Knovli Atlas — learn the world, one country at a time

Seven ways to play

Each mode asks about a different kind of knowledge, which is why there are seven rather than one with a settings screen.

Map Hunt

Find a named country on the world map. The mode that actually teaches where things are.

Flag Match

Whose flag is this? Four options, drawn from nearby countries rather than at random, so the answer is never the obviously odd one out.

Capital Clash

Name the capital. Same four-option shape, same near-neighbour distractors.

Border Blitz

Six countries are shown; pick every one that borders the country in question. Scoring is all-or-nothing, because naming three of four neighbours is not knowing who borders a country.

World Sprint

Sixty seconds of flags and capitals, back to back. The two fastest modes, with the timer turned up.

Atlas Maze

Get from one country to another by naming a chain of countries that touch. Geography as a route-finding problem.

Where in the World?

A mystery country, narrowed down by the yes/no questions you choose to ask. Asking well is the skill; the best possible round takes about eight questions.

Mastery you have to earn twice

A country only counts as mastered once you have got it right in two different modes. Knowing where Chile is and knowing its flag are two different pieces of knowledge, and the two-mode rule is what stops the map being coloured in by clicking Russia repeatedly.

World Sprint answers file under the mode they actually tested — a flag question is a flag question whether or not there was a timer — so speed cannot be used to claim mastery twice over.

The hub shows your world mastery as a percentage and colours the map by it, so the thing you are working on and the continent you have been avoiding are both visible at a glance.

Drill into a country

Tap any country for its card: flag, capital, region, population, currency and languages, plus where your mastery of it stands and what to do next.

Some countries go deeper. The United States breaks into its states with the same modes over the new map, and the whole thing renames itself around wherever you are — the map does not assume you are looking at it from any particular country.

A place can also carry quick facts (when a county was formed, its county seat, population and area), a short history drawn from Wikipedia and credited to it, and a Learn more list of links — the official site, local historical societies and museums — for going further than the card.

Atlas in a classroom

A teacher can assign Atlas straight from the hub: choose the classes, a region or collection, which modes count towards it, a target percentage and a due date. Each class gets its own assignment, and completion is recorded the first time a student hits the target.

Class progress on the hub lists how far each student has got, so a region set on Monday can be checked on Friday without asking anybody to send a screenshot.