit at this scale, so a numbered ring marks each. The regions under Start from use the United Nations names: Western Asia (17), Central Asia (5) and Southern Asia, which here holds only Iran and Afghanistan. Egypt, Russia, Pakistan and India are background.

  • Start at the Caspian Sea. Four of the 24 share its shore: Azerbaijan west, Iran south, Turkmenistan east, Kazakhstan northeast.
  • Kazakhstan, across the top, is the world's largest landlocked country. Below it, only Uzbekistan touches the other four republics.
  • Three Persian Gulf rings: Kuwait at the head, Bahrain off the Saudi coast, Qatar on the short peninsula beside it.

Questions and answers

Is Southwest Asia the same as the Middle East?

Not quite. Southwest Asia is another name for Western Asia. The Middle East usually means that region without the Caucasus and with Egypt, so Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are asked here and Egypt is not. The Middle East capitals quiz makes the opposite choice.

Why are Iran and Afghanistan on this map?

The United Nations places both in Southern Asia. Most other definitions of Southwest Asia include Iran, and Afghanistan is the country most often added to Central Asia. Both are asked here and on the South Asia countries quiz.

Does the quiz accept Türkiye for Turkey?

Yes. In 2022 the country's government asked the United Nations to use Türkiye in English, and the United Nations agreed. The quiz prints Turkey and counts Turkiye as correct, with or without the dots over the u.

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