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155 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 155 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
Seven: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Some countries teach six by joining Europe and Asia or counting the Americas as one.
Q 02Which is the largest continent?
Asia
Asia is the largest continent, covering about 44.6 million square kilometres and home to roughly 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
The Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, reaches about 10,920 metres below sea level, deeper than Mount 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
The Sahara covers about 9 million square kilometres of North Africa, making it the largest hot desert; only the icy polar deserts of Antarctica and the Arctic 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
Mount Everest, on the border of Nepal and China, is the highest mountain above sea level; a 2020 survey put its summit at 8,848.86 metres.
Q 10Which country is the largest in the world by area?
Russia
Russia is the largest country, covering about 17.1 million square kilometres across Europe and Asia, and it shares land borders with fourteen countries.
Q 11What is the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
Vatican City is the smallest sovereign state by both area and population, about the size of a big park.
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
Greenland, at about 2.17 million square kilometres, is the largest island; Australia is bigger but 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
Angel Falls is in Venezuela, in Canaima National Park; 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
The Caspian Sea, at about 371,000 square kilometres, is the largest lake on Earth; its slightly salty water is one reason people argue over whether it is a lake or a sea.
Q 23Which lake is the deepest in the world?
Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake, reaching 1,642 metres, and holds about a fifth of all the fresh surface water on Earth.
Canberra
Canberra was 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
The Great Barrier Reef, off Queensland, Australia, is made up of more than 2,900 separate reefs and about 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
The Colorado River cut the Grand Canyon over millions of years, exposing rock layers nearly two billion years old in its walls.
Q 19What is the highest mountain in Africa?
Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro is not part of any range, which makes it the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world.
Q 20Which mountain range is the longest on land?
The Andes
The Andes form a continuous highland along the whole western edge of South America, the longest continental mountain range in the world.
Q 24The Panama Canal lets ships take a shortcut between which two oceans?
Atlantic and Pacific
The Panama Canal, opened in 1914, links the Atlantic and Pacific; before it, ships had to sail 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 2012 Chinese survey measured every section of the Great Wall at about 21,000 kilometres (21,196 km), counting 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
The Equator is the 0-degree latitude line splitting Earth into northern and southern hemispheres; 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
The prime meridian passes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich; twenty-two countries voted to make it the world standard at the 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington.
Q 28How many fully recognised countries are there in Africa?
54
Africa has 54 fully recognised countries, all United Nations members, from Algeria to Zimbabwe, more than any other continent.
Q 29Which is the largest US state by area?
Alaska
It is bigger than Texas, California and Montana combined.
Q 30How many Great Lakes are there along the northern border of the United States?
Five
They are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario, and their first letters spell HOMES.