Louisiana parishes quiz

The 64 parishes in the quiz

They’re the 64 parishes of Louisiana, as counted by the US Census Bureau. The state capital, Baton Rouge, is in East Baton Rouge Parish.

How to play

In Point mode we name a parish 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 parishes are the hardest, since they barely show on the map: Orleans (170 sq mi), West Baton Rouge (192 sq mi), and St. John the Baptist (214 sq mi). Zoom in with the buttons or two fingers to tap them.

And watch out for look-alike names: Bienville and Iberville; East Baton Rouge and West Baton Rouge; East Carroll and West Carroll; East Feliciana and West Feliciana; Jefferson and Jefferson Davis.

Tips to learn them

• The 10 parishes bordering Mississippi trace that border on the map: Concordia, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Madison, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Washington, and West Feliciana.
• Only 11 of the 64 parishes have a coastline: find them first along the edge of the map.
• East Baton Rouge is the most populous (456,180 people in 2025) and, together with Jefferson and Orleans, is home to 27% of Louisiana’s people.

Playing in class

If you teach in Louisiana, start with your school’s parish 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 64 parishes

1. Acadia pop. 57,032
2. Allen pop. 22,672
3. Ascension pop. 135,105
4. Assumption pop. 19,720
5. Avoyelles pop. 37,941
6. Beauregard pop. 36,673
7. Bienville pop. 12,269
8. Bossier pop. 131,867
9. Caddo pop. 224,226
10. Calcasieu pop. 208,466
11. Caldwell pop. 9,344
12. Cameron pop. 4,718
13. Catahoula pop. 8,223
14. Claiborne pop. 13,354
15. Concordia pop. 17,836
16. De Soto pop. 27,381
17. East Baton Rouge pop. 456,180
18. East Carroll pop. 6,760
19. East Feliciana pop. 18,911
20. Evangeline pop. 31,980
21. Franklin pop. 19,002
22. Grant pop. 22,075
23. Iberia pop. 66,846
24. Iberville pop. 29,579
25. Jackson pop. 15,834
26. Jefferson pop. 431,398
27. Jefferson Davis pop. 31,471
28. Lafayette pop. 257,949
29. Lafourche pop. 95,505
30. LaSalle pop. 15,154
31. Lincoln pop. 48,360
32. Livingston pop. 155,036
33. Madison pop. 8,844
34. Morehouse pop. 23,705
35. Natchitoches pop. 36,089
36. Orleans pop. 362,154
37. Ouachita pop. 158,542
38. Plaquemines pop. 22,256
39. Pointe Coupee pop. 19,520
40. Rapides pop. 125,877
41. Red River pop. 7,165
42. Richland pop. 19,582
43. Sabine pop. 21,834
44. St. Bernard pop. 45,642
45. St. Charles pop. 50,586
46. St. Helena pop. 10,758
47. St. James pop. 18,938
48. St. John the Baptist pop. 39,875
49. St. Landry pop. 80,765
50. St. Martin pop. 51,106
51. St. Mary pop. 46,552
52. St. Tammany pop. 279,108
53. Tangipahoa pop. 141,346
54. Tensas pop. 3,700
55. Terrebonne pop. 104,163
56. Union pop. 20,561
57. Vermilion pop. 57,671
58. Vernon pop. 45,091
59. Washington pop. 44,937
60. Webster pop. 34,948
61. West Baton Rouge pop. 28,756
62. West Carroll pop. 9,156
63. West Feliciana pop. 15,134
64. Winn pop. 14,961