101 Simple Geography Quiz Questions And Answers For Kids

Is your kid a Nate Seltzer fan? Whether your child wants to explore or is just curious to learn more about the world, geography quiz is an interesting way to improve their topographical knowledge. This will not only help in expanding their knowledge horizons but also boost their academic performance.

In this post, MomJunction shares a list of 101 geography questions, which can be helpful in improving the geographical knowledge of your kids.

101 Geography Quiz Questions And Answers For Kids

Basic Geography Quiz For Classes 1, 2 & 3

This section consists of basic geography questions for kids who are at the elementary stage of learning.

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1. In which American city is the Golden Gate Bridge located?
   Answer: San Francisco

2. What is the capital of Thailand?
   Answer: Bangkok

3. Cairo is the capital of which country?
   Answer: Egypt

4. What is the capital of England?
   Answer: London

5. What is the capital city of Canada?
   Answer: Ottawa

6. What is the capital of Mexico?
   Answer: Mexico City

7. Madagascar is surrounded by which ocean?
   Answer: Indian Ocean

8. Which country is the second biggest in the world?
   Answer: Canada

9. What is the capital city of Spain?
   Answer: Madrid

10. What is the capital of Morocco?
    Answer: Rabat

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11. Mount Everest lies in which mountain range?
    Answer: The Himalayas

12. Which is the largest country in the world?
    Answer: Russia

13. The US consists of how many states?
    Answer: 50

14. What is the name of the great park in New York City?
    Answer: Central Park

15. Which country has the largest population in the world?
    Answer: China

16. What do the letters ‘D’ and ‘C’ stand for in the capital city Washington D.C.?
    Answer: District of Columbia

17. Which is the largest lake in the world?
    Answer: Caspian Sea

18. On which island is the Statue of Liberty located?
    Answer: Liberty Island

19. Which is the longest river in Africa?
    Answer: Nile

20. Kabul is the capital city of which country?
    Answer: Afghanistan

Easy Geography Questions for classes 4, 5 & 6

Children in these classes begin to explore a lot more than usual, as they start stepping out more often. They are curious to learn a lot more so here we have listed some easy geography questions suitable for kids in upper primary classes.

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21. Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia and south of Asia?
    Answer: Indian Ocean

22. What is the color of the motorways on road maps of the UK?
    Answer: Blue

23. Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata are metropolitan cities in which country?
    Answer: India

24. Europe and Africa are separated by which sea?
    Answer: The Mediterranean

25. Liverpool lies on which river?
    Answer: The Mersey

26. Which desert covers much of northern Africa?
    Answer: The Sahara

27. Which Italian city is famous for its canals?
    Answer: Venice

28. In which country does the River Nile meet the sea?
    Answer: Egypt

29. What is the largest country in Scandinavia?
    Answer: Sweden

30. What are the names of the five oceans?
    Answer: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern

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31. What is the hottest continent on Earth?
    Answer: Africa

32. Which two continents does Russia belong to?
    Answer: Europe and Asia

33. Where is the biggest railway station in the world?
    Answer: New York City (Grand Central Terminal)

34. Dublin is the largest city in which country?
    Answer: Ireland

35. Istanbul is a large city in which country?
    Answer: Turkey

36. What is a nickname for New York City?
    Answer: The Big Apple

37. Where place receives the world’s highest annual average rainfall?
    Answer: Hawaii

38. What country calls itself Nippon?
    Answer: Japan

39. Which large river flows through London?
    Answer: Thames

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40. How many bridges are there in Venice, Italy?
    Answer: 400

41. What is the capital of Ethiopia?
    Answer: Addis Ababa

42.  What is Europe’s largest port?
    Answer: Port of Rotterdam

43. Which river flows through Paris?
    Answer: River Seine

44. What’s the world’s biggest port?
    Answer: Port of Shanghai

45. Luxembourg City is the capital of which country?
    Answer: Luxembourg

Fun Geography quiz for classes 7 & 8

In this fun geography quiz for children, are some interesting and peculiar questions covering minor geographical details of the world.

