Nebraska counties quiz

The 93 counties in the quiz

They’re the 93 counties of Nebraska, as counted by the US Census Bureau. The state capital, Lincoln, is in Lancaster 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: Sarpy (238 sq mi), Dakota (264 sq mi), and Douglas (327 sq mi). Zoom in with the buttons or two fingers to tap them.

Tips to learn them

• Custer has the most neighbors: it borders 9 counties. Once you place it, you have a landmark for many more.
• Douglas is the most populous (606,460 people in 2025) and, together with Lancaster and Sarpy, is home to 57% of Nebraska’s people.

Playing in class

If you teach in Nebraska, 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 93 counties

1. Adams pop. 31,071
2. Antelope pop. 6,352
3. Arthur pop. 396
4. Banner pop. 686
5. Blaine pop. 458
6. Boone pop. 5,355
7. Box Butte pop. 10,494
8. Boyd pop. 1,674
9. Brown pop. 2,826
10. Buffalo pop. 51,172
11. Burt pop. 6,678
12. Butler pop. 8,507
13. Cass pop. 27,657
14. Cedar pop. 8,373
15. Chase pop. 3,718
16. Cherry pop. 5,561
17. Cheyenne pop. 9,528
18. Clay pop. 6,170
19. Colfax pop. 10,934
20. Cuming pop. 8,823
21. Custer pop. 10,500
22. Dakota pop. 21,687
23. Dawes pop. 7,858
24. Dawson pop. 24,452
25. Deuel pop. 1,862
26. Dixon pop. 5,602
27. Dodge pop. 38,057
28. Douglas pop. 606,460
29. Dundy pop. 1,568
30. Fillmore pop. 5,458
31. Franklin pop. 2,795
32. Frontier pop. 2,655
33. Furnas pop. 4,524
34. Gage pop. 21,711
35. Garden pop. 1,804
36. Garfield pop. 1,710
37. Gosper pop. 1,803
38. Grant pop. 561
39. Greeley pop. 2,154
40. Hall pop. 63,633
41. Hamilton pop. 9,678
42. Harlan pop. 3,000
43. Hayes pop. 821
44. Hitchcock pop. 2,467
45. Holt pop. 10,067
46. Hooker pop. 686
47. Howard pop. 6,538
48. Jefferson pop. 7,070
49. Johnson pop. 5,218
50. Kearney pop. 6,790
51. Keith pop. 8,100
52. Keya Paha pop. 792
53. Kimball pop. 3,391
54. Knox pop. 8,335
55. Lancaster pop. 334,049
56. Lincoln pop. 33,303
57. Logan pop. 669
58. Loup pop. 570
59. Madison pop. 36,106
60. McPherson pop. 369
61. Merrick pop. 7,905
62. Morrill pop. 4,404
63. Nance pop. 3,290
64. Nemaha pop. 7,102
65. Nuckolls pop. 4,100
66. Otoe pop. 16,531
67. Pawnee pop. 2,510
68. Perkins pop. 2,849
69. Phelps pop. 8,994
70. Pierce pop. 7,378
71. Platte pop. 35,649
72. Polk pop. 5,270
73. Red Willow pop. 10,307
74. Richardson pop. 7,530
75. Rock pop. 1,259
76. Saline pop. 14,996
77. Sarpy pop. 208,303
78. Saunders pop. 23,702
79. Scotts Bluff pop. 35,586
80. Seward pop. 18,032
81. Sheridan pop. 4,809
82. Sherman pop. 2,924
83. Sioux pop. 1,188
84. Stanton pop. 5,744
85. Thayer pop. 4,842
86. Thomas pop. 639
87. Thurston pop. 6,752
88. Valley pop. 4,094
89. Washington pop. 21,302
90. Wayne pop. 10,020
91. Webster pop. 3,336
92. Wheeler pop. 789
93. York pop. 14,564