How do I print them double-sided?

Double-sided, flip on the long edge. Every front sheet is followed by its own already-mirrored back sheet, so print them in the order they come and every answer lands on its own card.

Can I edit the cards?

Yes, and that is half the point. Once you own the deck, the "Buy & edit" button here opens all 201 cards in the free flash card maker on this site — reword a definition, delete the ones you do not teach, add your own, and print at anything from two to nine cards a page, rather than the fixed eight of the PDF.

Can I print a set for every student?

Yes. Personal and classroom licence: unlimited printing, every class you teach, every year you teach it. It does not cover reselling the file or passing it on to a colleague.

What if I find a card that is wrong?

Tell us and we fix it, and we publish what changed. We have withdrawn a whole deck from sale for being out of date rather than quietly patch it.

Do I need an account?

No. $2.99 at Stripe, the file downloads on the way back, and the deck stays unlocked in this browser.

Printable flash cards

201 Every Country and Its Continent flashcards, ready to print. $2.99, once.

One payment buys the deck twice over: the printable PDF and every card unlocked to play online. Eight to a sheet, cut guides on every card, and the answer sheet already mirrored so a long-edge duplex print puts every answer on the back of its own question. 57 pages, US Letter, black and white. Grades 6–12.

Both halves, one price. A single deck printable is $1.29 on the store shelf and unlocking a deck to play is $2.99 — $4.28 for the two. Here they are the same $2.99 purchase, so you save $1.29 — and there is one receipt to keep instead of two.

Includes every card unlocked to play online — $4.28 bought separately. One payment, no account, no renewal.

Same price, opens in the editor. Reword any card, add your own, print it your way.

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57 pages, and the backs are already right

Every front sheet is followed by its own back sheet with the rows reversed. Print double-sided, flip on the long edge, and answer number 7 is behind question number 7. Print a deck you built yourself, flip on the short edge, and every answer lands on the wrong card — which nobody finds out until sixty cards have been cut apart.

201 cards — counted out of the file, not rounded up
Eight cards a sheet, with cut guides
US Letter PDF, black and white, photocopier-friendly
Print a set per student, every class, every year

201 cards: 195 countries and six cards that say what the deck counts and why. 195 is the UN M49 list of 248 countries or areas minus the 53 areas that are not sovereign states, and it equals the 193 UN member states plus the two permanent observer states, the Holy See and the State of Palestine. Most of those 53 are dependencies, but Antarctica and Western Sahara are not dependencies of anyone, and M49 marks no area as dependent — so the subtraction follows a stated rule rather than being read off the table. The count itself is checked by script.

Every card here is cited to two independent sources

Two different organisations — not a standards body and a website reprinting it — and a script refuses the card if the two disagree, so the check runs on every card rather than on the ones somebody remembered to look at. A second specialist then re-verified this deck from sources of their own, without reading our citations first. A further 5,420 cards across 30 other decks were read end to end by a subject specialist instead, and we say which is which on every deck rather than averaging the two into one flattering word.

What 201 printed cards do that a screen does not

A phone deck is one card at a time. A printed deck is a pile you can split: the ones you know, the ones you nearly know, and the ones you keep missing. That third pile is the entire study session, and it is the thing a scrolling app hides from you.

Print once, use all year. The licence covers a set per student, every class, every year.
No device, no login, no data. Works in a cover lesson, on a bus, or at a kitchen table. Grades 6–12, filed under social studies.
Change what you disagree with. Every card loads into the free maker on this site. Reword it, drop it, add your own, reprint.

Here are the first 30 cards, written out

Check them against your own textbook before you spend anything. If you do not like how they are worded, do not buy the deck — that is what this list is for.

Algeria: Africa — UN M49: Northern Africa
Egypt: Africa — UN M49: Northern Africa. The Sinai Peninsula is usually counted as Asia
Libya: Africa — UN M49: Northern Africa
Morocco: Africa — UN M49: Northern Africa
Sudan: Africa — UN M49: Northern Africa
Tunisia: Africa — UN M49: Northern Africa
Burundi: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Comoros: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Djibouti: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Eritrea: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Ethiopia: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Kenya: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Madagascar: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Malawi: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Mauritius: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Mozambique: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Rwanda: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Seychelles: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Somalia: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
South Sudan: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Uganda: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Tanzania: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Zambia: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Zimbabwe: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Eastern Africa
Angola: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Middle Africa
Cameroon: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Middle Africa
Central African Republic: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Middle Africa
Chad: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Middle Africa
Republic of the Congo: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Middle Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Africa — UN M49: Sub-Saharan Africa / Middle Africa

Download all 201 cards — $2.99

The printable and every card unlocked to play — $4.28 bought separately, $2.99 together. One payment, no renewal, no account. Or take every deck: Study Pack, $11.99 a month — all 78 decks, all 7,178 cards, every printable, no ads. 5 single decks costs more than one month.

Includes every card unlocked to play online — $4.28 bought separately. One payment, no account, no renewal.

Same price, opens in the editor. Reword any card, add your own, print it your way.

Play it online insteadThe first 30 cards are free to play, with no account.Study Pack — $11.99/monthAll 78 decks and every printable.

Questions

How do I print them double-sided?: Double-sided, flip on the long edge. Every front sheet is followed by its own already-mirrored back sheet, so print them in the order they come and every answer lands on its own card.
Can I edit the cards?: Yes, and that is half the point. Once you own the deck, the "Buy & edit" button here opens all 201 cards in the free flash card maker on this site — reword a definition, delete the ones you do not teach, add your own, and print at anything from two to nine cards a page, rather than the fixed eight of the PDF.
Can I print a set for every student?: Yes. Personal and classroom licence: unlimited printing, every class you teach, every year you teach it. It does not cover reselling the file or passing it on to a colleague.
What if I find a card that is wrong?: Tell us and we fix it, and we publish what changed. We have withdrawn a whole deck from sale for being out of date rather than quietly patch it.
Do I need an account?: No. $2.99 at Stripe, the file downloads on the way back, and the deck stays unlocked in this browser.