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US States Quiz

Tap or click each state it names on the blank map, or name the state that lights up.

US States Quiz

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Write the name of each numbered state.Answer key

  1. Washington
  2. Montana
  3. North Dakota
  4. Minnesota
  5. Wisconsin
  6. Michigan
  7. New York
  8. Vermont
  9. Maine
  10. New Hampshire
  11. Massachusetts
  12. Rhode Island
  13. Connecticut
  14. New Jersey
  15. Delaware
  16. Maryland
  17. Oregon
  18. Idaho
  19. Wyoming
  20. South Dakota
  21. Nebraska
  22. Iowa
  23. Illinois
  24. Indiana
  25. Ohio
  26. Pennsylvania
  27. California
  28. Nevada
  29. Utah
  30. Colorado
  31. Kansas
  32. Missouri
  33. Kentucky
  34. West Virginia
  35. Virginia
  36. Arizona
  37. New Mexico
  38. Oklahoma
  39. Arkansas
  40. Tennessee
  41. North Carolina
  42. South Carolina
  43. Texas
  44. Louisiana
  45. Mississippi
  46. Alabama
  47. Georgia
  48. Florida
  49. Alaska
  50. Hawaii

Drawn for this site from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023. Licence: public domain.

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

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Northeast 9

  1. New York Capital: Albany. 11th state, ratified the Constitution July 26, 1788.
  2. Vermont Capital: Montpelier. 14th state, admitted March 4, 1791.
  3. Maine Capital: Augusta. 23rd state, admitted March 15, 1820.
  4. New Hampshire Capital: Concord. 9th state, ratified the Constitution June 21, 1788.
  5. Massachusetts Capital: Boston. 6th state, ratified the Constitution February 6, 1788.
  6. Rhode Island Capital: Providence. 13th state, ratified the Constitution May 29, 1790.
  7. Connecticut Capital: Hartford. 5th state, ratified the Constitution January 9, 1788.
  8. New Jersey Capital: Trenton. 3rd state, ratified the Constitution December 18, 1787.
  9. Pennsylvania Capital: Harrisburg. 2nd state, ratified the Constitution December 12, 1787.

Midwest 12

  1. North Dakota Capital: Bismarck. 39th state, admitted November 2, 1889.
  2. Minnesota Capital: Saint Paul. 32nd state, admitted May 11, 1858.
  3. Wisconsin Capital: Madison. 30th state, admitted May 29, 1848.
  4. Michigan Capital: Lansing. 26th state, admitted January 26, 1837.
  5. South Dakota Capital: Pierre. 40th state, admitted November 2, 1889.
  6. Nebraska Capital: Lincoln. 37th state, admitted March 1, 1867.
  7. Iowa Capital: Des Moines. 29th state, admitted December 28, 1846.
  8. Illinois Capital: Springfield. 21st state, admitted December 3, 1818.
  9. Indiana Capital: Indianapolis. 19th state, admitted December 11, 1816.
  10. Ohio Capital: Columbus. 17th state, admitted March 1, 1803.
  11. Kansas Capital: Topeka. 34th state, admitted January 29, 1861.
  12. Missouri Capital: Jefferson City. 24th state, admitted August 10, 1821.

South 16

  1. Delaware Capital: Dover. 1st state, ratified the Constitution December 7, 1787.
  2. Maryland Capital: Annapolis. 7th state, ratified the Constitution April 28, 1788.
  3. Kentucky Capital: Frankfort. 15th state, admitted June 1, 1792.
  4. West Virginia Capital: Charleston. 35th state, admitted June 20, 1863.
  5. Virginia Capital: Richmond. 10th state, ratified the Constitution June 25, 1788.
  6. Oklahoma Capital: Oklahoma City. 46th state, admitted November 16, 1907.
  7. Arkansas Capital: Little Rock. 25th state, admitted June 15, 1836.
  8. Tennessee Capital: Nashville. 16th state, admitted June 1, 1796.
  9. North Carolina Capital: Raleigh. 12th state, ratified the Constitution November 21, 1789.
  10. South Carolina Capital: Columbia. 8th state, ratified the Constitution May 23, 1788.
  11. Texas Capital: Austin. 28th state, admitted December 29, 1845.
  12. Louisiana Capital: Baton Rouge. 18th state, admitted April 30, 1812.
  13. Mississippi Capital: Jackson. 20th state, admitted December 10, 1817.
  14. Alabama Capital: Montgomery. 22nd state, admitted December 14, 1819.
  15. Georgia Capital: Atlanta. 4th state, ratified the Constitution January 2, 1788.
  16. Florida Capital: Tallahassee. 27th state, admitted March 3, 1845.

