Alabama counties quiz

The 67 counties in the quiz

They’re the 67 counties of Alabama, as counted by the US Census Bureau. The state capital, Montgomery, is in Montgomery County.

How to play

In Point mode we name a county and you tap it on the map; in Type mode one lights up and you type its name (accents don’t matter); and in Time trial you get 6 seconds per question. If you miss, we show you where it was, which way it lies and a hint drawn from the data: its size rank and its neighbors.

Each game has 10, 20 or all the questions, and at the end you can practice just the ones you missed. Your best score for each mode is saved in this browser only: neither we nor anyone else can see it, and there’s no sign-up.

The hardest ones

The smallest counties are the hardest, since they barely show on the map: Etowah (535 sq mi), Cherokee (554 sq mi), and Cleburne (560 sq mi). Zoom in with the buttons or two fingers to tap them.

Tips to learn them

• The 11 counties bordering Georgia trace that border on the map: Barbour, Chambers, Cherokee, Cleburne, DeKalb, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Lee, Randolph, and Russell.
• Only 2 of the 67 counties have a coastline: find them first along the edge of the map.
• Marengo has the most neighbors: it borders 8 counties. Once you place it, you have a landmark for many more.
• Jefferson is the most populous (665,742 people in 2025) and, together with Madison and Mobile, is home to 29% of Alabama’s people.

Playing in class

If you teach in Alabama, start with your school’s county and its neighbors and add a few each day. Otherwise, it’s a good way to get to know the state before studying it.

With the Challenge your class link, everyone gets the same questions in the same order, with no accounts or passwords, and each student sees their own score, time and streak. To practice on paper, there’s a printable worksheet of the same map with an answer key.

List of all 67 counties

1. Autauga pop. 61,920
2. Baldwin pop. 267,761
3. Barbour pop. 24,607
4. Bibb pop. 22,262
5. Blount pop. 60,156
6. Bullock pop. 9,780
7. Butler pop. 18,100
8. Calhoun pop. 115,834
9. Chambers pop. 34,253
10. Cherokee pop. 26,413
11. Chilton pop. 47,708
12. Choctaw pop. 11,904
13. Clarke pop. 22,014
14. Clay pop. 14,207
15. Cleburne pop. 15,970
16. Coffee pop. 56,953
17. Colbert pop. 59,474
18. Conecuh pop. 10,899
19. Coosa pop. 10,161
20. Covington pop. 37,947
21. Crenshaw pop. 13,175
22. Cullman pop. 94,009
23. Dale pop. 49,912
24. Dallas pop. 35,140
25. DeKalb pop. 74,085
26. Elmore pop. 91,577
27. Escambia pop. 36,665
28. Etowah pop. 103,886
29. Fayette pop. 15,872
30. Franklin pop. 32,449
31. Geneva pop. 27,554
32. Greene pop. 7,067
33. Hale pop. 15,194
34. Henry pop. 18,394
35. Houston pop. 110,318
36. Jackson pop. 54,281
37. Jefferson pop. 665,742
38. Lamar pop. 13,587
39. Lauderdale pop. 97,135
40. Lawrence pop. 33,843
41. Lee pop. 189,881
42. Limestone pop. 122,928
43. Lowndes pop. 9,359
44. Macon pop. 18,132
45. Madison pop. 433,516
46. Marengo pop. 18,311
47. Marion pop. 29,097
48. Marshall pop. 103,537
49. Mobile pop. 411,658
50. Monroe pop. 18,965
51. Montgomery pop. 225,891
52. Morgan pop. 126,483
53. Perry pop. 7,425
54. Pickens pop. 18,221
55. Pike pop. 33,688
56. Randolph pop. 23,163
57. Russell pop. 58,898
58. Shelby pop. 238,552
59. St. Clair pop. 98,206
60. Sumter pop. 11,588
61. Talladega pop. 81,603
62. Tallapoosa pop. 40,953
63. Tuscaloosa pop. 241,368
64. Walker pop. 65,140
65. Washington pop. 14,822
66. Wilcox pop. 9,666
67. Winston pop. 23,829