125 Geography Trivia Questions for Kids
January 23, 2025
Studying geography is a great way for kids to get to know the world around us. And studying geography means more than just getting to know mountains, rivers, and countries. It also involves the things that human beings do on the land: the cultures we create, the things we build, and the lives we lead. These 125 geography trivia questions for kids are hand-crafted to help your children remember what they’ve learned in school while encountering fun new information. Use these questions to create a fun quiz, play a game, or just take a break with your kiddos to learn something new.
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125 Geography Trivia Questions for Kids
1) What’s the world’s longest river?
Answer: The Nile
2) What’s the world’s largest country, by physical size?
Answer: Russia. It takes up 11% of the earth’s total landmass!
3) What’s the most populated country on earth?
Answer: With more than 1.43 billion people, India is the most populated country!
4) What’s the tallest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest
5) What’s the largest volcano in the world, by both mass and volume?
Answer: Mauna Loa, which is so large, it covers more than half of the island of Hawai’i!
6) What’s the most populated city in the United States?
Answer: With more than 8.8 million people in the city, New York City is the most populated city in the United States.
7) What American state is in the shape of a peninsula?
Answer: Florida
8) Which volcano exploded in 79 AD and destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii?
Answer: Mount Vesuvius
9) What modern-day Italian city is now next to Mount Vesuvius?
Answer: Naples
10) How long, in miles, is the Great Wall of China?
Answer: 13,171 miles
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11) The famous Golden Gate Bridge is located in which U.S. city?
Answer: San Francisco
12) The longest bridge in the world is 102 miles long, and it’s called the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge. In which country is it located?
Answer: China
13) The Supai Village, part of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, is a town located at the base of which canyon in the United States? Hint: it’s the only town in the lower 48 states where mail is still delivered by pack mule!
Answer: The Grand Canyon
14) The Grand Canyon, while huge, is not the deepest canyon in the world. The Yarlung Tsanpo Grand Canyon is actually two miles deeper. In which country is it located?
Answer: Tibet
15) What natural disaster happens when hot magma rises to the earth’s surface through cracks, usually where tectonic plates separate or collide, creating an eruption of lava that flows on the earth’s surface?
Answer: A volcanic eruption
16) What natural disaster happens when a tectonic plate moves suddenly along a fault line, creating seismic waves that shake the earth?
Answer: An earthquake
17) What is the northernmost country on Earth?
Answer: Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark (for now, at least!).
18) Which is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica?
Answer: Chile
19) What is the world’s largest desert?
Answer: The Antarctic Polar Desert, which is simply the whole continent of Antarctica. It covers more than 5.5 million square miles!
20) Ok, that last one might have been a trick question. But a desert can be either hot or cold, so long as they receive 10 inches or fewer of precipitation every year. What is the largest hot desert in the world?
Answer: The Sahara
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21) Sahara is a word derived from the Arabic language. What does it mean? Hint: saying “Sahara desert” is technically redundant!
Answer: Sahara means “desert”
22) What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
23) There are fourteen states on the East Coast of the United States. How many of the fourteen can you name?
Answer: In order from north to south: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
24) Excluding Alaska and Hawaii, how many of the three west coast states can you name?
Answer: In order from north to south: Washington, Oregon, and California
25) The imaginary line that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres is called what?
Answer: The equator
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26) Intersecting with the equator, the lines that run north to south and divide the earth into east and west are called what kind of lines?
Answer: Meridian or longitude lines
27) Which river is longer: the Missouri or the Mississippi?
Answer: The Missouri is 2,341 miles long and the Mississippi is 2,340 miles long. The Missouri River is the longest in the United States!
28) These 10 provinces—Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan—make up which country?
Answer: Canada
29) Mount Denali is the tallest mountain in the United States. In which state is it located?
Answer: Alaska
30) Denali is the tallest and located in Alaska. What’s the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states (not including Alaska and Hawaii)?
Answer: Mount Whitney
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31) In which state is Mount Whitney located?
Answer: California
32) How many counties are in the state of Iowa?
Answer: 99
33) The Mississippi River runs through 10 states. How many of them can you name?
