Oceans and seas
Seas of Europe
From the Mediterranean to the Barents Sea, from the Bay of Biscay to the Gulf of Bothnia: name the 26 seas, gulfs and channels around Europe on the map in 4 minutes.
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Every place to name is outlined on the map and marked with a dot. Type the names before the 4:00 timer runs out: each one you get is labelled on the map. You can leave out “Sea”, “Gulf of” or “Lake” when the name is still clear: “Caribbean” or “Bengal” will do.
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The list, the names and sources
The 26 answers are the seas, gulfs and channels around Europe named in the International Hydrographic Organization’s Limits of Oceans and Seas (S-23), apart from the two smallest (the Bristol Channel and the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland), plus the Caspian Sea.
The Caspian Sea has no outlet to the ocean, so it is usually counted as the world’s largest lake, but its water is salty and everyone calls it a sea. It counts as a sea in the seas quizzes and as a lake in the largest lakes quiz.
You can leave out the generic word when the rest of the name is clear: “Mediterranean”, “Caspian”, “Bengal” and “Superior” all count. Other common names count too, such as the Sea of Cortez, Lake Nyasa or the Gulf of Siam.
“Find on the map” names one place at a time: click it on the map. You get one click per name; a wrong click marks the place in red and moves on.
Outlines come from Natural Earth (public domain): its 1:10m marine areas, 1:10m and 1:50m lakes and 1:50m countries. Where two seas meet, the line follows Natural Earth’s areas, which roughly follow the IHO limits; some seas, such as the Sargasso Sea, have no coast at all.
Natural Earth has no Celtic Sea, so its outline here is ours, drawn from the IHO limits: south of Ireland and west of Wales and Cornwall, down to the edge of the continental shelf.
Natural Earth: physical vectors (marine areas, lakes, regions; public domain)