World Geography Basics Quiz

Before any country quiz, there's the map of the world itself: seven continents and five oceans. This is where world geography starts, and the single set that gives you the whole frame at a glance. The continents, largest to smallest by land area, are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. By population the order is different — Asia dwarfs every other continent with well over half of humanity, Africa is a distant second, and Antarctica has no permanent residents at all. The five oceans, largest to smallest, are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. The Pacific alone is bigger than every continent's land area combined and holds the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth; the Southern Ocean, ringing Antarctica, is the most recently recognised of the five. This topic ships in three modes. Type the names of all seven continents and five oceans from grouped slots; pick the answer to superlative questions — largest, smallest, deepest, most populous — in multiple choice; or match each continent to its highest summit, the famous Seven Summits, from Everest and Aconcagua down to Kilimanjaro and Kosciuszko. Click-the-map is coming once the continent outlines are drawn.