West 13

  1. Washington Capital: Olympia. 42nd state, admitted November 11, 1889.
  2. Montana Capital: Helena. 41st state, admitted November 8, 1889.
  3. Oregon Capital: Salem. 33rd state, admitted February 14, 1859.
  4. Idaho Capital: Boise. 43rd state, admitted July 3, 1890.
  5. Wyoming Capital: Cheyenne. 44th state, admitted July 10, 1890.
  6. California Capital: Sacramento. 31st state, admitted September 9, 1850.
  7. Nevada Capital: Carson City. 36th state, admitted October 31, 1864.
  8. Utah Capital: Salt Lake City. 45th state, admitted January 4, 1896.
  9. Colorado Capital: Denver. 38th state, admitted August 1, 1876.
  10. Arizona Capital: Phoenix. 48th state, admitted February 14, 1912.
  11. New Mexico Capital: Santa Fe. 47th state, admitted January 6, 1912.
  12. Alaska Capital: Juneau. 49th state, admitted January 3, 1959.
  13. Hawaii Capital: Honolulu. 50th state, admitted August 21, 1959.

How this list was compiled: State list, capitals and admission dates written for this site and checked on 2026-09-18 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States. The four regions are the U.S. Census Bureau regions, https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf, checked the same day. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_state_20m (scale 1:20,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/kml/cb_2023_us_state_20m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-18. Albers equal-area conic projection. Alaska is drawn at 35 percent of the scale of the other states and, like Hawaii, moved into an inset. 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 US states quiz puts a blank outline map in front of you and asks for one state at a time. Tap or click the state the question names. Or switch to Name it and identify the state that lights up. At the end, the main button offers your misses again. The map prints blank or labeled.

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Three ways to run the quiz

Find it names a state and you tap it on the map. In Name it one state lights up and you pick its name from 4 choices or switch to Type it. Typing forgives capital letters and small slips, then shows the correct spelling. Study writes every name on the map, and tapping a state shows its capital and the date it joined the Union. If the map is new to you, start with Find it, because recognizing a name is easier than recalling one.

Work through one region at a time

The regions under Start from cut the quiz down to the West (13 states), the Midwest (12), the South (16) or the Northeast (9), and the map zooms in on that part of the country. The Northeast is the hardest part because the states are so small. Here each small state has a numbered ring set off to one side, with a line back to the state, large enough to tap with a thumb.

What happens to the states you miss

A wrong tap counts as a miss, the right state is shown, and Next moves you on. A round ends with a line such as 9 of 12, and the main button becomes Practise the 3 you missed for one round of only those states. Anything still wrong stays on your missed list. Share score copies a link to the same region and mode, with your score as the one to beat.

  • Learn the anchor states first. Washington, California, Texas, Florida, Maine and Minnesota mark the corners and edges.
  • Sort out the look-alike pairs on purpose. Vermont is wider at the top and New Hampshire is wider at the bottom. Wyoming is the plain rectangle above Colorado.
  • Press Print blank, fill the map in from memory with a pencil, then check it against the Print labelled sheet.

Questions and answers

Why are Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico not in the quiz?

The quiz covers the 50 states, and neither of those is a state. The District of Columbia is a federal district that belongs to no state, and Puerto Rico, Guam and the other island territories are not states either. If your class map shows D.C., look on the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia, numbers 16 and 35 on the printed map.

Why are Alaska and Hawaii in boxes at the bottom left?

They are insets, as on most classroom maps. Alaska lies far to the northwest of the other states and Hawaii is out in the Pacific, so a map with both in their true positions would be mostly ocean and Canada. Alaska is also drawn at 35 percent of the scale of the other states. At full scale it would be more than twice the size of Texas.

How are the four regions decided?

They are the U.S. Census Bureau regions: Northeast, Midwest, South and West. Some lines are not where people expect. Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia count as the South, as do Oklahoma and Texas, while Missouri is in the Midwest. Your teacher may use other groupings, such as New England. The regions under Start from only change which states are asked, and the full quiz always has all 50.

Can I use this as a 50 states quiz in class?

Yes. It runs in a browser with nothing to install and no sign-up, on a projector, a laptop or a phone. Print blank gives a numbered outline map with 50 answer lines, and Print labelled gives the answer key. Each region is short enough to open a lesson with: the Northeast is nine states and the Midwest twelve.

Where does the map come from?

It was drawn for this site from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file, which is in the public domain as a work of the federal government. The outlines are simplified so the page loads quickly, and small islands are left out. Michigan's two peninsulas are separate shapes that count as one state. State names, capitals and admission dates were last checked on the date at the bottom of this page.

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