A world-capitals quiz — your length, your difficulty
Three modes, five to thirty questions, time-tracked. Country shapes live from maproll.io. No signup, no ads, free forever.
Play CapitalPanda~200 countries
From Andorra to Zimbabwe — every UN-recognized state is in the pool.
3 difficulty modes
Easy is 4 choices, Medium is 6, Hard is free-text.
5–30 questions per round
Pick the length that fits the moment.
Per-question time tracking
See how long each answer took and your round average at the end.
WHAT IT IS
Rounds your length
Pick 5, 10, 20, or 30 questions. Best score and total time stick across visits.
Three difficulty modes
What's the capital of France? Easy gives you four choices. Medium gives you six (across all ~200 countries). Hard makes you type "Paris".
No signup, no ads, free forever
Runs in the browser. Nothing to install, no account, no tracking.
The three modes in detail
Easy
43 famous countries. Four buttons. The answer is one of them — your job is to spot it.
Distractors come from the same continent as the country, so guesses stay plausible and you learn neighborhoods, not just capitals.
Medium
All ~200 countries. Six buttons instead of four. The pool is wider and the choices are harder to eliminate.
Still same-continent distractors. Press 1 through 6 on the keyboard if you don't want to reach for the mouse.
Hard
No choices. Just a text box that says "start typing".
As you type, capitals that match appear. Press Up/Down to pick one, or finish typing and hit Enter — Bogotá and "bogota" both count, and so does "La Paz" for Bolivia.
How a round plays
1. Set it up
Pick a difficulty, pick a length. Both stick for next time.
2. See the country
Country highlighted in orange on the world map, name overlaid on the map and in the prompt. The map switches to a dark theme if your system does.
3. Answer
Click a choice in Easy or Medium, or type in Hard. The feedback panel tells you whether you got it right and how long you took.
4. See the round summary
At the end: your score, your best so far on this difficulty, your total answering time, and your average per question.
Smart matching in Hard mode
Forgiving spelling
Case and accents don't matter. "bogota" works for Bogotá. "sao tome" works for São Tomé. Trailing spaces are ignored.
Multiple correct answers
Where countries genuinely have more than one capital — Bolivia (Sucre and La Paz), South Africa (Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein) — every accepted form counts as correct.
Why it exists
CapitalPanda is built by the same indie maker as maproll.io. The country shapes come live from maproll's public API. Both projects exist to show what one person can ship, end to end, without a team or a stack.
Built for everyone
Works on any modern browser
Including phones and tablets. The layout collapses to a single column on small screens. No app store, no install.
Fully keyboard-navigable
Tab + Enter cycles every control. Arrow keys move between difficulty and length buttons. 1–6 picks an answer. Up/Down navigate Hard-mode suggestions. Space advances the feedback screen.
Light or dark, auto
Both the page chrome and the world map follow your operating-system color scheme. No toggle to find.
Country name always shown in text
The map is a visual aid, not the only signal. Screen readers get the country name from the prompt, and the overlay on the map is hidden from assistive tech to avoid double-announcement.
No tracking, no ads, no signup
Best score and play count are kept in your browser only. Nothing leaves the device.
Frequently asked
Do I need an account?
No. Your best score and total play count live in your browser only, under one localStorage key.
Does it work on phones?
Yes. The map sits on top of the answers on small screens, and the touch targets are sized for fingers.
What happens if my internet drops?
The quiz UI keeps working, but country shapes come from api.maproll.io so new maps need a connection. Already-seen maps load from your browser cache instantly.
Where does the country data come from?
A hand-curated static snapshot of REST Countries (~200 entries, tier-labelled famous / medium / obscure). Shapes are rendered live by maproll.io.
Is there a leaderboard?
No. The comparison that matters is you against you-from-last-week, and that's what the per-difficulty best score is for.
What about Sucre vs. La Paz?
Hard mode accepts either. Easy and Medium pick one as the displayed answer and treat the other as a wrong choice — see Smart Matching above.