Italy regions quiz

The 20 regions in the quiz

Italy has 20 regions: 20 in the quiz. Use the Capitals button in the panel to find their capitals instead.

How to play

In Point mode we name a region 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 regions are the hardest, since they barely show on the map: Aosta Valley (about 1,300 sq mi), Molise (about 1,700 sq mi), and Liguria (about 2,100 sq mi). Zoom in with the buttons or two fingers to tap them.

Tips to learn them

• Start with the three largest: Sicily, Piedmont, and Sardinia cover 25% of the area of Italy.
• The 4 regions bordering Switzerland trace that border on the map: Aosta Valley, Lombardy, Piedmont, and Trentino-South Tyrol.
• 5 of the 20 have no coastline: Aosta Valley, Lombardy, Piedmont, Trentino-South Tyrol, and Umbria.
• Sardinia and Sicily have no land border with any other region on the map: look for them at sea.

Playing in class

If you teach in Italy, start with your school’s region and its neighbors and add a few each day. Otherwise, it’s a good way to get to know the country 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 20 regions

1. Abruzzo L’Aquila
2. Aosta Valley Aosta
3. Apulia Bari
4. Basilicata Potenza
5. Calabria Catanzaro
6. Campania Naples
7. Emilia-Romagna Bologna
8. Friuli Venezia Giulia Trieste
9. Lazio Rome
10. Liguria Genoa
11. Lombardy Milan
12. Marche Ancona
13. Molise Campobasso
14. Piedmont Turin
15. Sardinia Cagliari
16. Sicily Palermo
17. Trentino-South Tyrol Trento
18. Tuscany Florence
19. Umbria Perugia
20. Veneto Venice