Geography apps help you to learn about geography and have fun while doing trivia quizzes to test your knowledge. The following apps are the best out there for iPhone users.
1. World Quiz: Learn Geography
World Quiz: Learn Geography is a quiz app that tests your knowledge on countries, their names, capitals, maps, facts, and more. Quizzes come in either Easy, Normal, or Hard difficulties and can be customized to suit you and your group. There are also Compare quizzes that revolve around comparing countries to one another, which tests your knowledge further.
The app also allows you to Write a Quiz or Write a Race, which lets you tailor your quizzes to represent the areas of the world that you’re improving your knowledge on. This is great if you’re studying for a geography exam that focuses on a particular area of the world.
Download: World Quiz: Learn Geography (Free, in-app purchases available)
2. Maps of Our World
Maps of Our World is handy map app that can help teach you and test your knowledge about different geographical regions of the world. On each map, you can choose Training, Challenge, View Map, or look at the respective map’s Statistics.
Typically, the Maps are broken down into Continents. For each Map, there is a small level of customization available, allowing you to filter the maps in whichever way you need. The app is a simple aide to test your knowledge on aspects like the geographical placement of regions and the main facts about all of those areas.
Download: Maps of Our World (Free, in-app purchases available)
3. Geo Touch
Geo Touch is a jaunty game that helps you to recall the locations of cities, states, and regions on various maps of the world. When you’re on a map, you will be shown a location’s placement on the map; you’ll then be expected to recall where the location is meant to be placed. You will need to use pinching and dragging movements to play the game.
This is a great way to train your brain to store information as it’s based on active recall and spaced repetition, a well-known study method. The Geo Touch app has a very simple UI and can be a great aide for studying geography.
Download: Geo Touch (Free, in-app purchases available)
4. World Geography
While not as flashy as other quiz game apps, World Geography is packed with geography questions for you to answer, rivaling even the best online quizzes. Covering multiple continents with thousands of questions, you can filter the type of quiz you take out of the game’s database. Whether you want to improve your geography knowledge either broadly or with a focus on a particular area, the app can provide that.
World Geography also has an Encyclopedia, which can be really helpful if you just need to search up a specific term related to geography; you don’t even have to be using it for a quiz at the time.
Download: World Geography (Free, in-app purchases available)
5. World Map Challenge!
World Map Challenge! works much the same way as World Geography: you select a specific continent of the globe to take questions on, filter the region, and then the app will call out a specific country with you having to select the corresponding position on the map.
It’s not the prettiest or most fluid of apps, but it can still help you to memorize all of the countries and capitals on the globe and improve your geography knowledge. There are different game types, with Practice, Challenge, Time Trial, and even Multiplayer features available. For each type, you can change the quiz type to either Countries or Capitals.
Download: World Map Challenge! Geography (Free, in-app purchases available)
6. GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr is an online game that allows you to join with other players in a guessing game of areas around the world. The game will display the street view of a random place on Earth in Google Maps. You, and the other players, will have three guesses, and you only need to select the country you think it is, rather than specific cities or towns.
The number of guesses it took you to get it right and how fast you were determines the position you are placed. For each game you play, you are awarded XP that levels your individual player level up.
There are multiple game modes, such as Battle Royale Countries, Classic Mode, Battle Royale Distance, and more. While GeoGuessr isn’t as education-focused as the other apps featured in this article, it will still help you to train your geographic knowledge, as items in the images such as mountains could help you place where a specific image must have been taken.
Download: GeoGuessr (Free, in-app purchases available)
7. StudyGe
StudyGe is packed with content that will help you improve your geographical knowledge while having fun. To play, select either a Single Player Game or a Multiplayer Game and then select Names, Capitals, or Flags as the mode. You can track your answers to certain questions, filtered out by regions, to track your progress.
For each mode, you can select the difficulty levels, and even select the regions you want to be questioned on. It doesn’t necessarily educate you, like other apps featured on this list, but is a fun game that will test your knowledge and help you memorize the positions of countries around the globe.
Download: StudyGe (Free, in-app purchases available)
8. Geography of the World
This app has an extremely simple UI and offers quick facts about any country or continent in the world, such as the population, urbanization, dominant religion, and more. There are further statistics to read through, and the app even offers a quiz on all of the different countries.
It’s a great help for memorizing basic facts about different countries, and the quizzes help you to test your knowledge, even if they aren’t as well-populated as other apps featured in the article.
Geography of the World is packed with facts that are easily memorized, to help with your geography exams, or just general studying.
Download: Geography of the World (Free, in-app purchases available)
These Are the Best Apps for Learning Geography
If you’re studying geography, you know that it takes a lot of revision to learn what you need to. By using the apps featured throughout, you’ll be able to make revision fun, and even play multiplayer quizzes against your friends for a sense of competition while you’re doing it.