46. How many time zones does India span?
    Answer: Two

47. Which American state has the fewest counties?
    Answer: Delaware

48. Which is the longest river in Ethiopia?
    Answer: The Blue Nile

49. What natural wonder of the world is named after aviator Jimmy Angel?
    Answer: Angel Falls

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50. How long is the Brooklyn Bridge?
    Answer: 1,834 metres

51. What country was known as Rhodesia?
    Answer: Zimbabwe

52. Which Scottish loch with a length of about 24 miles, is reputed to contain a monster?
    Answer: Loch Ness

53. Where was the greatest difference between annual high and low temperatures recorded?
    Answer: Russia

54. Which state in the US was once called Deseret?
    Answer: Utah

55. Which island country lies off China, Korea, and Russia?
    Answer: Japan

56. Where is the Tonle Sap located?
    Answer: Cambodia

57. What is the largest steel arch bridge in the world?
    Answer: Sydney Harbor Bridge

58. What is Turkey’s highest mountain?
    Answer: Mount Ararat

59. What is the main tributary of the Ganges River in India?
    Answer: Yamuna

60. Which countries share the longest border in the world?
    Answer: USA and Canada

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61. Which is the largest volcano in the world?
    Answer: The Mount Lao

62. Which country is the most populated in Europe?
    Answer: Germany

63. In which country are the holy cities of Mecca and Medina located?
    Answer: Saudi Arabia

64. What is the line of latitude that runs around the center of the world called?
    Answer: The Equator

65. What is the world’s second highest mountain after Everest in Asia?
    Answer: K2

66. Which Irish city is the second largest in the Republic of Ireland?
    Answer: Cork

67. Which country has four letters, the last one q?
    Answer: Iraq

68. In which ocean is the Maldives located?
    Answer: Indian Ocean

69. In which ocean is Fiji?
    Answer: Pacific

70. Which river flows through Glasgow?
    Answer: Clyde

Hard Geography quiz for classes 9 & 10

Here are some hard geography questions for kids who are in senior classes and preparing for any competitive exams.

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71. Which river rises in Peru, has no bridge crossing it and enters the sea in Brazil?
    Answer: The Amazon

72. What letter do cars from Germany have on them when traveling abroad to show what country they come from?
    Answer: D

73. In which country is the Eyjafjallajökull volcano located, whose eruption in 2010 has affected air flights?
    Answer: Iceland

74. In which US city would you find Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx?
    Answer: New York

75. Which trains travel to Europe from St Pancras Station?
    Answer: Eurostar

76. What boat is highly associated with the canals?
    Answer: Barges

77. In which national park are Windermere, Coniston Water, and Ullswater found?
    Answer: The Lake District

78. Which state/territory of Australia is an island?
    Answer: Tasmania

79. What is the largest of the Channel Islands?
    Answer: Jersey

80. Which is the only bascule bridge in London, whose road can be raised from either side to allow ships to pass through?
    Answer: Tower Bridge

81. What are the only two countries to have a land border with the US?
    Answer: Canada and Mexico

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82.  Mount Kilimanjaro is located in which continent?
    Answer: Africa

83. What river flows through the Grand Canyon?
    Answer: Colorado

84. How many countries surround the Czech Republic?
    Answer: Four — Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Austria

85. In which country would you find the Taj Mahal?
    Answer: India

86. Where did people in the mountains of Austria keep their farm animals?
    Answer: Basements

87. What are horizontal and vertical imaginary lines around the earth called?
    Answer: Latitudes and Longitudes

88. Which country shares the same peninsula as Spain?
    Answer: Portugal

89. The United Kingdom consists of England, Scotland, Wales, and which other region?
    Answer: Northern Ireland

90. What is Ben Nevis?
    Answer: It’s a Scottish mountain and the tallest in Great Britain

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91. Which country is called the Land of Rising Sun?
    Answer: Japan

92. What is the only country through which both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn pass?
    Answer: Brazil

93. What was the name of the supercontinent of 200 million years ago?
    Answer: Pangaea

94. Which state did the US purchase from Russia?
    Answer: Alaska

95. In which country is the Yellow River, also known as Huang He, located?
    Answer: China

96. Is Australia in the northern or the southern hemisphere?
    Answer: Southern

97. What is the capital city of Slovenia, formerly part of the state of Yugoslavia?
    Answer: Ljubljana

98. Which country is nicknamed ‘The Cockpit of Europe’ because of the number of battles throughout history fought on its soil?
    Answer: Belgium

99. Which country has Montevideo as its capital city?
    Answer: Uruguay

100. Apart from Dutch and French, what is the other official language of Belgium?
     Answer: German

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101. Where is the world’s longest sea crossing?
     Answer: Hong Kong to Macau, China (55km)

Solving a world geography quiz is an easy way of instantly learning many unknown facts about this world, in which we live. Geography is a vast subject and with rapid climate change, the world is changing its shape very fast. Hence, learning about the world requires thorough reading and developing a passion for it.

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