Answer: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana
34) Where is Silicon Valley located?
Answer: California, south of San Francisco
35) What is Silicon Valley known for?
Answer: Technology, digital innovation, start-ups, etc.
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36) What is the population of the United States?
Answer: 340 million people
37) What’s the population of Great Britain?
Answer: 68 million people
38) What’s the population of Nigeria?
Answer: 228 million people
39) Which country has the larger population, Australia or New Zealand?
Answer: Australia has a population of 26.64 million people. New Zealand has a population of 5.2 million people. Australia has the larger population!
40) How many people live in Russia?
Answer: 144 million people
Geography Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
41) How many countries are on the continent of Africa?
Answer: There are 54 countries in Africa today.
42) What’s the northernmost country in Africa?
Answer: Tunisia (officially: The Republic of Tunisia)
43) Lampedusa is a tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea that is closer to Africa than the country to which the island actually belongs. Which country controls Lampedusa?
Answer: Italy
44) The countries Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Western Sahara all serve to make up which part of Africa?
Answer: Northern Africa
45) The southernmost country in Africa is called what?
Answer: South Africa
46) What are the top five most populated countries in the world?
Answer: India, China, the United States, Indonesia, and Pakistan, in order of largest to smallest
47) Where are the Great Pyramids of Giza located?
Answer: Egypt
48) How many lakes are there in Canada?
Answer: Canada has nearly 2 million lakes!
49) Peafowl (better known by the term for the male of the species, peacocks, but which also includes the females or peahens) are native to which continent?
Answer: Asia
50) How many countries make up the United Kingdom?
Answer: Four countries
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51) Which countries make up the United Kingdom?
Answer: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
52) Northern Ireland shares an island with another country that is not part of the United Kingdom but is instead part of the European Union. What country is it?
Answer: The Republic of Ireland
53) In which country—Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland—is Dublin located?
Answer: Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland
54) What is the capital of the United Kingdom?
Answer: London
55) What’s the most populated city in the European Union?
Answer: Berlin, with a population of 3.78 million people
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56) After Berlin, what are the next top four most populated cities in the European Union?
Answer:
Madrid, Spain
Rome, Italy
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria
57) As of 2024, roughly how many people have been forced to or chosen to leave their homes as a result of displacement and migration?
Answer: About 50 million people
58) What is the least populated country in the world?
Answer: Vatican City
59) Vatican City is the sovereign nation where the pope of the Catholic Church resides. It’s actually contained within another country. Which country is Vatican City contained within?
Answer: Italy, more specifically, in the city of Rome
60) And what is the population of Vatican City?
Answer: 764
Geography Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
61) The Canadian flag is red and white and features a single leaf. What kind of leaf is it?
Answer: A maple leaf
62) What are the colors of the Mexican flag?
Answer: Green, white, and red
63) What image is in the center of the Mexican flag?
Answer: The Mexican coat of arms, which features an eagle on a cactus eating a snake
64) The design of the Mexican coat of arms—the eagle on the cactus devouring the snake—comes from a legend that an ancient group of people used to know where to build their city. From which people does this legend derive?
Answer: The Aztec people
65) What great ancient city did the Aztecs build?
Answer: Tenochtitlan
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66) The site of Tenochtitlan is now within which modern city?
Answer: Mexico City
67) How many independent countries make up South America?
Answer: Twelve countries
68) What are the twelve countries that make up South America?
Answer: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela
69) Which is the largest country in South America?
Answer: Brazil, with an area of 3.2 million square miles
70) Brazil is also one of the largest countries in the world. Which number is Brazil on the list of largest countries in the world?
Answer: Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world
Geography Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
71) What’s the capital of Brazil?
Answer: Brasília
72) How many countries make up Central America?
Answer: Seven countries
73) What are the seven countries in Central America?
Answer: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama
74) In which country is Machu Picchu located?
Answer: Peru
75) Machu Picchu is most commonly associated with which ancient empire?
Answer: The Incan empire
76) Where is Stonehenge?
Answer: Wiltshire, England
77) The Galapagos Islands are a part of which country?
Answer: The Republic of Ecuador
78) Which famous historical naturalist and geologist conducted research in the Galapagos Islands?
