Neighbouring Provinces Quiz

The Neighbouring Provinces Quiz asks you to find every province that shares a land border with the highlighted one. A round has 15 provinces; for each one you tap its neighbours one by one, and a counter shows how many are left. Neighbours is a mode of the Türkiye Map Quiz game: your card album and records are shared with the main game.

This guide covers choosing a round, answering, mistakes, scoring, the magnifier for small provinces and quick ways to find neighbours.

For each question a province pulses in gold, and at the top "Find the neighbours:" appears with the province name and a counter (for example 0/9). The goal is to tap every province that shares a land border with it. The sea does not count, and provinces whose borders touch at a single point are not neighbours either. Each neighbour you find turns turquoise, and when the counter is full the next province comes up.

Start: 15 provinces asks 15 random provinces from all over Türkiye, and its score goes to the leaderboard. Below, under Or choose a region, you can practise only the provinces of one region; the questions then come from that region, although the neighbours may be in other regions. Region rounds do not go to the leaderboard; your best is kept on your device.

The provinces asked always have at least 3 neighbours. Kilis, Yalova, Hakkari and Iğdır, which have fewer, never come up as questions, but you still need to find them as neighbours of other provinces.

Tap a province you think is a neighbour. If you are right, it turns turquoise, the counter goes up and its name is shown below. If you tap a province that is not a neighbour, it flashes red, a note such as "Nevşehir is not a neighbour" appears, and it counts as a mistake. Tapping a neighbour you have already found changes nothing, and tapping the highlighted province itself is not a mistake either; you only get a "That is the province itself" reminder.

After 3 mistakes on one province, the remaining neighbours are shown in gold, the province goes on the list at the end of the round and the next one comes up.

• Each neighbour you find: 20 points
• All neighbours of a province found without a single mistake: 40 extra points
• 3 mistakes: the remaining neighbours are shown, with no points for them

In this mode time does not affect the score, so you can take your time and follow the border carefully. At the end you see your score with accuracy (the share of provinces you finished without a mistake), time and total mistakes. The score of the all-Türkiye round goes to the Neighbours leaderboard.

For each question the map zooms to the highlighted province and all its neighbours, so the provinces you are looking for are on screen. On a phone some provinces are very small; if there is more than one province under your finger, the answer is not taken straight away: a magnifier opens next to your finger and you choose the right province inside it. You can zoom with two fingers or the mouse wheel and drag to move; the corner buttons and the +, - and 0 keys do the same. Turning your phone sideways makes the map bigger.

After 15 provinces the results screen shows your score, accuracy, time, mistakes, the Ones you missed list and the New cards you opened this round. The first time you find a province as a neighbour, its culture card opens in your album. View the map takes you back to the map; now that the round is over, province names can be shown on it: hover with the mouse on a computer, or press and hold on a phone.