Rank
A handful of places appear on the map. Put them in order — most populated first, largest first or most densely populated first — then check how close you were.
How to play
- Look at the map. Each place is a lettered dot, so you can see where it is and what lies around it.
- Drag the places into order in the list, or move them with the arrows.
- Check. The true figures appear, with each place's real rank.
Scoring
A perfect order is worth 1,000 points. Each pair of places in the wrong order costs a share of it: with five places there are ten pairs, so one swap of two neighbours leaves 900 points. A game has several rounds, and the same place never comes back twice in a game.
Make your own game
- Places: browse from the world to a continent, a country and its divisions, and tick what you want — every country of a continent, all the counties of the United States, the districts of one region. Mix several sets freely.
- Compare by: population, area or density.
- Places per round: from 3 to 10.
- Rounds: 1, 3, 5 or 10.
Leave anything open and it is drawn at random. The draw avoids places with nearly equal figures, so the order can be worked out, and well-known places come up more often than tiny ones.
Where the figures come from
Population: estimates for 2025 from the Global Human Settlement Layer (European Commission, Joint Research Centre), counted within today’s borders. Borders and areas: OpenStreetMap. See the credits.