Geography quiz
Landlocked countries of Africa in 60 seconds
16 African countries never reach the sea. You have 60 seconds to name them.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 16 answers
- Limit
- 1:00
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 16
- Time limit
- 1:00
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
- Give up at any time to see what you missed.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Name every landlocked country in Africa.
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About this quiz
Ribbia counts 197 countries: the 193 members of the United Nations plus Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo and Taiwan. A country is landlocked here when it has no coastline on the open sea. 16 of them are in Africa, more than on any other continent.
- Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world.
- Lesotho is landlocked inside a single country, South Africa.
- South Sudan, a member of the United Nations since 2011, is the newest of them.
Sources
- [1]Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook, 2025 edition: Coastline (archived copy of the agency's page).
- [2]Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook, 2025 edition: Land boundaries (archived copy of the agency's page).
- [3]United Nations. Member States.
- [4]United Nations. Non-member States.
Note on the data. A country is landlocked when the Factbook's Coastline field gives 0 km. The Caspian Sea is counted as a lake, so Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are landlocked. Land borders, land boundary lengths, coastlines and highest points are those of the CIA World Factbook in its last (2025) edition, read on 3 October 2026 from the archived copies of the agency's own field pages, parsed by script and checked to be symmetric. A border through a dependency (French Guiana, Gibraltar, Greenland, Ceuta and Melilla) or one that depends on a disputed status (Kosovo, Palestine, Western Sahara, the Golan Heights) is on a doubtful list and is never asked.
Last checked October 3, 2026
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