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US Map Quiz — Click the States
The map names a state; you click it. All 50 states, one round, live score. No signup, no timer pressure — just you and the map.
Other quiz modes
- State capitals quiz — multiple choice, all 50 capitals.
- Abbreviations quiz — match two-letter codes to states.
- Northeast states only, Midwest, South, or West — practice one region at a time.
- Easiest states and hardest states — the 15 outlines you can spot on sight, and the 20 that decide your score.
How to get to 50/50
Nobody loses this quiz on Texas or Florida. Points go in two places, and they go for different reasons. In the northeastern corner the states are simply small, so the misses there are aiming errors as much as gaps in knowledge, and the fix is to learn the corner as one sequence running down the coast rather than as eight separate shapes. In the interior the states are large and easy to hit but look alike, because their borders were surveyed along parallels and meridians instead of following anything on the ground; the misses there are genuine confusions between one rectangle and the next, and the fix is to memorise the order they sit in. The two problems have separate decks: Northeast for the first, hardest states for the second.
When you want to study rather than test, keep the labeled US map open in another tab, or print a blank map and fill it in by hand.
How the quiz is scored
Each state is asked once, in a shuffled order, and the score updates as you go: correct answers over questions asked, with the running percentage beside it. A wrong click is shown immediately — the state you actually hit is named, and the state you were asked for flashes green — so a miss teaches you something instead of just costing a point. Nothing is stored: reload the page and you get a fresh shuffle with no history, no account and no leaderboard.
What to do after a bad round
Work backwards from where the misses were. New England and the Mid-Atlantic are the Northeast deck, nine states in a corner of the map. Delaware and Maryland feel like they belong there but the Census counts them as South, so they turn up in the Southern deck and in the hardest-states deck instead. The Great Lakes and the Plains are the Midwest deck, and the interior West — the block of straight-edged states around the Four Corners — is the West deck. If a round went badly everywhere, start again from the fifteen easiest states and use them as reference points rather than answers.