Germany map quiz
Can you find all 16 German states?
Quizzes in this pack
Germany: federal states, capitals, cities, mountains, waters, rivers.
| Federal States | 16 questions |
| Capitals | 16 questions |
| Cities | 9 questions |
| Mountains | 6 questions |
| Waters | 5 questions |
| Rivers | 6 questions |
Sample questions
- Southwestern state, home to Stuttgart and the Black Forest
- Answer: Baden-Württemberg
- State surrounding Berlin, known for lakes and forests
- Answer: Brandenburg
- Central state home to Frankfurt, Germany's financial capital
- Answer: Hesse
- Most populous state, home to Cologne and the Ruhr industrial region
- Answer: North Rhine-Westphalia
- Eastern state bordering Poland and Czech Republic, home to Dresden
- Answer: Saxony
Learn more
Baden-Württemberg
South-west Germany
Baden-Württemberg is the land of the Black Forest, with dark wooded hills, farms and cuckoo clocks; the Danube begins there. Karl Benz built the first car in Mannheim in 1885, and Mercedes-Benz and Porsche still have their homes in Stuttgart. In the south it reaches Lake Constance.
- Known for
- The Black Forest, cars from Stuttgart, Lake Constance
Lower Saxony
North-west Germany
Lower Saxony stretches from the North Sea and the East Frisian Islands to the Harz mountains. In late summer the heather of the Lüneburg Heath turns the land purple, and sheep keep it open. Volkswagen has its main factory in Wolfsburg, one of the largest car factories in the world.
- Known for
- The Lüneburg Heath, Volkswagen, the East Frisian Islands
Schleswig-Holstein
Northern Germany, by Denmark
Schleswig-Holstein lies between the North Sea and the Baltic, on the border with Denmark. The Kiel Canal, which crosses it, is the busiest artificial waterway in the world. Lübeck was the queen of the Hanseatic League, and its brick gate, the Holstentor from 1478, still guards its old town. Lübeck is also famous for marzipan.
- Known for
- Lübeck, the Kiel Canal, two seas
Hamburg
On the Elbe
Hamburg is Germany's second-largest city after Berlin and its biggest port, about 100 km up the Elbe from the North Sea. Its Speicherstadt, red-brick warehouses built on oak piles along canals from 1883, is the largest warehouse district of its kind in the world.
- Founded
- The 800s, as the castle Hammaburg
- Known for
- The port, the Speicherstadt, the Elbphilharmonie
- Rings a bell?
- The Beatles played hundreds of nights in Hamburg's clubs from 1960 to 1962, before they became famous
Dresden
Saxony, on the Elbe
Dresden, capital of Saxony, was known as the Florence of the Elbe for its baroque churches and palaces. Allied bombing in February 1945 destroyed most of the old city, and the domed Frauenkirche, left as a ruin for decades, was rebuilt and reopened in 2005.
- Founded
- 1206 (first mentioned)
- Known for
- The Frauenkirche, the Zwinger, porcelain
Black Forest
Southwestern Germany
The Black Forest is a range of forested mountains in Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany, along the Rhine. Dark spruce and fir forest gave it its name, and it is known for cuckoo clocks, farmhouses with huge roofs and the cherry cake named after it.
- Highest point
- Feldberg, 1,493 m
- Did you know?
- The Danube, which flows to the Black Sea, begins in the Black Forest
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
