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Guess the Emoji – Countries Activity

Sixteen emoji clues challenge students to name the country each icon set represents, spanning six continents from Egypt to Thailand.
Grades
Grades 3–5, Elementary
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Updated Oct 03, 2021

Subject
Geography
Topic
countries, geography
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What's inside this resource

Guess the Country based on emojis!

Includes answer sheet.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify 16 world countries from visual/emoji clues.

  • Recall country names spanning multiple continents, including Egypt, Japan, Brazil and Australia.

Teaching tips

  • Use as a quick warm-up or brain-break, since it is a single page and answers are self-checking with the included key.

  • Pair with a world map or globe so students can locate each country after identifying it from the emoji clue.

  • Works well as a geography center rotation activity for a unit spanning multiple continents.

Skills covered

  • Visual/symbolic reasoning — students interpret sets of emoji icons to infer the country each clue represents.

  • World geography recall — students name 16 countries spanning Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania.

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Which countries are covered by the 16 emoji clues?

Egypt, France, Japan, China, Germany, Brazil, Spain, England, India, Canada, Australia, Italy, Mexico, the U.S.A., Thailand, and South Africa — one clue per country, spanning six continents.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • World geography

  • Countries

  • Visual clue puzzles

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