Mississippi counties quiz

The 82 counties in the quiz

They’re the 82 counties of Mississippi, as counted by the US Census Bureau. The state capital, Jackson, is in Hinds 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: Alcorn (400 sq mi), Walthall (404 sq mi), and Tate (405 sq mi). Zoom in with the buttons or two fingers to tap them.

And watch out for look-alike names: Jefferson and Jefferson Davis.

Tips to learn them

• The 12 counties bordering Louisiana trace that border on the map: Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Hancock, Issaquena, Jefferson, Marion, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall, Warren, and Wilkinson.
• Only 3 of the 82 counties have a coastline: find them first along the edge of the map.
• Harrison is the most populous (217,136 people in 2025) and, together with Hinds and DeSoto, is home to 21% of Mississippi’s people.

Playing in class

If you teach in Mississippi, 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 82 counties

1. Adams pop. 30,061
2. Alcorn pop. 34,569
3. Amite pop. 12,487
4. Attala pop. 17,100
5. Benton pop. 7,502
6. Bolivar pop. 28,262
7. Calhoun pop. 12,643
8. Carroll pop. 9,226
9. Chickasaw pop. 16,730
10. Choctaw pop. 8,048
11. Claiborne pop. 8,058
12. Clarke pop. 15,102
13. Clay pop. 18,238
14. Coahoma pop. 19,849
15. Copiah pop. 27,497
16. Covington pop. 17,898
17. DeSoto pop. 197,918
18. Forrest pop. 79,034
19. Franklin pop. 7,491
20. George pop. 26,331
21. Greene pop. 13,707
22. Grenada pop. 20,868
23. Hancock pop. 46,873
24. Harrison pop. 217,136
25. Hinds pop. 211,888
26. Holmes pop. 15,465
27. Humphreys pop. 7,001
28. Issaquena pop. 1,263
29. Itawamba pop. 24,152
30. Jackson pop. 147,666
31. Jasper pop. 15,785
32. Jefferson pop. 6,825
33. Jefferson Davis pop. 10,941
34. Jones pop. 66,496
35. Kemper pop. 8,600
36. Lafayette pop. 59,597
37. Lamar pop. 67,403
38. Lauderdale pop. 70,317
39. Lawrence pop. 11,819
40. Leake pop. 21,662
41. Lee pop. 83,731
42. Leflore pop. 25,686
43. Lincoln pop. 35,012
44. Lowndes pop. 57,346
45. Madison pop. 116,298
46. Marion pop. 24,001
47. Marshall pop. 34,654
48. Monroe pop. 33,318
49. Montgomery pop. 9,354
50. Neshoba pop. 28,732
51. Newton pop. 20,960
52. Noxubee pop. 9,798
53. Oktibbeha pop. 51,896
54. Panola pop. 32,691
55. Pearl River pop. 59,363
56. Perry pop. 11,577
57. Pike pop. 38,712
58. Pontotoc pop. 32,096
59. Prentiss pop. 25,284
60. Quitman pop. 5,364
61. Rankin pop. 162,181
62. Scott pop. 28,073
63. Sharkey pop. 3,097
64. Simpson pop. 25,498
65. Smith pop. 13,991
66. Stone pop. 19,654
67. Sunflower pop. 22,893
68. Tallahatchie pop. 10,877
69. Tate pop. 28,725
70. Tippah pop. 21,389
71. Tishomingo pop. 18,639
72. Tunica pop. 8,819
73. Union pop. 28,459
74. Walthall pop. 13,928
75. Warren pop. 41,759
76. Washington pop. 40,446
77. Wayne pop. 19,807
78. Webster pop. 10,167
79. Wilkinson pop. 7,582
80. Winston pop. 17,473
81. Yalobusha pop. 12,375
82. Yazoo pop. 22,947