If you’re longing for a change of scenery, but your next trip is still far off, we have the solution – 6 activities and 13 links for an exciting evening. Guess the language by its sound, identify a country on Google Street View, or listen to a song from every country in the world – just don’t open these during the workday because it will be impossible to tear yourself away.
How well do you know the countries of South America? What about the flags of the world? The capitals of Europe? Can you recognize a city by its skyline? If geography has always been your favorite subject, then the selection of tests on worldatlas.com and seterra.com is a great opportunity to test your geographical IQ. A separate project, motovskikh.ru, is for those who want to test their knowledge of the geography.
If you sometimes entertain yourself while traveling by trying to understand the nationality of your random neighbors by their conversation, this link is for you, and you don’t even have to leave your home. Just choose a level from easy to difficult and start the game: you will need to try to determine by ear what language they are speaking. Distinguishing Japanese from Swahili may not be as easy as it seems at first glance.
A Danish data visualization agency took on flags. The result is the flagstories.co website – a treasure trove for designers or simply lovers of visuals. Which geometric shapes, colors, and templates are most often used in flags, which flag elements are not repeated, which countries have the most complex flag designs, and which ones are too similar, in which region which colors are popular and what they mean – everything is collected here. By the way, did you know that continents also have their own flags?
The second project about flags, crwflags.com, is for the meticulous. It contains the history of flags and literature on the topic, and you can study the flags of not only states but also states, provinces, and departments. Here you can also identify a flag unknown to you.
Another “guessing game” – this time you are invited to guess the place on the map by its filming in Google Street View. And if the forests of the middle zone look more or less the same, so that you have a chance to miss a couple of thousand kilometers, then with photographs of cities you can feel like a real detective, trying to calculate the region by the architecture, the outlines of the mountains in the distance, and the sign of the ice cream shop that accidentally got into the frame. You can play alone or compete with someone.
There is a version of a similar game from the New York Times, where there are only ten photos with hints, and a version of the game for cyclists – to recognize the city by the map of bike paths.
Three cool projects about music around the world at once. In the first, radiooooo.com, you travel not only through countries but also through time: choose a region and a decade and listen to the same thing that local residents listened to in that era. The second project, theglobaljukebox.org, specializes in folklore: listen to what different peoples consider their national songs. Songs can be studied on a geographical map or on a pie chart of cultures. From African drums to shamanic motifs – a great replacement for your playlist for one evening. If you prefer radio, radio.garden, listen to all radio stations in the world – from Greenland to Papua New Guinea. Bonuses – historical issues and jingles.
If you don’t like guides without a historical reference, then this find is just for you. All world history on one timeline, and in order not to drown in information, sort by time periods or topics – literature and music, wars and revolutions, politics and law, inventions and discoveries.
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