Western Africa Map Quiz

Pff this is one of the parts im struggling with ( or better yet didnt practize and memorise like i did with europe and south America) well lets see what we can make of it :D the rest of africa im not too bad with.

Not bad at all! I only put guinea bisseau on the other side of guinea and thought togo was benin. Im pleased with that :)

edit, well no edit but more add-it haha, didnt want to make a new comment.. but wanted to say these sectioned maps really helps with learning. Small pieces at a time instead of everything. Works great. I think if i do i one more time in a week or two (so twice in total) i would allready know them. If i would do africa as a whole it wont take 4 times longer (assuming this is roughly a quarter) but like 10 times longer (so revising the entire map 20 times)

Togo and Benin are the two that usually give me trouble, but lately I've remembered that Togo is smaller in area than Benin, just like Togo is one letter shorter than Benin.

First of all, I love your handle, vermiciousknid. Second... think of a "togo stick" (pogo stick) to remember it's long and skinny.

Go To Bed. That's my lame memory aid for remembering Ghana, Togo, Benin.

If it's the last thing you do on a day, then yes, that command makes sense. But do finish the quiz first. ;)

@Stewart: I find the hardest countries to learn the position of are the Caribbean nations (the Lesser Antilles anyway), and the Pacific Islands as a close second. Not so easy there to get their position in relation to other countries, or to recognize them from their form. On mainland nations, it's like they're on a grid, and they're hooked onto each other. Islands are literally swimming in the open sea, with nothing to hook on to. Just think about "Random guess the country on an empty map". Without reference, the islands are almost impossible to get.

I just remember benin is next to nigeria.

Benin is closer to Nigeria, and I get scam e-mails from both often, that's how I originally remembered.

Thank you for this quiz! I also struggle the most with this part of Africa. I still need to learn where exactly Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia are. And now I know that Togo is west of Benin and not the other way around.

5/5 in 27 seconds. Not bad for an Indian.

5/5 in 34 seconds. Not bad for an American.

5/5 in 23 seconds. Not bad for a human.

5/5? Isn't it out of 16 points?

5/5 points in 34 seconds

Nice quiz, although there are virtually no elephants in Western Africa! African elephants are endemic to the centre and south of the continent.

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I got everything right except guinea.......

beat it in 1 min and 6 sec. not bad for a person who had to look at a map to guess