12 themes. Counterintuitive facts. Distance questions nobody else builds.
Most geography quizzes ask you to memorise. Ours ask you to think — about why capitals end up where they do, why maps lie about country sizes, and why the answers you'd bet money on are usually wrong.
What is the capital of Australia?
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Each theme is a standalone quiz — complete strangers to each other, sharing only that they'll make you question what you thought you knew. Start with Capitals That Confuse if you want an easy win. Start with Lost & Found if you want to be humbled.
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Play NowDidn't know Canberra was purpose-built to end a rivalry. Now I feel like I need to go there just to see the compromise 😂
The Sudan pyramids question got me. I've been confidently wrong about Egypt my whole life. Genuinely shocked.
Australia wider than the moon??? No way that's real. Looked it up. It IS real. 4,000km vs 3,474km. Wild.
7/10 today, up from 4/10 last week. The daily challenge is actually making me smarter. My wife has started playing too.
Caspian Sea is technically a lake??? I have a geography degree. I am going to say nothing.
Most geography quizzes are just capital city flashcards. You either know the answer or you don't, and either way you leave knowing nothing more than when you started. We build questions that work differently — the kind where the wrong answer is more interesting than the right one, because it tells you something about how maps distort reality, how political compromises get carved into borders, and how a country ends up with three capitals instead of one.
The distance questions are unique to LocateMyCity. We run a Haversine distance calculator on every city pair, which means we can ask things no trivia site has ever thought to ask: is London closer to New York or to Moscow? Is Dubai closer to Singapore or to London? These questions have exact, verifiable answers — and they're almost always the opposite of what your instincts say.
The daily challenge resets every midnight UTC and runs a different theme each day across our 12 categories. Play once a day, track your streak, and share your result — the emoji grid is designed to be screenshot-worthy without spoiling the answers for anyone who hasn't played yet.