Greece map quiz
Can you find all 13 Greek regions?
Quizzes in this pack
Greece: regions, capitals, cities, islands.
| Regions | 13 questions |
| Capitals | 13 questions |
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Islands | 24 questions |
Sample questions
- Mountainous inland region in the northwest, Greece's coldest area
- Answer: Western Macedonia
- Most populous region after Attica, home to Thessaloniki
- Answer: Central Macedonia
- Central plains region, home to the Meteora monasteries and Mount Olympus
- Answer: Thessaly
- Most populous region, home to Athens and the Acropolis
- Answer: Attica
- Western coastal region, includes Patras, Greece's third-largest city
- Answer: Western Greece
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Western Macedonia
North-west Greece
Western Macedonia is a mountainous region and the only one in Greece without a coastline. Kastoria sits on a peninsula in Lake Orestiada, with dozens of Byzantine churches, and it grew rich on the fur trade.
- Known for
- Kastoria, the lake, mountains
Thessaly
Central Greece
Thessaly has the largest plain of Greece, its breadbasket, ringed by mountains. At Meteora, monks built monasteries in the 1300s on top of huge sandstone pillars; for centuries the only way up was a rope ladder or a net pulled by winch.
- Known for
- Meteora, the plain, Pelion
Western Greece
Western Greece
Western Greece has Patras and Ancient Olympia, where the Olympic Games began and where the Olympic flame is still lit. The Rio–Antirrio Bridge, opened in 2004, crosses the Gulf of Corinth on piers built to stand earthquakes, and it is one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world.
- Known for
- Olympia, the Rio–Antirrio Bridge, Patras
Kozani
Western Macedonia
Kozani is a mountain town in north-western Greece. The lignite mines and power stations around it long made it the centre of Greek electricity, its old mansions recall rich fur and wool traders, and the purple fields of nearby Krokos give Greece its saffron.
- Known for
- Saffron, lignite, the Fanos carnival bonfires
Larissa
Thessaly, on the Pineios
Larissa lies on the great plain of Thessaly, the breadbasket of Greece, with Mount Olympus to the north. People have lived here for about 8,000 years, and in the middle of the city lies an ancient theatre from the 200s BC, found under the streets and dug out again. The doctor Hippocrates is said to have died here.
- Known for
- The ancient theatre, the plain, Hippocrates
Patras
Western Greece, on the Gulf of Patras
Patras, the third-largest city in Greece after Athens and Thessaloniki, is a port on the northern edge of the Peloponnese with ferries to Italy. Just east of the city, the Rio-Antirrio Bridge, opened in 2004, crosses the strait to the mainland on tall cable towers, and the Patras Carnival is the largest in Greece.
- Known for
- The carnival, the Rio-Antirrio Bridge, St Andrew's Church
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%.
