About MapDash
Guess the country. Daily.
What we do
To build a daily geography puzzle that rewards real-world knowledge — fast to play, satisfying to solve in 3 guesses, and trivia-light enough to play with a 10-year-old.
We focus on daily geography puzzles. Every page on mapdash.org is built from a hand-curated dataset of ~60 well-known countries with capital, neighbors, population, and cultural facts, cited and linkable so readers can trace any number back to its source.
Who this is for
MapDash is built for anyone who enjoys Worldle, Geoguessr, or a quick world-knowledge check with their morning coffee.
Why this exists
Public data on daily geography puzzles is technically free, but practically locked behind file formats, acronyms, and paywalled dashboards. MapDashexists to close that gap: take the raw federal and public-sector data, and turn it into pages a normal person can read in thirty seconds.
How we work
- Primary source only. We pull from a hand-curated dataset of ~60 well-known countries with capital, neighbors, population, and cultural facts and cite the exact dataset and version on every page.
- No invented numbers. If a figure is not in the underlying public data, it does not appear on mapdash.org. We never generate synthetic statistics to fill gaps.
- Methodology, in plain English. Each daily puzzle picks a country from our rotation pool and presents 5 progressive clues drawn from the country's metadata: continent, population range, neighboring countries, capital, and a famous-for cultural hint. The clue sequence is designed to halve the candidate set each step.
- Refreshed on a schedule. A new puzzle releases every day at 00:00 UTC. The archive includes every past puzzle since launch.
- Corrections welcome. Readers flag issues all the time. When the source fixes a record, MapDash follows.
Known limitations
Country data is hand-curated from public sources (World Bank populations, official government capitals, CIA World Factbook geography). Populations are 2022-2024 figures, rounded to nearest million. MapDash stores no player data on a server — streak, win-rate, and play count live in your browser's local storage only.
Why we built MapDash
The Worldle/Geoguessr genre proved there is real appetite for daily geography puzzles. Both of those games center on visual recognition — country outlines or Street View. We wanted to try a daily puzzle built around factual knowledge instead: capitals, neighbors, populations, cultural anchors. The five-clue structure makes the game self-paced — solve in one guess if you are an expert, solve in five if you need every hint. Either way, you finish in a couple of minutes.
How MapDash stays free
Display ads (Google AdSense) on the result screen, archive list, and content pages — never inside the gameplay area. No subscription, no paywall, no premium tier.
About the games network
MapDash is part of a small network of independent daily-puzzle games. The other games include LexSweep (5×5 word-square daily), NumGrid (5-digit number daily), and HexMerge (hex-grid 2048-variant endless). The hub at PuzzleDaily collects every day’s puzzles in one place.
Independence
MapDash is an independent publication. We are not funded, owned, or directed by any of the agencies, companies, or organizations that appear in our data. Hosting is paid for by advertising — see our Privacy Policy for details — and we do not take paid placements, sponsored rankings, or "remove-my-entry" fees.
History
MapDash launched in 2026 as part of a small portfolio of independent public-data sites. It has been maintained and updated continuously since.
Contact
Tips, corrections, data-partnership questions, and press inquiries: hello@mapdash.org. More options on our contact page.