Where in China?
A photograph of a place in China, a map, and a pin to drop. You recognise the site, or you work it out from the landscape, the architecture, the vegetation — then the game shows you where it is and how close you got. A GeoGuessr-style geography game about China: 5 rounds, 241 photographs in reserve.
Click the map, or move the pin with the arrow keys.
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The place: , .
Your score: 0 out of 25000
This game needs JavaScript to show the photographs and measure your answers. The map of China can be browsed on its own: the clickable map of the provinces leads to a page for each of them.
How it works
Each round shows a photograph of a place in China — a listed site, a mountain range, a district, a monument. You drop a pin: the game measures the straight-line distance between it and the place, then turns that into points. Five thousand at most, and you still score around four thousand three hundred at fifty kilometres from the mark, about two thousand eight hundred at two hundred — the width of a province — and a handful from the far side of the country.
So the game does not ask where the photographer was standing, but where this place is. That is a question you can reason about: the relief, the vegetation, the shape of the roofs, the writing on a sign, the light all say something, and a regular player recognises more and more sites.
The photographs come from the Chine Informations picture library, from the Xinhua news agency and from official Chinese sources; each one is credited under the image. The coordinates of the places are those published by Wikidata, checked one by one. The map is drawn from Natural Earth outlines, which are in the public domain: this game calls no outside service, and nothing you play is recorded anywhere.
The game asks you to look at a photograph and aim at a point on a map: it cannot be played without sight. The pin can, however, be moved with the arrow keys and confirmed with Enter. The other games in this section are more accessible — see all the games.