Geography game
A geography game. Place cities, landmarks and fictional islands on a map, or name flags against the clock. 16 scenarios, free to play, with ads.
Most geography quizzes ask you to pick the right name from a list. We wanted one where knowing roughly where a place is counts for something, so Globdrop scores by distance: a click 5 km away is almost as good as a direct hit, and one 40 km away still earns a little.
It grew out of small map games we had made before it had a name. The first commit of the current code, on 8 May 2026, brought those prototypes in as legacy assets. The largest scenario is still the 946 municipalities of Catalonia.
16 scenarios in two families: 12 maps with 1,380 places in total, and 4 flag sets with 182 flags. Every map scenario has its own image, its own coordinate system and its own distance threshold.
| Scenario | Places | Coordinates | Zero points beyond | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipalities of Catalonia | 946 | UTM | 50 km | Hard |
| World Capitals | 193 | Miller cylindrical | 2,000 km | Medium |
| Capitals of Europe | 50 | Lambert azimuthal equal-area | 500 km | Easy |
| US States | 50 | Albers equal-area conic | 500 mi | Medium |
| World Volcanoes | 22 | Miller cylindrical | 2,000 km | Medium |
| Greatest Peaks | 23 | Miller cylindrical | 2,000 km | Hard |
| Ancient Wonders | 14 | Latitude and longitude (WGS84) | 500 km | Easy |
| Famous Skyscrapers | 10 | Miller cylindrical | 2,000 km | Easy |
| Sports Stadiums | 20 | Miller cylindrical | 2,000 km | Medium |
| Middle-earth | 16 | Linear | 100 mi | Medium |
| Westeros (Game of Thrones) | 10 | Linear | 200 mi | Easy |
| Grand Line (One Piece) | 26 | Linear | 200 mi | Medium |
Name the flag by picking from four options (Test) or by typing it, with suggestions as you type (Write).
| Scenario | Flags | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Flags of the World | 74 | Medium |
| Flags of Europe | 35 | Easy |
| Flags of Spain | 19 | Medium |
| Fun with Flags | 54 | Hard |
Difficulty is our own rating; the game doesn't define one.
points = (seconds left + 1) / 2 × precision
Precision is 100 for a click on the exact spot and falls in a straight line to 0 at the scenario's threshold: 50 km for Catalonia, up to 2,000 km for the world maps. Beyond it, or when the time runs out, the round scores 0.
points = 100 + round(seconds left / 15 × 100)
A correct answer is worth 100 points, plus a speed bonus of up to 100 more. A wrong answer scores 0.
Example: in Catalonia, you click 5 km from the town with 6 seconds left. The multiplier is (6 + 1) / 2 = 3.5, the precision is 90, and the round scores 315 points.
A map image only becomes a game once the code knows which real point each pixel stands for. Each scenario declares the coordinates of its image's corners and the projection that joins them, and the game converts clicks with the matching formula. On the maps of the real world that conversion runs backwards too: your click becomes a latitude and longitude, and the miss is measured on the globe. Catalonia and the fictional maps are measured on the image.
The maths behind them is in The mathematics of map projections.
Modes, scoring and the scenarios, step by step.
How to get closer and faster: anchors, clusters and when to click early.
<img> tag, with known corners. The game itself stays at about 19 KB of JavaScript (gzipped), and most of what you download is the map.What Globdrop doesn't do, so you can decide before you start.
A geography game that runs in your browser. In map scenarios you are given the name of a place and click where you think it is; in flag scenarios you name the flag, by picking from four options (Test) or typing the answer (Write). There are 16 scenarios: 12 maps with 1,380 locations in total, and 4 flag sets with 182 flags.
Yes. There are no purchases and no account. The game shows Google AdSense ads, which help pay for it.
No. Open globdrop.vedratic.com and play. If you want, you can install it as an app from the browser menu. A service worker keeps a copy of the files you have already loaded, so scenarios you have played before may still open without a connection, but the game is designed to be played online.
In map scenarios, each round scores (seconds left + 1) / 2 × precision. Precision goes from 100, for a click on the exact spot, down to 0 at the scenario's distance threshold. In flag scenarios, a correct answer is worth 100 points plus a speed bonus of up to 100 more: round(seconds left / 15 × 100).
The distance beyond which a click scores zero. It depends on the size of the map: 50 km for the Catalan municipalities, 500 km for the capitals of Europe, 500 miles for the US states and 2,000 km for world-scale scenarios such as world capitals or volcanoes. After each round, a line on the map shows how far off you were.
No. There are no accounts and no public rankings. At the end of a game you can share your result on WhatsApp or Facebook, copy it to paste on Instagram, or copy it as text, and challenge someone to beat it on the same scenario.
Only preferences, in your browser's localStorage: the language, the theme and the last tab you opened. Nothing is sent to us. The ads are served by Google, which may use cookies depending on the choice you make in the consent message. The details are in the privacy policy and the cookie policy.
The interface is in Catalan, Spanish, English, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese. Flag names can be typed in Catalan, Spanish or English only, and the layout doesn't switch to right-to-left for Arabic yet.
Yes. Send it through the contact form with the region or theme you have in mind and, if you know of one, a public source for the places or coordinates.
Globdrop's interface speaks six languages but its flag names only three. How normalisation, fallbacks and autocomplete behave in Chinese, Arabic and Japanese.
Fuller's Dymaxion map distorts area far less than Mercator. Why it still doesn't fit Globdrop: north-up maps, scores in km, distance on a flat image, cut faces.
Go behind the scenes of how we selected, grouped, and curated the four flag scenarios in Globdrop, from autonomous regions to special design anomalies.
What happens when you type a flag's name in Globdrop: the suggestion list, the text normalisation, and the answers it accepts and the ones it rejects.
The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth, Game of Thrones and One Piece are trademarks of their respective owners. Globdrop is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by them. The maps of these scenarios are original illustrations inspired by those works, and their place names are used for descriptive purposes only.