About Countriq
Countriq is a free, independent home for geography games and practical, no-nonsense travel guides — built by people who love the world map.
What Countriq is
Countriq pairs quick daily geography games — guess the country by shape, by flag, and by capital — with reference pages that are genuinely useful: which countries share a land border, and plain-English travel eSIM guides. Everything is free, needs no account, and has no hint paywall.
Who's behind Countriq
Countriq is made by Countriq Editorial, a small independent team of geography and travel enthusiasts. We design and code the games, curate the country data, and write and maintain the travel guides ourselves. We are not a large media company and we are not backed by any quiz or travel brand.
How we make money
Countriq is free to play and read. Some outbound links — for example to eSIM providers on our travel pages — are partner (affiliate) links. If you buy through one, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.
This never changes the facts we publish or which providers we list, and we will never put game features, hints or data behind a paywall. Where a link can earn us a commission, we mark it as a partner link.
Our data and how we build the pages
We use only openly licensed, commercially usable sources, and we process them ourselves:
- Country outlines come from Natural Earth (public domain). We project and normalise each shape so it sits centred in the frame regardless of the country's real size — that's what the guessing game shows.
- Country facts (capitals, regions, land borders, population, area) come from REST Countries and the World Bank.
- Flags are from the open-source flag-icons project (MIT).
- Mobile-network lists on the eSIM pages are curated by hand from each country's main public operators.
We deliberately do not scrape proprietary databases. Pages are generated from this data at build time and served as fast, static files.
Accuracy and corrections
We work to keep everything accurate, but borders, capitals, carriers and travel details do change. If you spot something wrong or out of date, please tell us at [email protected] — corrections are genuinely welcome and we act on them.
Independent
Countriq is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to GeoGuessr, Worldle, Seterra, or any other geography game, quiz or travel brand.
Last reviewed: June 2026.