World Geography Trivia

Archipelagos and Island Chains

Some countries are scattered across thousands of islands. From the Galápagos to the Aleutians, the Azores to the Andamans — can you place the world's great island chains?

Difficulty:
medium
Questions:
12

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Questions in this quiz

Q1. The Galápagos Islands, which helped inspire Darwin's theory of evolution, belong to which country?

  • • Peru
  • • Colombia
  • • Chile
  • • Ecuador

Q2. Which island nation between Sicily and North Africa is the smallest member state of the European Union?

  • • Cyprus
  • • Malta
  • • Monaco
  • • San Marino

Q3. The Aleutian Islands stretch west into the Pacific from which US state?

  • • Alaska
  • • Hawaii
  • • Washington
  • • Oregon

Q4. The Azores are an autonomous region of which country?

  • • Spain
  • • Morocco
  • • Italy
  • • Portugal

Q5. Which Indian Ocean nation is made up of roughly 1,200 coral islands grouped into 26 atolls?

  • • Seychelles
  • • Mauritius
  • • Maldives
  • • Comoros

Q6. The Hebrides lie off the west coast of which country?

  • • Ireland
  • • Norway
  • • Iceland
  • • Scotland

Q7. The Åland Islands, an autonomous, Swedish-speaking archipelago in the Baltic Sea, belong to which country?

  • • Sweden
  • • Estonia
  • • Finland
  • • Denmark

Q8. The Balearic Islands, including Mallorca and Ibiza, belong to which country?

  • • France
  • • Italy
  • • Spain
  • • Greece

Q9. The Cyclades and the Dodecanese are island groups belonging to which country?

  • • Turkey
  • • Greece
  • • Italy
  • • Cyprus

Q10. Which island country lies about 570 km off West Africa and consists of ten volcanic islands?

  • • Cape Verde
  • • São Tomé and Príncipe
  • • Canary Islands
  • • Madeira

Q11. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a territory of which country?

  • • Indonesia
  • • Thailand
  • • Myanmar
  • • India

Q12. The Lofoten Islands, famous for their dramatic peaks above the Arctic Circle, lie off which country?

  • • Iceland
  • • Norway
  • • Scotland
  • • Greenland