North America Map Quiz: Name All the Countries of North America
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Rules & what counts
Countries of North America Quiz — Rules & What Counts
Quick — how many countries are in North America? Most people guess three and forget the other twenty. This quiz counts 23, because North America runs from Canada all the way through Central America and across the entire Caribbean.
The continent splits into three memory zones: the big three up top, seven countries in Central America, and thirteen island nations in the Caribbean. That last zone is where perfect runs die — the Lesser Antilles hide a string of small island states that even geography buffs blur together.
How to play
Type any of the 23 countries in any order to light them up on the map.
Caribbean microstates are rendered as circles so each island nation stays findable.
Lenient spelling, and shorthand works — St. Lucia is accepted for Saint Lucia, and USA for the United States.
Count-up timer; give up anytime to reveal the stragglers.
What counts in this quiz
23 sovereign states: 3 in the north (Canada, the United States, Mexico), 7 in Central America, and 13 in the Caribbean.
Central America is part of North America in this quiz — there is no separate Central America group.
Caribbean islands count only when they're independent states — 13 of them are.
What's not included — and why
Greenland — an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, not a sovereign state, despite being the world's largest island.
Puerto Rico — a US territory whose residents are US citizens; it isn't an independent country.
The non-sovereign Caribbean — places like Aruba and Curaçao (Kingdom of the Netherlands), the Cayman Islands (UK), and Martinique (France) are territories, not countries.
Good to know
Saint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest sovereign state in the Americas, by both area and population.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share one island, Hispaniola, yet differ in language, currency, and colonial history.
Belize is the only Central American country with English as its official language — a legacy of its time as British Honduras.
Canada has the longest coastline of any country on Earth.