Geography Printable Puzzles
Nobody memorizes state capitals for fun, but plenty of ten-year-olds will fill in a word search of them without complaint — that gap is what this category is for.
Nobody memorizes state capitals for fun, but plenty of ten-year-olds will fill in a word search of them without complaint — that gap is what this category is for. Geography puzzles here are split the way a social studies curriculum is split: the seven continents, US states and their capitals, world landmarks, rivers and mountain ranges, and basic map-reading vocabulary like COMPASS and EQUATOR. A fourth-grade teacher covering the fifty states pulls a regional set — Northeast states, Southern states — to pair with a map assignment; a homeschool parent doing a unit on landmarks uses the World Wonders puzzle as a warm-up before a documentary. Every word list sticks to names a middle-schooler would actually be tested on, so state puzzles use the state name itself rather than obscure county seats, and landmark puzzles use recognizable sites like PYRAMID and COLOSSEUM rather than sites only a geography major would know. Because the fifty states alone could fill a dozen individual pages, this hub is intentionally deep rather than wide, with room to keep adding region-by-region sets without ever feeling repetitive to a teacher who downloads from here every semester.
All geography puzzles
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US State Capitals
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World Rivers
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Mountains of the World
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Capital Cities of Europe
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Countries of Africa
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Countries of Asia
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Countries of Europe
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US National Parks
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Islands of the World
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World Deserts
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Oceans and Seas of the World
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Flags of the World
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Volcanoes of the World
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Seven Continents
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Map and Compass Skills
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New York City Landmarks
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London Landmarks
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Caribbean Islands
Every puzzle includes its answer key
The answer key prints on a second page, so you can hand out the puzzle without handing out the answers. All 18 sheets on this page are formatted for US Letter and A4 with margins wide enough for a home printer.