Before you play

What This High Point Figure Means

This game compares national topography using country flags and geographic reference tables.

  • The values come from the country highest-point table on Wikipedia and reflect stated elevations in meters.
  • It is a fun geography lane, but the numbers still depend on how the reference table defines the country or territory.
  • The surprise is usually not the height. It is which places are much flatter or much rougher than memory says.

Flags make this feel like school geography. The numbers usually expose how wrong the school-memory version still is.