Silhouettes
A country's shape appears, with no neighbouring borders and no name: type the country. As soon as the name is complete, the next silhouette appears.
How to play
Pick a region and a duration, then start. Type the country's name in English, without worrying about accents or capitals. In whole-world mode, the continent is shown as a hint. Enter skips to the next shape and shows the answer.
The timer goes from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, or no limit. Esc pauses the game: the timer stops and the question is hidden. Your best score is saved on your device for each combination of settings.
The shapes are not to scale: Russia and Luxembourg take up the same space. Microstates such as Monaco, Malta or Tuvalu, reduced to a mere dot, are not in the game. In review mode, missed countries come back in a loop when the timer ends.
Did you know?
Its boot is the most recognisable silhouette in Europe. Chile, 4,300 km long and 180 km wide on average, is not far behind.
Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa: on its silhouette, it forms a hole.
France owes its nickname to its shape, which fits inside an almost regular hexagon.
The country follows both banks of the Gambia River for more than 300 km, never more than 50 km wide.
The straight borders of Egypt, Libya and Sudan were drawn on the map in the early 20th century.
Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world: its silhouette is a string of islands.
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