South America Map Quiz: Name All the Countries of South America

Twelve countries — the shortest list of any continent quiz on TRIVI.GG, and the one most players can genuinely finish. That makes it the perfect warm-up before attempting Africa's 54 or the full world map.

Don't relax completely, though. Nearly everyone lands the giants, then hesitates in the northeast corner: Guyana and Suriname are the two most-missed answers, and the third territory up there isn't a country at all — see below.

How to play

• Type all 12 countries in any order; the map fills in as you go.
• Spelling is forgiving, and official names work too — Argentine Republic finds Argentina.
• The timer counts up, and you can give up to reveal any you missed.

What counts in this quiz

• All 12 sovereign states of South America: nine Spanish-speaking countries plus Portuguese-speaking Brazil, English-speaking Guyana, and Dutch-speaking Suriname.
• Only the mainland continent and its sovereign states — no territories, no Caribbean overlap.

What's not included — and why

• French Guiana — the third territory in the northeast corner is an overseas department of France, legally part of France itself, so it's not an answer.
• Trinidad and Tobago — grouped with the Caribbean under North America in this quiz, despite lying only a few miles off Venezuela's coast.
• The Falkland Islands — a British Overseas Territory claimed by Argentina, not a sovereign state.

Good to know

• Brazil shares a land border with 9 of the other 11 countries — everyone except Chile and Ecuador.
• Bolivia and Paraguay are the continent's only landlocked countries; Bolivia lost its coastline to Chile in the War of the Pacific (1879-1884).
• Chile stretches about 4,300 kilometers north to south — the longest north-south country in the world — while averaging just 177 kilometers wide.