Country Guessing Game (Distance and Direction)

How to use the Country Guessing Game (Distance and Direction)

1. Type the name of a country and press Guess. Pick it from the list as you type.
2. You are shown the distance from your guess to the mystery country, an arrow showing which direction to head, and a colour bar that goes from cold blue to hot red as you get closer.
3. Use each clue to narrow down the answer. Stuck? Press Hint to see the region of the world, or Give up to see the answer.
4. Choose Unlimited for a new random country whenever you like, or Daily country for the same country everyone gets that day. Switch between kilometres and miles at any time.

Example

Worked example (distances between country centres, calculated with this tool’s formula)

• Mystery country France, guess Germany: About 758 km away, pointing south-west, shown as a warm colour
• Guess Japan: About 9,889 km away, pointing north-west, shown as cold blue
• Guess France: Correct, with the distance shown as 0

Limitations

• Distances are measured between the central point of each country, not between borders, so a large country such as Russia or Canada can be much closer than its centre suggests.
• The game lists 194 independent countries. Territories, disputed places and some alternative spellings are not included, so use the full common name.
• The arrow is the compass direction along the shortest route from your guess towards the mystery country.
• Country positions come from an open dataset and are approximate.
• This is an independent game and is not affiliated with any publisher or other game of a similar style.

Sources

• World countries dataset (mledoze/countries, ODbL)

Rates and rules last checked against these sources on 2026-10-08.

About this tool

The Country Guessing Game hides one of 194 countries. Type a country as a guess and you are told how far its centre is from the mystery country, which direction to head in, and how close you are, shown as a hot-to-cold colour bar. Use the clues to home in on the answer in as few guesses as possible. Play unlimited rounds, or the daily country that is the same for everyone on a given date, and switch between kilometres and miles. It is a free way to practise world geography.

Also searched for as: globle, guess the country game, geography guessing game, worldle style game, hot and cold country game, country distance game.

Country Guessing Game (Distance and Direction) is part of ToolStack Hub's Browser Games. It runs entirely in your browser, which keeps your data private and makes results instant. There is nothing to install and no account to create. There is no usage limit.

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