Answer: Charles Darwin
79) The Galapagos Islands derive their name from which animal that was once much more commonly found in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: Giant tortoises
80) What’s the most watched sporting event in the world?
Answer: The World Cup
Geography Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
81) What’s the most popular sport in the world?
Answer: With more than 3.5 billion fans (and as many as 5 billion), soccer is the most popular sport in the world.
82) How many islands does Canada have?
Answer: Canada has a whopping 52,455 islands!
83) How many islands does Japan have?
Answer: 120,729 islands
84) How many islands does Sweden have?
Answer: 267,570 islands
85) How many islands does the United States have?
Answer: 18,617 islands
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86) What’s the most popular food in Europe?
Answer: Pizza!
87) What’s the most popular food in the United States?
Answer: Hamburgers
88) In which state do people eat the most hamburgers?
Answer: Oregon
89) How many burgers do we eat in the United States every year?
Answer: About 20 billion burgers!
90) Where is the fastest train in the world?
Answer: The fastest train in the world is the Shanghai Maglev Train.
Geography Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
91) How fast can the Shanghai Maglev Train travel?
Answer: 268 miles per hour
92) Which country has the fastest growing population in the world?
Answer: South Sudan
93) Which country has the slowest growing population in the world?
Answer: The Cook Islands
94) Which country is generally regarded as the safest in the world?
Answer: Iceland
95) What’s the southernmost country in South America?
Answer: Chile
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96) What’s the northernmost county in South America?
Answer: The northernmost point in South America belongs to Colombia
97) What country shares the southern border with the United States?
Answer: Mexico
98) The Panama Canal connects which two waterways?
Answer: The Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean
99) Moussaka, souvlaki, and magiritsa are all national dishes of which country?
Answer: Greece
100) Greece shares its borders with which countries?
Answer: Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey
Geography Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
101) Russia shares its borders with how many countries?
Answer: Fourteen
102) How many of those fourteen countries can you name?
Answer: Poland, Lithuania, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea.
103) The demilitarized zone (DMZ) that intersects with the 38th parallel separates which two Asian countries?
Answer: North and South Korea
104) The People’s Republic of China shares its borders with how many countries?
Answer: China is tied with Russia for the most in the world: fourteen countries!
105) How many of those countries can you name?
Answer: North Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam
106) What is the capital of the United States?
Answer: Washington, D.C.
107) Washington, D.C. is located between which two states?
Answer: Maryland and Virginia
108) Which states come together at the Four Corners in the southwestern United States?
Answer: Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico
109) Which states sit along America’s border with Canada?
Answer: Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
110) What’s the northernmost point in the continental United States and in which state is it located?
Answer: The Northwest Angle in Minnesota
Geography Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
111) What’s the southernmost point in the continental United States and in which state is it located?
Answer: Cape Sable in Florida
112) In which city is the Liberty Bell kept?
Answer: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
113) Which large waterfall does the United States share with Canada?
Answer: Niagara Falls
114) The United States has five permanent territories—they’re not states, but they’re still a part of the country. How many of them can you name?
Answer: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
115) Can people who live in Washington, D.C. vote for the president of the United States?
Answer: Yes
Questions (Continued)
116) Do the U.S. territories get votes in the electoral college when the country votes for the president?
Answer: But U.S. citizens living in the territories can vote if they are citizens of one of the 50 states.
117) When is the presidential election day in the United States?
Answer: The Tuesday after the first Monday in November
118) When is inauguration day (when the new president is sworn into office) in the United States typically held?
Answer: January 20
119) What ocean is on the eastern side of the United States?
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean
120) What ocean is on the western side of the United States?
Answer: The Pacific Ocean
Geography Trivia Questions for Kids (Continued)
121) What’s the sea located to the southeast of the United States?
Answer: The Caribbean Sea
122) What’s the name of the gulf that the Mississippi River flows into?
Answer: The Gulf of Mexico
123) Which American states surround the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida
124) What are the closest Caribbean Islands to the United States?
Answer: Bimini Island in The Bahamas
125) What’s the closest American city to The Bahamas?
Answer: Miami, Florida is just 50 miles away
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