How to Play Which Country Is Bigger?
Choose the place with the larger area. Then watch the maps rescale to show the difference.
Make your first choice
Tap either map card, or use the left and right arrow keys. The place names are given, so you do not need to identify the outlines. Before you answer, each shape fits its own card: its display size is not a clue.
After your choice, you see the larger place, both approximate areas and their ratio. There is no timer or speed bonus. Select Next comparison when you are ready.
Choose how you want to play
- Daily atlas: ten questions in the world, US, Japan, Brazil or mainland China game. The next set starts at 00:00 UTC. Finishing counts toward your local daily streak, whatever your score.
- Five-question practice: a short round for Canada, Australia, each continent and Home vs the world. Wrong answers do not end the round, and there is no daily deadline.
- Endless: keep going until your third incorrect answer. The size gap adjusts to your recent answers. Your best score is personal, not a global ranking.
- Review: open My progress to revisit up to ten recently missed pairs from the current game. Review does not change your daily result.
Players starting the current version of the same daily game get the same questions and order. A round already in progress keeps its original set, even after midnight. When a new daily is available, choose Play today to start it, or finish your current round first.
Compare your region with a country
In Home vs the world, use the Your familiar place menu to keep one region for the round, or let the game choose a region for each question. Every pair contains one home region and one country or selected territory. The home region’s parent country is excluded.
The question is which place has more area, not whether one outline would physically fit inside the other. Choose a home-region game.
Share the question, not the answer
Send this question shares the exact two places without revealing which is larger. At the end of a fixed round, Copy result includes your score, a spoiler-free pattern and a link to the same questions in the same order. You can also open a social platform directly and add your own thoughts before posting.
Endless results invite friends to start their own endless run with three chances. Questions adapt to each player, so these are personal records, not identical head-to-head challenges. Shared scores are self-reported.
For an image, open More, then Score card. Save a card and add the playable link to your caption so people on the same device can open the game without scanning its QR code.
Can I pick up where I left off?
Yes. When browser storage is available, switching modes, changing language or refreshing keeps your progress, including the answer you just revealed. Use Start a new run when you want a fresh start; unfinished runs ask for confirmation. Progress stays in this browser, not across devices. Clearing site data or using private browsing can remove it.
What the map reveal means
We compare approximate areas calculated from map boundaries, not population. The reveal makes the filled shapes proportional to those areas. Our figures can differ from official land-area and total-area statistics. Read the map and data notes for the calculation and coverage.
Play at your own pace
No account, sound effects or paid retries are needed. Animations respect your device’s reduced-motion setting.