Kansas counties quiz

The 105 counties in the quiz

They’re the 105 counties of Kansas, as counted by the US Census Bureau. The state capital, Topeka, is in Shawnee 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: Wyandotte (152 sq mi), Geary (385 sq mi), and Doniphan (393 sq mi). Zoom in with the buttons or two fingers to tap them.

And watch out for look-alike names: Morton and Norton.

Tips to learn them

• Johnson is the most populous (636,906 people in 2025) and, together with Sedgwick and Shawnee, is home to 45% of Kansas’s people.

Playing in class

If you teach in Kansas, 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 105 counties

1. Allen pop. 12,302
2. Anderson pop. 8,018
3. Atchison pop. 16,172
4. Barber pop. 4,083
5. Barton pop. 24,790
6. Bourbon pop. 14,319
7. Brown pop. 9,104
8. Butler pop. 69,484
9. Chase pop. 2,572
10. Chautauqua pop. 3,321
11. Cherokee pop. 19,105
12. Cheyenne pop. 2,604
13. Clark pop. 1,900
14. Clay pop. 7,990
15. Cloud pop. 8,833
16. Coffey pop. 8,467
17. Comanche pop. 1,673
18. Cowley pop. 34,382
19. Crawford pop. 39,008
20. Decatur pop. 2,716
21. Dickinson pop. 18,637
22. Doniphan pop. 7,594
23. Douglas pop. 120,920
24. Edwards pop. 2,640
25. Elk pop. 2,458
26. Ellis pop. 29,075
27. Ellsworth pop. 6,257
28. Finney pop. 37,505
29. Ford pop. 33,993
30. Franklin pop. 26,299
31. Geary pop. 36,338
32. Gove pop. 2,631
33. Graham pop. 2,371
34. Grant pop. 7,028
35. Gray pop. 5,652
36. Greeley pop. 1,182
37. Greenwood pop. 5,826
38. Hamilton pop. 2,500
39. Harper pop. 5,370
40. Harvey pop. 33,580
41. Haskell pop. 3,599
42. Hodgeman pop. 1,619
43. Jackson pop. 13,438
44. Jefferson pop. 18,296
45. Jewell pop. 2,830
46. Johnson pop. 636,906
47. Kearny pop. 3,888
48. Kingman pop. 7,029
49. Kiowa pop. 2,432
50. Labette pop. 19,685
51. Lane pop. 1,508
52. Leavenworth pop. 84,590
53. Lincoln pop. 2,861
54. Linn pop. 9,950
55. Logan pop. 2,661
56. Lyon pop. 32,266
57. Marion pop. 11,634
58. Marshall pop. 9,852
59. McPherson pop. 30,064
60. Meade pop. 3,852
61. Miami pop. 36,240
62. Mitchell pop. 5,590
63. Montgomery pop. 30,177
64. Morris pop. 5,348
65. Morton pop. 2,470
66. Nemaha pop. 10,054
67. Neosho pop. 15,637
68. Ness pop. 2,617
69. Norton pop. 5,288
70. Osage pop. 15,693
71. Osborne pop. 3,285
72. Ottawa pop. 5,744
73. Pawnee pop. 5,991
74. Phillips pop. 4,728
75. Pottawatomie pop. 27,186
76. Pratt pop. 9,117
77. Rawlins pop. 2,431
78. Reno pop. 61,539
79. Republic pop. 4,640
80. Rice pop. 9,266
81. Riley pop. 72,598
82. Rooks pop. 4,646
83. Rush pop. 2,845
84. Russell pop. 6,581
85. Saline pop. 53,377
86. Scott pop. 4,815
87. Sedgwick pop. 538,433
88. Seward pop. 21,073
89. Shawnee pop. 178,607
90. Sheridan pop. 2,427
91. Sherman pop. 5,763
92. Smith pop. 3,566
93. Stafford pop. 4,005
94. Stanton pop. 1,986
95. Stevens pop. 4,984
96. Sumner pop. 22,312
97. Thomas pop. 7,725
98. Trego pop. 2,740
99. Wabaunsee pop. 7,018
100. Wallace pop. 1,441
101. Washington pop. 5,533
102. Wichita pop. 2,031
103. Wilson pop. 8,299
104. Woodson pop. 3,118
105. Wyandotte pop. 170,597