Geography Map Trainer

Andrew Lavaia

About this app

Geography Map Trainer was created to help you quickly identify and recall the location of the most influential countries around the world. It uses a progressive difficulty system that helps prioritize which countries you learn first. It also has intuitive and easy to use controls that make this a great starting point for anybody wanting to learn more about the world they live in.

Does this cost anything?
No, Geography Map Trainer is completely free and has no ads of any kind. There are also no annoying registration requirements or "Rate the App" reminders.

How do the difficulty levels work?
In Geography Map Trainer, all of the difficulty levels (easy, normal, and hard) have the same timer and the same maximum number of misses. How they differ is by the number of countries included in each difficulty level.

How do you determine how influential a country is?
Geography Map Trainer ranks all countries around the world using a combination of factors that includes population, GDP per capita, and land mass. For US States, they were ranked by population only.

Why isn't XYZ country included in the app?
Geography Map Trainer is not designed to teach the location of every country around the world. Instead, it focuses on teaching you to quickly learn the location of the top 165 countries. Some countries also had to be excluded because they have too little land mass which makes them too difficult to pin point on the map (Singapore, Malta, etc).

Do you plan to add more features to the app?
Yes, Geography Map Trainer is still in development and more features will be added shortly.

Ratings and reviews

Great app. Add free! Easy to learn and memorize names and location of countries. Only 2 drawbacks: 1. The tiny countries are hard to hit on phone. Should be calibrated so if close it accepts on the truly tiny ones. 2. Scores do not update the time once a player reaches 100% so you can't track your speed to complete accurately. Otherwise a great product. I'm happy to reach 100%. Frustrated when I miss onevdue to being off a smidge after playing 140 out of 164 countries 💫

Functional and does not have ads. Also shows Kosovo as a separate country, and Myanmar with Burma in parentheses. These are wise decisions and caused me to like it. However, it has poor design choices. Clicking the confirm button can still move the map, which can cause a failed score. The map is in sections, cut off from the surrounding areas, which looks weird and loses context. The map projection also squishes some countries, like New Zealand, with some unfortunate implications in Africa.

Although It's a very useful app but there is a huge scope of improvement. Just like all the countries which are asked in quiz, some more geographical data may also be included. Locations & features of various Water bodies, Mountain ranges, Plateaus, Peninsulas etc also form an important part of all the exams. If you can implement, this will be very helpful in understanding and quickly learning geography.

What’s new

Added support for latest Android OS.

Fixed minor hit detection issues on world map.