160 free Geography Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Geography trivia for kids should build the map in their heads: how many continents there are, which ocean is biggest, where the longest river runs and why Australia gets to be both a country and a continent. These 160 questions start with the facts every kid should know and work up to record-breakers like the deepest lake and the driest desert. The set covers continents and oceans, the world's longest, tallest, largest and lowest places, famous landmarks like the Grand Canyon and the Great Wall, and a handful of country facts from Russia's eleven time zones to Indonesia's 17,000 islands. Every answer is checked against a cited source and each explanation adds one more fact. Use it for a classroom warm-up, a geography bee practice round or a family quiz night. Play a round now and see how much of the world you know.
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Q 01How many continents do most English-speaking countries say there are?
Seven
Some countries teach six, joining two of them together or counting the Americas as one.
Q 02Which is the largest continent?
Asia
It is home to about 60 percent of all the people on Earth.
Q 03Which is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth?
The Pacific
It covers nearly a third of the whole planet, more than all the land put together.
Q 04What is the deepest known point in any ocean?
The Challenger Deep
It lies in the Mariana Trench and goes down about 10,928 metres, deeper than Everest is tall.
Q 05Which river is usually called the longest in the world?
The Nile
It runs about 7,088 kilometres through northeast Africa, though other rivers carry far more water.
Q 06Which river carries more water than any other on Earth?
The Amazon
It pours out more water than the next seven biggest rivers combined.
Q 07What is the largest hot desert in the world?
The Sahara
Only the two icy polar deserts are bigger.
Q 08Which continent is the coldest, driest and windiest of all?
Antarctica
Temperatures there have dropped as low as minus 90 degrees Celsius.
Q 09What is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level?
Mount Everest
A 2020 survey put its height at 8,848.86 metres, and it sits on the border of Nepal and China.
Q 10Which country is the largest in the world by area?
Russia
It shares land borders with fourteen countries and reaches across two continents.
Q 11What is the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
It covers only 44 hectares, about the size of a big park, and fewer than 900 people live there.
Q 12Which country has more people than any other?
India
It passed China in 2023 with more than 1.4 billion residents.
Q 13What is the largest island in the world?
Greenland
Australia is bigger, but it is counted as a continent rather than an island.
Q 14What is the capital city of Australia?
Q 21Angel Falls, the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world, is in which country?
Venezuela
It plunges 979 metres, more than 15 times the height of Niagara Falls.
Q 22What is the largest lake in the world, even though it is called a sea?
The Caspian Sea
Its water is slightly salty, which is one reason people argue about whether it is a lake or a sea.
Q 23Which body of water in Siberia is the deepest in the world?
Lake Baikal
It goes down 1,642 metres and holds about a fifth of all the fresh surface water on Earth.
Canberra
It was purpose-built as a compromise between rival cities Sydney and Melbourne and named in 1913.
Q 15Which country is the second-largest in the world by area?
Canada
It also has the longest coastline of any country, touching three different oceans.
Q 16The shore of which body of water is the lowest land on Earth, more than 430 metres below sea level?
The Dead Sea
Its water is so salty that swimmers float on top like corks.
Q 17What is the name of the world's largest coral formation, found off Queensland?
The Great Barrier Reef
It is made up of more than 2,900 separate reefs and 900 islands stretching over 2,300 kilometres.
Q 18The Grand Canyon in Arizona was carved out over millions of years by which waterway?
The Colorado River
Nearly two billion years of rock layers are exposed in its walls.
Q 19What is the highest mountain in Africa?
Mount Kilimanjaro
It rises 5,895 metres and is the tallest free-standing mountain in the world, not part of any range.
Q 20Which mountain range is the longest on land, running down the western side of South America?
The Andes
It forms a continuous highland along the whole western edge of the continent.
Q 24The Panama Canal lets ships take a shortcut between which two oceans?
Atlantic and Pacific
Without it, ships had to sail all the way around the stormy southern tip of South America.
Q 25Roughly how long are all the sections of the Great Wall of China put together?
About 21,000 km
A survey found 10,051 separate wall sections plus thousands of towers and forts.
Q 26What is the imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude that divides Earth into northern and southern halves?
The Equator
It runs about 40,075 kilometres around the middle of the planet.
Q 27The prime meridian, the starting line for measuring east and west, runs through which London district?
Greenwich
Twenty-two countries voted to make it the world standard at a conference in 1884.
Q 28Which country is made up of about 17,000 islands, more than any other?
Indonesia
Its islands include Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi and parts of Borneo and New Guinea.
Q 29How many fully recognised countries are there in Africa?
54
That is more than any other continent.
Q 30Which is the largest US state by area?
Alaska
It is bigger than Texas, California and Montana combined.